Jussie Smollett’s legal team demands emergency release as family shares threatening call

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Jussie Smollett’s lawyers have demanded that the disgraced actor be sprung from jail, claiming he faces “dangerous threats” including a phone call that alluded to the notorious case of a sodomized New York City man.

Smollett’s legal team claimed in a new filing that argued for his release that the actor has received “vicious threats” on social media, Rolling Stone reported.

The hate on social media “no doubt reflects the hatred and wish for physical harm toward Smollett which he may experience during incarceration,” his lawyers argued.

One of Smollett’s siblings also received the disturbing call Friday on the number that had been provided as the hate-crime faker’s emergency contact, a rep for the actor told the magazine.

“I hope what they do to that guy in jail — here’s what they’re going to do, right. They’re going to take a broom handle, and take that little [expletive], shove it in there, and he’s gonna go, ‘[shrieking sound],’” a man was heard saying in video of the call shared by the actor’s team.

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