What if OJ Simpson killed himself during his slow speed chase and before he goes to trial?
The country goes up in an uproar, larger LA riots and Black/Hispanic communities attacking Korean-Americans all over the country.
Idk
Justice would have been served.
You really think so?
If I recall correctly, the racial issues only came up as a result of the trial, eg. Fuhrman's use of the N Word, Cochrane's alleged demagoguery etc.
Fuhrman was in bed asleep when the bloody socks were found, so "The Dream Team" had to make "racists" out of the investigators on scene and even the lab techs who handled the socks. Cochrane and his team knew Simpson was guilty, due to the discovery of the details of the bogus nature of his claimed "alibi". It was the one thing that had them scared. But in yet another act of investigatory incompetence, the prosecutors missed it completely.I don't remember people really putting much of a racial angle on it before the trial, and certainly not at the time of the car-chase.
That's what the prosecution was hoping for in the McMartin Trials. LA ADA Lael (Inspector Javier) Rubin, who maintains the McMartin's guilt to this day, seemed to be basing her case on getting a suicide. So yes, you're right.I think if he kills himself during the chase, most people will assume he's guilty
, and even the ones who don't, aren't gonna get too worked up about their dissent.
There might be a bit of grumbling along the lines of "White girl gets killed and it's a big media hoopla, but how many blacks die every day and no one cares?", but even that's not gonna be enough to start riots.
No. Justice would not.
State would save a ton of money, there wouldn't be the spectacle that was the trial itself, and we wouldn't have some really tiresome meme floating about, but there would be no justice.
There would be an end. That isn't justice.
I think suicide would have been taken by most as a sign of guilt. No riots, no commotion, probably a few conspiracy theories on the fringe, but I think for the most part the whole thing is rather quickly forgotten by the public at large.
One benefit: no Kardashians. Their father never becomes famous and they live out their lives in obscurity, as do the other members of the cast of the spectacle that was the trial.