{"id":1098994,"date":"2021-12-08T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T19:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098994"},"modified":"2021-12-08T14:29:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T19:29:45","slug":"black-lives-matter-stands-by-accused-hate-crime-hoaxer-smollett-trial-a-white-supremacist-charade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-stands-by-accused-hate-crime-hoaxer-smollett-trial-a-white-supremacist-charade\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Stands By Accused Hate Crime Hoaxer Smollett: Trial A \u2018White Supremacist Charade\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-lives-matter-stands-by-accused-hate-crime-hoaxer-smollett-trial-a-white-supremacist-charade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098994&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A leader of far-left Black Lives Matter voiced support of accused hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett this week, claiming without evidence that his criminal trial was a \u201cwhite supremacist charade\u201d and that policing must be abolished because it is \u201can irredeemable institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smollett is facing six felony counts of disorderly conduct, which carries up to a three-year prison sentence per count if found guilty, for allegedly lying to Chicago police in 2019; prosecutors accuse Smollett of fabricating a hate crime hoax on himself for attention.<\/p>\n<p>Melina Abdullah, Director of BLM Grassroots and co-Founder of BLM Los Angeles, praised Smollett in a statement and tried to discredit the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/blacklivesmatter.com\/statement-regarding-the-ongoing-trial-of-jussie-smollett\/\">statement<\/a> from Abdullah said:<\/p>\n<p><em>As abolitionists, we approach situations of injustice with love and align ourselves with our community. Because we got us. So let\u2019s be clear: we love everybody in our community. It\u2019s not about a trial or a verdict decided in a white supremacist charade, it\u2019s about how we treat our community when corrupt systems are working to devalue their lives. In an abolitionist society, this trial would not be taking place, and our communities would not have to fight and suffer to prove our worth. Instead, we find ourselves once again being forced to put our lives and our value in the hands of judges and juries operating in a system that is designed to oppress us, while continuing to face a corrupt and violent police department who has proven time and again to have no respect for our lives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In our commitment to abolition, we can never believe police, especially the Chicago Police Department (CPD) over Jussie Smollett, a Black man who has been courageously present, visible, and vocal in the struggle for Black freedom. While policing at-large is an irredeemable institution, CPD is notorious for its long and deep history of corruption, racism, and brutality. From the murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, to the Burge tortures, to the murder of Laquan McDonald and subsequent cover-up, to the hundreds of others killed by Chicago police over the years and the thousands who survived abuse, Chicago police consistently demonstrate that they are among the worst of the worst. Police lie and Chicago police lie especially.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Black Lives Matter will continue to work towards the abolition of police and every unjust system. We will continue to love and protect one another, and wrap our arms around those who do the work to usher in Black freedom and, by extension, freedom for everyone else.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Smollett claimed in January 2019 that he was targeted and attacked by Trump supporters who used racist and homophobic slurs. Smollett claimed that the attackers yelled, \u201cThis is MAGA country,\u201d and then put a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jussie-smollett-criminal-trial-set-to-begin-today-3-years-after-alleged-hate-crime-hoax\">Jussie Smollett Criminal Trial Set To Begin Today 3 Years After Alleged Hate Crime Hoax<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leader of far-left Black Lives Matter voiced support of accused hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett this week, claiming without evidence that his criminal trial was a \u201cwhite supremacist charade\u201d and that policing must be abolished because it is \u201can irredeemable institution.\u201dSmollett is facing six felony counts of disorderly conduct, which carries up to a three-year prison sentence per count if found guilty, for allegedly lying to Chicago police in 2019; prosecutors accuse Smollett of fabricating a hate crime hoax on himself for attention.Melina Abdullah, Director of BLM Grassroots and co-Founder of BLM Los Angeles, praised Smollett in a statement and tried to discredit the Chicago Police Department.Black Lives Matter\u2019s statement from Abdullah said:As abolitionists, we approach situations of injustice with love and align ourselves with our community. Because we got us. So let\u2019s be clear: we love everybody in our community. It\u2019s not about a trial or a verdict decided in a white supremacist charade, it\u2019s about how we treat our community when corrupt systems are working to devalue their lives. In an abolitionist society, this trial would not be taking place, and our communities would not have to fight and suffer to prove our worth. Instead, we find ourselves once again being forced to put our lives and our value in the hands of judges and juries operating in a system that is designed to oppress us, while continuing to face a corrupt and violent police department who has proven time and again to have no respect for our lives.In our commitment to abolition, we can never believe police, especially the Chicago Police Department (CPD) over Jussie Smollett, a Black man who has been courageously present, visible, and vocal in the struggle for Black freedom. While policing at-large is an irredeemable institution, CPD is notorious for its long and deep history of corruption, racism, and brutality. From the murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, to the Burge tortures, to the murder of Laquan McDonald and subsequent cover-up, to the hundreds of others killed by Chicago police over the years and the thousands who survived abuse, Chicago police consistently demonstrate that they are among the worst of the worst. Police lie and Chicago police lie especially.Black Lives Matter will continue to work towards the abolition of police and every unjust system. We will continue to love and protect one another, and wrap our arms around those who do the work to usher in Black freedom and, by extension, freedom for everyone else.Smollett claimed in January 2019 that he was targeted and attacked by Trump supporters who used racist and homophobic slurs. Smollett claimed that the attackers yelled, \u201cThis is MAGA country,\u201d and then put a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him.Related: Jussie Smollett Criminal Trial Set To Begin Today 3 Years After Alleged Hate Crime HoaxThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}