Why were so many hours and resources put into this Smollett case?

Because it could have potentially set off race riots in what is an already area of the country prone to violence

I think PC played a huge part in it. Can’t be perceived as being uncaring to the blacks and/or gheys, especially in a case that was guaranteed to catch the national spotlight.

You’d hope that the CPD was smart enough to see through this hoax from the beginning, right?

Bc white males are the biggest threat to America.

Idk, maybe because of law and fricking order?

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You’d hope that the CPD was smart enough to see through this hoax from the beginning, right?

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Giving a statement to CPD that he was brutalized on the way home from Subway at 2AM with his "Spicy Italian on wheat" still in his hand may have been their first clue.

Image! A great image means more tourism and more $$$!

For being complicit in inciting to national violence in today's national political scene. Its a big deal. It's one of many. Let's nip it in the bud, and have him suffer consequences.

If you didn't have presidential candidates calling it a modern day lynching, I might have agreed with you.

Because the story the MSM wants to tell about America is a story of rabid white folks hunting black people down like animals.

It's a story that was never really true in my lifetime, although I'm certain many (most?) black people had a really fricked up time trying to make their American dreams happen just 50 or 60 years ago. I'm not trying to sugar coat lynchings, either. There were thousands upon thousands, particularly from Reconstruction through the middle portion of the "Second Klan" era, which peaked in the mid-20s. And, what's worse, it was terrorism, pure and simple.

In a way, it was an American "disease" - it was primarily whites lynching blacks, largely for aims of white supremacy, but whites also lynched whites (collaborators), blacks lynched blacks and, even a dozen or so incidents (IIRC) of blacks lynching whites.

At it's peak from about 1880 through about 1930, an average of 175 people were "lynched" (the term is used now to mean killed purely or predominantly because of the race of the victim) per year. Based on confirmed incidents, not anecdotes or whatnot, we have 3 lynchings during the approximately half a century I've been alive.

1. Marian Pyszko (a white Jewish Polish dude) was lynched in 1975 by some Detroit youths looking for a white victim after a white man killed a black teenager after observing a group of young black men tampering with his car. There were no convictions in the case. These incidents were associate with the Livernois-Fenkell riot.

2. Michael Donald was beaten, killed and hung from a tree in Mobile, Alabama in 1981. White (Third) Klan members, apparently in retaliation for the acquittal of a black man accused in the murder of a white police office, selected Mr. Donald for retribution. Two men were convicted. Henry Hays was sentenced to death (in a rare move, the judge overruled the jury's recommendation of life) and electrocuted for the crime. James Knowles was sentenced to life.

3. James Byrd was dragged to death (after being beaten, urinated on, defecated on, etc.) white white supremacists (the group was not affiliated, specifically, with any group at the time, but Brewer and King were likely both Aryan Nation/CKA type dudes in prison and probably met through such groups behind bars) in 1998 in Jasper, Texas. 3 perpetrators convicted. 1 executed, 1 is on death row and 1 has a life sentence. Brewer was executed back in 2011 and his extravagant last meal, which he completely discarded, resulted in the end of the practice in Texas. King is scheduled to be executed next month. TWENTY ONE YEARS LATER. (This case was made an issue in the 2000 Presidential Election because of W's opposition to hate crime legislation.)

A fourth individual, Brandon McClelland was dragged to death in what police in Paris, Texas, initially believed was a hit-and-run gone horribly wrong. Two white men with long criminal histories were charged, but those charges were ultimately dropped. The family believes it was racially motivated and that the investigation was botched.

The McClelland case is bizarre, because the victim had known the accused white men since they were all children and had worked together the day of his murder. Hearsay statements reported by one of the accused's wives make me believe it might have been a drunken accident and the rest was a drunken effort to cover that up, rather than a specifically racially motivated slaying.

Certainly there are other instances of white killers and black victims, but we must also concede that is about the smallest category of homicide we can come up with. Not defending it, but this pretense that it is a "special" kind of crime does not come from its prevalence over the past 50 years - that's absolutely for certain. Statistically zero. There have been more people murdered over college football in the State of Alabama over that same period, just for context.

No way the midget mayor rahm let’s the real story get out. I believe it was this little boy who termed the phrase “can’t let a good crisis go to waste”
These left wing cities deserve everything they get when they continue to elect stupid arse liberals !