OJ Simpson died. Good.

[tommie]

edition.cnn.com/2024/04/11/us/oj-simpson-dies/index.html

Absolute piece of shit.

As someone who remembers the early 90s - there was a lot of righteous anger about how black people were treated in the court of law. This is what OJ exploited to get away with murdering Ron and Nicole - it was always a scam, but a scam supported by people thinking they were doing the right thing.

He was an awful person, who should be remembered as a female abuser and worst of all a murderer.

 

[Crimson]

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I hope someone catches his killers.

 

[Emelee]

It was absurd how so many people thought he was innocent just because he was a major star and/or black. He guilt was painfully obvious.

But I will always like the Naked Gun movies.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

People didn't really think he was innocent.

His obvious guilt was why his supporters so fervently wanted to see him acquitted.

The O.J. trial and verdict were umbilically tied to the "not guilty" Simi Valley verdict of those L.A. cops three years earlier -- a verdict that, I can tell ya, set back race relations by years and years in the States.

 

[Angela Channing]

I agree that people didn’t think he was innocent but the police botched their investigation. A jury couldn’t couldn’t bring in a guilty verdict once it was shown that police fabricated evidence against him.

 

[Emelee]

I was 10-11 when the trial happened, so I can't remember much. The glove fiasco is what stuck with me. Then how they spoofed that on Seinfeld with a fictive trial, with a bra being too small to get on.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

 

[Frank Underwood]

The police could have acted above board, and it likely wouldn't have made a difference.

According to Simpson juror Carrie Bess, 90% of the jurors (including herself) acquitted Simpson as "payback for Rodney King."

Imagine if the races were reversed, and a predominantly white jury acquitted a white man as payback for what happened to Reginald Denny. What would that be called?

As Ron Goldman's father Fred succinctly put it, Simpson's death is "No great loss to the world."

Source: https://www.thewrap.com/oj-simpson-juror-not-guilty-verdict-was-payback-for-rodney-king/

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

The police could have acted above board, and it likely wouldn't have made a difference.

According to Simpson juror Carris Bess, 90% of the jurors (including herself) acquitted Simpson as "payback for Rodney King."

Imagine if the races were reversed, and a predominantly white jury acquitted a white man as payback for what happened to Reginald Denny. What would that be called?

As Ron Goldman's father Fred succinctly put it, Simpson's death is "No great loss to the world."

Source: https://www.thewrap.com/oj-simpson-juror-not-guilty-verdict-was-payback-for-rodney-king/

Yes, OJ's acquittal was clearly jury nullification.

 

[Frank Underwood]

Another scummy thing about Simpson is the way he would troll people after the murders. Just a completely twisted, unremorseful man.

At least the Goldman family got a little justice.

Host’s Jaw Drops at OJ Simpson’s Murder Joke

O.J.'s 'Confession'

 

[CeeCee72]

I am a huge American football fan. The number of tributes I have seen to him on sports sites that I follow turns my stomach. I can't believe anyone would mourn this guy's death.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I am a huge American football fan. The number of tributes I have seen to him on sports sites that I follow turns my stomach. I can't believe anyone would mourn this guy's death.

When one of my former supervisors died (a smoking fiend, she was) a few years ago, people flew to her social media pages to swoon over how she was "the nicest person I have ever known." When she was in fact the most pathological person you could ever know, an abjectly horrible wraith whom some of us were convinced wanted to physically kill people for recreation (the jury is out on whether she did or not).

But narcissist-sociopaths, like OJ, tend to be of above-average intelligence. And there is often a charm, playful humor, and hyper-functional energy to them that reads as "strong" and "vibrant" to others. Many people tend to admire them, ignore their actions and crimes, perhaps fear them slightly, and even respect them for their easy sociality, resilience and survival skills.

And they tend to do well in prison because they're uncannily adaptable. (Think Jodi Arias).

OJ is/was handsome, athletic, rich, kinda funny, articulate, and very famous (even before the murders). What's the uncomfortable slaughter of his ex-wife and the mother of his children, or that waiter who had her eyeglasses, got to do with anything?

He's a winner!

In fact, the comedian above, Norm Macdonald, was fired by NBC from his Weekend Update position on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE because a network executive who was friends with OJ didn't like the jokes about the quarterback.

Basic morality hangs by but a thread for many.

 

[DallasFanForever]

When I think of O.J. I think about the infamous Bronco chase and I think about the trial verdict, undoubtedly two of those moments where just about everyone remembers where they were. As a teenager at that time I didn’t know O.J. the NFL great. I knew him only as a commentator and from all of those commercials I would see him in. Still hard to believe the events of June 1994 and how innocent lives were lost in such a senseless and brutal crime.

R.I.P. Nicole and Ron. Hope you are both at peace.

 

[Frank Underwood]

Let the memes begin:

 

[Angela Channing]

The police could have acted above board, and it likely wouldn't have made a difference.

According to Simpson juror Carrie Bess, 90% of the jurors (including herself) acquitted Simpson as "payback for Rodney King."

Imagine if the races were reversed, and a predominantly white jury acquitted a white man as payback for what happened to Reginald Denny. What would that be called?

I completely disagree with you.

Admittedly, I don't know how the US legal system works as well as I know about the system in the UK, but if during the course of a case here it was revealed that the police had fabricated evidence, evidential samples were so badly mishandled that forensic examination of them were unreliable and the lead police investigator was shown to have lied under oath while giving evidence, the judge would throw the case out and it wouldn't even get as far as the jury having to decide the on outcome.

 

[tommie]

OJ exploited righteous anger over a previous verdict and unfortunately, it worked. Even to this day people won't properly admit they were blind-sided and consumed by what they thought was right versus what actually was.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I completely disagree with you.

Admittedly, I don't know how the US legal system works as well as I know about the system in the UK, but if during the course of a case here it was revealed that the police had fabricated evidence, evidential samples were so badly mishandled that forensic examination of them were unreliable and the lead police investigator was shown to have lied under oath while giving evidence, the judge would throw the case out and it wouldn't even get as far as the jury having to decide the on outcome.

Some of the jurors even admitted later that they'd acquitted OJ as revenge over the Rodney King verdict.

 

[Frank Underwood]

I completely disagree with you.

Admittedly, I don't know how the US legal system works as well as I know about the system in the UK, but if during the course of a case here it was revealed that the police had fabricated evidence, evidential samples were so badly mishandled that forensic examination of them were unreliable and the lead police investigator was shown to have lied under oath while giving evidence, the judge would throw the case out and it wouldn't even get as far as the jury having to decide the on outcome.

Your grounds for "completely disagreeing with me" don't have anything to do with this particular case.

The judge in the Simpson case didn't throw it out, and a juror said that the majority of the jury saw the verdict as payback for Rodney King.

It seems no matter the topic or the facts I bring forward, I'm somehow always wrong in your eyes.

 

[CeeCee72]

I completely disagree with you.

Admittedly, I don't know how the US legal system works as well as I know about the system in the UK, but if during the course of a case here it was revealed that the police had fabricated evidence, evidential samples were so badly mishandled that forensic examination of them were unreliable and the lead police investigator was shown to have lied under oath while giving evidence, the judge would throw the case out and it wouldn't even get as far as the jury having to decide the on outcome.

The police didn't really mishandle the evidence - HOWEVER, one of the lead investigators had a history of using horrible racist slurs AND the entire department hot dogged so much in the press that it caused a lot of doubt.

To me, the prosecution dropped the ball. They spent so much time on the documented domestic violence, but never drew a clear line as to how that escalated to a double homicide.