Attorney statement:
UPDATE: Arrested and in CPD custody. After a press conference today, more is known.
I wrote this earlier in the thread, but updated it with the new information
- Jussie, an actor from Empire, gets this letter
- A week later around 2am he's reportedly assaulted by two white men. They hurled homophobic and racist slurs at him, beat him, tie a rope around his neck, pour bleach on him and tell him, 'This is MAGA Country'
- Police begin to investigate but can't find the attack on tape. They later find footage of two figures that they identify as persona of interest
- Jussie, a few days after the attack, appears on stage for a performance where he says that he, 'Fought the fuck back', and that he's now, 'The gay Tupac'
- Police manage to identify the two individuals as two brothers from Nigeria. They flew out to Nigeria after the attack but returned recently
- They raid their apartment and find various materials connected to the crime
- The brothers tell the police that Jussie paid them $3,500 to stage the attack
- Back to the brothers apartment, the police take magazines into possession as they say Jussie also staged the letter
- Police find that the brothers actually worked on the set of Empire
- Reportedly he was angry that the letter didn't garner a lot of attention
- Police order Jussie's arrest
- Police find that Jussie fabricated everything, including the letter, because he felt that wasn't getting paid enough
- He wrote the brothers a check for the $3,500
- He left the noose around his neck for 42 minutes as he walked around after the attack
- CPD superintendent says Jussie "took advantage of the pain and anger in racism to promote his career"
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