I understand your point of view, but I disagree. (NOTE: This is not against, you, but I would not use Wikipedia as a source for anything political or racial except for simple statements of dates. It isn’t reliable at all in those respects)
In those tapes he wasn’t bragging. He was trying to help a writer who he was collaborating with get a gritty street feel for her screenplay.
Nobody who ever worked with him characterized him in any respect other than positive, and that includes his black colleagues, of which there were many.
He was targeted to play the race card, plain and simple. Now I admit to having read his side of the story in his “Murder in Brentwood”, but I think context is important, and we only hear one side of it.
> He [Fuhrman] was targeted to play the race card, plain and simple. <
Oh yes, no doubt about it. My point is that Fuhrman made it oh so easy for them to do that. On the stand during the Simpson trial, Fuhrman denied having used the n-word in the past 10 years. Then the defense produced recent tapes on which Fuhrman used the n-word 40 times. No black juror - or any juror - is going to ignore that.
Fuhrman was (at that time, at least) either a racist and a dirty cop, or a lying braggart.
From the link below (it references transcripts from the actual tapes):
The “Fuhrman Tapes” contain eighteen examples of Detective Fuhrman admitting participation in police misconduct, or offering approving comments with respect to misconduct. This misconduct includes illegal use of deadly force, beating suspects to extract confessions, planting evidence, framing innocent persons, and lying or covering up misconduct by others.
http://web.mit.edu/dryfoo/Info/fuhrman.html