Retired Chicago Cop Wants Kamala Harris To Recant Her Supportive Jussie Smollett's Tweets Amid His Hate Crime Hoax
A retired Chicago police chief is calling out Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris for never recanting her incorrect assertion that Jussie Smollett was the target of a "modern-day lynching."
Vice President Kamala Harris previously said Smollett was a victim of a notorious hate crime hoax.
Despite Smollett's subsequent criminal conviction in Illinois for staging the attack, Harris, 59, has yet to remove her 2019 social media post.
Smollett, 42, alleged that during the 2019 polar vortex in Chicago, two masked assailants "doused him with bleach, put a rope around his neck and said, 'This is MAGA country!' "
On January 29, 2019, California Senator Harris shared on X (formerly Twitter), "[Jussie Smollett] is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I'm praying for his quick recovery."
"This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate," she said.
Several weeks later, when the former 'Empire' actor was found guilty of 5 counts of felony disorderly conduct in 2021, Harris expressed she was "sad, frustrated, and disappointed" by the revelations he made "false claims to police."
However, Eugene Roy, a retired Chicago Police Department chief of detectives with over 30 years of service, criticized her initial remarks as a "rush to judgment" that reflected a "hasty decision [made] before all the facts are available."
Roy, who appeared in the Fox Nation documentary 'Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax,' remarked, "It's one thing to express your support for a friend. It's another thing to use your platform as a government official to prejudge a case before it's played out. Before all the facts are known."
