{"id":1115911,"date":"2021-12-13T19:58:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1115911"},"modified":"2021-12-13T19:58:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T00:58:34","slug":"jussie-smolletts-empire-co-star-terrence-howard-he-was-found-guilty-you-have-to-respect-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jussie-smolletts-empire-co-star-terrence-howard-he-was-found-guilty-you-have-to-respect-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Jussie Smollett&#039;s &#039;Empire&#039; Co-Star Terrence Howard: He was Found Guilty, &#039;You Have to Respect That&#039;"},"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%2Fjussie-smolletts-empire-co-star-terrence-howard-he-was-found-guilty-you-have-to-respect-that%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=1115911&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 class=\"subheading\">Actor Terrence Howard, the <em>Empire&nbsp;<\/em>co-star of disgraced actor and hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett broke his silence on the high-profile case. Howard said the jury found Smollett guilty, adding, \u201cYou have to respect that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After being asked to share his thoughts on the Smollett verdict during an appearance on <em>Mark Vargas Mark My Words<\/em> radio show, Howard said, \u201cit\u2019s an uncomfortable question, because anyone that\u2019s aware of the show or my relationship with Jussie would know that Jussie is \u2014 for six years \u2014 he was my son.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe was my son that I had the most difficulty with on that show as far as the character world goes,\u201d the actor added. \u201cSo you end up getting very close to individuals that you have the most struggle with, whose characters you have the most struggle with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Listen Below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>But despite the fact that he and his family \u201clove Jussie,\u201d Howard acknowledged that the actor has been judged by his peers and found guilty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey judged him and found him guilty, 12 of them that judged from a completely unbiased position \u2014 you have to respect that,\u201d the <em>Hustle and Flow&nbsp;<\/em>star&nbsp;said of the jury in Chicago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19119306\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-827749118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19119306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-827749118.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Actors Jussie Smollett (L) and Terrence Howard of \u2018Empire\u2019 speak onstage during the FOX portion of the 2017 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Frederick M. Brown\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <em>Iron Man&nbsp;<\/em>star&nbsp;also noted that the \u201csmall little spark\u201d Smollett\u2019s hate crime story created could have \u201cset the entire world on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they had gotten away with it \u2014 whoever orchestrated it, whatever was set up \u2014 if they got away with it, then we would have the potential of blacks feeling like they need to defend black people against MAGA, and it could have turned into something very, very scary, and very ugly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd people would have gotten hurt and killed, and if that was the case, the blood on someone\u2019s hands would have been massive,\u201d Howard added. \u201cI\u2019m very glad that it\u2019s over, and I hope every found some peace in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smollett was found&nbsp;guilty of five counts of felony disorderly conduct&nbsp;for filing a false police report after he hired two brothers from Nigeria to stage a fake hate crime against him.<\/p>\n<p>The class 4 felony carries a maximum sentence of up to 3 years in prison for each count \u2014 but experts believe he will likely get probation and be sentenced to community service if convicted. Smollett was acquitted of just one count of disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Terrence Howard, the Empire\u00a0co-star of disgraced actor and hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett broke his silence on the high-profile case. Howard said the jury found Smollett guilty, adding, \u201cYou &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"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-1115911","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\/1115911","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115911\/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=1115911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}