This could prove interesting:

Police say 2 brothers being questioned in reported Jussie Smollett attack are now ‘potential suspects’

The article gives no indication as to *who* the brothers are or what the motive might be… or whether they were working *with* Smollett. These little tidbits, though, are interesting:

police sources have said detectives are investigating the possibility that Smollett staged the incident with the help of the brothers, who according to their attorney know the actor from working on the show and have also spent time with him at a gym.

And…

A law enforcement source told the Tribune the two men, who are black, were brought in for questioning Wednesday night from O’Hare International Airport.

And…

Another neighbor described the brothers as “aspiring actors.”

Huh.

Of course all of this is uncertain. But if it is accurate that two black actors who knew Smollett are the suspects… I’m having a *really* hard time seeing this as having gone as the Preferred Narrative would suggest.

 

ADDITIONAL:

Two Nigerian immigrants to be charged for Jussie Smollett ‘hate crime’

The basis formuchof that is TMZ, which is not exactly a source I would trust… since they seem to be the source of much of the hype aroudn this case int he first place.But supposedly:

1: The police wanted Smolletts phone records, and he refused to turn them over. So they got a court order and got them from the phone company without his knowledge. But then he turned over a PDF file with his phone records… which had some redactions. the police compared the actual records to the redacted version and figured out who Smollett was trying to hide from them. That led them to these brothers.

2: One of the brothers was an extra on Smollett’s show “Empire.”

3: The brothers left for Nigeria almost immediately after the “attack,” but they came back a few days ago.

Huh.