A statement from Black Lives Matter on the ongoing trial of Jussie Smollett denounced the nation’s legal system and “corrupt and violent” police departments.

Defense attorneys and federal prosecutors wrapped up their closing arguments Wednesday in the trial over the actor allegedly staging a fake hate crime in Chicago in January 2019 and then falsely reporting it to police.

And while things did not appear to be going very well for Smollett in the courtroom, Black Lives Matter issued a statement declaring that “we can never believe police…over Jussie Smollett, a Black man.”