Jussie Smollett’s ‘Community Service’: 18 Hours with Jesse Jackson’s Organization

Cook County, Illinois, prosecutors dropped 16 felony charges against left-wing Hollywood actor Jussie Smollett on Tuesday based on his prior record of community service.

That record reportedly consisted of 18 hours’ volunteering for Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition on Saturday and Monday.

TMZ.com reported:

Jussie Smollett logged a total of 18 hours of community service over 2 days — with Jesse Jackson’s organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition — and that was enough to satisfy prosecutors in Chicago.

Honchos at Rainbow PUSH — a civil and human rights organization — tell us, Jussie volunteered for the first time Saturday, putting in 8 hours from 10 AM to 6 PM. He just completed another 10 hours on Monday.

We’re told Jussie’s “service” included stuffing membership envelopes, working in the group’s bookstore to sell merchandise … and critiquing its Saturday broadcast. We’re told he helped them with camera angles, and also worked with the music director on a plan to build the choir.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/03/26/jussie-smollett-community-service-18-hours-with-jesse-jackson/

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Pollak: Jussie Smollett ‘Whitewash’ Is About Chicago Mayor Election

Mayor race not over in chicago

Enter U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), a former Black Panther and Chicago institution who is the only person ever to defeat Barack Obama in an election (in the 2000 Democratic primary for Congress). Rush, who backs Preckwinkle, proclaimed last weekend: “If any young black male or female is killed by a police officer under a Lightfoot administration then the blood will be on those voters’ hands who elected her mayor of the city of Chicago.”

Rush — who, ironically, still wants Rep. Steve King (R-IA) censured by the House of Representatives for racially insensitive rhetoric — may have been speaking out of desperation. A recent poll put Lightfoot, a political outsider, 36 points ahead of Preckwinkle, 53%-17%.

Even more interesting is the fact that State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is Preckwinkle’s former chief of staff, and was recently described by the Chicago Sun-Times as Preckwinkle’s “political protégé.”

So what appears, at first blush, like an ideological intervention for a George Soros-backed prosecutor, or a political favor to the Obamas, or just special treatment for a Hollywood celebrity, may actually be something more typically Chicagoan: namely, a favor to a political patron.

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rush black panther and communist and Antifa

black lies matter → soros

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One reason is simple: the facts in the case, as presented when Smollett was charged last month, are impossible to dismiss. Prosecutors, who bizarrely dropped the charges in recognition of Smollett’s past community service, said they had not exonerated him. And while Smollett claimed to have been “truthful” throughout, his own attorney blamed the attack on the Osundairo brothers — contrary to Smollett’s claim that his assailants had been white.

black lies matter in the chicago mayor race

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Another reason is the immense moral authority of Chicago Police Department superintendent Eddie Johnson, who gave an impassioned speech upon Smollett’s arrest about how outraged he was, as an African-American man, that Smollett had exploited the painful history and symbolism of racism for personal gain. Johnson reiterated Tuesday that he was still outraged and that he disagreed with the prosecutors’ decision. Few would wish to oppose Johnson.

But the most important reason Chicago Democrats are sounding off about a hate crime hoax — a topic that is almost taboo on the left — is that the runoff election for the next mayor of the city is in exactly seven days.

The contest will feature two African-American women for the first time. One is former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot, who would also be Chicago’s first openly gay mayor; the other candidate is Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.

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As with most Chicago elections, it is a nasty affair, despite the historic nature of the contest. One of the major issues is the treatment of black residents by the police department, even as crime continues to be a major problem in many black and Hispanic neighborhoods. The Smollett issue resonates powerfully within that debate: on the one hand, he was yet another black defendant within a flawed system; on the other, he allegedly wasted scarce police resources.

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Even more interesting is the fact that State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is Preckwinkle’s former chief of staff, and was recently described by the Chicago Sun-Times as Preckwinkle’s “political protégé.”

So what appears, at first blush, like an ideological intervention for a George Soros-backed prosecutor, or a political favor to the Obamas, or just special treatment for a Hollywood celebrity, may actually be something more typically Chicagoan: namely, a favor to a political patron.

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