This Wasn’t About Jussie Smollett
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The decision to drop felony charges against the actor, Magats emphasized, was not an exoneration. But the charges were eventually reinstated. The concept of saying no to a slam-dunk conviction was unthinkable as recently as 2012. Quite the opposite: Law-enforcement officials in Cook County often trampled ethical and legal boundaries to secure them. A60 Minutessegment from that year documented a pattern of coercive interrogation methods used by the Chicago police....