Eugene Roy, a retired Chicago Police Department chief of detectives with over 30 years experience on the force, brought the Jussie Smollett hate-crime hoax to light years ago and now he’s warning voters about Kamala Harris.

When the disgraced actor was exposed for lying about the incident, she called him a victim of an attempted “modern day lynching,” a sentiment that Harris is probably hoping went down a memory hole never to resurface.

“Now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Harris to this day has not deleted her 2019 social media post that repeats the false claim, even after the ‘Empire’ actor’s criminal conviction in Illinois for the faked attack,” Fox News reported.

“Smollett claimed two masked men ‘doused him with bleach, put a rope around his neck and said, ‘This is MAGA country!” in the heart of Chicago during the 2019 polar vortex,” the media outlet recounted.

Kamala Harris has refused to take down her Tweet about Jussie Smollett being the victim of a modern day lynching because “the facts are still unfolding.” pic.twitter.com/I6ylXVdjsx

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 23, 2024

Harris bent over backward to excuse Smollett.

“[Jussie Smollett] is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery,” then-California Sen. Harris posted on Twitter at the time. “This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.”

.@JussieSmollett is one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know. I’m praying for his quick recovery.

This was an attempted modern day lynching. No one should have to fear for their life because of their sexuality or color of their skin. We must confront this hate.

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 29, 2019

After Smollett was outed for filing a false report over the incident, Harris asserted that she was “sad, frustrated and disappointed” over the actor making “false claims to police.”

Roy contended that her initial comments were a “rush to judgment” highlighting a “hasty decision before all the facts are known.”

“It’s one thing to express your support for a friend. It’s another thing to use your platform as a government official to prejudge a case before it’s played out. Before all the facts are known,” Roy charged.

He went on to be featured in the Fox Nation documentary “Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax.”

Fox News shared more of the facts in the case:

The facts were established in court, where prosecutors presented evidence that Smollett recruited two brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, to help him stage a fake hate crime. Smollett, who is Black and gay, then falsely reported to Chicago Police that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack by two men wearing ski masks in January 2019.

Phone records, ride-share records, video surveillance footage, GPS evidence, text messages and social media messages between Smollett and the Osundairo brothers corroborated their testimony that the incident was staged, according to court documents. A jury found Smollett guilty on five of six charges of disorderly conduct after a nearly two-week trial in 2021.

Smollett was sentenced to 150 days in jail after his conviction. The actor was also sentenced to 30 months felony probation and ordered to pay restitution to the city of Chicago in the amount of $120,106 and a fine of $25,000.

Smollett has appealed his conviction to the Illinois Supreme Court, which in March agreed to hear his case.

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Harris was a California state attorney general as well. She was far from alone in defending Smollett — Democrats lined up to back his concocted story.

“What happened today to @JussieSmollett must never be tolerated in this country,” President Biden wrote on Jan. 29, 2019, defending the leftist actor as well. “We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor; that homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie.”

What happened today to @JussieSmollett must never be tolerated in this country. We must stand up and demand that we no longer give this hate safe harbor; that homophobia and racism have no place on our streets or in our hearts. We are with you, Jussie. https://t.co/o8ilPu68CM

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 30, 2019

Roy also noted that it’s a sad state of affairs when society is more interested in “a quick sound bite” than a “thorough, impartial investigation.” Hasty, reflexive reactions to a high-profile case can “cast a shadow” over public perception of the justice system, he added.

“Again, as a government official, you can express support for your friends and supporters, but you should do it in a judicious and appropriate manner that doesn’t call into question the integrity of the judicial process,” the former cop stated. “People see who has made hasty judgments about controversial issues and, hopefully, they keep that in mind when they evaluate the merits of the candidates.”

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