Love him or hate him, he is somehow a fixture of out culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A58a5lVjlkU
I’ve heard a lot of angles on the story, but I don’t think he was as bad as they say.
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His lying in court may not have exactly been irrelevant, but it was fairly piddly compared to the examples from the thread linked below.
I assume if all these folks were on the same level as Simpson(wealth for attorneys and the trial fully shared with the public) it seems likely that these cops would have all received perjury convictions as well.
Hijacking a thread here ?
We get it - you are attuned to crooked cops (maybe even rightly so) but why do you feel the need to insert that topic into as many threads as possible?
I appreciate your sponsorship of the website, and kudos to you for sticking with M4 during the SOLGW rough patch - but could we maybe go a few days without a negative posting about the police?
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For whatever reason Fhurman was immeadiatly branded a racisit. all of the evidednce Fhurman touched then was discarded and OJ walked free.
Clearly OJ was the Killer, but that was ok, it’s payback for Rodney King.
Now all that logic at the time makes perfect sense of you are a California Democrat, it just falls apart under normal scrutiny.
I would say that Mark Fhurman is a cultural milestone because that is exactly when the straw that broke the Camels back snapped. It aint been the same since.
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How was it a negative posting about police for your preferences? None of the ones I mentioned got in any trouble so yahoo, right?
Seems likely.
Rather interesting how no one involved in the trial(except for OJ’s defense team) had ever had leather gloves get wet and dry out
Just someone the defense needed to point the finger at to get their guilty-as-sin client acquitted. They had a jury stuffed with blacks who couldn’t wait to get revenge on whitey.
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Yep. A total circus of retardation. I have no sympathy for the white trash wife who was slaughtered. You whore around with animals and you find out. Too bad for the waiter kid though.
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I was stationed in LA during this time and we often had to go to the courthouse for a records check, documents etc. I drove by just to look two hours ahead of time and it was already a Mad House.
They cornered Fhurman because he broughyt forward the most damning evidence against OJ. So the Defense accused him of being racisit, not being able to prove that, they found someone who remembered Fhurmon at one point dropping several N bombs.
Now show me any Cop of any race who works in LA that hasn’t dropped an N Bomb. But that was all it took to remove everything Fhurman had found that night and that was enough.
And that how we missed LA Riots Part II.
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I remember after the acquittal OJ’s lawyers said “now you can look for the real killer” and the LAPD said “nah, we’re done. We already found the real killer”.
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Don’t be a contrarian just for the sake of being one. Do not act like you are dense - because I do not believe you are. You know exactly what I was getting at. You consistently bring in examples of police misbehavior into unrelated threads. This thread is about Fhurman, and you bring in an example of something cops were doing in Tennessee three decades later. This is a recurring pattern, and it gets old.
Example of Original Post: “I sure do like rocky road ice cream”
Jsbhike: “I will tell you who else likes rocky roads - the cops that pinned a suspect down on one and tattered his face.”
I actually do think you have provided some illuminating examples of police misbehavior, and I am not saying there is no value to this. But constantly inserting extraneous information into threads gets monotonous very quickly.
I say all this with no ill-intent. You are a very active member on a forum that has been struggling to stay relevant, so your presence here is a good thing. I have found some of your gun-related postings to be interesting. But I know that some folks here have blocked your posts because they are just tired of your behavior. I have not done so, as I like to see this as a community, and I am open to dissenting views. But sometimes it just gets tiresome.
This is posted with good intentions in mind, so please take it in the spirit it is intended.
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It’s called threadcrapping.
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If their industry wasn’t still doing it there wouldn’t be a reoccurring pattern.
Point taken - but seriously, what is your endgame? How do you think this single-minded pursuit will change things? Do you expect everyone to call for defunding the police? Maybe you just want to raise awareness of some of the more reprehensible police behavior. There is certainly value to that - but does it have to intrude into totally unrelated threads?
There is a balance to be struck between getting the word out there, without becoming so repetitive that people just start tuning you out completely.
As you mentioned earlier i don’t have a "single-minded pursuit.
How is Mark Fuhrman(who we only know of because he was a dishonest cop) totally unrelated to the topic of dishonest cops?
I consider this matter closed - not going to play ping-pong posts.
No hard feelings - have a good day.
Mark Fhurman;
In 1995, Fuhrman was called to testify regarding his discovery of evidence in the Simpson case, including a bloody glove recovered at Simpson’s estate. During the trial, witnesses claimed that in the 1980s, Fuhrman frequently described African Americans as “niggers”, claims he denied. In response, Simpson’s defense team produced recorded interviews with Fuhrman and witnesses proved that he had repeatedly used racist language during those interviews.[1] As a result, the defense claimed that Fuhrman had committed perjury and was not a credible witness. The credibility of the prosecution has been cited as one reason Simpson was acquitted.[2]
The defense claimed that Fuhrman planted key evidence as part of a racially motivated plot against Simpson. When asked under oath (with the jury not present), Fuhrman declined to answer all questions, invoking his Fifth Amendment right. These questions included whether he planted or manufactured evidence. Fuhrman retired from the LAPD in 1995. In 1996, he pleaded no contest to perjury for his false testimony related to his use of racial epithets. Fuhrman claimed he was not a racist and apologized for his use of racist language.[3]
Some of Fuhrman’s former coworkers who are minorities expressed support for him.[4] Fuhrman maintained that he did not plant or manufacture evidence in the Simpson case, and Simpson’s defense team did not present any evidence to contradict this claim.[5 ]
Convicted of? Bad Taste?
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Perjury. Like I mentioned earlier, it was somewhat piddly compared to others who have committed perjury, but it was still perjury.
Would you want to get put on trial with a cop testifying against you and being allowed to lie?
The question wasn’t about the biggest fish he had ever caught something else with no connection to his job. He had the option of lying or telling the truth and he went with lying.
Bullshit question. I mean how do you correctly answer that? “After an extreamly challenging call with an African American Male we attempted to arrest him before he killed the victims, but because we cant smack him with a Billy Club, he wouldn’t go down.”
And someone let loose an “N” Bomb.
Oh heaven forbid, I mean unles it was a Black Cop then it’s “Kinda” okay.
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Per your link above it wasn’t just one time during a life or death incident and the question of “what did you just say?” wasn’t asked while a body was still warm either.
Seriously, they gave him a chance to tell the truth in his professional capacity or to lie in his professional capacity and he went with lying.
As far as collecting and sorting evidence and clues he may have been honest as the day was long, but he went with the option that cast doubt on that.
If it was me on trial innocent or guilty, I wouldnt have given him a pass on that one and i don’t think many others in that position would willingly give him a pass on it either.