It was not that long after the acquittal on most charges of four former LAPD officers caught on video beating Rodney King, which likely intensified racial divides leading up to the Simpson trial.
It also didn’t help that the early 1990s was the peak crime era, which likely intensified fears of crime and (among Black people at least) police.
If that story was true, that Nicole Minet signed an NDA after the fact of the meeting between OJ’s lawyers and the President of Student Affairs, then she didn’t have to sign that NDA. She could have spoken up. She could have spoken up even had she signed it, could have claimed that she had signed it only under duress - which certainly, a student worker without a lawyer would have been, in that situation. I find it unbelievable that her boss would have told her, a mere work-study student receptionist, about the gist of that meeting. Also, where were the two USC students who had gone to the police about having been physically and sexually assaulted by OJ during college? Why didn’t they speak up after he was arrested for the murders? Even now, what does USC say about this, will they come clean about the alleged cover up and payoff that Minet reports? What does the the LAPD say about it, why wasn’t OJ arrested for assault and sexual assault way back then?
The saddest part of the entire OJ Simpson acquittal was that across the nation, African Americans cheered, saw OJ as their hero, even though it was so obvious that he had committed a double murder, even though they knew he was guilty. They saw the acquittal of a brutal double murderer of a white woman (and a young Jewish man who had the misfortune of being coincidentally present) as somehow being payback for all that African American men had endured in this country, after having been falsely accused of sexual assaults on white women.
Just because someone cheered the acquittal doesn’t mean they saw OJ as their hero. To me, it meant that a black man finally was rich and famous enough to get the same treatment white guilty men had been getting for centuries. I didn’t cheer, but that thought certainly crossed my mind.
As the saying goes, in a court of law, I’d rather be guilty and rich than innocent and poor. Or, as I heard recently … this isn’t a black or white issue; it’s a green one.
I can admit looking back in hindsight that my own response to the acquittal was not at the standard I hold myself at today. I was not an OJ fan (I was too young to see his football career and he was a mediocre sports broadcaster and actor IMO). It was all about @Youdon_tsay take for me personally, but I look back and realize that I did not mourn the victims or their families enough. But as a 19 year old Black man who had seen his fair share of racism and injustice growing up in the South, I give myself some grace. Today, I send my condolences to the family members and friends affected by the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
I wonder if OJ’s and Nicle’s children believe that he killed their mother?
Bob Costas, who was apparently a good friend of OJ’s, was interviewed this morning and said there was no doubt OJ did it.
How many scandals have involved USC? It has to be in the double digits. Yet applications still keep growing year over year.
They still have a 33 million dollar claim against his estate for the civil suit. I’d say yes.
It is the families of the two people he murdered who have the lien on his estate, not his children.
You’re right. Sorry about that.
But man, how awful for all involved.
OJ being OJ even from the grave.
This ticks me off beyond the beyond!
He perpetrated domestic violence against women. Nobody helped his wife when she called police multiple times during their dating, marriage and after the divorce. You would have hoped things were better for persons suffering from that type of violence, but not really…
This Link has information re: violence in intimate relationships
This was my college boyfriend’s sister - her husband killed her and then himself. Their two little boys were in the vicinity! I didn’t know her well, but I did know her.
Pretty much the job as executor of the estate. Just headed for the courts.
Two of younger S’ long time soccer teammates had their moms killed by their spouse/boyfriend.
Just recently a man killed his wife, 3 kids and then himself on Oahu. He was said to be heavily in debt.
His mother refused to believe he’d ever hit his wife, in spite of the fact that he obviously proceeded to MURDER her. Clearly the man was capable of violence. I get that the mother would still feel love for her son, but there’s some denial going on there.
Terrible.
OJ’s longtime friend and executor of his estate said that he hopes the Goldman’s get nothing. OJ chose likeminded friends.
Yep. Just heard that on the morning news. Disgusting. That said, sounds like his very large, overdue tax bill is apparently first in line to be paid.