13 days after reported attack, Smollett gives CPD 'redacted' phone records

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Nearly two weeks since he reported being the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in Streeterville, “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett turned over “limited and redacted” phone records to Chicago Police.

Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed that Smollett handed over portions of his call log from the early hours of Jan. 29. That call log will be analyzed and detectives may be in contact with Smollett again should they have more questions.

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Smollett has told police that he was walking in the 300 block of East North Water Street about 2 a.m. when two people walked up to him, yelled the slurs, hit him in the face, poured a substance — suspected to be bleach — on him and put a “thin, light rope” around his neck.

(Read more at Chicago Sun Times)

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