On Thursday, “Empire” star Jussie Smollett turned himself into authorities after a grand jury charged him with felonious disorderly conduct for filing a false police report over a “racist and homophobic” attack that police now say he paid two men to stage in order to promote his career. In response to a damning press conference held by the Chicago Police superintendent Thursday, Smollett’s legal team has accused Chicago PD of having “trampled” on Smollett’s rights.
“Today we witnessed an organized law enforcement spectacle that has no place in the American legal system. The presumption of innocence, a bedrock in the search for justice, was trampled upon at the expense of Mr. Smollett and notably, on the eve of a Mayoral election,” Smollett’s legal team said in a statement Thursday.
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