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The
36-year-old African-American actor, who is gay, was not
seriously hurt in the Tuesday incident, which police were
treating as a possible hate crime.
The images came from a surveillance camera near the attack,
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted.
The two men approached Smollett on the street in the early hours
of Tuesday, yelling racial and homophobic slurs, then hit him in
the face, poured an "unknown chemical substance" on him and
wrapped a rope around his neck before fleeing, police said.
A representative for Smollett did not respond to requests for
comment.
"Empire," a hip-hop musical drama series, from Twenty-First
Century Fox Inc premiered on television in 2015. Its lead
actress, Taraji P. Henson, won a Golden Globe Award in 2016 for
her role and the show has received multiple Emmy Award
nominations. Smollett plays the character Jamal Lyon, a member
of the family that is the focus of the show.
(Reporting by Karen Pierog; writing by Andrew Hay; Editing by
Bill Tarrant and Lisa Shumaker)
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