> 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
“My point is that Fuhrman made it oh so easy for them to do that.”
Exactly——I remember at the same wondering why he just didn’t say that he couldn’t recall saying it.
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Point is, there was a reason they asked that question with a specific time frame of 10 years. That was no accident. They were setting him up, no doubt.