ABC News – Chicago police released their investigative files and video Monday of the alleged staged attack on Empire actor Jussie Smollett in late January, including nearly 70 hours of video connected to the case.
Police bodycam video shows officers arriving at Smollett’s apartment in Streeterville. After going with his manager up to his apartment, they are greeted by the star with a rope coiled several times around his neck, claiming that two attackers doused him with bleach and put the noose over his head.
Police blurred Smollett’s face in the video obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, because at the time [of the FOIA request] he was considered a victim.
