JUSSIE SMOLLET'S ATTACK: A HOAX?

ICHEOKU says it will require the suspension of disbelief to accept as is, the account of the alleged attack on homosexual gay man and actor in Empire Television series, Jussie Smollets. That he was attacked by two white men, who roughed him up, threw some liquid on him and shouted this is MAGA country. The account looks simply made up, as the coincidences were laughable at best, if not outrightly concocted. How did they know precisely that he was going to be where he was and got there at the same time they did, armed with some liquid and noose, did what they did to him and then escaped, without being caught or seen by anyone else except Ms Smollets? 

Why were his attackers not captured by any of the neighborhood surveillance cameras or the attack captured on video, including the act of roughing him up, pouring the bleach on him and affixing the noose on his neck. Why did he not remove the noose immediately the attack ended, but wore it like a prized medal back to his apartment, until minded by his lover to remove it? Shouldn't removing the noose be the first reaction of any traumatized victim, upon regaining his freedom and senses. Shouldn't freeing himself of the noose have been uppermost in his mind, then make a contemporaneous 911 call, before dashing back to his pad to await the police arrival? 

What happened to the fast food which he went to buy, did he lose it during the melee or clutched unto it until he got back to his apartment and still ate it? How did his attackers  know that he was a homosexual gay black guy, without seeing his face to know his identity, since it was in the dark. How could his attackers have shouted gay slurs faggot, or did somebody tip them off that Ms Smollets was gay and enroute to the fast food restaurant and asked them to waylay him on his way back? Why would Ms Smollets assume that every American watches Empire and knows who he is and that he was black and gay? ICHEOKU says never watched the television series and does not know about this guy or the fact that he is a black gay man until this developments, so why would he think that his attackers knew him? The randomness is doubtful except it was an inside job prank, staged by his friends to get his adrenalin racing. 

Since the explanations so far provided by him  are not adding up and a lot of questions are still left unanswered or answered satisfactorily, is it then possible that Ms Smollets made the whole thing up, as a stunt to get attention or was he lashing out as a result of love gone sour. Imagine how convenient it was that the attackers shouted "This is MAGA country" and you wonder if Ms Smollets did not manufacture that aspect of the tale just to give it extra coloration, as perpetrated by Trump supporters against a black gay guy. But unbeknownst to Ms Smollets, there are many non white people who are members of Team MAGA, including ICHEOKU who happens to be non white person. Why continue fanning the amber of racism or is the tension in the land not enough already that it needed another fuel? Such race baiting is not good for our cohesiveness as a nation and need to stop. 

It happened not too long ago in Houston Texas where some black people claimed that a white skinhead, hater of black people, shot into a vehicle killing an 11 year old black girl; only for the allegation to later turn out to be that it was a black guy who infact did the shooting and killing of the black young girl. According to Ms Smollets, the attackers beat Ms Smollets up, threw a caustic liquid on him, which miraculously did not land on his face nor impacted his eyes; and later put a noose on him but did not draw it tight. So, why would the attackers go to the trouble of throwing some liquid on him without precisely targeting his eyes and face with it? Why would the attackers waste their time bringing a noose and putting a noose on his neck without drawing it tight or at least choking him a little bit with it? 

Yet Ms Smollets did not fight back nor scream and shout for help and he was within a residential neighborhood and not too far from the fast food place where he had gone to buy some dinner. When the attackers were attacking him, was he tremblingly crouching down in fear and moaning in pain or did he try to fight back, kick, scratch and crawl his way out of danger zone? Did he try to escape by running or did they hold him down and restrained as they pummeled him, poured the liquid on him and then put a noose on his neck? Why did nobody see any of these happen or came to his rescue and above all, why did he wear the noose back to his apartment. Did his attackers seize his phone or dispossess him of his watch, wallet or jewelries. Who goes about with bleach and noose, seeking out victims to torment, except it was a prank pulled off by people who know him. 

Why did the surveillance camera, located at the location of the attack, not capture the actual attacking or was it not functioning? Simply put, there are so many things that are not rounding off, which is highly suggestive that no attack actually ever took place. It is possible that Ms Smollets might be up to no good and was emotionally under the weather and decided to concoct the story just to get someone's attention back or just decided to act out a bottled depression. So, until the police completes their investigation, nobody except Ms Smollets, will ever know what truly happened and it is regrettable. 

Hopefully the police will do their work to unmask the attackers or at least yield a forensic explanation or account of what really happened. ICHEOKU is somewhat convinced that what Ms Smollets said happened, did not happen; at least not as he claimed and therefore not buying it. However, if it did, ICHEOKU prays that the police will solve the crime quickly and arrest the culprits for prosecution; at least some fingerprints would have been left on the noose. Race relations in America is steadily getting worse and stories like Ms Smollets will only add to the tension in the land and make matters worse. If it was a fluke, it will make it more difficult to know when real victims need real help. People should therefore please cease and desist from hoaxes or at least not exaggerate any actual encounter, in order to keep things within tolerable level, because nobody will gain from an open race war in America. Let everyone please calm down.