The jury was doing the mirror image of what happened to Emmet Till. Sure, in Emmet Till's case the white jurors couldn't prove that the white men who came looking for the young black boy and took him out of the house at gunpoint were the same ones who beat him to death and dumped him in a river. I mean, no one saw the actual murder, so the jurors had to let the men go, because they said they let Emmet go after scaring him, so somebody else must have beaten him to death. The O.J. verdict was payback for centuries of crap like this.
The standard is beyond a reasonable doubt, not beyond all doubt.
O.J. is as guilty as Emmet Till's killers, and he got off for the same reason -- malignant racial solidarity -- and the verdict is just as disgraceful. I understand that African Americans have suffered in America, but two wrongs don't make a right.
A big laughline from Cedric the Entertainer in Barbershop is when he talks about things black folks know are true but can never, ever admit in front of white folks, and amongst them is "O.J. is guilty." Blacks laughed in the theater because they all knew it was true. (And the joke worked on another level, because Cedric the Entertainer knew that white folks would see the movie, ironically being let in on the gag.)
Oh, please. O.J.'s guilty as sin, and I won't recount the 1001 reasons why. (I seem to recall Esquire did an excellent piece entitled 1001 Reasons Why O.J. is Guilty, and all 1001 were pretty damn convincing.) Let's just say that not least among the evidence is that O.J. can account for his whereabouts that day except for the exact moments of the double murder, and he never explained the hand injury that occured at just the unaccounted-for time and O.J. expressed the desire to kill Nicole numerous times.
Exactly.
All the more reason to be angry with the prosecution, blowing a slam-dunk.
They mismanaged the case from Day One. OJ doesn't deserve to walk free, but the state deserved to lose the case, and that's the way our justice system works.