{"id":1109858,"date":"2021-12-11T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1109858"},"modified":"2021-12-11T19:14:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T00:14:12","slug":"chief-who-arrested-smollett-says-sandwich-tipped-off-authorities-maybe-wouldve-let-off-with-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chief-who-arrested-smollett-says-sandwich-tipped-off-authorities-maybe-wouldve-let-off-with-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Who Arrested Smollett Says Sandwich Tipped Off Authorities, Maybe Would\u2019ve Let Off With Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fchief-who-arrested-smollett-says-sandwich-tipped-off-authorities-maybe-wouldve-let-off-with-apology%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=1109858&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>The Chicago police chief who arrested actor Jussie Smollett back in 2019 said authorities were tipped off that the \u201chate crime\u201d was not what it seemed by the actor\u2019s untouched Subway sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>The former chief also noted that Smollett might not have been criminally charged if he had come forward with an apology and abandoned his claims of victimhood, which he did not do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking back on it, the part about the noose \u2014 but what really struck us oddly \u2014 because at that time, I had been a cop 30 years, 31 years. And so I had been&nbsp;in the detective division working homicides, a lot. \u2026 What really struck us all was the fact that he got attacked on&nbsp;the coldest night of the year during a polar vortex. It was insanely cold. So, nobody was out,\u201d&nbsp;Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/morninginamerica\/smolletts-lawyers-speak-about-the-guilty-verdict\/\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Friday on&nbsp;NewsNation\u2019s \u201cMorning in America,\u201d describing the case against Smollett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I tell you one thing that really tipped us off that there was a problem,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf somebody gets jumped like that \u2014 so let me back up a bit.&nbsp;He went to a Subway sandwich shop at like two in the morning to get a sandwich. Okay, that\u2019s fine.&nbsp;He comes back, gets attacked in a hate crime, supposed hate crime, and during all this scuffle, they poured bleach on him, and all of this, when he got up and went into his apartment building, he still had that Subway sandwich with him. That doesn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people get attacked like that, whatever belongings they have out there, they usually leave it until the police can go back with them because they\u2019re afraid. This guy had the sandwich in his hand, and [it had] never been touched. That was a real tip and a clue to us that something was amiss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in January 2019, Smollett claimed he was targeted and attacked by apparent supporters of President Donald Trump in an anti-gay, anti-black hate crime. His alleged attackers, whom he allegedly described as white males who yelled \u201cThis is MAGA country,\u201d were brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo. Notably, the brothers are both black men who knew the \u201cEmpire\u201d star before the incident and have claimed Smollett orchestrated the \u201choax.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A jury on Thursday found Smollett guilty on five counts of disorderly conduct related to the incident. He has not yet been sentenced, but is facing up to&nbsp;three years in prison on each count, NBC Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/jussie-smollett-verdict-what-he-was-found-guilty-of-and-whats-next-in-the-legal-saga\/2704278\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson also revealed during the interview that he did not want to pursue criminal charges against Smollett, but felt charges needed to move forward over the actor\u2019s persistent claims of victimhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me say this: myself and Mayor [Rahm] Emanuel at the time, we were upset about the fact that [he] stained our city like that, and we put all that manpower into it, but I just want people to understand this, too,\u201d he said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t the heinous crime of the century.&nbsp;He didn\u2019t kill anybody. He didn\u2019t blow up a building. So, we would have been more than happy with just an apology at the end of all of that, after we uncovered what we did, but for some reason, they just wanted to keep going down this road that he was actually a victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson retired from the force in November 2019, amidst an internal investigation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-police-superintendent-eddie-johnson-retires-amid-internal-investigation\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>Johnson might not have retired from his job so quickly were it not for an internal investigation, currently underway, into an incident that found Johnson slumped behind the wheel of a running car, stopped at a stop sign just blocks from his home in the Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago\u2019s south side. \u2026 Johnson later admitted that he had a few drinks at dinner with friends before he got behind the wheel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-police-superintendent-blasts-jussie-emily-zanotti\">Chicago Police Superintendent BLASTS Jussie Smollett, Media, Celebs, Politicians In Press&nbsp;Conference<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-police-superintendent-empire-star-jussie-emily-zanotti\u2026\">Chicago Police Superintendent: \u2018Empire\u2019 Star Jussie Smollett \u2018WILL Be Held Accountable\u2019 If He Made A False Crime&nbsp;Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-police-superintendent-eddie-johnson-retires-amid-internal-investigation\">Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson Retires Amid Internal&nbsp;Investigation<\/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>The Chicago police chief who arrested actor Jussie Smollett back in 2019 said authorities were tipped off that the \u201chate crime\u201d was not what it seemed by the actor\u2019s untouched Subway sandwich.The former chief also noted that Smollett might not have been criminally charged if he had come forward with an apology and abandoned his claims of victimhood, which he did not do.\u201cLooking back on it, the part about the noose \u2014 but what really struck us oddly \u2014 because at that time, I had been a cop 30 years, 31 years. And so I had been\u00a0in the detective division working homicides, a lot. \u2026 What really struck us all was the fact that he got attacked on\u00a0the coldest night of the year during a polar vortex. It was insanely cold. So, nobody was out,\u201d\u00a0Johnson said\u00a0Friday on\u00a0NewsNation\u2019s \u201cMorning in America,\u201d describing the case against Smollett.\u201cBut I tell you one thing that really tipped us off that there was a problem,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf somebody gets jumped like that \u2014 so let me back up a bit.\u00a0He went to a Subway sandwich shop at like two in the morning to get a sandwich. Okay, that\u2019s fine.\u00a0He comes back, gets attacked in a hate crime, supposed hate crime, and during all this scuffle, they poured bleach on him, and all of this, when he got up and went into his apartment building, he still had that Subway sandwich with him. That doesn\u2019t happen.\u201d\u201cWhen people get attacked like that, whatever belongings they have out there, they usually leave it until the police can go back with them because they\u2019re afraid. This guy had the sandwich in his hand, and [it had] never been touched. That was a real tip and a clue to us that something was amiss.\u201dBack in January 2019, Smollett claimed he was targeted and attacked by apparent supporters of President Donald Trump in an anti-gay, anti-black hate crime. His alleged attackers, whom he allegedly described as white males who yelled \u201cThis is MAGA country,\u201d were brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo. Notably, the brothers are both black men who knew the \u201cEmpire\u201d star before the incident and have claimed Smollett orchestrated the \u201choax.\u201dA jury on Thursday found Smollett guilty on five counts of disorderly conduct related to the incident. He has not yet been sentenced, but is facing up to\u00a0three years in prison on each count, NBC Chicago reported.Johnson also revealed during the interview that he did not want to pursue criminal charges against Smollett, but felt charges needed to move forward over the actor\u2019s persistent claims of victimhood.\u201cLet me say this: myself and Mayor [Rahm] Emanuel at the time, we were upset about the fact that [he] stained our city like that, and we put all that manpower into it, but I just want people to understand this, too,\u201d he said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t the heinous crime of the century.\u00a0He didn\u2019t kill anybody. He didn\u2019t blow up a building. So, we would have been more than happy with just an apology at the end of all of that, after we uncovered what we did, but for some reason, they just wanted to keep going down this road that he was actually a victim.\u201dJohnson retired from the force in November 2019, amidst an internal investigation, The Daily Wire reported:Johnson might not have retired from his job so quickly were it not for an internal investigation, currently underway, into an incident that found Johnson slumped behind the wheel of a running car, stopped at a stop sign just blocks from his home in the Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago\u2019s south side. \u2026 Johnson later admitted that he had a few drinks at dinner with friends before he got behind the wheel.Related:\u00a0Chicago Police Superintendent BLASTS Jussie Smollett, Media, Celebs, Politicians In Press\u00a0ConferenceRelated:\u00a0Chicago Police Superintendent: \u2018Empire\u2019 Star Jussie Smollett \u2018WILL Be Held Accountable\u2019 If He Made A False Crime\u00a0ReportRelated:\u00a0Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson Retires Amid Internal\u00a0InvestigationThe 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":64,"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-1109858","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\/1109858","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109858\/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=1109858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}