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Monday, February 18, 2019

Al Sharpton Backs Away From Smollett, Decades After Tawana Brawley Fiasco

By Rick Pearcey • February 18, 2019, 04:20 PM

Brian Flood reports at Fox News:

When "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett said he was attacked by two masked men yelling racist and homophobic epithets, as well as "This is MAGA country," MSNBC host Al Sharpton came out in support of the star.

But amid multiple reports this weekend that Smollett may have been involved in orchestrating the attack, Sharpton, who made his name in the 1980s as the spokesperson for Tawana Brawley in what turned out to be false claims she was raped by four white men, changed his tune on-air on Sunday.

"If it is found that Smollett and these gentlemen did, in some way, perpetrate something that is not true, they ought to face accountability to the maximum," Sharpton said referring to the actor and two men linked to him who have been questioned by police.

"Let us get to the bottom of it, and let justice be done, no matter who is right or wrong," Sharpton said, according to Fox News.

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