It is exactly this kind of irrational thinking that has made you a liberal for 57 astounding years, Joe. I mean that.
Uh, I've only been a moderate for about 12 years. Before that I was pretty conservative, until my boss fucked over my career and boasted he was so happy he didn't have to deal with a union.
Yes indeed, it is EXACTLY why he is in trouble--the filing of a false police report. It's a class 4 felony where you live. Yep. If Smollett were just a little smarter and not called the police, he would not be in near this much trouble.
Lots of people file false police reports. They are never arrested or prosecuted for it. This is about social outrage that he made the city look bad.
Those are the facts Joe, and they don't care about your feeeeeeellllings about "white privilege"
The fact is, they are dredging up a technicality to go after this black kid for making the city look bad.
Again, which would be fine, except this kid was making $100K an episode and he can afford really good lawyers.
Probably best to cut our losses.