according to CNN. "He told me that we would need another person to fake beat him up. He mentioned could my brother do it. I said yes."As a part of the trial, the jury was shown surveillance video of the group doing a "dry run" a day before the incident occurred.
Shown on Tuesday, the video depicts Smollett and the Osundario brothers walking near the scene of where the attack would occur.
Weeks after it happened, while Abimbola Osundairo and his brother were being questioned, Smollett sent him a text. “Brother…..I love you,” Smollett wrote, according to NY Post. “I stand with you.
I know 10000% you and your brother did nothing wrong and never would.”“I am making this statement so everyone else knows,” the text said. “They will not get away.