{"id":15781,"date":"2019-03-27T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T15:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=15781"},"modified":"2019-03-27T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T15:21:09","slug":"the-prosecutor-who-dropped-jussie-smolletts-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=15781","title":{"rendered":"The prosecutor who dropped Jussie Smollett&#8217;s charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chicago prosecutors have<a class=\" vilynx_listened\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/all-charges-against-empire-actor-jussie-smollett-dropped-n987446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0dropped all charges against &#8220;Empire&#8221; actor Jussie Smollett<\/a>\u00a0weeks after\u00a0<a class=\" vilynx_listened\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/empire-actor-jussie-smollett-indicted-16-felony-counts-grand-jury-n981236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">indicting him on 16 felony counts<\/a>\u00a0for allegedly filing a false police report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At a news conference in February,\u00a0<a class=\" vilynx_listened\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/jussie-smollett-blasted-head-chicago-police-department-exploiting-city-s-n973961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson accused Smollett\u00a0<\/a>of orchestrating an alleged hate crime on himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The prosecutor who\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/26\/entertainment\/jussie-smollett-charges-dropped\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped the charges against Jussie Smollett<\/a>\u00a0said he still believes the actor lied to the police about the racist and homophobic attack he allegedly staged in Chicago in January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago prosecutors have\u00a0dropped all charges against&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15782,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781\/revisions\/15782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}