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OJ Simpson Juror: Not-Guilty Verdict Was ‘Payback’ for Rodney King
The Wrap ^

Posted on 04/12/2024 4:34:33 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

Trial watchers, sociologists and even FX’s show “People v OJ Simpson” have argued that the jurors in O.J. Simpson’s murder case acquitted him as payback for the Rodney King beating. And in ESPN’s new event series, “O.J.: Made in America,” one juror finally comes out and says it.

(snip)

Interviewer: That was payback.
Bess: Uh-huh.
Interviewer: Do you think that’s right?

At that question, she holds up her hands.

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KEYWORDS: arrestcarriebess; california; carriebess; chargeherwithmurder; murderaccomplice; ojsimpson; ojtrial; payback; rodneyking
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To: Tench_Coxe

“I don’t see this particularly as a race thing.”

Odd, that. It was probably ‘the’ clearest case of a “race thing” this nation has had, thus far. It was just the beginning, turns out.


61 posted on 04/12/2024 8:21:03 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: janetjanet998

Acquiting OJ was the same as the poor coppers for that drug crazed GFloyd. Same rationale’, same trash and cowardly jurors.


62 posted on 04/12/2024 8:27:11 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: Tench_Coxe

My dad always believed that the prosecution intentionally threw it, under pressure from the powers in LA to avoid another Rodney King riot scenario...one wrong exoneration vs death and destruction if he was convicted.


63 posted on 04/12/2024 8:45:55 AM PDT by LizzieD
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

64 posted on 04/12/2024 9:57:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

not to mention

there were two other black males in the car

they got out and laid on the ground

neither was beaten

imagine that


65 posted on 04/12/2024 9:59:22 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: janetjanet998
"..."so you purposely let a man you knew was guilty of murder go free, as 'payback' for a completely unrelated event. How do you live with yourself?" ...

This is a question better put to the "Dream Team" of shysters who exploited the circumstances to get off a man who they had to know in their hearts was guilty.

66 posted on 04/12/2024 10:24:25 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: ansel12

The first officer to contact Rodney King was a female officer. He used and abused her, triggering the male officers to lose their restraint. All in all, it was a controlled attempt to subdue a VERY DANGEROUS man.

In my opinion, it was the equivalent of figuring out how to make a live capture of a Gorilla (no race comp intended), or a Chimpanzee. These animals, and Mr King, were extraordinarily strong. The animals by nature.

Rodney was buffed up by workouts, and pumped up by adrenalin and Meth. He barely survived, BECAUSE OF the restraint of the Police. Twenty years previously, they would have just shot him dead, and maybe rightfully so.

The cost to the Police and Policing is not worth the relaxed police posture of 2024, that is for sure. We are in more danger from criminals now, than we have ever been, because of the profile of the Rodney King case and of course George Floyd.


67 posted on 04/12/2024 11:27:12 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: Glad2bnuts

The female highway patrolman and her husband, she had pulled her gun on Rodney King when LA PD took over, Koon told her the police were taking over and everyone holster their guns.

King was acting strange in front of her and mocking her by grabbing his buttocks and gesturing at her.

In slow motion video the beating was revealed to meet the training standard and was controlled if I remember correctly, it was not the chaotic beating that the public thought it was.


68 posted on 04/12/2024 11:40:19 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Tench_Coxe

bkmkoprahVid


69 posted on 04/14/2024 6:40:51 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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