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- Chicago detectives suspect that "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett filed a false police report when he said he was the victim of a racist, homophobic attack in downtown Chicago late last month, a police official said Wednesday.
- Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi also tweeted Wednesday that detectives and two brothers who were initially deemed suspects in the Jan. 29 attack were testifying before a grand jury.
- Smollett's attorneys, Todd Pugh and Victor P. Henderson, met with prosecutors and police earlier Wednesday afternoon.
- Smollett, who is black and gay and plays the Jamal Lyon on the hit Fox TV show, said he was attacked by two masked men at around 2 a.m. on Jan. 29 as he was walking home from a Subway sandwich shop in downtown Chicago.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago detectives suspect that "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett filed a false police report when he said he was the victim of a racist, homophobic attack in downtown Chicago late last month, a police official said Wednesday.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi also tweeted Wednesday that detectives and two brothers who were initially deemed suspects in the Jan. 29 attack were testifying before a grand jury.
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