This pops out after this sift through evidence:
In truth, the Chicago police are terrified of even hinting they doubt Smollett’s story. There is no major city in the U.S. where the cops are more distrusted by blacks than in Chicago. The police risk a riot if they let it be known they think Smollett is trying to hoax them.
The media — also massively distrusted by blacks in the city for supposedly always placing them in a bad light — is tiptoeing around the hoax story.
Not that many of their people are dying to uncover one.
Blithe Spirit 
You know who your masters are by whom you may not criticize.
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