That question has the same ring as “When do you stop beating your Wife?” There is the truth, but do you really want me to tell you about it in an open courtroom?
I’m sure Cops say racist stuff, I would say it might be from an opinion built upon what they see everyday.
I knew a Black Puerto Rican who was a reserve Sherrif’s Deputy inj LA County while he was on Active Duty and I swear to God the sh*t that Guy said then, would get you arrested today.
Simpson was acquitted because he was black, it has nothing to do with Fhurman. Even if Fhurman was a boy scout who never said a single bad word and the evidence he collected was beyond reproach, the black jury would never have convicted OJ, in LA, 2 years after the Rodney King riots…. or today for that matter.
It’s been well documented that black jurors are more likely to acquit a black defendant than White jurors are to acquit a White defendant. Black jurors are also more likely to convict a White defendant while White jurors are evenly split on convictions of White defendants. Blacks are highly tribal, Whites are not but need to be in light of recent events.
If F. Lee Bailey asked the starting with “do you still” or “when did you stop” then the question would be the same, but that wasn’t how the question was phrased.
It’s still a cheap shot, if you don’t like Fhuirman or his opinions, I think you have to ask yourself a very dangerous question.
Why does Fhurman Feel that way?
That brings up another frequent complaint about cops of being the “feelings police” and enforcing their egos.
They are supposed to be impartial and operate within legal limitations.
Let that slide and you have something far worse than private sector vigilantes ever could be.
If every Cop who ever dropped an N Bomb and lied about it left Law Enforcement I wonder what it would look like?
I don’t have a problem with Thurman dropping an N Bomb and letting off some steam. Thurman was Born in like 1952 and likely went to a segregated School System in his early years. So life went on before everyone was all sensitive and on edge about naughty names.
I don’t think anyone ever accused him of failing to serve the African American Community as a matter of fact he must have been fairly well thought of in the LAPD just to be on this case.
So time out’s and naughty names aside the guy got screwed.
https://anncoulter.substack.com/p/ojs-third-victim-of-throat-ailment
Ann Coulter did a nice job of summarizing the so-called ‘perjury’:
“…Despite its monumental irrelevance to O.J.’s guilt or innocence, the judge allowed defense attorney F. Lee Bailey to ask Fuhrman if he had — I quote — “addressed any black person as a [the N-word] or spoken about black people as [N-words] in the past 10 years.” A normal person would understand that question to mean, “Do you call black people the N-word?” not, “Has the word ever passed your lips, including the way I – F. Lee Bailey – just used it?
Fuhrman said he had not. A year later, his denial was pretty well corroborated in a New York Times article quoting his many black partners, colleagues and friends. The Los Angeles public defender’s office investigated the detective “aggressively,” but found “virtually no complaints” against him, and not a single accusation of racial misconduct. To the contrary, the investigation turned up “compliments paid to Fuhrman by arrestees,” including minorities.
The main witness against Fuhrman on the vitally important question of whether he’d ever used the N-word — in what was, again, a double-murder trial — was a woman he’d had a sexual relationship with, Laura Hart McKinney. She had tapes of Fuhrman using the N-word in 1985, nearly — but not quite! — a decade before the O.J. trial.
The reason she had tapes was that they were working together on a screenplay, and he was playing the gritty, racist cop. Hollywood producers, he explained, were not going to want “a nice, warm and fuzzy movie about good cops.” He said he was trying to make the screenplay “dramatic and commercially appealing.”…”
and
“…It seemed unremarkable that in the trial of a black man for slaying two white people, the only person called a “genocidal racist” was a cop who’d used a bad word for a screenplay.
Cochran added that Fuhrman was “America’s worst nightmare.” Whereas having a hulking 6-foot-2 running back sneak up to your house late at night and cut your throat down to the cervical vertebrae is more of a nocturnal disturbance….”
So why would he have to clam up?
I was living and working there at the time, the perception was that all White Cops were Racisit because of the Rodney King incident.
Fuhrman had a target on his back from the time they found out OJ Simpson was a suspect. He found all of this evidence and OJ Simpson ws looking very guilty, someone had to pull a trick out their butt and F. Lee Baily got Lucky.
From the Witness’s, the cuts on his hand, the leather glove that had been soaked in blood and shrank as it slowly dried, it’s pretty clear to me anyway.
Fuhrman pad for Rodney Kings Beating with his reputation.
Bailey allegedly didn’t know the answer tonthe question, but Fuhrman did and Fuhrman chose to lie. Once caught in that lie he started pleading the 5th to every question including making up evidence.
I figure Simpson did it, but if the police and prosecution didn’t think the legit facts were enough for a conviction then maybe they had more first hand experience about it than my hunch.
The “perception” was that all white cops were racist because they were white
Have to figure the reality of long term and widespread corruption among lapd officers factored in to things too.
LAPD seemed to me at the time to be totally trying to do their best at that point, but that POWDER Keg was going to blow no matter what.
OJ killed them, got to the airport dumped the knife and The Unique custom shoes that left the foot print,
I was by the Courthouse earlier that day, if he was found guilty there would have been another riot.
LAPD of the 1990’s had numerous officers serving in private sector gangs and even had a bank robbery as a highlight of that time frame.
you don’t understand why someone facing criminal charges is not going to answer questions?
like, really?
you really think Bailey didn’t know the answer to his question?
you really think Bailey picked ‘10 years’ at random?
like, really really??
And that’s the thing, he went in there to testify about what he saw, what evidence he collected and what had been an established time line.
Suddenly F Lee Baily has him fitted for KKK Robes?
Yeah, we aint talking anymore, at this point I need to put in my retirement paperwrok and write a book.
We have nothing to talk about.
Why would Fuhrman have thought he was facing criminal charges?
A cop lying to try to get a conviction(including in court) rarely results in criminal charges.
I wondered about that, but
the question was asked in March 1995.
Allegedly Simpon’s lawyers received the tapes during the summer of 1995
the tapes were played in court in August of 1995
That could go with Bailey making a lucky guess, educated guess, or having prior knowledge.
No matter how Bailey came to ask the question, Fuhrman did know and chose to lie about it.
Why would Fuhrman have thought he was facing criminal charges?
A cop lying in court rarely results in criminal charges.
They were out for White Scalps there wasn’t a racial issue until Bailey did that and made it one. Remember Reginald Denny, it didn’t matter to those folks, if you were white they were going to try and kill you. They wanted a White scape Goat and through some BS that had nothing to do with the evidence against OJ, they found one..
LAPD gave it to them, he should have never been asked or never answered that question, there should have been an objection, but answer or not they wanted a racisit and Fhurman was elected.