don't know anything about this dude except that he proved that you can purchase your way into being allowed to commit first degree murder with your own hands
I had a class once where a reporter came in to discuss various things he had covered, including the OJ trial. He said the consensus among the reporters was, OJ did it, but the LAPD and prosecution botched the case so badly it got him off.
but the LAPD and prosecution botched the case so badly it got him off.
Imagine being such a bad LA cop that you can't even send a black man to prison. That's like, their whole thing.
That’s the whole thing, it’s a system that’s good at sending black men to prison if they’re poor. The old Chris Rock bit about if it had been OJ the bus driver it would have been open and shut and on death row.
The consensus I've usually heard is that the prosecutors were so busy enjoying their 15 minutes of fame from being on TV that they failed to secure the easiest slam dunk in court in history.
I liked his performance in the Naked Gun
He was a genuinely good comedic actor.
When he's in the background of the opening scene in 33 1/3 and starts doing a touchdown dance after catching a baby, and then winds up for the spike... Classic, but somehow prophetic.
Many white people proved that before him. I thought what was special about this case is that a black man killed a white woman and bought his way out of it. With how racist the US justice system is, that had to have been super unexpected. I'm glad he's rotting though.
My American relatives still complain about the black jury letting him off beside of their “collective victim complex”
The jury was sequestered, i.e., could not have any interactions outside of each other or court officials for the entire trial. “Obvious” giveaways did not always make it in as evidence.
Besides, in an idealized version of the justice system, the jury will not convict if the prosecutor(s) cannot prove their case. “Not guilty” isn’t the same thing as “innocent”. Which they might’ve done if they hadn’t fucked up so incredibly badly. My pet theory is they were so used to trying to lock up innocent black men and having to frame them that they just defaulted to that even though OJ was guilty. The high-priced lawyers really shine when they laser in on prosecutorial bullshit. They tried to frame a guilty man, and their methods didn’t work as well as they did on penniless defendants.
Out of the blue, I remember getting obsessed with the case decades after it was relevant. From what I remember:
That whole "he only got away because of a Black jury" is bullshit because the jury had more women than Black people. It was 9 Black people vs 3 Black people but 10 women vs 2 men. The media pushed it for obvious racist reasons.
"The Black jury didn't understand DNA testing because they were Black and uneducated and Black and stoopid and Black" was also bullshit. His lawyers argued that because the LAPD was (and still is) full of anti-Black white supremacist pigs, they purposely plant evidence so a rich Black man would know his place as a Black man. They played recordings of that purjuring pig detective ranting about how seeing miscegenation filled him with homicidal rage and how the LAPD would regularly plant evidence. It was a very convincing defense.
The prosecution was also completely incompetent. OJ putting on the gloves that don't fit was the prosecution's idea, not the defense, so you could pretty much throw all the "his gloves didn't fit because he took medication that swelled up his hands" out as well unless you're saying the defense was playing 5-d chess and purposely got OJ to take the wrist-swelling medicine knowing they would get him to try on the gloves.
Johnnie Cochran was worth his weight in gold and then some. The prosecution never stood a fucking change.
vaxxed?
What?
its a joke because this is what right wingers say whenever someone dies
Oh thank god I was worried we had antivaxxers around here lmao
call us comedic hacks, but never call us antivaxxers
Nah they were pushed out back when the vaccines first became available in 2021, not that there were very many of them in the first place.
If Cancer Did It
Was he jabbed????
we don't have a cancer emoji so I just used the first "disease sicko" lol
Can we propose a pic of OJ's head and just call it "cancer"?
This is my second act of innocentic rule after seeing the Insulindian Phasmid during the total eclipse. Y'all are welcome. 
In honor of his memory a judge ruled that somehow actually no, he didn't.
Not many black men managed to benefit from racism
rip bozo
lmao + L + get rekt + ratio
A 1994 interview with Willam Gibson
"We have these moments spontaneously - I think of them as CNN moments. The last one I had, probably most people had, was watching that weirdly Ballardian slow-motion freeway pursuit (of O.J. Simpson). Which was on every channel. That's as strange as it gets."
On NBC they were doing picture-in-picture so you could also watch basketball at the same time
the 90s were so fucked lmao
wish they would have done this with power rangers
Didn't that have something to do with it being Jordan's last season?
As it turns out, OJ wanted to go slow because he wanted to hear the end of the Finals game on the radio, although this wasn't publically known till decades later.
Before we had Minecraft parkour gameplay under Family Guy clips, we had this. 90s brainrot weighs like a nightmare on the minds of new generations.
Critical support to comrade cancer
The Juice is no longer loose
Yeah, but was the juice worth the squeeze?
Damn if only he jerked off 4-7 times a week
Maybe the biggest circus in LA history, for sure in my lifetime. The Dollop Dave is going to do is going to be epic
It is hard to overstate just how mad white Americans were right after the verdict was read.
Cold take, but I don’t think the whites were mad that a guilty man walked free, but that a black man “beat” their system.
Anybody remember that prank show OJ did after he got acquitted?
As Norm MacDonald said, the battle resulted in a tie.
Nice
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