Jurnee Smollett Says #FreeJussie: “You Don’t Have to Believe in His Innocence to Believe He Should Be Free”

Jussie Smollett may not have received the support of the judge or jury in his hoax hate attack case, however, his family are standing by his side.

Case in point is his actress sister Jurnee Smollett.

The ‘Lovecraft Country’ star has launched the #FreeJussie movement and slammed his five-month jail sentence in the process

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Taking to social media, the 35-year-old shared the following:

“Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly five times the rate of White Americans. Jussie is innocent. And…you don’t have to believe in his innocence to believe he should be free.
#FreeJussie #StopLockingUpOurPeople“

As reported, Jussie was convicted on five of the six counts leveled against him for faking the hoax hate crime

The former ‘Empire’ star was immediately reprimanded after a Cook Country judge denied the impassioned pleas of the defense to issue a probation order instead of a jail sentence.

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