I'm finding it at odds that he would be reluctant to pursue the matter, yet everyone is saying he did this for the glory. But color me team grey, because not any of this made sense from jump. 

The fact that YOU would never make a false report only means... just that, that YOU wouldn’t make a false report. That’s it. 

Except you, would not have benifited from it. HE WOULD. Do you really not see the difference? We sad as your anecdote is, it’s 50 years ago. Completely different time. You were a child. You had no way of showing anything, unfortunately. Those cops were assholes, but what else could they do? Should have said you lied…

When I was 12, and I'm 66 now, I told my mother that I was raped on the way home from school. The police were called. They drove me around for a while but, because I was never allowed out of the front yard, I couldn't tell where they raped me at. The police said, " don't nobody wants to do all of this paperwork on a…

Humans are not evidence based creatures.

Stick a fork in him, because he’d DONE!  What on earth possessed him to ruin his career with this crap?

Agreed, two things can both true, Chicago PD is racist and corrupt AND, Smollett is lying is ass off and made this up.

You spelled the rest of the country wrong. White and black people both knew this was a bullshit story from jump street. Kept his tuna sandwich in hand while being savagely assaulted. Rofl

Yeah, but the cops just can’t stand the thought that someone who isn’t a cop getting away with just a slap on the wrist!

I don’t understand, based on the evidence, how anyone no matter their race can think he is innocent.

For the record, most black people don’t believe him either.

Then why do these tears come at night?