Jussie Smollett found guilty of five felony charges in staging hate crime against himself…

Yeah...the resources he wasted, the dent in the perception of legitimate hate crimes, the embarrassment to my own community...he needs to not only compensate monetarily, he needs to spend some time behind bars. Just enough to think about his actions and the people affected.

He is literally his own worst enemy

What was he thinking??! Does he not realize how much damage this does? It gives valid talking points to idiots

At least he can rest easy knowing the guy who planned his attack was convicted

Hollywood very rarely does time. Different set of rules for those fine folk.

My guess - probation, fine and community service.

He probably get probation and a fine he won’t spend time in jail. This is his first offense. At the sentencing the judge will give Jesse a stern message

I was following that story, 🤔 but I just don't get WHY he did it?

The brothers he allegedly paid to attack him have sued him? How does that work?

When someone is attacked the cops and much of the press will remember this. He did this to himself for what?

Apart from anything else,Smollett's deplorable course of action gravely dishonours and disrespects the memory of the countless real victims of racial injustice and violence,right down through the years.

With five felonies he will be in “the system” forever.

Well, it was stupid. That there's no arguing with. But I have to wonder what's happening inside a man already craving the attention of stage lights and still compelled to play the victim front and center for the world. That typically speaks to an imbalance somewhere in the mind.

That doesn't excuse his actions or protect him from penalty, but understanding him and helping him understand himself might go a long way in making sure this happens less frequently in the future.

I can see this ending in suicide attempts leading to the death penalty. Which actually does happen in some places.
I mean how tf do you hate crime yourself? And isn't a suicide attempt technically attempted murder? See the slope I'm building:/

Thank you, Harry Reasoner.

Really stupid thing to do, yet I feel sorry for him. He made such horrible choices. How could he think this would work out?

They should throw the book at him.

Tremendously selfish act. He couldn't have cared less how this could impact the whole conversation about hate crimes and racial tension and the victims thereof. He did a huge disservice and it's sickening to think that he did it to further himself and his career. And what a terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE job he did faking it all and then doubling down on it. Hard to believe there isn't some real Dunning-Kruger effect here, as I grapple with either his total cluelessness or his contempt for our intelligence.

What a loser.

Why throw it all away like that?

I only care enough to laugh at him. What an idiot.

Such a fool....not sure he deserves prison though

He will enjoy it in prison with Fleece Johnson.

I hope it's pretty severe to be honest.