Jussie Smollett’s brother says Chicago Police Department 'feeding you fictitious stories'
foxnews.comJussie Smollett’s brother appeared to cast doubt in the Chicago Police Department’s investigation into the hate crime hoax attack the "Empire" actor was convicted of last month.
Jocqui Smollett took to his brother Jussie’s Instagram account on Friday to pose the question as to why the Chicago Police Department "needs such a PR DEPARTMENT as if they are a Hollywood film studio." "Because their entire SURVIVAL rides on FEEDING YOU FICTITIOUS STORIES that they DESPERATELY need YOU to buy," Smollett claimed in the caption of a 3:20-minute video shared to the actor’s Instagram profile in which he took aim at Anthony Guglielmi, who at the time of the CPD’s investigation into the Smollett hoax was the acting Chief Communications Officer for CPD and the Office of the Police Superintendent. "This is Anthony Guglielmi, former spokesperson for the Baltimore Police Department.That is, before he was fired for making insensitive comments about violence in the city," Jocqui Smollett began in the video post. "In 2015, Anthony was reassigned to low and behold the Chicago Police Department, where he was their spokesperson for many years.
He oversaw communications around tragic events like the killing of Laquan McDonald. He oversaw the communications around when CPD received a consent decree from the federal government, basically telling them that they need to get their act together, and there is way too many acts of corruption happening at that department," Smollett continued.
The actor’s brother went on to claim that Guglielmi "was responsible for creating and casting a lot of doubt in Jussie's story within just 48 hours of Jussie being attacked through his tweets and through his interviews with the media.
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