Yes |
Couldn’t do it while he was alive and paying for everything. Give it 6-12 months |
Darling, there was a car chase! |
He lived in infamy for those years. He liked being famous and beloved. A majority of the time, people are abused and killed by people who know them. He was that person. They had a classical batterer/victim relationship. He beat her many times. Most of this was not brought up at trial. In the OJ film, it said she had written about 60 beatings in her diary. She also broke up with him about a month before the murder. A breakup is the most dangerous time for the woman. This is when an abuser will kill the victim. He had the classic personality of an abuser too: charming, affable to outsiders. People associate that with his celebrity, but he would have probably been charming even if he had not been famous. He got away with a ton. Even the way the police handled it at the beginning and how they handled her calls before the murder. He got special treatment. I do see how the Black community supported him. The LAPD was racist, used battering rams to destroy houses during the war on drugs, and this happened soon after Rodney King and those police officers being cleared. Also, he had some brilliant and charismatic lawyers--namely, Johnny Cochran and Barry Scheck. |
If he were white, people would say he was mentally distressed or ill. Maybe he was on the run because he was distraught and knew as a black man, the cops would be after him and maybe kill him. You won’t understand the panic behind running unless you’re black |
I know black people who do not even call 911 for real emergencies just because they don’t want their kids to see the cops dehumanize them with force in their own homes . Not every cop does this but before body cameras , it was very real. You can be the caller to 911 and still be treated as the suspect
It’s hard to explain this phenomenon and why OJ freaked out and ran and feared getting killed by cops unless you have generations of stories or experiences of things like this. Cops are just not seen as friends in the black community |
I wouldn’t expect people to understand why Cochran was sympathetic to OJ and his fears . |
The last time I ever called the cops was the day I reported someone with a knife outside my apartment, and they showed up and asked to put me in cuffs "for our protection" while they investigated. |
You don't sound black and even if you were you don't speak for all of us. I am black and disagree with 100% of what you said |
If you have not already read the iconic book by Vincent Bugliosi, "Outrage," dissecting how the prosecution mishandled the Simpson case, I commend it to you in the strongest possible terms.
It is full of excellent detail and vigorously written. Also rewards re-reading. |
Nicole’s diaries are questionable . She was also encouraged by her divorce lawyers to exaggerate or falsify domestic abuse claims to get more spousal support from OJ. Kris Jenner tried but failed to do the same thing to Robert Kardashian , an attorney who knew better and left Kris Jenner practically penniless in the divorce so she had to marry Caitlyn |
You don’t sound black. I don’t know any real black person who hasn’t heard about the police fear I just mentioned. It’s why black women don’t want their sons around white women as well because they know it can spell serious serious trouble with police of something goes wrong. Do you think the world would care so much if Nicole were his first wife? Cops have a history of overexerting force when it comes to unarmed black men. There’s a black veteran and LAPD officer Christopher Dorner who went rogue, wrote a manifesto about how disturbed he was with the racism and force used on black suspects, and murdered 4 white LAPD officers about a decade ago. The cops sent drones after him and Swiss cheesed him. A white “kid” (a 19-20 year old man) who shoots elementary school kids gets arrested alive. |
I’m the PP and I hope this author doesn’t blame Marcia Clark. Poor Marcia Clark gets the blame due to misogyny when it’s really LAPD /Fuhrman that messed up. No prosecutor would’ve won that case . The mistrust toward the LAPD was just too large and this was a celebrity we’re talking about not some random schlub without the means to hire a dream team. |
BS. No one would have blamed mental illness in the 90s. You run like that, you look guilty as hell no matter what. |
Dave Chappelle put it best. I called the cops about a burglary and when they saw me , they said “Oh, he’s still here!” Apparently, this burglar put pictures of his family everywhere !” It’s a joke but it’s true |