Another Hate Hoax: “Empire” Actress Apologizes After Falsely Accusing Glendale Police of Hate Crime

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Empire actress Taraji Henson accused the Glendale police of targeting and harassing her innocent son walking down the street with his hands in his pockets.

But a video released by Glendale PD shows a completely different story.
Her son was pulled over when he almost hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
He was also smoking pot without a permit.

Taraji apologized to the Glendale officials after the video release.
Via The Hollywood Reporter:

Taraji P. Henson apologized to the Glendale Police Department on Friday afternoon for the allegations she made against them about racially profiling her son.

“I would like to publicly apologize to the officer and the Glendale Police Department. A mother’s job is not easy and neither is a police officer’s,” the Empire actress wrote on Instagram. “Sometimes as humans WE over react without gathering all of the facts. As a mother in this case I over reacted and for that I apologize. Thank you to that officer for being kind to my son.”

In an interview with Uptown magazine, Henson said that her son will not be attending USC — and instead attending Howard University in Washington D.C. — because he was racially profiled near the campus. “Police stopped him for having his hands in his pockets,” Henson said in the interview. Henson did not reference the alleged USC incident in her apology.

She went on to explain that her son was also racially profiled by Glendale police. “My child has been racially profiled. He was in Glendale, California and did exactly everything the cops told him to do, including letting them illegally search his car,” Henson said. “It was bogus because they didn’t give him the ticket for what he was pulled over for.”

The apology came hours after a video obtained by the Los Angeles Times showed the encounter between Henson’s son and Glendale police, disproving that police racially profiled him.

Footage from the Oct. 18 incident shows an officer speed up and stop a Honda Civic that drove through a lit crosswalk as a pedestrian crossed. Marcell Johnson, Henson’s son, is not visibly apparent in the video when the officer stopped him.

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