I spend my days writing about Roombas from the 1950s, teen hackers from the 1980s, and movies that American presidents watched while in office.

I don’t think that’s the right decision. The man’s legacy is complicated, to say the least, but this seems like a bit of a reach. Next you’ll tell me nobody will air Men in Black II anymore, of if they do it won’t feature his cameo. There’s a point where this all gets silly, and I think we’re there.

This whole thing is just a clusterfuck. And of course the real victims here are all the victims of future hate crimes (because thanks to President Fuckup they’re increasing significantly ever year) who are going to be ignored by police and the media.

No you’re pretty much the only one. The police are under a bigger microscope than he is.

Yeah, that makes so much sense. Not like Chicago is promoting their firm and TV industry and wants to grow it. No better way to do that than to take the 3rd lead of one of the most popular shows on TV who was a victim of a crime and instead frame him for it. That is sure to bring more production to town because actors…

Yes, for pete’s sake, he made it up. There are corroborating witnesses saying that he made it up.

Putting all faults of the Chicago PD aside, for what reason would they create a scenario, of which no evidence pointed to happening, and then frame the central person for whom this nothing happened?  What is even the plot…

No...that is ridiculous 

Nice job spinning “almost feeling sorry” into a mountain of bullshit.  Calm yo tits.

I’m black too. That’s why I laugh at sites like this. I wrote this the other day, but it’s just white people screaming at other white people for being white... and it’s all for this kinda sadistic need to make black people happy. Just use your head man. Take race out of it. Most people are good. Some people are bad.…

Only in this era can a black guy (me for what it’s worth) be blindly labeled racist because I don’t automatically froth with nebulous rage every time a bunch of whites people insist I should.  

Raising an eyebrow at all these “but WHY would he do this? It doesn’t make any sense!”

Nailed it. Time to dial down the blustering outrage and focus on reporting stories without your personal politics invading every aspect. You perpetuate division and anger in the most ham-fisted emotionally driven way possible. In 2019 the A.V. Club is no better than a bunch of 15 year olds writing angrily in their…

The only “clusterfuck” is the web sites like this that reported this shit as fact, even as it quickly wasn’t adding up... and as more details slowly leaked out anyone with any sense of objectivity could see what this was. But sites like yours, in the face of actual facts and beat reporters in Chicago, double and…

Way to give ammunition to the alt-right MAGA crowd and make it harder for legitimate victims of hate crimes to be believed, dumbfuck.

The sad thing is how obviously stupid his story was from the get-go. But the woke warriors put aside all common sense because they wanted it to be true. MAGA dudes recognizing a 3rd tier actor from Empire. Lol. The only way the story could have been better is if he claimed the the guys had yelled, “Arent you that…

I mean you bring up some good points but I think at this point the reports are leaning in the other direction, if they put out and official statement soon we will know for sure but right now shit isn’t looking good 

Speaking as a gay man, this is terrible and only harms the community. I can’t fathom what he was thinking if this is true.

Glad I kept my mouth shut about this for weeks.

I will not say it sounded fishy. I’ll say that, being a lawyer, I have been privy to hate crimes in the past. And while I did not automatically think he lied, I did think “that’s kind of....perfect.” I mean, it was the description of what would basically be a textbook hate crime - epithets, a noose, bleach, the MAGA…

Jussie,Jussie,Jussie ! The fuck you doing man ?!