Jussie Smollett
Jussie Smollett
Victoria Will
Actor-singer Jussie Smollett, from the Fox series “Empire,” was badly beaten and hospitalized last week in Chicago.
Law enforcement must seriously investigate the assault and battery that clearly appears to be based on race and sexual orientation. Smollett is Black and gay.
Police said the 36-year-old man was walking in the 300 block of North Lower Water Street in Chicago when two people approached him and began yelling racial and homophobic slurs.
Police said the offenders began hitting Smollett with their hands and poured an unknown chemical substance on him. At one point, one of the offenders also wrapped a rope around his neck, authorities said.
This abhorrent attack must be condemned in the strongest terms and the attacker must be brought to justice.