TMZ recently released the Jan. 29 audio from the 911 call on the night when Jussie Smollett was allegedly attacked. Though parts of the call were redacted and the caller isn’t Smollett himself, the well-known detail of the noose gets mentioned in the call.
The call, which happened at 2:22 a.m., is from an anonymous person who says he’s calling on the victim’s behalf. He tells the 911 dispatcher:
“I just need the police to come by… I work with an artist, I don’t really want to say his name, but he states that he went to the Subway. He was walking by. Some guys, somebody jumped him or something like that, and I just want to report it and make sure he’s alright…. He didn’t want me to call you guys, but I feel like he needs to make a report.”
After the dispatcher explains that you can’t make a report on someone else’s behalf, the caller says, “He’s definitely going to make the report. I’m going to make him make the report.”
The caller then gives his location and the dispatcher asks if he needs an ambulance. The caller then says:
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“I just think he’s startled. It’s really weird ma’am just cause I’m scared I don’t know what it is – they put a noose around his neck… You know, they didn’t do anything with it but they put it around his neck – that’s really fucked up to me, sorry for saying it like that.”
The dispatcher says, “Okay, this is a well-known person?”
“Yes it is,” the caller says. The dispatcher announces that she’ll inform the police and then wishes the caller good luck.
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Then, there’s a second recording from 2:38 a.m. in which the same caller tells the 911 dispatcher that he’s still waiting for the police. When the dispatcher asks what he needs the police for, the caller says:
“The person I work for, my friend, he was just mugged on the streets and we’re just trying to report it…. I guess he was jumped or something. I thought [the police] would be here by now…. I’m going down to the lobby to see if they’re around.”
He and the 911 dispatcher then discuss the address and the police arrive as he’s still on the phone.
Sadly, the calls don’t really seem to offer any additional clues as to what really happened that night.
Smollett was written out of Empire‘s final episodes in its sixth and final season after Chicago police filed 16 felony charges against him for allegedly faking a hate crime. Smollett pled “not guilty” and all the charges were later dropped, but Chicago police later sued Smollett for $130,000 in investigation costs. It’s unclear if that lawsuit remains active.
Nevertheless, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Smollett “used the hate crime laws to advance his own career.” The city has also begun releasing the case files and, “The bodybuilding brothers who sued Jussie Smollett’s lawyers for defamation say the actor’s counselors are ducking them, and they want the U.S. Marshals to get involved,” according to The Chicago Sun-Times.
Last week, a judge ordered a special prosecutor to continue looking into the case. In short, this entire thing remains as clear as mud and will likely stretch out indefinitely.
Here’s audio of the call:
Cam
Interesting we’re still talking about this and yet the last mass shooting is already out of the press.
iamru2
Anyone with more than 2 brain cells can figure out why the media dropped that story!
truthseeker
@Cam (DCguy)
You mean the transgender student and the accomplice who tried to shoot up their school to kill Christians (their own words) and both of which wrote anti-Trump stuff on Facebook? Yeah, I don’t recall Queerty writing about that one either
But this is the story so we shouldn’t deflect, I guess
Back on topic of this, there were also text messages released of Jussie trying to buy drugs from the brothers he paid to beat him up too. Pathetic person
Cam
Interesting, here we have two examples of how the false accounts try to derail the thread.
1. @iamru2 tries the technique of making a vague statement with no proof hoping it will end the topic. “Well ANYBODY knows why……” But notice it doesn’t provide details?
2. @Truthseeker tries the tactic of making up a fake scenario and acting as if it’s the actual situation. The mass shooting was the one in Virginia Beach shooter who murdered a dozen people….but do you notice that the anti-LGBT account tried to claim it was a transgender student? Nope, but of course, not only will they lie, they will also ALWAYS try to make LGBT people the bad guys.
Thanks for trying folks.
Mikey E
@Cam – The shooter was trans. And there’s no such thing as “LGBT people.” #LGB
truthseeker
@Cam (DCguy)
“Truthseeker tries the tactic of making up a fake scenario and acting as if it’s the actual situation”
Google Maya McKinney then come back and apologize to me. Then get back on topic of Jussie being a lying fool and drug addict
Hdtex
@truthseeker The pity here is that you weren’t the victim.
truthseeker
@Hdtex
Extreme liberalism at it’s finest. When presented with facts, they resort to violence or calls of violence.
I’m not shocked that you’d wish I was involved in a mass shooting. Just more of a pattern from you calling for people you disagree with to die.
iamru2
The self hating racist will never work again in Hollywood! Buh byyy you ignorant pig!
Chrisk
A well known person? I don’t know about that but he sure is now. Lol 🙂
Jared MacBride
A special prosecutor is a person, not something a judge issues.
MISTERJETT
i’m wondering why everyone is taking what the two Nigerian brothers say as the gospel truth. i think everyone involved should take a polygraph and see what those results are. Jussie just might be telling the truth.
Brian
He might be telling the truth about seeing their white skin through the eye holes of the mask?
orbit5
Let’s stop making stupid people famous.
Will L
Quit giving air time to losers. Maybe he will go away…