Overkill

Here in the Chicago area, the news has been focused for weeks on the Jussie Smollett case. When I first heard about this, I figured it was a hookup gone wrong. Smollett had a guy over and the dude beat him up and robbed him. The whole story about being attacked at 2:30 in the morning on a Streeterville street in the dead of winter sounded ridiculous to me. Not that people aren't beaten and robbed on the streets of Chicago every day, but the time, place, and location just didn't ring true to me. Plus you throw in the homophobic and racial slurs, the bleach, and the rope, and the story became even more ridiculous. I would have had to believe someone from Donny T.'s crowd stalked this guy from a black show that Donny's followers probably don't watch let alone have heard of and just went crazy on this dude at 2:30 in the morning in the dead of a Chicago winter. Yeah, okay. Hookup gone wrong it is. But it looks like I was wrong along. It appears it wasn't a hookup gone wrong at all, but a hoax from the jump. Sad. What a waste of police manpower and time. While other cases involving black folks in Chicago go unsolved, how much time has been spent chasing Smollett's fake attackers? I'm tired of the news media going into overdrive with stories like this also. This should have been a one-day story on the news, yet it's dragged on for weeks. If Smollett wanted publicity, he's got it now!