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RIP OJ

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RIP
 
It was not the first miscarriage of justice ever, but certainly one of the biggest joke verdicts I ever saw in a criminal case. Jury just basically refused to consider the evidence so far as I could tell

One juror flat out said it was revenge for Rodney King. I believe 2 jurors gave a black power salute after the verdict. The defense team did an incredible job of turning a man who couldn’t have cared less about the black community into a civil rights icon
 
OJ: Made in America is seriously one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. Does a great job of framing what Los Angeles was like leading up to the murders. As an 11 year old all I knew about OJ was the naked gun and that he was good at football.
 
OJ: Made in America is seriously one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. Does a great job of framing what Los Angeles was like leading up to the murders. As an 11 year old all I knew about OJ was the naked gun and that he was good at football.
I believe it's called "June 17, 1994", one of the best 30 for 30 episodes ever as well.
 
I was a 21 YO Gen Xer at UK when that all went down. I had some very idealistic views about justice in America and was floored at the idea that someone this evil could get a pass because of race. Some might say this was a learning lesson for white people about what criminal injustice is like.

For me, I note that it was really the beginning of the still expanding (DEI) notion that race matters above all, and colorblindness didn’t. Whether some can admit it, it had a terrible impact.

 
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