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OJ Trailer 2 · The Twin History Podcast

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  You could argue there's never been a greater miscarriage of
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  justice in the US legal system than OJ Simpson being acquitted.
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  Have you been sat there for the entirety of this week waiting
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  for the second episode so OJ goes to trial like you're the
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  caretaker? They were trying to paint a
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  timeline of a man who starts by beating his partner and
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  eventually Enzo killing her. We've always been the caretakers
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  Sir. 4 police officers were on trial for beaten Rodney King to
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  appal despite the evidence against them, the four officers
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  were acquitted. It doesn't make OG any less of a
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  running Bart doesn't. Then when the news of the trial
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  came down, LA essentially exploded.
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  Johnnie Cochran. A Big Bird had been going around
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  saying, I saw like other people in the vicinity of the murder
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  scene, Johnnie Cochran would have been willing to put Big
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  Bird on the stand. Furman is a racist comeback.
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  But what does that have to do with the OJ Simpson case?
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  It's got nothing to do with the OJ Simpson case.
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  Let's just say for a second OJ didn't commit the murderer.
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  But isn't an argument that Furman is such a poisonous
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  racist that he's willing to plant evidence on the successful
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  black man who was dating this beautiful white woman?
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  But we are a history podcast. We really should be dealing on
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  facts. They were like a rogue
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  organisation who took every opportunity to demonise, to
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  prosecute, to victimise and to murder black people in the city
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  when they could. For me, the jury, I'm trying to
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  be succinct with my words here, but they were idiots.
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  October 4th, 1995, the jury comes back with their verdict
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  and what was their verdict? Very succinct.
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  Is not guilty on all counts and both murders.
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  You're making OJ the saviour or the embodiment of the black
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  civil rights movement for Mark Furman or for Mark Furman.
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  This guy didn't even see himself as black.
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  He didn't until it was convenient to do so.
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  He didn't even advance that he was black or he didn't even
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  express anything about being black.
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  Was Mark Fuhrman charged with murdering Nicole Brown and Ron
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  Goldman? No.
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  No, I'm not. I'm OJ.
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  Don't accept everything you hear.
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  And the conspiracy theorist? Be a conspiracy theorist.
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  Yeah. I'm not back emoji.
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  The OJ Simpson trial showed America at its absolute worst
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  because of the racial divide.