But to them, it's an impossible hurdle. Michael Brown was in the wrong, Trayvon was in the wrong. Everyone who is charged by the police is in the wrong. You can't change their thinking or their impossible requirements for innocence.
The larger problem is how reasonable people allow them to dominate the discussion. They say outrageous things, reasonable people allow it to shift the discussion. Jussie was completely guilty. Hell, there's a tweet where a dude called Michael Flynn a victim who committed a 'process crime' and Jussie as having 'privilege'.
I have always wondered how they got to 16 felony charges. The prosecutor doesn't even try for a plea deal. That's how bad it was. Jussie isn't sitting on millions. They could have wasted his money with a trial. How weak is the case to not even try for a plea?
But the conversation has been shifted. Now it's about how he's actually guilty. The mayor, corrupt fuck he is and the police chief from a racist department are making a fuss, and the prosecutor, who always has a cozy relationship with police are making statements and shifting the narrative. You can't change their thinking.
I am grouping them all together because I don't believe they are without bias. Racists hate a black man for 'getting away' with anything. Cops usually have a bunch of racists and I'm not giving the Chicago PD any credit when they have actual black sites for torture and the prosecutor wants his bread buttered and has immunity from civil suits. The prosecutor has no reason not to inflamed the situation.
The prosecutor couldn't even get a plea deal but has no problem with the evidence? If you can't get a plea deal, it means you have a problem with the evidence.
All this to say, we need to stop giving bad faith actors a platform. Fox is already switching to Jussie, a guy who makes 20k per episode. Yeah, a lot of money but not Johnny Cochran money. Jussie was happy for this to go away for 10k.
We've shifted away from real questions to that he was probably guilty.
My questions are: what actually happened, why were the charges dropped, why is Jussie acting innocent when he hasn't gotten to double jeopardy? They could roll him into court, still, and waste money while Jussie bleeds his bank account to the point he wants a plea. That happens everyday to black people.
For the record, yep, these are totally all the same:
Michael Brown - shot by cop, arguably post-death framed for a serious crime
Trayvon Martin - shot by wannabe cop after defeating said wannabe cop in confrontation
Michael Flynn - lied to the FBI about something borderline irrelevant without a lawyer present (after plea deal on said lying to the feds, never charged for his potential crimes in lobbying)
Jussie Smollett - mailed himself a threat, hired people to fake an attack on him motivated by ... homophobia? racism? still dunno really ... in order to increase his salary on a TV show where he makes over a million a year
As an aside:
Why don't these people ever list a handful of actual incidents where blatantly innocent black people were setup/killed by police? I mean, the fact that this guy managed to remember Michael Brown to put in his list puts him in the 1% for these ResetERA.com posts. Kathryn Johnston? Stephon Clark? Alton Sterling? Terrance Sterling? Jonathan Hart if you want a gay black man? How about Laquan McDonald or Maurice Granton also in Chicago? Nah, but like always fucking Trayvon.
Okay, okay, to be fair Alton was accused of a crime, he was accused of selling stolen CDs (in 2016) when he was tackled by police and somehow wound up shot from that.
