Thread by @LeonHWolf

Let's review what we know about Jessie Smollett -- errr, Rachel Richardson, her godmother Lesa Pamplin, and the things we already know were lies in the story Smollett — dangit, sorry, Richardson, and Pamplin told. 1/

1. The one person in this story we can say for certain has definitively repeatedly used racial slurs (against white people) is Pamplin, who (surprisingly!) protected her twitter account, but not until after people started pulling the receipts 2/tbdailynews.com/video-shows-th…

2. One of the central claims Pamplin originally made to buttress her claims was that the police were called and sat on the end of the Duke bench. She later amplified this claim to say that the taunts "got louder and louder when the police came to the bench." 3/

Let's put a pin in this one and come back to it later, because it's important. Here is video of the entire game. You will note that the claim specifically was that this happened in the second set. The Duke bench is repeatedly shown during and after. 4/

3. The patsy BYU threw under the bus to make this situation go away was innocent. That patsy was used by people to lend credibility to this story: "See! Even BYU found the guy and ejected him." The problem is that video shows he was not guilty 5/ sltrib.com/sports/2022/08…

4. A little more on this patsy. The way he became the patsy is that he was specifically identified by Smollett — I mean Richardson — as the guilty party. She likely picked him out because he did, in fact, have a conversation with her after the game. 6/

That conversation appears to have been completely harmless in nature as detailed in the Trib article above. But a review of the video shows that when he approached Smollett — dangit, Richardson, she does not act at all like he had been shouting the N-word at her all game. 7/

And of course, the most damning thing of all is that police reviewed the tape and determined that he WAS NOT EVEN IN HIS SEAT when the alleged racial slurs were being cast. 8/

5. Weirdly, after the police exonerated the patsy BYU threw under the bus, the athletic department at BYU didn't want the police to review any more footage to help them catch the person at the center of the story. For some reason. Look at this gem from the Trib: 9/

6. No person, among the thousands in attendance, has heard the alleged slurs yelled at Smollett. No one, among the thousands of young people in attendance, has come forward with video of it happening. It is to laugh: 10/

7. If your conspiracy theory is that the entirety of the student section is keeping quiet because they are all white supremacists covering for each other, it does not explain the several black members of the BYU basketball team saying nothing. 11/

They were sitting right next to the area of the student section where the slurs were allegedly coming from and were shown on video several times during the match. None reacted in any way like someone was yelling the N-word right next to them and none has reported hearing it. 12/

8. Coming back to that police officer, and the claim that the chants "got louder and louder" after he was called. In the first place, the police have... how do we say this politely... disputed the exact version of events being sold by Smollett. 13/

9. Now here's where it starts to get really obvious that this story is a hoax. Beyond the absence of evidence that this occurred, it turns out that people WENT LOOKING FOR IT at the time it was alleged to have been happening — and, indeed, escalating. 14/

10. Now here's where we're finally going to get to what probably actually happened, which I've underlined (poorly) for your benefit. 15/

Unless you have Smollett-family-levels of gullibility, it is perfectly obvious at this point, based on this set of facts, that THIS is what happened at the game that upset Smollett-Richardson, and she decided this was not sensational enough, and changed it to racial slurs. 16/

Best of luck to BYU's athletic department, though, in what I am sure will be their exhaustive search to identify the guilty person. Oh hey, one final tidbit from the Trib article: 17/