You're kidding, right? If you're not, you should be.
You're kidding, right? If you're not, you should be.
As to the verdict, I think there were a lot of people like Brown who honestly thought OJ was innocent but as time went on they realized he wasn't. Then there were a lot more black people who suspected all along that OJ was guilty but were thrilled that he had beaten a racist system with the deck stacked against him.
There was probably not a black person living in LA at the time who had not been personally harassed, intimidated or messed over by the LAPD, or knew someone who had. That's how widespread the abuse was. What they saw was another black man being victimized by a racist police force, never mind that the black man had…
I think people associate him with his Innocence Project. They're making very canny use of Facebook to publicize it and getting thousands of positive hits. OJ is becoming ancient history. Everybody has moved on.
Don't write them off as either silly or stupid. Their religion means a great deal to them but blind faith has nothing to do with it. Your attitude to them seems rather dismissive. Religion has been an integral part of these people's lives since the day they were born. But that doesn't mean they operate solely on…
I still remember that vividly. We were all watching it in the office, supposedly on our lunch break but nobody got any work done that afternoon. Darden, Clark and Garcetti all looked devastated during that press conference.
That was probably the point at which millions of black people who had supported OJ all during the trial, washed their hands of him. We watched him being shunned and despised by all those rich whitefolks whose adulation he coveted, but he acted as if he was too good to associate with the likes of black people; after…
How about the Leopold and Loeb murder? That was supposed to be the first known "thrill killing" where the victim was selected at random.
He brought that on himself. He should have moved to a black neighborhood immediately after the trial when he still had a lot of support. But he still thought he could be the same OJ he was before in Brentwood where the neighbors were no longer speaking to him. All his white friends dropped him like a disease and he…
A lot of us believed that. White people still don't want to believe any evidence was fabricated. Black people knew the LAPD did it all the time as a matter of course. Hell, Fuhrman practically admitted it was SOP in those tapes. Some whites posting on here would rather believe Fuhrman made it all up or greatly…
OJ got his kids back from the Brown family. Who took the kids when he went to jail? Did the Simpson family take them or did Nicole's family get them back again?
I think that's a fair assessment. One of the jurors said right after the trial was over, "We have to look after our own." Draw your own conclusions.
Interesting. In what capacity? I hope they weren't defending that cop.
You think Darden saw Cochran as a mentor? I saw a lot of jealousy and resentment, but I'm not sure of a mentor relationship. And I don't think Cochran ever wanted to be a mentor to him. I think Darden's problem was he never knew when Cochran was giving him good advice and when he was just messing with him.
You're so cute when you get mad.
I would have felt some sympathy for Darden in real life if he hadn't acted like such a major twerp. Those hissy-fits he threw in court were pathetic. He knew Cochran was trying to f*ck with his head but he kept letting Cochran get to him. A grown man pushing 40 should have known how to handle himself in a situation…
LOL I like that one!
Your hero-worship of Darden is hilarious. 20 years later that weasel insists that Johnnie Cochran tampered with the glove so it wouldn't fit. He still won't admit he screwed up telling OJ to put it on.
I remember the white juror was interviewed right after the trial was over as to why they found him not guilty, and she said "It was the evidence."
Good question. They could have hung the jury. But I think they really did realize that even though OJ was almost certainly guilty, the prosecution hadn't proved its case. There were just too many screw-ups.