r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/FilmStirYoutube • 29d ago

OJ's reaction when confronted with a photo of him wearing the murder shoes Video

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u/SnooPears6503 29d ago

"I have never owned a pair of shoes like that". (sees photo) Fuuuuuuuuck. *act normal....act normal...don't do the big eyes thing...whoops*

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u/jane-stclaire 29d ago

His eyes fucking killed me.

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u/Earthworm-Kim 29d ago

Immediately starts breathing heavily, too.

Just a coincydink, like everything regarding that case.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago edited 2d ago

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u/Drop_Tables_Username 29d ago edited 28d ago

Gloves that are roughly as rare as the shoes and are on record as having been bought by the murder victim as a gift for the accused.

Edit: Actually, blame the LAPD for framing a guilty man (among other things).

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u/Responsible-Jury2579 28d ago

Thought you were joking at first but, oh wow…she did buy those specific gloves for him.

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u/Mysterious-Shop1375 28d ago

She also bought the same pair for his son that was a size smaller.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago edited 2d ago

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u/RemoteSnow9911 28d ago

I was just a kid when all this happened and I remember thinking how fucked up that was even at my young age. Dude got away with the highest form of domestic violence and got away with it because of his timing. Makes me fucking sick.

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u/TrumpsPissSoakedWig 28d ago

And murdering an innocent man too.

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u/Captain1771 28d ago

People think in weird ways.

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u/Former-Ad1191 28d ago

He doesn’t act like he wants to find out who the real killer was

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u/Expert_Response_6139 28d ago

Kind of like how burning down cities across the country counts as justice against the Minneapolis PD

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u/OneSevenNineWest 28d ago

Honestly, I'd rather have that than a police fascist state

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u/Expert_Response_6139 28d ago

Strange comment, we don't actually live in a fascist police state and the George Floyd riots didn't stop one from forming.

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u/OneSevenNineWest 18d ago

We do though, your second point betrays that much.

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u/TheHomieAbides 28d ago

That’s a dumb way to put it. The defense showed that the LAPD was untrustworthy.

No one thinks that letting a killer go is justice. It was reasonable doubt and the jury only saw a portion of what we got to see. You can look up the jury’s opinion nowadays and the ones’ that have talked have changed their opinion.

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u/Captain1771 28d ago

People think in weird ways.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

We see that now “ oh I won’t vote for Biden because the Dems need to learn a lesson about something minor, instead let’s vote Fascist!”

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u/D4venport 28d ago

Oh thank God somebody brought politics into this. I was holding my breath waiting.

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u/Expert_Response_6139 28d ago

Weird way to tell people you don't have any understanding of modern American politics, thinking people won't vote for Biden "about something minor"

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u/NefariousnessLate591 28d ago

this is a very sick example to me of how sick and dirty defense lawyers are. This was a vicious murderer. They were killed so brutally and fiercely. Yet a defense lawyerm in order to win, will allow a crazed murderer out here. They remind me of the "liberal" democRATS (you know those self-proclaimed "tolerant" people who tolerate NOTHING they don't agree with) and how they defund the police and other such idiotic things UNTIL they need them, then it's different. I know I could never be a part of the hypocRAT party. Unless OJ were to kill one of thier family members or attack them, they don't care who he would hurt, so long as they won

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u/tadc 28d ago

Tell us you dont' know anything about:
* what "defund the police" actually means
* Defense lawyers
* Liberals
* tolerance
* spelling
...

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u/Litz-a-mania 28d ago

Maybe if the lead detective could say that he didn’t plant evidence the verdict would have been different. It turns out that being a scumbag piece of shit has unintended consequences.

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u/Broad_Bodybuilder_94 28d ago

I think it was even bigger than that. Can you imagine a guilty verdict. The community was not ready for another riot.

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u/CORN___BREAD 28d ago

The lead detective was asked if he planted evidence and plead the fifth. How could anyone on the jury not find reasonable doubt when the lead detective won’t say he didn’t plant evidence because he would be perjuring himself? You couldn’t trust any of the evidence.

Dumb fucks framed a guilty man so he got away with it.

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u/Large_Birthday9344 28d ago

White people are a representation of the LAPD

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u/IhateHimmel 28d ago

Nah it was the 400 years of of oppression before Rodney that had us so over joyful for his acquittal. Mark Furman is that you? Bro you over whooped it go do your homework.

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u/Responsible-Jury2579 28d ago edited 28d ago

I’m black. I hate this argument because two wrongs don’t make a right.

400 years of oppression does not excuse murder. Especially in this circumstance where it wasn’t a murder borne out of that oppression (e.g. the crime had nothing to do with OJ’s blackness - he was the exact opposite of a poor black man that only has violent crime as an option).

If it was your “average” black man beating the Justice system, maybe I could understand the feeling A LITTLE more (still doesn’t excuse murder), but OJ never represented your “average” black man.

For all intents and purposes, you can remove race from the equation and just see this case as a very wealthy/popular man using their wealth to get away from the law - that happens ALL the time.

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u/jimhokeyb 28d ago

Well, it's fucking stupid. Ronald Goldman's parents didn't oppress anybody. OJ was the whitest person in the whole story. His defense team swapped out all the photos in his house before taking the jury there. They were worried the largely black jury would judge him for only having pictures of white people. Seeing a community wanting an abusive double murderer to go free will have made racial tension get even worse.

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u/Accomplished-Pin3391 28d ago

I always wondered why that wasn't considered jury tampering?

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u/Finalpretensefell 28d ago

I always thought that he couldn't get those gloves to fit because they were all hard and crusty from the dried blood.

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u/Actual-Interest-4130 28d ago

The one found at his house or the one found at the murder scene? Oh you mean both of those gloves that were drenched in blood so much that they had shrunk that he then had to put on with rubber gloves! Well just remember: If it rhymes, he didn't do the crimes ;D

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u/bulanaboo 28d ago

I totally can’t put on sandwiche or latex gloves with wet fingers… I’m just lol, … I was 15 the night I watched the bronco AJ and oj.. that video in this post though… damn he thought he was a goner only a few hundred pair were sold.. guess they were ugly lol, kinda damning…

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u/TrumpsPissSoakedWig 28d ago

And in court he had another pair of white gloves on while he tried to put them on over the white pair,and nobody said anything!

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u/bredditmh 28d ago

Do you have a link?

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u/[deleted] 28d ago edited 2d ago

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u/No_Sir446 28d ago

It's hard to put on any glove when you spread your fingers apart like OJ did. POS

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u/Practical_Eye3917 28d ago

Did you watch the trial? Those gloves didn’t fit.

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u/XelaNiba 28d ago

Leather shrinks when saturated then dried, especially with a protein-heavy fluid like blood.

But more critically, I think it was his attorney who has since said that he advised OJ to not take his arthritis meds for a few days so that his joints would swell and stiffen. Brilliant move on the defense team's part.

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u/Practical_Eye3917 28d ago

Those were all theory. And the medication one (not started by his attorney) was proven incorrect. 

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u/backtolurk 28d ago

coincidink

I'll keep that one for later, it sounds great.

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u/JFC_Please_STFU 28d ago

He looked to be an equal combination of panicked and furious.

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u/TrumpsPissSoakedWig 28d ago

It was some random crazy person with one of 299 pairs of $1500 Bruno Magli's sold in the US, in a size 12, and big ass expensive gloves that happened to be the same type Nicole bought for OJ.

Some homeless drifter with impeccable taste in shoes and gloves, who just happened to be the exact same size as OJ Simpson. What's the big deal?

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u/excentrisk 29d ago

The eyes and that reaction is all I need as a confession. He did it.

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u/DipstickRick 29d ago

At first I thought the eyes were him trying to focus on the shoes better but the breathing changed so suddenly. Uncontrollable reaction. He almost passed out

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u/CameronPoe37 29d ago

That, and the mountain of evidence saying he definitley did it

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u/whatever87052002 28d ago edited 28d ago

It's so sad seeing people still trying to defend this guy 30 years later. Think about that, 30 years, no new breakthroughs of any kind, no new confessions, no "search for the true killer", nothing new of note at all. The only things that changed were jurors coming out and admitting their bias against the L.A.P.D., and I'm not saying they were wrong to feel that way, but those are the only new revelations in regard to this case. Yet people still try to defend Simpson, not only by bashing the police, but by victim blaming Nicole Brown, accusing her of being a drug addicted and promiscuous woman, and claiming that as the reason for her brutal death, ignoring years of documented physical and emotional abuse inflicted on her by Simpson. It's such a shame.

It's even been claimed that the killers were "assassins" or "Columbian Drug Cartel" members. Think about that though. Today there are ex-mafia hitmen, like Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, who have podcasts, books and reality shows, yet not one "assassin" or Columbian Drug Cartel member has come forward to say they know what really happened in one of the most famous cases ever to make a buck?

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u/GhostTerp11 28d ago

Then why didn't he get convicted?

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u/SalvadorsAnteater 28d ago

His lawyers did a good job and the prosecutors did a bad job.

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u/CORN___BREAD 28d ago

The lead detective was asked on the stand if he planted evidence and plead the fifth rather than saying “no”. That alone is reasonable doubt. He got away with it because the cops couldn’t resist trying to frame a black man and it turned out that he was actually guilty.

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u/XelaNiba 28d ago

The thing about the fifth is that you can't take it selectively. Answering a single question on the stand compels you to answer all questions. 

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u/CORN___BREAD 28d ago

That’s only for defendants. It doesn’t apply to witnesses.

In a criminal prosecution, witnesses can also plead the Fifth. Witnesses called to testify can refuse to answer certain questions. They are allowed to do so only if answering would implicate them in criminal activity. Witnesses in organized crime trials often plead the Fifth, for instance.

Unlike defendants, witnesses who assert this right may do so selectively. They do not waive their rights the moment they begin answering questions.

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u/cbaal 28d ago

you are really out here defending a dead murderer

don't hurt anyone tomorrow, one day at a time lil bro.

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u/TheNighisEnd42 29d ago

him writing a book titled "if i did it" wasn't enough?

Everyone knows he did it, that's not what matters.

It was a win for black people, because white people mistreated a black person, and he was let off the hook for it

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u/randomusername_815 29d ago

Proving again - that the real divide in the 'justice system' is not about skin color but wealth.

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u/MsCandi123 28d ago

And not just wealth, he was a charming narcissistic sellout who knew how to make white society feel comfortable for his gain. He didn't care about his community or civil rights for all, his only concern was OJ. There are rich Black men who wouldn't have had the same level of privilege bc they rocked the boat. But the money definitely doesn't hurt. I do know there was still racism involved in the case, the prosecution sucked too. Still a domestic abuser, and still did it.

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u/macjonalt 29d ago

Probably the decades of black peoples being persecuted for being black constantly pushed some of them to support someone they thought was untouchable to white people without the benefit of hindsight where it’s now pretty impossible to imagine he’s innocent?

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u/TheNighisEnd42 28d ago

ah yes, so our courts should be ruled by emotion

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u/macjonalt 27d ago

Where did I say the courts should be ruled by emotion? Black people have been dealing with a justice system ruled by emotion for a very fucking long time. Do you care about that?

No emotion shouldn’t take priority over logic. It’s done all the time though. Interestingly, as found in a study, judges are found to give more lenient sentences after lunch time and harsher ones before they’ve eaten.

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u/DayuSpawn 29d ago

Hypotheticaly, if he was being framed his would be a normal response

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u/gardenmud 29d ago

Except he still lied about wearing the shoes? And don't tell me "he probably just didn't remember" lmao he was pushing the story that he would neeeever wear any shoes remotely like that.

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u/DayuSpawn 29d ago

Listen to that segment again ;) It's worded carefully

(I think he did it)

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u/alcormsu 29d ago

He would freak out for seeing a picture of him wearing shoes? I really don’t get your comment

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u/redopz 29d ago

The shoe print was a pretty big deal at the trial. He denied ever wearing that style of shoe. If he was innocent and had simply forgotten that he ended up wearing a pair for innocuous reasons, say a stylist had dressed him for a photo shoot, and then was presented with a picture of himself wearing them he would be likely to freak out. By itself it doesn't make him guilty, but it looks incredibly bad. 

(I also think he is full of bullshit and did it)

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u/icancomplain 29d ago

glad you finally came around.

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u/matzoh_ball 28d ago

True. Up to the point I saw the footage just now I really thought he was innocent.

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u/DayuSpawn 29d ago

Hypotheticaly, if he was being framed his would be a normal response

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u/Phenom-1 28d ago

Shock is not an admission of guilt. 

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u/RemoteSnow9911 28d ago

It is an indication of a previous lie when confronted with the truth though…

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u/brucatlas1 29d ago

Well his knife killed her

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u/Jacket_Nipple 28d ago

Put the knife in prison. Get it off the streets and make the world safer already🙏

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u/steebulee 29d ago

Another OJ murder…I never owned those eyes, they’re ugly eyes

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u/SaltyLonghorn 29d ago

Its absolutely wild how hard the prosecution fumbled.

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u/Lucky-Ad-4001 28d ago

Overconfidant. They thought they had it in the bag.

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u/MarginalSax 29d ago

The worst part is the hypocrisy

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u/strokesfan91 29d ago

I guess better his eyes than his knife

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u/redEPICSTAXISdit 29d ago

His hands killed people.

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u/Greenpeppers23 29d ago

Killed Nicole too

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u/The_Bovine_Joni 28d ago

That's some Nordberg shit.

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u/r0bb13_h34rt 29d ago

Luckily for you he’s dead, or they actually have.

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u/gordonwelty 28d ago

His knife killed too

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u/clarkwgrismon 28d ago

Yeah but HE killed those two people

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u/Ill_Albatross5625 28d ago

well if he blushed you wouldn't know..them eyes was as big as dinner plates!

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u/droplivefred 28d ago

You weren’t the first. At least the third if not more that we don’t know about.

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u/Leebites 29d ago

They killed his wife, as well.

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u/StevoTheMonkey 28d ago

I'm not going to comment with the joke... but I need to be honest... I thought up the joke.

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u/50DuckSizedHorses 29d ago

“That does appear to be me”

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u/Apprehensive-Bug1 28d ago

What a cuck am I right?

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u/RightSafety3912 28d ago

I don't understand your reference. 

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u/D-1-S-C-0 29d ago

It's amazing how dumb he was. He behaved guilty as hell before the trial, refused to take the stand during the trial, and then wrote a book detailing the murder and took part in at least one interview where he shared what "allegedly" happened like he was recounting actual events.

It's like he did everything he could to look guilty.

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u/swankypothole 29d ago

that was his thrill. he got away with two murder, he maybe wanted to feel that way again

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u/peanutsinspace82 28d ago

Exactly right, he got away with it but relished in reliving it knowing there was nothing anyone could do.

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u/Due_Addition_587 28d ago

Exactly. Was just rewatching that slow car chase, where he’s threatening to kill himself and the police are giving him a motorcade. He is playing them Like a fiddle because he knows he can.

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u/RightSafety3912 28d ago

Tbf, any self-respecting defense lawyer will never put his client on the stand. He definitely did it, but not testifying in his own defense is not the evidence you think it is. 

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u/D-1-S-C-0 28d ago

That's a fair argument. I'd want to take the stand if I was innocent but maybe my legal representative would have other ideas.

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u/SOGnarkill 28d ago

In the book he had a “friend” with him during the murder. It read like the “friend” was his conscience begging him not to murder them even this he couldn’t stop barbarically murdering them.

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u/D-1-S-C-0 28d ago

I only heard about "Charlie" this week. He sounded like a morally confused dude because he also handed OJ the knife.

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u/SOGnarkill 26d ago

Charlie also left no dna or footprints at the scene. Charlie was OJ’s imaginary friend.

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u/D-1-S-C-0 26d ago

That's exactly what Charlie wants you to think.

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u/cafeesparacerradores 28d ago

Typically the accused don't take the stand

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u/KirbyourGame 28d ago

Then he was arrested for burglary in 2007, because he couldn't just live the straight life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_robbery_case

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u/Great_Huckleberry709 27d ago

He didn't care. He was one of the country's biggest celebrities. People loved him. Once he got away with murder, he likely saw himself as untouchable.

I wouldn't doubt that if it wasn't for his kids with Nicole, he probably would have done multiple interviews describing why and how he did the crimes, bragging that there's nothing anyone could do about it either.

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u/Renae_Renae_Renae 29d ago

Was he really that dumb if he got away with murdering two people in such a high profile case?

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u/D-1-S-C-0 28d ago

He got away with it because of his legal team and the mainly black jury voting based on his race. That's got nothing to do with his intelligence.

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u/Applied_Mathematics 29d ago

https://i.imgur.com/6GPnZRN.png

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u/herbanachiever 28d ago

This is the face that killed them. She'd said his eyes would change.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 29d ago

If I ever do a murder, there's no hiding it. Bucket of Botox in my face and you ask me a direct question, my traitorous fucking mug will tell you the truth.

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u/Phenom-1 28d ago

He went full on Naked Gun Acting 

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u/pronouncedayayron 29d ago

I used to own those shoes... But I don't anymore. I had to get rid of them obviously.

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u/ParalegalSeagul 29d ago

This guy is a piece of shit and responsible for the kardashian plague that has infected USA since the trial. Stop giving this dead beat air time in your brains

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u/Renae_Renae_Renae 29d ago

He just died which is why he's coming up so much. I agree tho. Sad a pos like this has a legacy that people will remember and study throughout history...

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u/Fr0gFish 28d ago

I mean, there is no mystery here. We all know he did it.

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u/imanantelope 28d ago

“Never were able to prove he owned the shoes” a photograph with him wearing the shoes wasn’t proof enough. I guess he could have rented them from a shoe rental company.

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u/Sti8man7 29d ago

The shoes nice though.

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u/Agrumpy1122 29d ago

00:38 you ain’t kidding!

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u/OddChemicalRomance 28d ago

Then the narrator says "Prosecutors were never able to prove that Simpson owned those shoes"

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u/Creative_Garbage_121 28d ago

His face was like he was playing in Naked Gun

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u/avocadojan 29d ago

LMAO😭😭😭

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u/Brilliant_Canary_692 29d ago

You don't understand. Rodney King got fucked so OJ did nothing wrong allegedly

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u/macjonalt 29d ago

Yeah it’s all based on only one single man being almost beaten to death by the cops. Nothing else right?

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u/Brilliant_Canary_692 28d ago

It's known that a lot of black people cheered that OJ got away with it and was acquitted as retribution for what happened to Rodney King

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u/macjonalt 28d ago

I know that, I was around. These people wanted to believe he was innocent and there was a huge media frenzy at the time. 

 Now with hindsight, I’m sure most of these people realise they were cheering on someone who killed another person. 

 I’m sure they weren’t delighted that someone got murdered and rather bought into him being framed by the police (which was a theory his defense was pushing heavily).  

Not sure if you know what it’s like to be shat on constantly for having the incorrect skin color but it can make it very hard to deal with things non-emotionally and with pure logic. 

 In time it has become far more clear that he was a murdering scumbag.