WI: OJ Simpson Found Guilty the First Time

There would have been some rioting. I don't know the degree, but there would have been. This was a case the race problems and tension between the white and black community of the time projected themselves onto, and the entire nation was watching and caught up in it. This was a period where you had the 1992 riots and the Rodney King riots. Rioting was going to happen.
 
Family Guy has no reason to film 'The Juice is Loose', and so jumps the shark on another episode.
 
The next two episodes were "FOX-y Lady" and the dreaded "Not All Dogs Go To Heaven", so immediately.

Wow, those three really do form a perfect trilogy of the low point of Family Guy. It's actually somewhat better now, but the fact they produced three utter pieces of garbage back to back says something about the depths that season 7 (?) plumbed.
 
POD could be that Mark Furman isn't recorded using the N-word?

He got recorded doing that over two dozen times. If that hadn't done massive damage to the case, something else that fool said would have. The other problem is that if you look at all of the facts of the case, you realize its massively full of holes, and as I said during the whole Dorner mess, the LAPD should have been dismantled and rebuilt after the Gates years and the Rodney King riots. An OJ guilty verdict may well have been another catalyst for more rioting and more problems for Los Angeles.
 
POD could be that Mark Furman isn't recorded using the N-word?

There's a lot of PODs, but the main one would be a more competent prosecution. Seriously, the inability to successfully prosecute OJ with the overwhelming evidence, and the fact that the prosecution didn't present all the evidence they could to the jury shows a teeth grinding incompetence.
 

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Riots. Lots and lots of riots. Many of my friends would hate the justice system more than they do now
 
Riots. Lots and lots of riots. Many of my friends would hate the justice system more than they do now

Here's the problem. The black community was screwed over a lot in the 90s by the police. Rodney King's beating and the police being let off was a gross injustice, and police had been doing that sort of thing a lot. So the feeling was that the police were just out to abuse black people, and the justice system was just looking to go after black people. Given all the stuff that went before, those feelings are understandable.

The problem is they were projected onto the OJ Simpson case and projected onto it hard, but they were not logical to the case. OJ killed those people. I may have to defend that, but I shouldn't have to given the evidence against him, people saying he told them things like "I have a dark side you don't know" and "If she hadn't come to the door with that knife, she'd still be alive", and the fact that he never even tried to "find the real killer". OJ did it. The problem was, because of the things that had happened in the early 90s and because of the overall police abuse that had been going on for decades, the black community assumed it was white police going after OJ Simpson as a black man.

The black community will riot, and there may be lingering feelings as you said, and I think it would be tragic if there were. Those times made the black community think not of the content of character, whether of the person or the events, but of the skin color; that the person was only being put through this because they were black. And the white officers had been thinking of skin color in years previous, abusing the black community because of suspicion that if you were black you were more likely to be involved in something violent or criminal than a white person, which is what led the black community to that the aforementioned view. It poisoned, and will further complicate in a poisonous way the whole issue of race relations and the discussion of race and race relations in America. It did quite a lot in the OTL, since the white community thought that black people only supported OJ because he was black, and were furious that he had been found innocent.
 
OJ killed those people. I may have to defend that, but I shouldn't have to given the evidence against him, people saying he told them things like "I have a dark side you don't know" and "If she hadn't come to the door with that knife, she'd still be alive", and the fact that he never even tried to "find the real killer". OJ did it.

You're gonna hate me for saying this, but I don't think he did it. If he had, he would have been bruised (there was one hell of a fight involved, and big as OJ is, he would have had marks from the fight), he would have had blood on more of his clothes (none ever found) and the timeline of events is rather narrow for the whole case. And that's before you have the fact that the LAPD's handling of the case was horribly sloppy, even minus Fuhrman, who also entered OJ's property without a warrant to do so on at least one occasion. We would agree that Simpson is an enormous piece of shit, but because he is doesn't mean he killed his ex-wife.

As far as what would have happened, you are correct in pointing out that racial tension in Los Angeles in 1995 was extraordinarily high. Rodney King may have started with black anger, but the Korean-American community in Los Angeles were when I was there the angriest people in town and quite openly hated the black population. I will not soon forget visiting a Koreatown restaurant with two black co-workers and having one of the waiters say to me "you want to tell the n****** to get out or should I?" (Needless to say, we all left.) The combination of the Rodney King riots, OJ Simpson trial and black community hatred of the police, the leftover anger among the other communities and rivalries between the Black and Hispanic communities in LA in 1995 could have resulted in a lot nastier riots than in 1992.
 
You're gonna hate me for saying this, but I don't think he did it. If he had, he would have been bruised (there was one hell of a fight involved, and big as OJ is, he would have had marks from the fight), he would have had blood on more of his clothes (none ever found) and the timeline of events is rather narrow for the whole case. And that's before you have the fact that the LAPD's handling of the case was horribly sloppy, even minus Fuhrman, who also entered OJ's property without a warrant to do so on at least one occasion. We would agree that Simpson is an enormous piece of shit, but because he is doesn't mean he killed his ex-wife.

Any thoughts on who really did it? The only other theories I've heard involved his son from his first marriage (who had a fixation on Nicole she didn't discourage and was apparently unstable) or some drug dealers Goldman was involved with.
 
I have no doubt OJ did it. hHe had cuts on his hands. hHe had blood on his gloves. gGloves that were the same rare type that Nicole bought at Bloomingdales. tThere was blood found at OJ's home.OJ acted like a guilty man. hHe wrote a suicide note. Instead of turning himself in he fled from the police.
 

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Even among the black community (and hispanic too) there is still a large distrust of the police. W/ OJ convicted that distrust will be stronger and will last longer, race relations may also be strained for a while. I think I would distrust the police more if he was convicted as well.
 
He also had a history of jealousy and abuse. hHe had no alibi. h He lived five minutes away. hHe had plenty of time to do it.
 
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