I videotaped the trial. and watched it. I still don't know if he did it. Most people I speak with have a definite option on his guilt or innocence, but most didn't watch the full trial. They know about the case, but not the facts or the prosecutors and defense's positions on many matters. They don't know what they're talking about concerning the true facts, but they know OJ is guilty. I don't know if he did it, but I believe the jury made the correct verdict with the evidence presented to them. And I believe it was impossible for OJ to do it by himself with the time frame. The prosecution presented a case of one person only committing the crime. OJ catching a plane moments later helped him, it limited his ability to get rid of a weapon and any bloody clothes. Any covering up of evidence in an ineffective way would have taken a lot longer than the time-frame suggests between the murders, and when OJ was picked up to go to the airport. I found many problems with the prosecution's case but here is just a few. The prosecution hypothesized that OJ left the alley, jumped in the bronco, went home and eventually the airport. Now there was a ton of blood at the crime scene, surely the car would have been tested extensively for bloody footprints on the pedals/carpet/seat, and for any cleaning detergent used or anomalies that would support this theory. Also, there was no blood from the victims in the bronco, no tampering/cleaning of the carpet. They say OJ wore the Bruno Magli shoes while committing the crime, where are the shoes to be tested? OJ wouldn't have time to get rid of whichever shoes he was supposed to be wearing.
There was enough doubt to let 10 suspects go free. The 30-year obsession with the O.J. trial says a lot about race, our justice system and corporate media's coverage in our country.
After 30 years people are still emotional about the death of two people not that well known. But the victims being white and the suspect being black made it more of a story for our country, because here participants are many times more important than the principles involved.
For generations the black community has loss innocent men, women and children to white assailants known to have committed the crime. But was let go free because of an all-white jury that didn't care if justice was served because of the participants involved. Whites would murder heroes and leaders in the black community. They would publicly, with the help of law enforcement lynch innocent black men, women and children for entertainment. Whites would bomb black churches during Sunday service. Many of these murderers were never charged or lived years before being charged. These were innocent black leaders, women and children, but none of these cases came close to the screams of injustice compared to the OJ case. Many will say it was because a celebrity was involved, or media was different. But five years later celebrity Robert Blank was accused of killing his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, in 2001. He was acquitted, but I believe there was enough evidence to convict him based on the discrepancies in his story. Later Bonny Lee children filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Blake and found him liable of their mother's death. But corporate media and many in our society didn't care.
These opinions based on participants rather than principles is still alive and well. If you go on a far-right conservative website like Fox News, you'll notice it. If there's a story where the white suspects were accused of murder or other atrocities, you see many comments blaming the individual, mental illness or outside influential circumstances. But a story could be about a black suspect accused of robbery or something less, and you'll notice many comments about their guilt and their race being a factor. It is a breeding ground for white racist comments.
I never spoke with a black person that thought OJ was guilty, but thought it was ok because it was revenge for past injustices. I'm sure there are some blacks that thought that way. But the blacks I spoke with thought he should go to jail if guilty. And the ones thinking he was innocent, was glad he was found not guilty. Some blacks know, far better than white Americans do, that if police will work that hard to frame a guilty man, they’re willing to work far harder to frame a non-guilty man.
May we focus more on the principles than the participants.
