Bola and Ola Osundairo, the brothers paid by actor Jussie Smollett to instigate a fake hate crime in Chicago, spoke out about the 2019 incident on 'Hannity.'
The brothers’ attorney Gloria Rodriguez said upon hearing about the incident, her instinct was that they were both innocent.
"My immediate thought wasn't, ‘Oh my God, this is a national spotlight case.’ My immediate thought was, ‘Oh, my God, I have two innocent guys here that are being accused of doing this horrific hate crime," she said. "My natural instinct really was to first, unlike a lot of the journalists that were out there reporting this, my instinct was to first get a handle on the facts. And that same night that I met them, I went by myself, had to cancel my plans with my wife and say, ‘I've got to go down to the scene of the crime.’ And I looked around and I just remember thinking, it is dark, it is late out and there's nobody out here. It's super safe. It's...
In a Fox Nation special,"Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax," the brothers take viewers through the streets of Chicago and to the site of the fake"crime" scene. The brothers said Smollett told them to attack him in the streets at 2 a.m. They explained how they faked calling him out, chasing him down, hitting and tackling him, even adding in a"nuggie" so as to"give him a scar. To give him a mark. To make it look real, like he really did get his a** beat."
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