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“A couple of points I wanted to make really quick; just because — four points,” he said before performing an encore. “I was bruised but my ribs were not cracked, they were not broken. I went to the doctor immediately, my friend Gatson [sp?] drove me. I was not hospitalized. Both my doctors in LA and Chicago cleared me to perform but said to take care obviously. But above all, I fought the f*ck back.”
Investigators also failed to locate any evidence corroborating Smollett’s claims. Security footage reviewed by the Chicago Police Department show a gap where the actor was walking, disappeared from camera, and returned one minute later with a noose around his neck. For an attack as brutal as Smollett described, this is a very small time window for so much to have occurred.
The Chicago Police Department say security footage show the actor returning to his apartment still clutching the Subway sandwich he had bought before the incident, which many found surprising since he had just apparently undergone a horrific ordeal in which he “fought the f*ck back” against racist thugs. That his attackers happened to randomly run into him at 2 AM while carrying the perfect accessories for an anti-black hate crime — bleach and a noose — also struck many as odd, especially as a cold spell meant Chicago temperatures were well below zero that night.
Smollett initially refused to turn his phone over to police, who said it would be useful assisting their investigation. He has said he was speaking to his manager at the time of the attack. “We offered to take the phone to download the data,” a Chicago PD spokesman said, “and he expressed he couldn’t be without his phone for several hours.”
Two weeks after the apparent attack, the actor finally submitted “heavily redacted” phone records in the form of a PDF file, which the police say are useless.
"We are very appreciative of the victim's cooperation however the records provided do not meet the burden for a criminal investigation," a Chicago police spokesman told ABC 7 Chicago.
CNN submitted a FOIA request and learned that Smollett was initially hesitant to make a statement to the police about the incident. Chicago’s WGN reported that despite the massive investigation underway, “At this point, police have not found anything that conclusively proves Smollett was indeed attacked.” The station further reported that when police initially met Smollett at his apartment, he “still had a white rope draped around his neck” and that he asked officers to “turn off their body cameras.”
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