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A Chicago judge appointed Dan K. Webb as special prosecutor to investigate how officials handled the case against Jussie Smollett, who allegedly paid two men to beat him and pretend it was a hate crime.

Earlier this year, “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett claimed to have been attacked by two white men wearing ski masks. According to Smollett, the men threw an unknown chemical on him, wrapped a rope around his neck like a noose, yelled racist and anti-homosexual slurs at him, and then shouted “This is MAGA country!” before fleeing the scene.

The incident led civil rights activist groups to denounce the incident for its racism and homophobia, and to claim that America was still very racist and homophobic. The attack was the most recent in a series of allegedly racist and homophobic incidents perpetrated against cast of the show “Empire.”

But a few weeks later, Jussie Smollett was charged with felony disorderly conduct for filing a false police report. Smollett, it turned out, allegedly knew the two men who attacked him. According to two sources familiar with the investigation, Smollett actually paid the two men to attack him. The men were arrested last week, but they were released without charges two days after their arrest. Sources told CNN that the two men were cooperating with police.

But, out of nowhere, all charges against Jussie Smollett were dropped, angering and confusing many. The special prosecutor should get to the bottom of that.

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