![]() In this case, he’s playing the role of being innocent.” Tracy Siska, Founder and Executive Director of The Chicago Justice Project, says he’s concerned that Smollett’s actions could hurt the credibility of future victims of actual hate crimes with Chicago police. We’re seeing a very accomplished actor playing a role. And if anything happens to me when I go in there, I did not do it to myself.” Legal analyst and professor Laura Rene McNeal says, “What we’re seeing play out are courtroom theatrics. At his sentencing hearing on March 10, 2022, the actor, who is Black and gay, professed his innocence, stating, “If I did this, then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of Black Americans in this country for over 400 years and the fears of the LGBTQ community.” Continuing, Smollett addressed the judge, saying, “Your Honor, I respect you, and I respect the jury, but I did not do this, and I am not suicidal. In December 2021, Jussie Smollett was convicted on five counts of felony disorderly conduct after Chicago police accused him of faking a hate crime against himself in 2019.
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