American Crime Story : Are there any regrets from those who cheered when OJ was acquitted?

With the perspective of twenty years, do you feel any different today?

Did you believe at the time that he was innocent, or was it just a case of two wrongs make a right?

I cheered because The Juice was Loose. I still feel the same way today. OJ will always be The Juice to me.

May The Juice stay Loose!

Thanks for your reply. I have some sad news for you though, the Juice is not Loose anymore.

So basically you were caught up in OJ's celebrity. Is that a correct assumption?

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Too many were. We still see that all the time nowadays. If a man is really good at throwing a ball, people will gladly pull the wool over their own eyes in order to avoid hearing anything that makes him sound like less than a god.

I admit to it. I still remember cheering the moment I watched the not guilty verdict when it happened. I just didn't think that O.J. could have done it. I grew up outside of Buffalo, and even though I was (and still am) a Dolphins fan, the guy was a legend. Sadly, years later I came to realize that the guy was guilty as hell.

Thanks for the reply. I only knew him from the Naked Gun films at the time, it was pretty obvious that he did it, but I didn't have a clue about how racist USA was/is, so today I'm more curious about whether people cheered as some sort of revenge feeling, or they were so used to blacks being treated badly by cops that they didn't even listen to the evidence that so clearly pointed to him.

I knew him primarily from the Hertz commercials, not being a sports fan, although I did know he was a famous football player. Never saw any film he was in.

I didn't cheer when he was acquitted, so can't answer the question in your OP, but I do remember when the news broke in to say he was expected to turn himself in at the downtown jail for murder (!), and when he was announced a fugitive, plus the whole surreal Bronco chase.

At that point I hadn't heard anything about the murders, so the whole thing was shocking and I thought there had to be some mistake. Surely the apparently benign and affable OJ I knew couldn't have committed murder, let alone a double murder. It was all very surreal.

By the time the trial was over, I was sure he was guilty. So, no cheers from me.

A month or more ago a poster here who was black wrote an excellent post explaining the black perspective on the reaction of the community at the time. I wish I'd saved it, because it was so eloquent and made so much sense. I wish I remembered it well enough to even paraphrase, but will say it wasn't all about revenge, or that they didn't listen to the evidence. I'm sure that was the case for some, but probably not the majority.

I didn't cheer, but the verdict didn't bother me; esp. after Rodney King verdict allowed cops videotaped almost killing the man! I shrugged and asked society, "how do you like that; a rich black guy got the same justice other killers got off doing a lot worse!" ;-/

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I didn't have an opinion either way, being on the other end of the word (Australia), 2o years old when the not guilty verdict was handed (aired live on all the commercial networks). I only watched /cared because it was being constantly reported. And I admit being amazed by the Bronco chase (and I still go to YouTube once in a while to see it again. Don't know why it is so fascinating. Maybe because that is when the Simpson case became something else; I think it started there. That chase, along with all the racial 'stuff' was what made it the 'case/trial of the century'. For once that wasn't hyperbole.

What 's disappointed me and continues to disappoint (now with the Bill Cosby situation) is just how horrible and dumb many black people act when the situation is reversed. Coming down on the side of similar race when evidence shows that the black person (Simpson. Cosby etc) is guilty. We/they are just as prejudiced & swayed by race as racist whites. I was hoping that they(we) would be better.

I did cheer for a couple of reasons. 1) I didn't want him to be guilty. I enjoyed watching him on NBC, I had an OJ Simpson football, etc 2) I had a long argument with my brother over the summer that OJ would walk and he said I was nuts. My brother is a jerk and honestly I would rather a murderer walk than he be right.

I acknowledge that he most probably guilty but the prosecution didn't prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. The chain of custody of the blood does call some things into question.

As far as regrets, no I don't for a few reasons. 1) I was a 20 year old kid. We all do/say stupid things at that age. So if the worst thing I did was get blinded by someone's celebrity than I wasn't that bad 2) We didn't understand DNA evidence back then like we do today. In 95 it was relatively new 3) I did like seeing the racial divide in America exposed. It stuns me how ONE instance of an African-American guy getting off and people are still mad 21 years later but some of the more heinous cases of white people getting off killing a black person and they get glossed over.

He was and still is guilty as SIN. As he is in jail for an unrelated charge is only minor justice. If and when OJ ever gets released (Hopefully NEVER), he will try to re-establish his connections with his WHITE former friends who will ignore him, as they should. This guy killed his ex-wife and an innocent bystander and got away with it because he was a celebrity.

He will roast in hell.

A specific to you reply.

You are correct. However when you start to take apart those due processes mentioned oh so frequently and then add in the constitutional rubbish as interpreted by all an sundry we are slowly getting to the state that perhaps Nicole deserved her fate for being the white trash she was. It is becoming so clear that JUSTICE is getting harder and harder to find as something that really ALWAYS happens. Especially in a land where even money tells the nation to trust in GOD.

The interpreted LAW tells the sharks they must defend [even the guilty] aggressively. In this case MONEY talks. It would seem that the fans of American Football in this case [probably the same with Basketball and Baseball] have exalted their sporting heroes to an almost SAINT/DEMIGOD status and visit them in their packed to capacity churches or create situations to watch them all over the land in an almost Islamic Hajj manner.

The legal teams as we are being told have no interest in the INNOCENCE and it is looking as though it is being used as lets get our own back for the behaviour of the white honky.

There is no doubt that even among those who are relatively innocent [other than speeding, low level drug using, littering, lifting the odd thing from a workplace type a sense of belonging exists. Wanting support from a BROTHER/SISTER black person, or 'you taking the word of a [N word]. IN the land of the Brave and the home of the free it is anything but. Armed policemen who when push comes to shove have little option [often] but to use a weapon. We in the UK do understand that. You in the US should read up on the fate of see [Death of Keith Blakelock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]. Only one of course but no guns.

The mind set of any group with an unpleasant history is almost hive like anyway due to the preaching of so many with an agenda. This applies today to those who enjoy using alternatives to vaginal orifice for sexual relief, those who feel God has given them the wrong body, [who knows maybe he has for punishment when he re incarnated them], the different body colour schemes for different areas of the world. All have groupings up in arms or otherwise shouting for attention.

SO far my thinking is being reinforced regarding O J. The writing seems to be making the Kardashian character out to be the most decent person on the planet with an absolute LOVE for the 'JUICE' or is it JOOSE/ JEWSe? Finding that he has not had the pleasure of the 'Brentwood' seems odd as it seems she was fairly random in her choices but I missed out on that. It has been asked about his female children having an almost exclusive love of the black man in their lives. The family also has its fair share of attention due to Kim enjoying a PUBLIC display of the 'Brentwood' mind you not so nice to see that 'DICK' in shot most of the time, and that God gave one them the wrong body. Has he/she/it got rid of the dingly dangly yet????? Why would you allow a PENIS into a ladies loo unless it was Nicole or Kim doing what they like to do with it.

I digressed.

For their own reasons the legal team for OJ stuck their fingers up at the law and as Mr Bumble the beagle said "the law is an ass [arse]". BTW from [Oliver Twist].

Personally OJ should have got the death penalty just for depriving so many men of an unexpected waking [brentwood] pleasure.

Did Kardshian do it? OR Goldman finding Nicole with something in her mouth then himself killed by Kardashian. Wish reality TV could be just that. Filming the unscripted lives. These are the reasons we need time travel.

Perhaps with the US being so big the so called minorities could have their own living spaces making up their own laws and then let the remainder the whitey's sort out their own trash in as brutal or kindly a fashion as they deem fit. Do wrong and we send you to the BAD PEOPLES reservation state or something like that. Or death row. New Mexico looks good on the map.

Of course he was guilty. Get the PENTOTHAL into him. And his legal team. Then ask.

But it does let us know that here there were no guns involved. Had it been a robbery or a unknown assailant it would have been GUNS. My only real interest is the WHY did he OJ snap right then?

See so many questions and Ifs.

I don't like to jump to conclusions. So took some time before i believed. Which was probably when i saw the pictures of Nichole beating up and there history of domestic violence. But by the end of the Trail. I didn't give a *beep* about it anymore.

Although you addressed your post to those "who cheered" I for one, was appalled and sickened by anyone celebrating the acquittal of someone so obviously guilty. My perspective was changed in a Criminal Justice class at UW Milwaukee in 1999. The class was a study of Dirschowitz' book that he'd written about the case. At the end of the class and finals concluded there was some time left and the professor, a well credentialed and sought after advisor to police departments (incl. LAPD), offered to answer any questions that we had.

Sitting just in front of me was a young black girl who raised her hand and said "I can't believe you still think he killed those people" I was shocked by the statement because I couldn't believe anyone could still think that he didn't. The professor replied: "Do I think he killed those people? Absolutely! Do I think he should have been acquitted? Absolutely! The police tried to frame a guilty man and we can never allow the police to frame anyone. If we do, then innocent people, thought guilty, will not get the fair treatment they deserve under the law."


You're seeing a whole team of psychiatrists, aren't you? Terrence Mann "Field Of Dreams"

Well I don't think that the jury should have acquitted OJ, because of what happened with Rodney King. Basically if a someone murders two innocent people, then I do not think that person should go free as a social statement, for another issue.

Acquitting OJ was not justice for King at all. If OJ, had killed the cops who beat Rodney King almost to death, then I can see maybe the jury wanting to acquit him cause he went after the cops who went after Rodney. But OJ murdered two people, who had nothing to do with Rodney King.

Therefore, I don't think it was justice to acquit him for that reason.

As for the idea of the police framing him, it is sort of kind of possible, but there was more than enough blood and DNA evidence of OJ's at the scene, before the police arrived. People talk about how the cops planted a little tiny bit of blood on the gate. Well what about all the blood of his at both crime scenes, and well as the blood of the victims at both crime scenes?

That is enough evidence for a beyond a reasonable doubt conviction, yet a lot of people ignore that and place all their bets on this little tiny bit of blood on the gate. Plus it doesn't make any logical sense why the police would frame Simpson. If one officer asked the others "should we frame OJ for this crime", the logical response would be "no, there is plenty of blood and dna of his at both scenes, there is no need to frame him".

So it's a moot framing, cause the killer already left plenty of evidence that points to him in anyway.

It's "moot" to you because you missed the point.


You're seeing a whole team of psychiatrists, aren't you? Terrence Mann "Field Of Dreams"

What was the point?

That you're an idiot?



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This is a the question I kept asking myself while watching

Kinda reminds me of Trump People go with feelings and not truth, it's not a new concept. Us vs them attitudes in many circumstances will never change. I understand it tho, wanting a win on your side even if it's wrong after countless wrongful losses, that still unjustly continues and will continue.

The facts haven't changed, no alternate suspects. The things he's done since has made him look more guilty. Lets hope he doesn't get out of jail and serves his full sentence.

At the time he was acquitted I was happy because I didn't think he had done it. Also, it was nice (I admit) to see a black man get justicewhich is usually not The case. Also, I didn't like how the LAPD was planting evidence. VERY WRONG imo. Either you think you can win the case or you don't. But don't go planting evidence.


But now years later, I do feel that he may have had something to do with their deaths (or may have even killed them himself
), but what has always BAFFLED me, and smthg I have never been able to figure out isHOW.and WHY???

HOW meaning Was this premeditated all along? Was this something he had planned long time ago? And if so, why pick the day/evening of your child's dance recital?

And how was he able to be so CALM with his driver when he was getting a ride to the airport after he had just basically SLAUGHTERED two people in the dead of night right before his ride to the airport? Who remains that CALM after they have just KILLED someone??? And how was he so clean after having bloodied up two people in a violent attack?

Another thing.WHY??

WHY kill the mother of your children? It doesn't make sense! Even if you had beef with the mother, I just don't see what killing Nicole was going to do for OJ.

Call me crazy, but it is these unanswered questions that lead me to believe that he possibly is not the one who did it. I would need a step by step walk-through of HOW he did it in the time frame allotted, and also how he was able to still make a flight the same night.

I mean, either he had someone do it, or he is a crazy psychopath who just doesn't even have feelings. Like split personality or smthg.


Things just don't add up to me.

I mean we're not talking just a minor gunshot to the head or smthg, but a person actually having to walk UP to their victims, stabbing them multiple times over and over, up close and personal. Decapitating them, and not only killing one person, but TWO! But yet making it home just in time to meet his driver to go to The airport.

Idk.it just seems weird to me!

Was he always intending to kill her? And if so, why THAT day? Or was he only intending to scare her, and then got jealous when he saw Ron Goldman there?

Soo many questions!

I just started watching the series on Netflix (which is REALLY GOOD btw), so maybe my questions will finally be answered. I was not even barely a teenager when this incident took place and the trial was going on, and even though I remember it all like it was just yesterday, I'm sure there are a LOT of clues and things I missed as a child that I will be able to pick up on as an adult. :)

That's the definition of a sociopath. No remorse, no empathy, no feelings at all. He might as well have been killing a mosquito. Same amount of thought and emotion goes into it. But they're charming as hell. Read "The Sociopath Next Door."

I've only met a couple and I had to keep them at "arm's length!" Some people love that type and OJ had a real following 20+ years ago! No one should have been surprised who knew the man! The Browns and any others assoc. with the case can cry crocodile tears, but where was the outrage and wringing of hands when Nicole was alive? Supposedly to keep the gravy train flowing, she was sent back to OJ again and again! All concerned need to take their share of blame in this tragedy!

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I was 12 when it happened, I watched the chase scene on TV, and I watched parts of the trial on TV as well. When the verdict came in I was so disappointed in the courts, even at such a young age. I thought he was guilty then and I still think he is. He should've never been found not guilty. Only reason he was was because he was famous and had enough money to buy a not guilty verdict. I could see that even at 12, and it's kinda just gotten worse from there. I thought the glove thing was so stupid, because even then I knew that if leather gets wet it shrinks, so of COURSE the gloves were gonna look small for him, they SHRUNK! He should've been found guilty the first time around!! He made a joke of the justice system and paved the way for the rest of the idiots since. So needless to say, I did NOT cheer when he was acquitted.

I didn't have an opinion one way or another at the time of the trial. I was going to school so I did not pay much attention to it. I was in the student hall, on my way to lunch, when the verdict was announced and did not feel good or bad. I did noticed that there was a clear divide between those that cheered and those who were angry or upset with the verdict.
Twenty years later I now believe he did it based on all I heard and read about the case. I also believe our court systems are out of whack. Where you can be found innocent of a crime, but still be successfully sued for it. Simpson and Blake are examples of this.

I'll just stand over here being happy

I remember cheering as a kid mostly because my parents were, at 10 years old, I didn't have a full grasp of what was going on. Now, looking back on it, it's extremely likely that he did it. When solving a mystery, the correct answer is the one that requires the least amount of assumptions. O.J. being the killer is that answer. However, as the foreman said in the series, the prosecution did not prove it. I think that trials like this and the Michael Slagger/Walter Scott trial are prime examples of America's insistence on jury trials does more harm than good. Maybe I don't have any faith in society anymore but all it does is give people a chance to do the wrong thing.

However, as a black man, I can see why people would be happy. It's the sense that, for once, the legal system worked for one of us. It was as if white society got a taste of its own medicine.

Never been a gangsta but I play hardball.

No I don't. I knew he didn't do it. And I still don't think he did. It was his son, Jason Simpson. He was just what any good father would do.

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