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| − | Two black [[white supremacist]]s later admitted they were paid $3,500 to carry out the assault on Smollett.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/04/us/census-browning-of-america-myth-blake/index.html</ref><ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jussie-smollett-trial-fake-attack-testimony/ Man testifies that Jussie Smollett paid him to "fake beat him up"], CBS, Dec 2, 2021</ref> On the witness stand Smollett testified that he had consensual sex with the two black white supremacists that assaulted him. | + | Two black [[white supremacist]]s later admitted they were paid $3,500 to carry out the assault on Smollett.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/04/us/census-browning-of-america-myth-blake/index.html</ref><ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jussie-smollett-trial-fake-attack-testimony/ Man testifies that Jussie Smollett paid him to "fake beat him up"], CBS, Dec 2, 2021</ref> On the witness stand, Smollett admitted to having consensual sex with his alleged attackers before the planned hoax. Smollett was convicted of the fraudulent "hate crime" and making a false police report on Dec 9, 2021 .<ref name=pm-9dec2021>[https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-jussie-smollett-found-guilty BREAKING: Jussie Smollett found guilty in hate crime hoax], PM, Dec 9, 2021.<br><i>After a second day of deliberation, the jury in the trial of Jussie Smollett has found the former Empire star guilty on five of six counts.</i></ref> The incident was widely condemned as detrimental to the [[civil rights]] and [[gay rights]] movements. Civil Rights attorney Leo Terrell commented, "Jussie Smollett could have been a role model. He has disgraced the Black community and the [[LGBT]] because he lied under oath on issues people struggled for decades to have."<ref>https://youtu.be/YtPW4o5omug?t=95</ref> |
| − | On the witness stand, Smollett admitted to having consensual sex with his alleged attackers before the planned hoax. Smollett was convicted of the fraudulent "hate crime" and making a false police report on Dec 9, 2021 .<ref name=pm-9dec2021>[https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-jussie-smollett-found-guilty BREAKING: Jussie Smollett found guilty in hate crime hoax], PM, Dec 9, 2021.<br><i>After a second day of deliberation, the jury in the trial of Jussie Smollett has found the former Empire star guilty on five of six counts.</i></ref> The incident was widely condemned as detrimental to the [[civil rights]] and [[gay rights]] movements. Civil Rights attorney Leo Terrell commented, "Jussie Smollett could have been a role model. He has disgraced the Black community and the [[LGBT]] because he lied under oath on issues people struggled for decades to have."<ref>https://youtu.be/YtPW4o5omug?t=95</ref> | |