USA: REACTION TO OJ SIMPSON ACQUITTAL
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The trial of OJ Simpson captivated the United States and the world.
After nine-months, viewers in cities and towns across America waited on edge for the verdict: a verdict which drew reaction and opinions as diverse as the cultural fabric of the US itself.
They gathered in New York's Times Square, waiting to hear the outcome of what had been billed as the "Trial of the Century".
Reaction here to the acquittal of O-J Simpson drawing cheers from some, disbelief from others.
For some justice was served. For others, it was an example of a system flawed.
SOUNDBITE: "They proved that....I'm so happy. Yes! yes! yes!"
SUPER CAPTION:Voxpop
SOUNDBITE: "I think that this is terrible that he is going to get away with this you know because I do believe that he did it and its just not fair."
SUPER CAPTION: Voxpop
SOUNDBITE:
"He's guilty. He's just got to live with himself, man. He knows he did it, the DNA is not racial. It doesn't see black and white it just sees that he was there and he did it. He's got to live with himself that's all."
SUPER CAPTION: voxpop
Activist Jesse Jackson hopes the trial will open the discussion over race and violence.
SOUNDBITE: "During this period of atonement let us have a mood of soul searching and still crowd to stop the violence to stop the domestic violence. We hope that some lesson can be learnt from this and for those on either side of the verdict let this battle be a courtroom battle and not a street battle."
SUPER CAPTION:Jesse Jackson, African-American Leader
Reaction even coming from the White House, with a presidential statement offering condolences to the families of the victims.
SOUNDBITE: "The jury heard the evidence and rendered its verdict. Our system of justice requires respect for their decision. At this moment our thoughts and prayers should be with the families of the victims of this terrible crime."
SUPER CAPTION:Mike McCurry, White House Spokesman
Across town at a domestic violence seminar, the cheers of some women were tempered by the sombre faces of others.
For many, the O-J Simpson verdict does not invalidate their cause.
SOUNDBITE: "The jury concluded that there was not enough evidence to convict OJ Simpson of murder. But this acquittal does not change the fact that domestic violence is an epidemic in this country and that domestic violence homicides occur every day."
SUPER CAPTION:Esta Soler, executive director for the Family Violence Prevention Fund.
In bars and cafes across America, the reaction was as varied and diverse as the racial fabric of the country.
SOUNDBITE: "I'm surprised by the speed, I'm surprised that they were able to come to a unanimous agreement in such a short time after having heard eight months of trial in what I think was a complex case."
SUPER CAPTION:Voxpop
SOUNDBITE: "I was surprised at the verdict, I thought that the quick deliberation by the jury meant that they would have found him guilty, and I thought he was guilty to begin with."
SUPER CAPTION:Voxpop
Americans watched as the fate O-J Simpson hung in the balance. But the deeper questions of race and domestic violence raised by the trial may be tried in the court of public opinion for years to come.
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It’s fun to see people reveal their most basic instincts and emotions
2:58 that man is trying very hard not to burst out laughing and celebrating lmao
"Facts are irrelevant to people, their emotions is what determines their beliefs and often their actions."
Today:
Can't believe it's been 25 years since the verdict was read.
This is what can happen when you see-hear& believe only what you want to!
I wonder if OJ Simpson has that suit
@@robtru84 as you fucking republicans said to me after goatfuck 2000 (gore/bush): “get over it”!
Wow, a white guy celebrating.
A Gaytheist well it wasn't 1960
Nathan Medina but still , it surprised me a lot
Stu- not all so called white people are racist.
A Gaytheist A lot of wife beaters were cheering for him.
@@gutenbird this is true
I want to see these people today and see how they feel now.
Pretty good I imagine.
Sure they feel good did not let cops frame OJ Simpson and yes jurors very proud of verdict let it go
@Lump except hes not.
Are you implying they're capable of self-reflection?
Back when I was a teenager watching this on TV, I was happy with the verdict. Today I'm still happy.
love seeing the people's reaction
Black people are hilarious.
But he rushed for over 2000 yards in one season! There's no way he did it.
MurderMike41370 😂 but nobody could escape a murder scene as fast as him.
Fuck his yards!!
In only 14 games too. Inconceivable
Agreed 100 percent with those sentiments.
Innocent
does sharpton just show up anywhere theres controversy and a camera?
Even the white house talked about it crazy
yes that's interesting...
Maddness in individuals is something rare, but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzche
This was a black vs white
Everybody knows that oj dit it
All of this countries past racism, injustice, and corruption came back and bit them in the ass that day.
1 Alsaidi I don’t know shit! I wasn’t there and you was not there either !
Christy Jackson
I bet you are black!!!
@@1alsaidi319 I bet you are a white man who says black people pull the race card all day
GK Jay 07
I am neither black or white
Check out 3:00. That Black man wanted to shout "Yes Jesus!" "Hallelujah." But he know that he might want to suppress his emotions around all those White folks.
renegade runner yep
@TerrorTown7575 Fuck yourself instead.
EXACTLY! You could see the other Black people in te restaarant making quick smiles, but making sure not to show too much emotion in the predominately White space.
The brother wanted to scream so hard 😭😭
Yep!
thanks i needed stuff like this for my project :)
Y'all complaining about this trial, but what about Emmit Tills body?
Both things are wrong, period.
Fun gun and it’s obvious that you’re white 🤦🏿♂️ An all white jury acquitted Emmitt Till’s killer with overwhelming evidence against him They even wrote a book about it after Double Jeopardy just like OJ but this is why the black community have such a disdain for the white community because y’all all are not racist but when you see injustice you don’t speak up you get quiet and try to act like Racism doesn’t exist which is a bold lie Racism shapes our society
Thomas Manase 2 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES
Chloe Kit what’s different we knew the killers did it... a jury of the murderers peers found them not guilty.... and they wrote a book admitting to it🤷🏾♂️
Raheim Jones czcams.com/video/UDAvLsi2TWs/video.html what about this?
That man has spent many years looking for the real killer. He's checked every golf course in Florida.
This will be 30 years later in 2024-2025 and people will be talking about this or maybe not. I don't know... and everyone was just glad the trail is over 11 months that is a long time for a court case.
1:55 when she turns and the black girl is pissed
yeah, just realized that there were many blacks (as high as 30%) who actually disliked the verdict
You gotta be a REAL DIRTBAG to CHEER at this not guilty verdict of someone who CLEARLY WITH SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE DIDDDD IT!!!!!
Nope. this just revenge for all the white cops who get off easy after killing innocent unarmed black men. Retribution tastes sweet.
@@yore5 Glorifying the injustice of one individual out of petty for the injustice of another. Very idiotic perception. Both were wrong.
he didn't do it the system is never wrong!! he beat it so he's innocent 😂😂
@@MoMo-vt2ij you’re an idiot he lost the civil trial when they were able to prove the shoes he wore were the footprints on the scene of the crime he absolutely positively did it
@@MoMo-vt2ij the system is never wrong? That is #1 most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard anyone say
why is everyone so suprised. it's America. haha.
Guilty as sin.
Bias of fandom and stardom is undefeatable.
He was found innocent
@@robtru84 the justice system isn’t perfect
@@rekuntaoj was innocent
@@adamsamuel8593 no, he wasn’t.
Lol, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have never met a camera they didn't like.
Like Donald Trump.
@@renegaderunner332you have TDS
And the rest is History...
It was Glen rogers
They knew how it feels to get f*cked by the system
0:55 the emperors of black people
That’s how it goes. He didn’t do nun ... boy was clean 🧼
The Same reactions were just like The reactions of Donald Trumps Presidential Victory
Lori Massacci how would u know that u assuming because there black
Except that Trump has done more for black people, prison reform and unemployment levels than any President in history, and OJ murdered white people.
@@nerthus4685 except he hasn't
@Himanshu Gupta Nope
Why not? Whitey has to win sometimes. If not the Democrats have no power. Racism is the best friend a Democrat has.
The Devil saith, "And the guilty shall be set free and live in prosperity and the innocent shall be punished with my relentless vengeance for the remainder of their lives."
The system worked for OJ! Thank you Mark Furman and the LAPD!
100
@Rick Stone who started it tho ? this country is built on it .
OJ still doesn’t like blacks, lol. Keep ass kissing. But he will never have anything to do with any of you. Almost all of his friends and business partners are white and so are all of his girlfriends. You’re just bitter because white people make you follow the law one way or another lol
Indeed. The corrupt LAPD and that racist Nazi Mark Fuhrman became the prosecutions greatest downfall. I'm glad OJ was found not guilty. I also wasn't a fan of Fred Goldman and that hideous racist mustache of his.
You thought wrong
Justice brothers🤣
It's like the chains just came off.
That's right root for a murderer.
Yeah, (even back then) if he was found guilty, there would've been riots in the streets.
3:01.........Will.i.am pops up wtf?
Lmaoooo looks just like him
Oh yeah we can oj is hero I was happy
Juice, Juice, Juice.
Karma got the best of OJ in the end he did his time in prison and now he is living in Florida living his life. Everyone knows that OJ Simpson killed Ron Goldman, & Nicole Brown Simpson, Nicole even said "OJ Simpson is going to kill me and get away with it!"
Why did they have to make a TV series The People vs OJ Simpson in 2017. I thought Oh God, not this again. His lawyers are in hell now. The victims are Ronald Goldman, Nicole Brown Simpson. and the story is beyond sad. Really sad. OJ's children lost their father and their mother. The person I feel sorry for is Ronald Goldman. Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Wheres the karma, what karma?
I’ll ever since he got out he doing pretty well for himself
@@vinnydurham8964 his life was destroyed I probably have more money than he does he was shunned by his white friends for the rest of his life and if you think OJ supported black people you are out of your mind OJ thought he was white
@@HypnoChode74 that's a lie OJ is not doing well at all I have more money than he does and the white community that he loved so much disowned him OJ did not want to be black and he did not hang around black folks so there you go deal with that and I'm black
Some years for double murder. Not a bad deal for him
A team of highly skilled liars were able to deceive a carefully chosen, predominantly black, jury into freeing the brutal murderer of two innocent people. When a celebrity murders two innocent people and leaves his blood at the crime scene, in his car, on his car, in his driveway, in his house, on his socks in his house, together with the blood of his victims, and then makes a getaway after failing a lie detector test miserably, and a jury finds that there was not enough evidence to convict him, then there is something very wrong with the US judicial system ! Johnny Cochran skilfully diverted the jury’s attention away from the facts by turning the focus away from the murders and on to a race issue. Police brutality in other unrelated cases influenced the jury, and Johnny Cochran gave the jury members the chance to “put a stop to this racism and brutality”, thus giving the jury members the chance to become US Superheroes : by freeing a brutal and vicious wife-beating double murderer ! 🤔 Members of the jury who would have delivered a “guilty!” verdict were persuaded during the deliberation to change their decision to “not guilty” by a dominant member who kicked-off the discussion by saying “I have never heard such a load of garbage in all my life”. However, the civil trial jurors saw this case differently by declaring him “liable / responsible” for the murders ! It is truly astonishing to me that some Americans even today still believe that Simpson is innocent ! The man is such a moron, that even after he committed a double murder, he decided to commit armed robbery with a team of helpers ! What depth of stupidity can any single person reach ?
If only Fox News was around when the OJ trial started.
people are hypocrites , duplicitous and opportunistic fake and phony fraud
I can't bring myself to watch this... I was a little kid when this happened, but I just came across a confession today of some idiot who knew - KNEW - that OJ Simpson heinously murdered his ex wife and her boyfriend and still cheered when he got away with it. Made me lose faith in humanity...
I know it's disgusting and evil.
clarify yourself,,,who is the idiot that knew
Sorry he was NOT GUILTY!!!!! As many as white folks killed us & our black men & women Rest In Peace Brianna Taylor 🙏✌️
There was absolutely evidence to support that OJ was guilty.
@@jrsmith1998so why did they find him innocent?😂
Based OJ Simpson
Was that stan lee
The jury has spoken
Dumbass, ur making us(black community) look bad. Everyone knows he did it. The only positive thing about this is now we all know how f-ed up the justice system is.
They were as dumb as you are!
..and they said "ooga booga, kill whitey".
R.I.P to OJ. Folks are still salty to this day.
OJ son Jason Simpson did it he had a history of violence he actually stabbed his girlfriend a weeks prior to the murders his hat was found at the crime scene Nicole was supposed to dine at his restaurant that night and never did and I think that that led to him going to her house and one thing led to another they had an altercation and thus he murdered them I think OJ was there after the fact that's how there was a little bit of blood that got in his Bronco and on his socks and I think that OJ covered for him did you all know that OJ hired a lawyer for Jason Simpson a few days after the murder if that doesn't tell you that Jason is guilty I don't know what will OJ was going to take the fall for his son 100% that's why he broke out crying at the trial when OJ was found innocent Jason is guilty
How many now think he was guilty😂😂😂 hypocrites
This is like when trump or when Obama won presidency
lol
Los Angeles County can't afford another 1billion riot lmo total fail system
Wtf is dna
I Like when Al was Bigger with that Perm
The blacks who thought “he did it” lol
AL SHARPTON IS SO HAPPY OJ GOT AWAY WITH IT BUT PISSED WHEN ZIMMERMAN GOT OFF THE HOOK....CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THAT?
JOE CIOCCO I know you're stupid but are you that stupid?
I'll explain the oj trial was a miscarriage of justice but disproportionately blacks have had more miscarriages of justice. Rather you like it or not or rather black people like it or not the jury's verdict is final. You can never be charged criminally for the same crime. Lady justice is indeed not blind though it should be. Race money sex many things caused this verdict. I think black people wanted whites to know what it feels like to have your own huge misscarrage of justice. So you'd know how we felt. Now let me ask you if Zimmerman was black and he shot a White kid with tea and Skittles coming home in a hoodie while its raining got shot. You know you'd be angry especially if you have sons. We gotta start being honest with each other and say look we just want America to live up to what is written down on the constitution. We love America and the constitution but let her live up to her words on paper.
The OJ verdict (once in a lifetime) was meant to show how awful the legal system is when things like the Zimmerman verdict (several times a year) are the accepted norm.
If a white jury couldn't convict white cops EVEN with videotape, how on earth could you ever expect a black jury to convict a black superstar with something as abstract as DNA? While I do understand how DNA works, I dont understand how beating and kicking a man are not forms of assault. I also dont understand how shooting a child in the back of the head equates to probation (Latasha Harlins).
You are looking at the mirror and projecting the entirety of America. Try a little harder to understand the people being systematically oppressed. I wasnt completely shocked when I saw the Rodney King riots or the OJ verdict, but I was a suburban kid who had been listening to NWA records since the mid-late '80s. I kind of had an idea about the civil unrest that had been brewing. Perhaps that is why their music inspired congressional hearings.
I honestly think that OJ did do it, but I sincerely feel that his acquittal was justified as a means of civil disobedience.
If all of this was over your head, just put it this way...the Zimmerman case was a win for the globetrotters...the OJ case was that one time the generals got the "W."
Chris Diaz
All ik can say is halleluja!
@@dr.christopherdiaz4473 good argument but the verdict was the correct verdict regardless,,,,, there was reasonable doubt...if there was no media coverage painting O.J as the killer from day one then following the trial will lead you to a not guilty verdict.......professors of law have examined this case and rendered a not guilty verdict too...
THE JURY GOT IT RIGHT
His dna was all over the scene...
His son Jason did it Jason had a history of being very very raged and he stabbed his girlfriend a few weeks prior Nicole was supposed to eat his restaurant and never did I think he went there and had an altercation with her his hat was found at the scene with his dogs here all over it and OJ hired a lawyer for him a few days after murder if that doesn't tell you Jason did it I don't know what will
So tribal so embarrassing
WE LOVE YOU OJ !!!!!!!!!!!!
his blood is at the crime scene? what other evidence can they offer?
It was planted there by mark fuhrman
The more and more I watch of this case in detail, I think Furhman should have been under a lot more pressure!
Furman fucked it up. He would of been convicted with all the other evidence without the planting blood
@Salty Granny according to someone named salty granny 😆
Racist.
I am glad that the jury found him not guilty because they jump to conclusion that it always the husband or ex partner bs.
Are you re tarded
This was like the SUPER BOWL for black people
No. I'm not a bloodthirsty clown who would ever want to see a guilty man go free.
OJ wins ! Next stop could have been the white house.
Yeah preach it bother
I can imagine many who cheered this also being among those whining about Emmett Till.
F U
they got justice
@@dragonflarefrog1424 None of the emotion-driven "activists" seem to question the fact that their claims of "racism" as the motivating factor do not explain why those who kHilled Emmett Till weren't just constantly kHilling members of that race who were absolutely present. The fact that he was the son of someone forced to either serve in the military or go to prison, who was eventually eHxecuted for the rHape and murder of women in Europe is not even considered, because "Yt people" are "magically" the only ones who "inherit" the "eviHl of their ancestors" and can rightfully be marginalized, ostracized, have their careers and lives destroyed, be bruHtally beaten and even kHilled "for slavHery".
Remember Emmett Till.
"Whining about Emmett Till." There was an eyeball witness who identified the men who abducted Emmett. The jury freed these two men who later admitted killing him in a Life magazine interview.
He is OJ Simpson, there is no way he did it, he is so handsome, handsome people don’t go to jail.
Just because someone is “handsome” doesn’t mean they can’t do crimes
@@fatoumataceesay3 that’s exactly my point
Knock knock: who's there? Kato its me O J. I need you to ride with me to McDonalds
I need an alibi I'm about to do a Jack the ripper on my ex old lady.
Stephen Yount Hardy har har
A horrible day for America and a harbinger of what was to come
It’s just not fair 🤣 Yeah say that to the millions of black man wrongfully convicted
So two wrongs make a right?
if people have a free hour, check out this doc. on yt:
BBC - OJ Simpson the Untold Story
it has a runtime of 1:09:51
It’s fascinating seeing these scenes... The reactions from different types of people and for different reasons.
Some reacted favorably based on the evidence presented., or disapprove based on how the defense twisted this double murder trial and made it all about racial injustice.
Others had favorable or unfavorable reactions solely based on race. Whites wanted Him guilty because in their minds He was a N!@@er who murdered two White people., and for Blacks they were rejoicing for what they perceived as Justice for a Black man being unfairly targeted in a White society.
Why does Jesse Jackson talk like he have a concussion?? wtf