It\u2019s alleged that the actor staged an attack against himself in January of 2019.<\/b>
\nAs testimony kicked off in the trial of actor Jussie Smollett, who has been charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false report that he was a victim of a hate crime attack in 2019–an incident that police say Smollett staged\u2014the lead detective who investigated the incident stated in court that Smollett was uncooperative during the Chicago Police Department\u2019s initial probe. \u201cJussie Smollett is a real victim,\u201d Uche said in his opening statement Monday and claimed the Osundairo brothers really attacked Smollett, the Associated Press reported. Smollett, who starred on the show Empire at the time of the incident, claimed he was attacked on January 29, 2019, by two men who poured a liquid on him and hung a noose around his neck. Chicago police initially reported that Smollett was reluctant to report the attack, which Smollett commented on during an interview with ABC in the weeks after the incident, saying he refused to hand over his phone to protect the private information stored on it. The Osundario brothers were arrested in mid-February after learning that one had worked on Empire, but they were released without charges and police turned their attention to Smollett. The actor was charged with disorderly conduct for filing a false report on February 20, 2019. Those charges were later dropped, though a year later he was indicted on six counts of disorderly conduct for making false statements to police. The Jussie Smollett trial: Timeline of how this case ended up in court (ABC News) Google Ordered To Hand Over Location And Private Data Of \u2018Empire\u2019 Star Jussie Smollett (Forbes)<\/p>\n