I still can't believe this.
HES WEARING A GLOVE UNDER THE GLOVE!!!!
Quite. And it’s a glove soaked with blood. His blood and the blood of the two people he brutally murdered.
I’m still incredulous at what happened then, but there were reasons...
Given the political and social circumstances of the time (post Rodney King video, Latasha Harlins, then the officers not being prosecuted for beating the hell out of Rodney King?!, then the LA Riots, then the crackdown...), the jury, once that odious defence team made the case about race, were not fit to judge objectively, in my view.
Officer Fuhrman’s racist showing-off to some shapely screenwriter and his supposed planting of the glove somehow trumped the deluge of actual real forensic evidence which the jury apparently couldn’t get their collective heads round (?!).
I seriously think there could’ve been a video of Simpson in the act of murder and the jury still wouldn’t have convicted at that time (Simpson was a ‘star’, after all and oh-so-charming, apparently, like no sociopath had ever shown those behavioural traits?!!!).
But given the social history of how the police have treated the black community in LA (see Watts riots onwards), one must understand the attitudes to the case. It certainly showed there was still an extreme racial divide in parts of the US which, sadly, still exists to this day (it’s all about socio/economics, kids!).
There’s a brilliant documentary about all of this which I would recommend to everyone that would like a very interesting change from speculation about transfers:
I digress and offer my sincere apologies to the moderators before fleeing the thread.