“Assuming this is a hoax or assuming that it’s true... if, if, if — I can’t think of anything that is more hurtful to real victims coming forward than somebody making up this story” -A.N. “Do you understand how hard this makes it for people that really experience hate crimes? And he was a spokesperson for the LGBTQ community. This is a story, like you can’t even make this up.” - A.H. “I’ve interviewed him several times, he’s a friend to the show, I tweeted out originally my prayers for him, you know, ‘what is happening in our world?’ But now, if this is true; I’m embarrassed to have to believed him, to have supported him.” -S.H. “You and many others.” -A.H. “False reports are generally very low, somewhere between 2-10%, and so now how difficult is it going to be for the victim of a sex crime, or a hate crime to come forward? It is always very difficult for them because they feel that they won’t be believed. Think about Chicago, you know how hard it is for the police department there to investigate? They’re way underfunded.” -S.H. “And also they have the highest murder rates in decades; 762 murder crimes in 2016. I mean, Chicago has struggled to contain their crime & their violence, all of those resources could’ve been used to look for a one year old who was shot in the head; (Dejohn ‘Chase’ Irving), just last month, those resources could’ve been used to search for his killer. If this does in-fact end up being true it’s a grave and intense waste of all of Chicago’s resources. I also believe that he is a sociopath if this does end up being the case.” -M.M.