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Botany

(77,863 posts) Fri Feb 22, 2019, 10:07 AM Feb 2019

Smollett is a dog and pony show BTW Chicago hade 555 murders last year

and yet we have all this "media stuff" about one nut who filed a phony police report and set up a con?

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-murder-total-2018-homicides-police-department/

Two teen boys walking through Bronzeville.

A 12-year-old girl from Michigan visiting her father in West Garfield Park.

Two Chicago Police officers who ran toward danger, one in the Loop and the other at a South Side hospital.

Infants in Little Village and Hermosa.

A great-grandmother in her Park Manor apartment.

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Smollett is a dog and pony show BTW Chicago hade 555 murders last year (Original Post) Botany Feb 2019 OP

As an adopted Chicagoan I agree. nycbos Feb 2019 #1

you can't downplay what Smollet did at all and I hope he gets the full scope of the law thrown at beachbum bob Feb 2019 #2

nycbos

(6,729 posts)

1. As an adopted Chicagoan I agree.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Fri Feb 22, 2019, 10:16 AM

Feb 2019

(Native New Yorker. If you wondered what the Rangers logo was about)

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)

2. you can't downplay what Smollet did at all and I hope he gets the full scope of the law thrown at

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Fri Feb 22, 2019, 10:43 AM

Feb 2019

him.

It demeans all people who have had real run-ins.

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