OJ's trial goes beyond his innocence or guilt. His trial was racially charged and cannot be understood outside this context. I don't think those who celebrated his acquittal believed in his innocence as much as they saw it a victory that a black man used his privilege and resources to escape justice the way so many white criminals had in the past. Not justice, but equality, American style.

For white America, it came as quite a shock that a rich black celebrity could leverage race tensions to escape accountability. This was such a singular event it resonates 30years later. If you're black, you don't need a long memory to see justice betrayed behind some racist bullshit.

I think the folks who were happy to see him get off were more interested in the (not legal)indictment of the LAPD and admission of their corruption:

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112253117381871866

Question one, who the fuck thought this?

No one I knew though he was innocent, but a lot of people thought he was going to be found innocent because Fuck The Police was a big deal.

No one objected to the outcome of the civil suit.

Parts of the official story make no sense.

He killed two people, got rid of ALL the clothes he was wearing, got rid of the murder weapon, but somehow left one glove behind and took the other one home?

Then there was the bloody fingerprint:

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/famous-murders/forensic-investigation-of-the-oj-simpson-trial/

"An important bloody fingerprint located on the gateway at Nicole Brown’s house was not properly collected and entered into the chain of custody when it was first located. Although it was documented in his notes by Detective Mark Fuhrman, one of the first to arrive on the scene, no further action was taken to secure it.

The detectives who took over Fuhrman’s shift apparently were never aware of the print and eventually, it was lost or destroyed without ever being collected."

It's pretty clear the cops fucked it up. It's not possible to say if he was guilty or not because of the police fuckery.

Another good piece... cops found a bloody sock in his home and the blood was found to be from both himself and Nicole...

Problem was it also contained the preservative police labs use to keep blood liquid, and it had soaked through from one side of the sock to the other and down to the carpet,meaning it had been poured on the sock from above in the Simpson home:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/former-o-j-simpson-lawyer-claims-evidence-showed-his-client-was-framed-1.6843159

No one who watched the trial in real actual time thought that he was innocent at all

OP thinking that Lemmy is popular enough with the boomers that someone is going to answer this.

I didn't really care at all at the time but that was mostly because I was 7 years old.

I mean, he confessed to the murder after the trial ended. Even wrote a book about it. There shouldn't be anyone left who thinks he didn't do it.

Wasn't one of the reasons because the jury was worried about a reaction similar to the Rodney King riots?

I had heard this at the time, but someone correct me if I'm wrong