Jussie Smollett’s legal team demands emergency release as family shares threatening call

Wasting valuable Police Department time, lying to the public and whipping up more racial and sexual divide in my country…

Walking around at his leisure today.

Outrageous.

I kind of like this...Give him a brief taste of freedom and throw him back into jail...There's literally no reason for the case to be appealed. You can't appeal a case just because you don't like the verdict.

"Appellate Court Justices Thomas Hoffman and Joy Cunningham signed the order granting Smollett's request to be released, which noted he was convicted of non-violent offenses. Justice Maureen Connors dissented."

"The office of the special prosecutor called the claim that Smollett's health and safety were at risk “factually incorrect," in a response to the motion, noting that Smollett was being held in protective custody at the jail. Smollett was being held in his own cell, and was being monitored by security cameras and an officer, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said after he began serving his sentence last week."

"Deputy special prosecutor Sean Wieber also questioned the idea of releasing Smollett because his sentence will be complete prior to an appellate court ruling, saying that under that logic every person facing a sentence shorter than a few years would be able to remain free. “That simply is not, and cannot be, the rule,”"

More special treatment for the snowflake.