Wow, 1,000+ comments! Is this a record?

As someone noted below, the black reaction to the acquittal was 2% about OJ, and 98% that a system that had always screwed black people over finally screwed itself. "Now it's your turn, let's see how you like it." It's an entirely human reaction.

Shapiro checked the gloves out in the courtroom. Cochran never touched them. And playing to win doesn't necessarily involve playing dirty.

And it took an all-white jury all of 15 minutes to acquit in that case,

Wassamatta, did the verdict put your nose out of joint? Now you know how black people feel when some white cop shoots an unarmed black man in the back, and white people tell blacks to "get over it". I suggest you do the same.

Yep, I'm going to be glued to my TV the whole afternoon and evening.

***NOTICE TO EVERYBODY***

Interesting. i never separated the murders of Brown and Goldman. But even in 1995 there were still a lot of white people who hated seeing a black man married to a white woman (although interestingly enough, they didn't seem to have the same viscerally negative reaction to a white man married to a black woman), so I…

The jurors saw OJ as just one more black man getting screwed over by the police. That made him one of their own.

Watch the Law & Order episode called "The Myth of Fingerprints" sometime. Very enlightening.

I thought not. I remember that press conference very well and I didn't see or hear anyone asking that question.

So has Courtney Vance.

Sounds more like disassociation than denial. Who, me? That was me? I did that? You gotta be kidding.

See above comment re the bloody sock.

As someone correctly noted above, the black celebration was 2% about OJ and 98% about the system that screwed us over so often finally got screwed itself. "Now you know how it feels, see how you like it." It's an entirely human reaction.

Black people were jubilant. Whites were horrified that blacks were jubilant. Blacks were disgusted at whites' hypocrisy (they weren't upset when Emmitt Till's killers got off, but they're upset over this?). And around and around it goes.

Geraldo's a jerk.

Everybody was so focused on Brown and Vance, but I'll throw in some props for Kenneth Choi. I thought he did a great job.

Was there a civil trial later? I know the cop who assaulted him got 30 years in prison.

I don't think so. In the OJ case Scheck didn't say DNA testing itself was unreliable; he said the cops had mishandled the blood samples to the point where the blood was degraded and the results were therefore questionable. The jury ate it up. Don't forget this was a jury that was looking for any reason to acquit…