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When I got there, they had
the scene very well secured.
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They had the entire block taped off.
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Front door wide open, little music playing
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in the background, candles are lit inside.
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Very violent confrontation. Rage.
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Two victims, blood everywhere.
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We find a glove... It's a left glove...
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and a blood trail indicating the
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suspect has been wounded on the left side.
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So we're just getting into this when we
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find out that this is apparently
OJ Simpson's estranged wife.
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We have two children asleep.
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I have a very brutal murder.
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Someone's gotta make a death
notification of next of kin.
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Which is Simpson.
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Lang and Vannatter were talking
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and they called me over and said,
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"You were at Simpson's house once, right?
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We want you to take us up there."
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We pull close to the gate.
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Vannatter was hitting the doorbell,
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they keep ringing the doorbell
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and so I just stroll down the street.
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By the other gate, there's a white Bronco.
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On the driver's side door handle, blood.
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I mean there was enough evidence outside,
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we gotta make sure
everybody's okay in here.
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Oh God, what are we going to
do, Simpson's in there dead.
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Well, yeah, we need to go in.
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So I jumped up over the
fence and I opened the gate.
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Bang on the front door, nothing.
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Walk around to the back,
there's a couple of bungalows.
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The first one was Kato Kaelin's.
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Kato Kaelin was a live-in...
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... friend.
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We say to the police,
"Check on Mr. Simpson."
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OJ's in Chicago.
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Well, he left last night.
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Oh, thank God.
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They all leave and I'm
left here with Kato Kaelin.
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I go "Tell me what you did last night."
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He goes, "Well I was talking on the phone
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and all a sudden there
was, like, an earthquake.
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It was just like...
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... on the wall and pictures shook."
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Okay.
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I walk back outside and I start walking
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down the back, behind the bungalows.
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And then as I pan down,
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I see this brown, glistening...
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At first I thought it was dog crap.
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And then I shined a
light on it. It's a glove.
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Just like the one... Ed Bundy...
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Uh, yeah, this is gonna get deep.
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This is gonna be a crime scene.
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I make the decision to make a telephonic
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to the Brown family
and I talk to Lou Brown
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and say that your daughter Nicole is dead.
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It's quiet for about two seconds then
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all this screaming. It's
Nicole's sister, Denise.
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"I knew that motherfucker,
he was gonna kill,
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I knew he was gonna do this."
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I mean, she didn't hesitate.
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Nobody comes unglued like that
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unless they have a strong suspicion.
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We gotta look at it a
little differently now.
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We lock everything
down, no more searching,
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can't do anything until we get a warrant.
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Phil Vannatter called me and said,
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"I've got some information; I
need to get a search warrant.
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I need you to tell me if
you think it sounds okay."
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And he just summarized the
evidence and it was huge.
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Okay, yeah, go ahead, get the
search warrant, you're fine.
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And he said, "You know who it is?
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It's OJ Simpson."
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OJ Simpson?
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Um...
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I was never into sports,
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so I didn't even know what game he played.
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I thought he was a has-been.
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Monday afternoon came around,
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Simpson came back from
Chicago and they handcuff him.
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It was quite surprising.
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Your ex-husband's always
a suspect in a case.
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Okay, wow. Here we go.
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He said he's gonna talk to
us, which is really strange.
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You have one opportunity forever
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to talk to this guy, forever.
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He's thinking he can
control a couple of cops.
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Especially these guys 'cause,
you know, they're pretty nice.
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What Vannatter and Lang failed to do was
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simply to pin him down on what
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he did on the day of the murder.
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OJ just rambled and created an interview
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transcript that was
useless to the prosecution.
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What do you mean, you were running
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around doing what you do?
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What do you mean?
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What do you mean you
cut yourself in Chicago
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but the blood got on the
Bronco before you left.
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What do you mean?
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There's a million things
that they just let go.
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Yeah, uh huh, yeah, uh huh.
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Oh my God.
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What I wanted was his blood, photographs
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taken of the bleeding finger, I wanted his
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fingerprints now that
we've got his cooperation.
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We get the blood, we get all these things
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we want which are going to be evidence.
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And then, ya know, he's released.
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What?
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Why would you do that?
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If he was any other guy,
would you have let him go?
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And they said, "Where can he go?
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After all, what can he do?"
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I mean, everybody recognizes him.
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When I went over to Rockingham,
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he had like three TV's
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and each and every one of them,
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he had a different channel on.
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Suspect, what are you talking about?
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Is he crazy?
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And I said, "OJ, what
happened to your finger?"
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And he says, "I cut it
on a glass in Chicago."
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And I went oh, okay.
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Somebody else sat down and
asked him the same question
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and he said, "I was chipping golf balls."
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And I went, uh-hmm,
later on that evening,
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same question came out,
"Oh man, I was getting
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the cell phone out of
the Bronco, cut myself."
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I was like, wow.
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I tried to leave there and
OJ goes, "Shipp, hold on."
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and he says, "They asked me to take
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a lie detector test.
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I told them no."
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I said, "What do you
mean, you told them no?"
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And he says, you know, jokingly, he says
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"Well, you know to be truthful, Shipp,
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I have had dreams of killing her."
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I wanted to leave.
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I said, "I'm outta here."
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Here, at OJ Simpson's home,
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in the fashionable suburb of Brentwood,
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the world media has
settled in to the siege.
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Against the public backdrop,
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police are quietly,
methodically reconstructing
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the events of last Sunday
evening to answer the question:
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Could this American sports
hero, possibly, be a murderer?
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At the time that this murder took place,
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OJ was at home, awaiting a limousine
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to take him to the airport
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for a promotional event in Chicago.
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OJ Simpson has described
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him as his quarterback.
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He is defense attorney Robert Shapiro.
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I agree with that assessment.
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He was known as the fixer.
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He was a Hollywood lawyer.
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He was not know as a
"trial dogg" with two G's.
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You hired Bob Shapiro to cut a deal.
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Bob had never tried a murder case.
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And so when he called me in June
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and said, "I need some
help in the OJ case."
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I was more than ready.
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Well, I worked for Bob Shapiro
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on some of his other cases
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and I was pretty successful.
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So they recruited me as
the defense investigator.
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OJ was putting together his team.
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They sent a guy over to me.
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"Hey man, we're putting
together this thing."
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"We're going to need you, OJ needs you."
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And I said, "I'm not on board."
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And I'll never forget that
investigator's look on his face.
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He said, "What?"
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I said, "OJ killed her, I'm not on board."
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I gotta say, I have a lot of fun with her.
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At times, I felt like a
big brother to her 'cause
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I'd come over there and
she'd share things with me.
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And I kinda felt special that she thought
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enough of me to tell me her problems.
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She's a great human being.
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Thank you.
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I remember early in...
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in the years that her and OJ was dating,
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we were all down in the Caribbean.
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OJ was working on a film,
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and if a lot of don't know,
I'm gonna let you know now,
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blacks can not swim, we can't float.
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Justin can.
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Well, thank God, well
he got that from his mom.
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So, we're out in the saltwater, right?
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And Nicole is out there
looking like, you know,
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she was made to swim,
she's backstroking and
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she's doing all these things.
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So, here's OJ and I, we're standing
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on the shore and she's waving us in.
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Now, this is saltwater, in the Caribbean.
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Everything down there floats.
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OJ and I got out there
and we tried to float,
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and she thought that's the funniest thing
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she'd ever seen in her life.
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She could not believe it.
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And one of the things about Nicole,
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which all of you will
agree, was Nicole's laugh.
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Once that woman laughed,
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she was, uh...
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She brought out a lot of goodness in you.
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Nicole was very, very special to me.
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That was my buddy.
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And, um...
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And I know, Sydney and Justin,
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you've been blessed because of a lot
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of her character and
the goodness about her.
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You're not going to notice it now,
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but you're going to
notice it as you get older
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cause she's laid a great
foundation for you two.
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I love you, Nicole, and
I love you too, Jason.
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I mean Justin and Sydney
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and I'll always will be there for you.
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OJ Simpson may soon face legal action.
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The Associated Press
says a homicide detective
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has told them Simpson's
arrest is imminent.
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It is not only OJ Simpson's life
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that is coming under the media microscope.
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Reporters are looking,
too, at Ronald Goldman,
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the aspiring model, who was
killed with Nicole Simpson.
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His family said he was
nothing more than a friend.
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He was a special human being
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that didn't deserve what's happened.
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He was gonna open a restaurant.
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After Ron was murdered,
we went to his apartment.
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He had a floor plan, he had a menu,
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he had names of people whose art
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he was gonna hang on the wall.
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He had everything worked out.
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Obviously, this is your older brother.
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We don't get to spend
very much time together,
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so I'm very glad that
I was able to be here.
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So I love you very much
and I'll see you soon.
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That was all taken away.
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My sister's body was gonna
be behind closed doors.
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I said to my friend,
"I can't go in there."
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And as I'm having this conversation
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with them I'm hearing screams.
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Looking at her I can remember a black
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dress up to her neck because
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what I had heard is that her head was
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almost cut off all the way.
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Which even shocked me more and more.
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I mean that was just like...
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and seeing her there,
lying there in a coffin.
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I mean, it really, I mean,
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I don't know, it's just terrible.
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He came to the wake.
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It was just unbelievable.
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We were all kind of in
shock that he came there.
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Judy asked him directly,
did you kill my daughter?
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No, no. I loved her too much.
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He was, like, on Xanax or something.
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He was just sedated.
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I leaned over to him and said,
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"We're going to get through this."
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I had no idea what was going on.
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Action News has learned that Simpson's
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attorney is working on a deal with police
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for Simpson's surrender to avoid what the
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lawyer calls, and we
quote, "a media circus."
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Shapiro was going to surrender
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him to the detectives in the morning.
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We're standing outside Parker Center
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waiting for OJ to turn himself in.
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Every time a car would
pass by, is that OJ?
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I think it was 11:00.
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Oh, no, he doesn't show up.
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I think I'd already
scheduled a press conference.
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And it's like, oh, no.
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We potentially could look
like a bunch of clowns here.
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I did not know about the
arrangements for his surrender.
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I went with the assumption that they
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would announce that he had been arrested.
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Gascon's coming up.
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Looking out at the auditorium,
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not only are all the seats taken,
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but all the aisles are jammed,
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the front is jammed,
the back wall is jammed.
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He's on the stage.
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And I was the one who was gonna
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have to stand out there naked.
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This morning detectives
for the Los Angeles
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Police Department sought
and obtained a warrant
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for the arrest of OJ Simpson, charging him
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with the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson
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and Ronald Lyle Goldman.
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Mr. Simpson, in agreement
with his attorney,
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was scheduled to surrender this morning,
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to the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Initially, that was 11:00.
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It then became 11:45.
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Mr. Simpson has not appeared.
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The Los Angeles Police
Department, right now,
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is actively searching for Mr. Simpson.
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The gasp that went through the room,
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I think it's right at that moment,
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that I realized, oh boy, this is big.
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We will continue our
pursuit of Mr. Simpson
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and hope to have him in custody soon.
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He's gone.
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I looked at Marika and said,
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"It's a helicopter story now.
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Let's find this son of a bitch."
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I can take a few questions.
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I'd known Gascon for a long time
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and he's a fairly easygoing guy normally.
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You're gonna have to hold it down.
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One at a time or won't
be able to hear you.
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Then a sense of humor
to add a light touch.
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You asked a question, would
you like for me to answer?
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He got pretty tightly wound that day.
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I doubt that there's
anyone around this country
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that's been monitoring television, radio,
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or newspapers, that
doesn't know at this point
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that something's going on in this case.
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If you, in any way, are
assisting Mr. Simpson
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in avoiding justice, Mr.
Simpson is a fugitive of
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justice right now.
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And If you assist him in any way,
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you are committing a felony.
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I was pissed off that we were in essence
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given the old Italian gesture.
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I don't recall being that
upset before in the DA's office.
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I'm angry, I'm not embarrassed.
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Angry at who, beyond...
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I'm angry at OJ Simpson.
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It is not an escape,
he was not under arrest.
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He was under sedation in a
very very emotional state.
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He was at a residence that is secluded,
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that is very, very hard to find,
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and there was never any thought of him
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leaving that residence without us.
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00:24:52,747 --> 00:24:56,615
This letter was written by OJ today.
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First, everyone understand,
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I had nothing to do with Nicole's murder.
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I loved her, always have, and always will.
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If we had a problem, it's
because I loved her so much.
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It's 1700, 5 pm, when you have
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Karsashian reading the letter.
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00:25:25,613 --> 00:25:31,617
I thought, wow, maybe he killed himself.
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I think of my life and feel I've done most
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of the right things, so
why do I end up like this?
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I can't go on.
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00:25:45,599 --> 00:25:48,801
No matter what the outcome,
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people will look and point.
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00:25:51,972 --> 00:25:53,639
I can't take that.
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I can't subject my children to that.
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00:25:58,145 --> 00:26:01,013
We deal with folks who are in crisis
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and get to a very dark
place and they just do it.
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Don't feel sorry for me.
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00:26:10,357 --> 00:26:12,457
I've had a great life.
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00:26:12,459 --> 00:26:14,626
Great friends.
361
00:26:14,628 --> 00:26:19,765
Please think of the real
OJ and not this lost person.
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00:26:24,138 --> 00:26:30,342
The note says, to me,
feel sorry for me but...
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00:26:30,344 --> 00:26:32,911
I'm the guy, you know, I'm the bad guy.
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00:26:35,983 --> 00:26:38,050
He was, Mr. Cawlings was with him,
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00:26:38,052 --> 00:26:41,820
he was his best friend, he was by his side
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00:26:41,822 --> 00:26:44,890
for the last few minutes
alone while we were upstairs.
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00:26:47,127 --> 00:26:49,928
AC just had a love for OJ.
368
00:26:51,699 --> 00:26:55,000
I remember once, in high school,
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a friend of mine had a starter
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pistol that he brought to school.
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00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,639
So we said okay, let's go,
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take the gun and pull it on OJ
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and act like we're gonna shoot him.
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00:27:07,514 --> 00:27:10,315
We were all down for it.
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00:27:10,317 --> 00:27:15,721
So, we went out on the
field where OJ and Al were
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00:27:15,723 --> 00:27:18,857
and my friend, Ray, well,
he pulled the gun out
377
00:27:18,859 --> 00:27:21,860
and everybody sorta stepped back.
378
00:27:21,862 --> 00:27:26,899
And Al Cowlings stepped in front of OJ.
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00:27:27,835 --> 00:27:32,938
And said, "Ray, if you gonna shoot OJ,
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00:27:32,940 --> 00:27:35,073
you gotta shoot me first."
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1993 Ford Bronco.
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We're listening to the Los
Angeles Police Department
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00:27:51,759 --> 00:27:53,759
and they believe that this vehicle
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is somewhere in the
vicinity of the El Toro Y.
385
00:27:58,732 --> 00:28:00,933
And I look down below
and there's the El Toro Y.
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00:28:02,636 --> 00:28:05,037
And there's a white Bronco.
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00:28:05,973 --> 00:28:07,873
Then there's a sheriff's unit and
388
00:28:07,875 --> 00:28:10,742
there's another sheriff's unit
and another sheriff's unit.
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00:28:10,744 --> 00:28:13,045
Okay, here we are, open the door.
390
00:28:13,047 --> 00:28:17,749
We get the door open and
we get our very first shot.
391
00:28:17,751 --> 00:28:19,818
And I'm back on the two way radio
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00:28:19,820 --> 00:28:23,455
telling CBS, you gotta get
us on the air, we found him.
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00:28:25,125 --> 00:28:27,726
And with a flip of the switch,
we were on with Dan Rather.
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00:28:27,728 --> 00:28:29,227
This is Dan Rather with Connie Chung
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00:28:29,229 --> 00:28:30,762
in Los Angeles and let's
hold on a second here.
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00:28:30,764 --> 00:28:33,966
I'm seeing on the monitor
this live helicopter
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00:28:33,968 --> 00:28:37,102
coverage of the Ford Bronco
being followed by the police.
398
00:28:37,104 --> 00:28:39,571
And let's pick up some of the
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00:28:39,573 --> 00:28:41,506
transmission from the helicopter.
400
00:28:41,508 --> 00:28:42,975
They believe he's suicidal
401
00:28:42,977 --> 00:28:44,843
and very dangerous.
402
00:28:44,845 --> 00:28:47,980
Unfortunately at this time it does not
403
00:28:47,982 --> 00:28:50,983
appear as though the
driver is slowing down
404
00:28:50,985 --> 00:28:55,520
or complying with the
orders of the officers.
405
00:28:55,522 --> 00:28:59,091
We were on the air
exclusively for 22 minutes.
406
00:28:59,093 --> 00:29:03,195
And this was the most
conflicted I had every been.
407
00:29:03,197 --> 00:29:04,696
The gravity of the murder, I mean,
408
00:29:04,698 --> 00:29:09,001
this was a double homicide
and this is a tragic story.
409
00:29:09,003 --> 00:29:12,871
Very few human beings
fall as far as OJ Simpson.
410
00:29:12,873 --> 00:29:15,974
I've fallen quite a bit
transitioning, you know,
411
00:29:15,976 --> 00:29:19,778
you go from being like a
hero pilot to some tranny,
412
00:29:19,780 --> 00:29:22,481
you know, so I've fallen
somewhat myself but
413
00:29:22,483 --> 00:29:26,785
this is like an epic fall.
414
00:29:26,787 --> 00:29:29,521
And I'm weighing consequences of this with
415
00:29:29,523 --> 00:29:33,558
also the biggest news story, like, ever.
416
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:34,726
I'm going to use a
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00:29:34,728 --> 00:29:36,728
pair of binoculars to try to determine
418
00:29:36,730 --> 00:29:40,832
whether or not I can see Mr. Simpson.
419
00:29:40,834 --> 00:29:46,872
Fuck NBC, fuck ABC, fuck those guys.
420
00:29:46,874 --> 00:29:49,374
I hope they shoot this son of a bitch.
421
00:29:49,376 --> 00:29:53,311
And I hope they kill him
before the competitors get here.
422
00:29:56,717 --> 00:29:58,550
911, what are you reporting?
423
00:29:58,552 --> 00:30:00,318
This is AC.
424
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:01,520
I have OJ in the car.
425
00:30:01,522 --> 00:30:03,722
Okay, where are you?
426
00:30:03,724 --> 00:30:05,590
Please, I'm coming up the 5 freeway.
427
00:30:05,592 --> 00:30:06,658
Okay.
428
00:30:06,660 --> 00:30:08,026
Right now we are okay.
429
00:30:08,028 --> 00:30:10,095
But you got to tell
the police to back off.
430
00:30:10,097 --> 00:30:12,731
He's still alive, but
he's got a gun to his head.
431
00:30:12,733 --> 00:30:15,567
Okay, hold on a minute, Monica.
432
00:30:15,569 --> 00:30:16,701
He just wants to see his mother.
433
00:30:16,703 --> 00:30:18,270
Let me get him to the house.
434
00:30:18,272 --> 00:30:21,139
Okay, hold on a moment.
435
00:30:22,443 --> 00:30:24,076
Okay, what's your name?
436
00:30:24,078 --> 00:30:25,377
My name is AC.
437
00:30:25,379 --> 00:30:26,445
You know who I am, God dammit.
438
00:30:26,447 --> 00:30:27,846
Okay.
439
00:30:33,253 --> 00:30:35,120
Right now, that OJ's sitting
there is the passenger seat with
440
00:30:35,122 --> 00:30:37,622
a gun pointed at his own head.
441
00:30:39,026 --> 00:30:41,726
Someone turned the TV on and there he is.
442
00:30:41,728 --> 00:30:43,128
14 units of the Orange County Sheriff's
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00:30:43,130 --> 00:30:45,097
Department and Highway Patrol
444
00:30:45,099 --> 00:30:48,100
following behind a good distance.
445
00:30:48,102 --> 00:30:52,604
Oh my God, this isn't
real, this can't be real.
446
00:30:52,606 --> 00:30:54,372
We're dumbfounded.
447
00:30:54,374 --> 00:30:57,576
Law enforcement is following Simpson.
448
00:30:57,578 --> 00:31:00,479
They want him to stop.
449
00:31:00,481 --> 00:31:01,780
Red lights and sirens.
450
00:31:01,782 --> 00:31:03,315
It's not an escort.
451
00:31:04,885 --> 00:31:07,052
Why are they allowing him to continue?
452
00:31:07,054 --> 00:31:08,286
Really, the game plan is
453
00:31:08,288 --> 00:31:10,722
really being conducted by Mr. Simpson
454
00:31:10,724 --> 00:31:12,124
at this point and it's very much like
455
00:31:12,126 --> 00:31:14,226
when the president travels down a major
456
00:31:14,228 --> 00:31:16,895
thoroughfare, like a freeway.
457
00:31:16,897 --> 00:31:19,731
I was wondering, okay, maybe around
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00:31:19,733 --> 00:31:21,399
the next curve they've got it marked
459
00:31:21,401 --> 00:31:24,836
off and they're going
to force him to stop.
460
00:31:24,838 --> 00:31:28,840
It wasn't like they were
going 100 miles an hour.
461
00:31:28,842 --> 00:31:32,677
But I'm not a police tactician.
462
00:31:32,679 --> 00:31:34,179
That was their call.
463
00:31:37,618 --> 00:31:40,585
I've covered so many of these things,
464
00:31:40,587 --> 00:31:43,355
this was not usual police behavior.
465
00:31:44,591 --> 00:31:46,758
If OJ Simpson were black,
466
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,027
that shit wouldn't have happened.
467
00:31:50,831 --> 00:31:54,799
He'd be on the ground getting clubbed.
468
00:31:54,801 --> 00:31:57,969
But since he transcended race and color
469
00:31:57,971 --> 00:32:01,773
to the exalted status of celebrity,
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00:32:01,775 --> 00:32:03,441
he got a motorcade.
471
00:32:04,778 --> 00:32:06,278
This is not a chase,
472
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,780
this is basically an accompaniment.
473
00:32:14,354 --> 00:32:17,289
Nobody is doing anything.
474
00:32:17,291 --> 00:32:20,692
So I'm talking to Eddie Jo
Fairbanks in the DA's office.
475
00:32:20,694 --> 00:32:21,960
She said, "Well, I just happen to
476
00:32:21,962 --> 00:32:23,461
have his cell number, would you like it?
477
00:32:26,500 --> 00:32:27,832
You there?
478
00:32:27,834 --> 00:32:29,034
Just let me get to my house.
479
00:32:29,036 --> 00:32:30,302
Okay, we're gonna do that.
480
00:32:30,304 --> 00:32:31,636
I swear to you I'll give you,
481
00:32:31,638 --> 00:32:33,071
I'll give you me, I'll
give you my whole body.
482
00:32:33,073 --> 00:32:34,339
Okay...
483
00:32:34,341 --> 00:32:35,974
I just need to get to my house.
484
00:32:35,976 --> 00:32:37,709
Okay, we're gonna do that,
485
00:32:37,711 --> 00:32:39,144
just throw the gun out the window.
486
00:32:39,146 --> 00:32:40,312
I can't do that.
487
00:32:40,314 --> 00:32:41,146
We're not gonna bother you,
488
00:32:41,148 --> 00:32:42,080
we're gonna let you go up there.
489
00:32:42,082 --> 00:32:43,381
Just throw it out this window,
490
00:32:43,383 --> 00:32:44,816
please, you're scaring everybody.
491
00:32:44,818 --> 00:32:46,151
This is not to keep
492
00:32:46,153 --> 00:32:47,752
you guys away from me, this is for me.
493
00:32:47,754 --> 00:32:49,254
I know that, nobody's gonna hurt you.
494
00:32:49,256 --> 00:32:50,855
This is for me.
495
00:32:50,857 --> 00:32:52,757
He's trying, in my mind,
496
00:32:52,759 --> 00:32:54,025
to imply he's going to commit suicide,
497
00:32:54,027 --> 00:32:55,427
but he's not saying that.
498
00:32:55,429 --> 00:32:57,796
So, I'm playing along with that.
499
00:33:02,069 --> 00:33:07,038
Hey, everybody loves you, don't do this.
500
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,775
Just throw it out the window
and nobody's gonna get hurt.
501
00:33:10,777 --> 00:33:13,044
You've got a guy here that's,
502
00:33:13,046 --> 00:33:14,379
I don't know where his mind is,
503
00:33:14,381 --> 00:33:17,215
I really believe he killed two people.
504
00:33:17,217 --> 00:33:19,884
But now he's got a loaded gun,
and he's being chased by cops.
505
00:33:19,886 --> 00:33:21,620
Is he gonna start shooting at the cops?
506
00:33:21,622 --> 00:33:23,855
Is he gonna shoot at AC and kill...
507
00:33:23,857 --> 00:33:26,391
Is he gonna blow his own brains out?
508
00:33:26,393 --> 00:33:29,527
I do know if I can engage
him in a conversation it's
509
00:33:29,529 --> 00:33:32,597
going to temporarily at least
take his mind off the gun.
510
00:33:32,599 --> 00:33:35,033
I'm the only one that deserves this.
511
00:33:35,035 --> 00:33:36,401
No, you're don't deserve that.
512
00:33:36,403 --> 00:33:38,937
You do not deserve to get hurt.
513
00:33:38,939 --> 00:33:39,804
Don't do this.
514
00:33:39,806 --> 00:33:41,306
All I did was love Nicole.
515
00:33:41,308 --> 00:33:43,041
All I did was love her.
516
00:33:43,043 --> 00:33:43,975
I understand.
517
00:33:43,977 --> 00:33:45,810
Love everybody, show everybody
518
00:33:45,812 --> 00:33:47,612
my whole life and I love everybody.
519
00:33:47,614 --> 00:33:50,148
We know that and everybody loves you.
520
00:33:51,585 --> 00:33:53,051
Your kids need you.
521
00:33:53,053 --> 00:33:54,552
I've already said goodbye to my kids.
522
00:33:54,554 --> 00:33:55,887
You're gonna hurt everybody.
523
00:33:55,889 --> 00:33:57,122
I'm just gonna have to see.
524
00:33:57,124 --> 00:33:58,490
No, don't
525
00:33:58,492 --> 00:34:00,492
I'm gonna go with Nicole.
That's all I'm gonna do.
526
00:34:00,494 --> 00:34:01,726
That's all I'm trying to do.
527
00:34:01,728 --> 00:34:02,794
Think about everybody else, alright?
528
00:34:02,796 --> 00:34:03,962
I couldn't on the freeway.
529
00:34:03,964 --> 00:34:04,963
I couldn't do it in a field.
530
00:34:04,965 --> 00:34:06,231
I want to do it at her grave.
531
00:34:06,233 --> 00:34:08,600
I want to do it at my house.
532
00:34:08,602 --> 00:34:10,635
You gonna go to the house?
533
00:34:10,637 --> 00:34:14,806
We were told he was going
to the Rockingham location.
534
00:34:14,808 --> 00:34:18,009
And that's all we were told.
535
00:34:18,011 --> 00:34:19,944
If they requested SWAT
to handle something,
536
00:34:19,946 --> 00:34:22,981
that's because they can't
handle it themselves.
537
00:34:22,983 --> 00:34:24,783
I was told you're going to do the talking,
538
00:34:24,785 --> 00:34:27,852
you're going to be the negotiator.
539
00:34:27,854 --> 00:34:31,523
Drive time from downtown to the west side
540
00:34:31,525 --> 00:34:35,093
was gonna take 30, 40 minutes.
541
00:34:35,095 --> 00:34:36,961
We were trying to beat him.
542
00:34:36,963 --> 00:34:39,030
They were pressuring
us. He's pretty close.
543
00:34:39,032 --> 00:34:42,200
We were estimating we were
about 10 minutes ahead.
544
00:34:42,202 --> 00:34:45,804
The last thing we want is for
him to get there before us.
545
00:34:45,806 --> 00:34:48,840
Because now we're going to lose control.
546
00:34:50,711 --> 00:34:54,713
And we're on the freeway
and all the overpasses,
547
00:34:54,715 --> 00:34:57,048
there were people already staged.
548
00:34:57,050 --> 00:35:02,253
Signs, free OJ, we love you OJ,
549
00:35:02,255 --> 00:35:04,856
What a bunch of losers.
550
00:35:06,460 --> 00:35:08,993
I think people realized, hey,
551
00:35:08,995 --> 00:35:12,063
this is gonna be passing my neighborhood.
552
00:35:12,065 --> 00:35:14,866
And they wanted to see OJ's last run.
553
00:35:16,036 --> 00:35:18,002
This was not a somber event.
554
00:35:18,004 --> 00:35:21,373
This was one of Los
Angeles's largest parties.
555
00:35:30,984 --> 00:35:34,219
This was lined with people.
556
00:35:42,696 --> 00:35:45,430
And they're running full
speed down the street,
557
00:35:45,432 --> 00:35:47,832
trying to get to the location.
558
00:35:50,203 --> 00:35:54,038
We're not used to seeing
those types of crowds rush in.
559
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,841
OJ! OJ! OJ! OJ!
560
00:36:08,054 --> 00:36:10,121
District Attorney of Los Angeles,
561
00:36:10,123 --> 00:36:12,357
Mr. Gil Garcetti, will
the fact that he has fled
562
00:36:12,359 --> 00:36:14,292
make things worse for him?
563
00:36:14,294 --> 00:36:17,362
Any time you have an accused who leaves,
564
00:36:17,364 --> 00:36:20,031
that and the fact, we believe,
565
00:36:20,033 --> 00:36:22,700
shows a consciousness of guilt.
566
00:36:35,549 --> 00:36:37,482
I think earlier in the week,
567
00:36:37,484 --> 00:36:38,983
all of us close to OJ
568
00:36:38,985 --> 00:36:42,954
didn't believe that he
had been involved in this.
569
00:36:42,956 --> 00:36:45,123
And now I think there's
a sense of resignation
570
00:36:45,125 --> 00:36:46,825
and has been for the last 24 hours and
571
00:36:46,827 --> 00:36:48,560
we can't believe what's happening
572
00:36:48,562 --> 00:36:50,995
and there was nothing ever, ever
573
00:36:50,997 --> 00:36:52,397
in the past that would indicate
574
00:36:52,399 --> 00:36:55,867
that OJ would be capable of
doing what he's doing right now.
575
00:36:58,071 --> 00:37:00,138
Did they let you go?
576
00:37:00,140 --> 00:37:04,142
They didn't say anything,
all of a sudden, they just...
577
00:37:05,345 --> 00:37:07,879
What was that?
578
00:37:09,483 --> 00:37:10,849
Yeah.
579
00:37:10,851 --> 00:37:13,785
Oh, okay, CBS is trying to get you in.
580
00:37:13,787 --> 00:37:15,186
Now, he's pulling off now,
581
00:37:15,188 --> 00:37:17,489
they've just pulled off a main highway.
582
00:37:17,491 --> 00:37:19,591
Judy Mullard, help us here.
583
00:37:19,593 --> 00:37:21,326
I can't tell ya, looks like
584
00:37:21,328 --> 00:37:23,761
Santa Monica Freeway, heading I can't
585
00:37:23,763 --> 00:37:24,896
tell ya yet.
586
00:37:25,999 --> 00:37:27,131
Look at all these people
587
00:37:27,133 --> 00:37:28,500
rushing up to the
corner. No, it's an exit.
588
00:37:28,502 --> 00:37:30,201
This word has obviously spread
589
00:37:30,203 --> 00:37:33,271
Judy, hang on, look at all
these people rushing, waving...
590
00:37:41,548 --> 00:37:44,015
There is an absolutely utterly macabe
591
00:37:44,017 --> 00:37:46,851
nature to all this.
592
00:37:48,822 --> 00:37:50,121
They've been cheering him on,
593
00:37:50,123 --> 00:37:51,589
yelling go Juice go.
594
00:37:52,559 --> 00:37:54,192
Cheering him on,
595
00:37:54,194 --> 00:37:55,627
He pulled off at Sunset,
596
00:37:55,629 --> 00:37:59,564
off the 405, he's on his
way back toward Brentwood.
597
00:38:03,303 --> 00:38:06,070
When I got on scene there, I
walked toward the residence,
598
00:38:06,072 --> 00:38:09,874
there was family inside the
residence and they were eating.
599
00:38:09,876 --> 00:38:11,843
Looked like they had
like a sandwich buffet
600
00:38:11,845 --> 00:38:15,380
that they were doing and
they were watching tv.
601
00:38:23,223 --> 00:38:24,722
Dining.
602
00:38:25,859 --> 00:38:27,959
I use that clinical term.
603
00:38:28,828 --> 00:38:29,994
Nutty.
604
00:38:39,072 --> 00:38:41,205
Both sides of the street
605
00:38:41,207 --> 00:38:44,842
have pedestrians, he just
passed us at Barrington.
606
00:38:44,844 --> 00:38:46,277
Okay, Eric, its only now probably
607
00:38:46,279 --> 00:38:48,613
three minutes at the most I would
608
00:38:48,615 --> 00:38:52,283
say to his home in Brentwood.
609
00:38:56,790 --> 00:38:59,223
They're passing the
church installed there.
610
00:38:59,225 --> 00:39:01,526
They are heading right into Brentwood now.
611
00:39:01,528 --> 00:39:03,795
He's heading to my house.
612
00:39:07,534 --> 00:39:08,533
He's making a right turn, I assume,
613
00:39:08,535 --> 00:39:10,435
that's up into Brentwood Park,
614
00:39:10,437 --> 00:39:12,036
and appears to be on the way to
615
00:39:12,038 --> 00:39:15,173
either his home or very close to his home.
616
00:39:16,610 --> 00:39:18,710
We closed the gate on Rockingham,
617
00:39:18,712 --> 00:39:20,979
we left this one open to force him through
618
00:39:20,981 --> 00:39:24,182
and make him come into
where we wanted him.
619
00:39:32,993 --> 00:39:35,093
There was a sniper team in
this house across the street,
620
00:39:35,095 --> 00:39:37,762
there's a sniper team on top
of the roof at the residence.
621
00:39:37,764 --> 00:39:40,064
And there was one across the street.
622
00:39:40,066 --> 00:39:41,799
Use your own discretion.
623
00:39:41,801 --> 00:39:43,401
You take him down if you have to.
624
00:39:46,339 --> 00:39:48,606
When'd you see the kids last, Juice?
625
00:39:48,608 --> 00:39:50,475
He's pulling up in my driveway.
626
00:39:50,477 --> 00:39:52,310
I know, I see you, I see you.
627
00:39:52,312 --> 00:39:54,278
Please, toss the gun.
628
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,781
Juice, just toss it.
629
00:39:56,783 --> 00:39:59,751
He's pulling into his house, oh shit.
630
00:39:59,753 --> 00:40:01,352
I've never seen anything like this.
631
00:40:01,354 --> 00:40:02,887
Mr. Simpson, OJ please.
632
00:40:04,591 --> 00:40:06,457
When we're standing
in the threshold there,
633
00:40:06,459 --> 00:40:08,826
to my right is a television so,
634
00:40:08,828 --> 00:40:11,896
when the Bronco pulls into the driveway
635
00:40:13,266 --> 00:40:16,834
I see Bronco, Cawlings,
Simpson in the backseat
636
00:40:18,038 --> 00:40:19,604
and then I look right here and I get the
637
00:40:19,606 --> 00:40:22,106
point of view that you're seeing.
638
00:40:22,108 --> 00:40:23,541
Oh my goodness gracious.
639
00:40:23,543 --> 00:40:26,711
He's come home after all of that.
640
00:40:26,713 --> 00:40:30,348
Just as we're trying to get words out,
641
00:40:30,350 --> 00:40:32,784
a young man runs up to the
driver's side of the door
642
00:40:32,786 --> 00:40:35,186
and starts hitting at AC Cawlings.
643
00:40:37,691 --> 00:40:39,457
Who is that out there?
644
00:40:39,459 --> 00:40:41,559
He's just trying to help.
645
00:40:41,561 --> 00:40:43,561
He's just trying to help, man.
646
00:40:43,563 --> 00:40:47,565
Kardashian said, "That's Jason
Simpson, That's OJ's son."
647
00:40:49,703 --> 00:40:53,771
So, I told Pepabrick, I said,
"Go out there and get him."
648
00:40:56,376 --> 00:40:57,942
Moved him out,
649
00:41:00,146 --> 00:41:04,549
now we get down to the
business that we designed.
650
00:41:04,551 --> 00:41:08,086
In this juncture, it's very fragile.
651
00:41:08,088 --> 00:41:11,789
What exacerbates, what
makes it crazy, is the noise,
652
00:41:13,927 --> 00:41:16,427
you had a helicopter
seemed like about 50 feet
653
00:41:16,429 --> 00:41:20,364
off the deck, every car
that was in the following
654
00:41:20,366 --> 00:41:23,267
had their red lights and sirens on.
655
00:41:25,004 --> 00:41:26,437
If you just take a snapshot,
656
00:41:26,439 --> 00:41:29,507
you'd go, this is
madness, absolute madness.
657
00:41:34,347 --> 00:41:36,848
I watched that from the newsroom
658
00:41:36,850 --> 00:41:39,016
and when I saw a couple
of the SWAT officers
659
00:41:39,018 --> 00:41:41,786
that I recognized run
across the shot, I thought,
660
00:41:41,788 --> 00:41:45,256
oh my God, they're gonna
kill him in the driveway.
661
00:41:45,258 --> 00:41:47,391
Just toss it please.
662
00:41:47,393 --> 00:41:48,393
Alright?
663
00:41:51,030 --> 00:41:53,464
Juice, just toss the gun.
664
00:41:53,466 --> 00:41:54,799
I did not want him to get out
665
00:41:54,801 --> 00:41:56,300
of the car with a gun in his hand,
666
00:41:56,302 --> 00:41:57,602
they'd have dumped him,
667
00:41:57,604 --> 00:41:59,537
they would not have had a choice.
668
00:42:02,075 --> 00:42:04,842
Juice, come on, Juice.
669
00:42:07,313 --> 00:42:09,480
They resolve most situations peacefully,
670
00:42:09,482 --> 00:42:12,750
but they are there to
finish it one way or another.
671
00:42:12,752 --> 00:42:14,886
OJ, no, no OJ.
672
00:42:18,224 --> 00:42:20,591
Don't, no man, don't.
673
00:42:20,593 --> 00:42:22,193
Juice, don't do it, Juice.
674
00:42:24,831 --> 00:42:26,564
Pick it up.
675
00:42:26,566 --> 00:42:29,000
I'm thinking, okay, there are a lot
676
00:42:29,002 --> 00:42:31,302
of people that are betting on us.
677
00:42:31,304 --> 00:42:32,837
That we're going to screw this up.
678
00:42:32,839 --> 00:42:34,405
That are cynical.
679
00:42:34,407 --> 00:42:36,340
That believe that we are a
680
00:42:37,310 --> 00:42:39,577
brutal horrible organization.
681
00:42:39,579 --> 00:42:41,345
And it's just not the case.
682
00:42:45,685 --> 00:42:47,585
How do they know, that the police
683
00:42:47,587 --> 00:42:49,787
and the DA didn't make all this
684
00:42:49,789 --> 00:42:54,525
evidence up, to make him
act the way that he's acting?
685
00:42:54,527 --> 00:42:55,793
We were recovering from Rodney King
686
00:42:55,795 --> 00:42:58,830
and it's so important for the people
687
00:42:58,832 --> 00:43:01,499
to see things that go the right way.
688
00:43:01,501 --> 00:43:02,600
There is so much on the news where
689
00:43:02,602 --> 00:43:04,502
things go the wrong way.
690
00:43:04,504 --> 00:43:05,536
Normally, that would be on my mind,
691
00:43:05,538 --> 00:43:07,405
but that night it wasn't.
692
00:43:16,316 --> 00:43:18,850
Doors opening.
693
00:43:21,321 --> 00:43:23,688
That is Al Cawlings.
694
00:43:23,690 --> 00:43:25,289
He's quite, quite upset at the moment.
695
00:43:25,291 --> 00:43:26,324
Yeah.
696
00:43:26,326 --> 00:43:28,993
Quite emotional here.
697
00:43:28,995 --> 00:43:31,229
I've got to get Cawlings out.
698
00:43:31,231 --> 00:43:32,730
As much as he was trying to help,
699
00:43:32,732 --> 00:43:35,700
he was interfering in
where I needed to do.
700
00:43:35,702 --> 00:43:37,301
I needed to speak directly to Mr. Simpson,
701
00:43:37,303 --> 00:43:40,338
to try and keep him from hurting himself.
702
00:43:40,340 --> 00:43:43,875
And Mr. Cawlings was
trying to be a go between.
703
00:43:45,745 --> 00:43:47,812
He was very worried about his friend.
704
00:43:47,814 --> 00:43:49,547
He kept asking us, please don't hurt him,
705
00:43:49,549 --> 00:43:52,316
please don't hurt him, please.
706
00:43:52,318 --> 00:43:53,718
And he wanted to go back,
707
00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:55,253
he wanted to stay with his friend.
708
00:43:55,255 --> 00:43:58,522
And we wouldn't allow it, we can't.
709
00:43:58,524 --> 00:44:00,091
Police haven't made a move,
710
00:44:00,093 --> 00:44:04,328
we understand negotiations
are still going on.
711
00:44:04,330 --> 00:44:06,197
Simpson, you can see him,
712
00:44:06,199 --> 00:44:09,867
cradling what looks like framed photos,
713
00:44:09,869 --> 00:44:13,571
but clearly he has the barrel
of a weapon under his chin
714
00:44:13,573 --> 00:44:15,506
and it looks like he's just resting his
715
00:44:15,508 --> 00:44:17,708
chin on the barrel of the weapon.
716
00:44:17,710 --> 00:44:20,311
It was the look of a defeated man.
717
00:44:26,386 --> 00:44:27,885
They are, according to police scanners,
718
00:44:27,887 --> 00:44:29,754
talking to OJ on the
phone, from the inside
719
00:44:29,756 --> 00:44:32,924
the house, trying to negotiate something.
720
00:44:34,861 --> 00:44:38,062
I said to him very early on,
721
00:44:38,064 --> 00:44:42,800
I don't think your children
need to see another tragedy.
722
00:44:42,802 --> 00:44:45,469
And he immediately changed the subject
723
00:44:45,471 --> 00:44:48,606
right to about himself, he
wouldn't even speak to that.
724
00:44:48,608 --> 00:44:51,709
I said I know where he's coming from.
725
00:44:51,711 --> 00:44:55,313
There was so much memorabilia
and stuff of him everywhere,
726
00:44:57,283 --> 00:44:58,616
normally you would see other photos
727
00:44:58,618 --> 00:45:00,284
of family members or something else,
728
00:45:00,286 --> 00:45:04,722
you didn't see those
things, it was all him.
729
00:45:04,724 --> 00:45:08,793
I told Mike Albanis, Mike,
I can talk him into it.
730
00:45:08,795 --> 00:45:10,561
We can appeal to his ego enough
731
00:45:10,563 --> 00:45:13,130
that he's going to come out for us.
732
00:45:14,634 --> 00:45:15,633
His voice, in the beginning, was
733
00:45:15,635 --> 00:45:18,736
excited but then it called down.
734
00:45:18,738 --> 00:45:22,640
The more we spoke about
him, the more he liked it.
735
00:45:24,444 --> 00:45:25,943
We want to show them that you're
736
00:45:25,945 --> 00:45:28,179
still the person you
have been all these years.
737
00:45:28,181 --> 00:45:32,316
This great football player,
this great everything.
738
00:45:38,758 --> 00:45:39,991
He asked me to come out to the car,
739
00:45:39,993 --> 00:45:41,292
and I said, "No, you're going to show
740
00:45:41,294 --> 00:45:42,593
them yourself, you're going to show them
741
00:45:42,595 --> 00:45:43,861
just how big and courageous you are,
742
00:45:43,863 --> 00:45:45,262
you're going to walk to me and you're
743
00:45:45,264 --> 00:45:46,697
going to leave the gun in the car,
744
00:45:46,699 --> 00:45:51,135
you're going to walk out
and show everyone, right now.
745
00:45:51,137 --> 00:45:52,903
You're going to do this."
746
00:45:54,707 --> 00:45:57,775
My personal spin, I think, he wanted
747
00:45:57,777 --> 00:45:59,877
to surrender when it was dark.
748
00:45:59,879 --> 00:46:02,880
So that he wouldn't be seen.
749
00:46:02,882 --> 00:46:07,018
Night has fallen here over Brentwood.
750
00:46:07,020 --> 00:46:11,856
He had two picture frames
that were cradled in his arms.
751
00:46:11,858 --> 00:46:14,692
We told him, open the door,
752
00:46:14,694 --> 00:46:16,727
put your arm out with the frame,
753
00:46:16,729 --> 00:46:19,864
and the other arm out
with the framed photo,
754
00:46:19,866 --> 00:46:23,534
so it's clear to everybody,
so there was no mistaking.
755
00:46:25,138 --> 00:46:29,306
Doors open, dome lights
on, he's out of the vehicle.
756
00:46:29,308 --> 00:46:30,875
Kinda just hunches over,
757
00:46:32,645 --> 00:46:35,579
shuffles six eight steps to us,
758
00:46:35,581 --> 00:46:37,448
and collapses in our arms.
759
00:46:38,518 --> 00:46:41,085
He goes, "I'm sorry,
760
00:46:41,087 --> 00:46:43,721
I was never going to
hurt you guys. I'm sorry.
761
00:46:43,723 --> 00:46:46,257
I was never going to hurt you guys."
762
00:46:46,259 --> 00:46:47,591
OJ's in custody.
763
00:46:47,593 --> 00:46:49,493
We understand that OJ's in custody.
764
00:46:49,495 --> 00:46:50,828
They're calling a code four.
765
00:46:50,830 --> 00:46:52,563
All clear, all safe.
766
00:46:53,566 --> 00:46:56,567
Thank you, thank you to God.
767
00:47:03,543 --> 00:47:05,109
Unbelievable, we saw an incredible
768
00:47:05,111 --> 00:47:07,711
situation that's gone on for hours.
769
00:47:07,713 --> 00:47:12,616
Incredible restraint by the
Los Angeles Police Department.
770
00:47:12,618 --> 00:47:14,618
The officer's kept their distance.
771
00:47:14,620 --> 00:47:16,253
They allowed the SWAT team, the pros,
772
00:47:16,255 --> 00:47:20,224
to come in, they took their positions.
773
00:47:20,226 --> 00:47:23,894
He'd asked me to stay with
him throughout the process.
774
00:47:23,896 --> 00:47:26,363
I promised him I would stay with him.
775
00:47:26,365 --> 00:47:28,466
I said it's time, I
gotta handcuff you now,
776
00:47:28,468 --> 00:47:29,517
you need to be handcuffed.
777
00:47:29,518 --> 00:47:30,567
I'm sorry this is the way it works.
778
00:47:35,108 --> 00:47:38,876
As we take off, Simpson
is amazed at the crowds.
779
00:47:41,247 --> 00:47:44,215
He just couldn't believe there
was this many people there.
780
00:47:44,217 --> 00:47:47,084
Free OJ, Free OJ!
781
00:47:47,086 --> 00:47:48,752
And he said, "what are all these
782
00:47:48,754 --> 00:47:50,888
niggers doing in Brentwood?"
783
00:47:59,232 --> 00:48:01,632
I walk outside and Shapiro's there.
784
00:48:01,634 --> 00:48:03,767
Shapiro shakes my hand, he says,
785
00:48:03,769 --> 00:48:07,805
"Thank you for not killing OJ Simpson."
786
00:48:07,807 --> 00:48:08,973
He grabbed me and went to hug me.
787
00:48:08,975 --> 00:48:10,341
I go, let's just,
788
00:48:11,777 --> 00:48:14,345
I wasn't in the mood for a hug
789
00:48:15,448 --> 00:48:17,915
and maybe I wasn't professional.
790
00:48:20,853 --> 00:48:22,253
I don't know the frickin guy, right,
791
00:48:22,255 --> 00:48:25,322
and he wants to weep on me?
792
00:48:29,128 --> 00:48:32,096
Well this is nutty did. It really is.
793
00:48:32,098 --> 00:48:34,765
I said, I have seen
everything in law enforcement.
794
00:48:34,767 --> 00:48:37,801
There is nothing else that can top this.
795
00:49:29,722 --> 00:49:31,522
Later today in Los Angeles, OJ Simpson
796
00:49:31,524 --> 00:49:34,425
is expected to make his
first court appearance.
797
00:49:34,427 --> 00:49:36,760
OJ has been in jail,
under a suicide watch,
798
00:49:36,762 --> 00:49:40,164
visited only by a
psychiatrist and his lawyer.
799
00:49:41,701 --> 00:49:43,300
Please,
800
00:49:48,207 --> 00:49:49,673
Alright, people.
801
00:49:55,848 --> 00:49:58,015
Please speak up so you may be heard.
802
00:49:58,017 --> 00:49:59,017
Uh, yes.
803
00:50:00,953 --> 00:50:01,952
Pardon me, I'm sorry.
804
00:50:01,954 --> 00:50:03,053
May we start all over again?
805
00:50:03,055 --> 00:50:04,154
Yes.
806
00:50:07,727 --> 00:50:09,026
He looked a mess.
807
00:50:11,030 --> 00:50:14,465
He looked like someone
who had committed murder.
808
00:50:14,467 --> 00:50:16,367
There was nothing about the old
809
00:50:16,369 --> 00:50:19,036
smiling Simpson, about him that day.
810
00:50:20,539 --> 00:50:21,939
Your charges for this complaint
811
00:50:21,941 --> 00:50:23,574
in that you willfully and
unlawfully with pronounced
812
00:50:23,576 --> 00:50:26,844
forethought murder of
Nicole Brown Simpson.
813
00:50:28,748 --> 00:50:31,448
In count two your charge is the crime
814
00:50:31,450 --> 00:50:34,084
of murder in violation
of penal code section 187.
815
00:50:34,086 --> 00:50:36,086
That you willfully and
unlawfully with pronounced
816
00:50:36,088 --> 00:50:39,556
forethought murder of Ronald Lyle Goldman.
817
00:50:41,093 --> 00:50:44,128
When he initially entered the plea,
818
00:50:44,130 --> 00:50:46,297
he barely choked it out.
819
00:50:46,299 --> 00:50:47,299
Not guilty.
820
00:50:49,268 --> 00:50:50,834
Alright, then, the not guilty plea will
821
00:50:50,836 --> 00:50:52,970
be entered, the case will be set for a
822
00:50:52,972 --> 00:50:55,973
preliminary hearing within
the statutory period.
823
00:50:55,975 --> 00:50:56,975
Recess.
824
00:50:58,944 --> 00:51:00,978
This case will be handled
as every case is handled,
825
00:51:00,980 --> 00:51:03,480
the case will be thoroughly
investigated by top
826
00:51:03,482 --> 00:51:06,850
notch investigators, we
will present the prosecution
827
00:51:06,852 --> 00:51:09,820
in a thorough and professional manner.
828
00:51:10,823 --> 00:51:12,856
I amongst others, recommended her.
829
00:51:12,858 --> 00:51:14,958
I was aware of her
successes in the court room.
830
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,662
I knew she was a very
dynamic trial lawyer.
831
00:51:18,664 --> 00:51:19,963
I want no one to forget the fact that
832
00:51:19,965 --> 00:51:22,266
Robert Barto wakes up every morning,
833
00:51:22,268 --> 00:51:27,104
and Rebecca Schaeffer lies
buried in a grave in Oregon.
834
00:51:27,106 --> 00:51:29,640
Worked extraordinarily hard,
835
00:51:29,642 --> 00:51:31,875
she was very facile with trace evidence,
836
00:51:31,877 --> 00:51:33,844
hair, fiber, and the like.
837
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:36,780
She was up to speed on DNA.
838
00:51:38,617 --> 00:51:41,185
She was one of our best trial lawyers.
839
00:51:41,187 --> 00:51:42,619
I think that with all the questions
840
00:51:42,621 --> 00:51:43,520
that we've been getting about the
841
00:51:43,522 --> 00:51:45,055
public sympathy for Mr. Simpson,
842
00:51:45,057 --> 00:51:46,457
we should not forget the fact that
843
00:51:46,459 --> 00:51:49,960
we have two victims,
that were brutally slain.
844
00:51:49,962 --> 00:51:51,295
I have to say, it never mattered to me
845
00:51:51,297 --> 00:51:54,198
who the defendant was, it
was a question of who did it.
846
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,066
Whether their famous,
whether their not famous.
847
00:51:56,068 --> 00:51:58,802
They all get the same treatment.
848
00:52:00,206 --> 00:52:03,874
You are looking at inmate
number 4103970, OJ Simpson.
849
00:52:20,526 --> 00:52:22,426
I believed he was innocent.
850
00:52:22,428 --> 00:52:25,195
I was like everybody else,
it was incomprehensible
851
00:52:25,197 --> 00:52:27,297
that my friend could do this.
852
00:52:30,035 --> 00:52:33,103
I snuck into the jail to see him and
853
00:52:33,105 --> 00:52:36,073
there's this guy that was my buddy and
854
00:52:38,110 --> 00:52:39,610
he looked emaciated,
855
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:43,080
he was in an orange jumpsuit,
856
00:52:43,082 --> 00:52:46,850
and he was shackled to
the desk in front of me.
857
00:52:50,356 --> 00:52:54,425
Then he looked at me on the
other side of plexiglasses,
858
00:52:55,761 --> 00:52:57,294
close as he could be, and he said,
859
00:52:57,296 --> 00:53:00,230
"I swear to God, I didn't do this."
860
00:53:00,232 --> 00:53:01,498
I believed him.
861
00:53:04,069 --> 00:53:06,270
He asked me if I kind of would be the
862
00:53:06,272 --> 00:53:08,071
chronicler of the whole thing.
863
00:53:08,073 --> 00:53:11,308
Would I write a book
about the whole thing.
864
00:53:11,310 --> 00:53:13,043
I backed away from that.
865
00:53:14,580 --> 00:53:18,282
Then, in a moment of ultimate surrealism,
866
00:53:18,284 --> 00:53:19,650
I'm sitting with OJ
867
00:53:21,220 --> 00:53:23,854
and Lyle Menendez walks behind him.
868
00:53:25,057 --> 00:53:27,090
And I just went, shit, this is more
869
00:53:27,092 --> 00:53:29,793
than my little pea brain can handle.
870
00:53:57,823 --> 00:54:02,326
Bob, OJ Simpson is in a Los
Angeles jail cell tonight.
871
00:54:02,328 --> 00:54:04,328
His attorney says he spoke to him today
872
00:54:04,330 --> 00:54:07,030
and that Simpson was in tears.
873
00:54:07,032 --> 00:54:08,832
Now, Cawlings, was himself, arrested
874
00:54:08,834 --> 00:54:11,101
on a felony charge of aiding a fugitive.
875
00:54:11,103 --> 00:54:12,536
Get away from my fucking house.
876
00:54:12,538 --> 00:54:14,838
Simpson, had $10,000 in cash
877
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,040
and a passport at that point.
878
00:54:17,042 --> 00:54:18,709
I love OJ
879
00:54:18,711 --> 00:54:20,143
no matter what happens.
880
00:54:20,145 --> 00:54:22,145
The murder with special circumstances,
881
00:54:22,147 --> 00:54:23,714
death penalty charges.
882
00:54:23,716 --> 00:54:26,550
The final DNA tests are positive for
883
00:54:26,552 --> 00:54:29,119
intense and purposes, OJ Simpson really
884
00:54:29,121 --> 00:54:30,854
has no option but to admit that he killed.
885
00:54:30,856 --> 00:54:32,055
The man who will lead the prosecution
886
00:54:32,057 --> 00:54:33,991
of the case, against OJ Simpson,
887
00:54:33,993 --> 00:54:35,826
is Los Angeles District
Attorney, Gil Garcetti.
888
00:54:35,828 --> 00:54:37,728
You said earlier, "It's not going
889
00:54:37,730 --> 00:54:40,497
to shock me if we see OJ Simpson
890
00:54:40,499 --> 00:54:42,132
sometime down the road say okay
891
00:54:42,134 --> 00:54:45,369
I did do it but I'm not responsible."
892
00:54:45,371 --> 00:54:46,837
That certainly sounded, to me,
893
00:54:46,839 --> 00:54:48,238
like a prosecutor very
comfortable with his case.
894
00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:49,806
I am comfortable with the case,
895
00:54:49,808 --> 00:54:51,508
I don't mean to speculate as to what
896
00:54:51,510 --> 00:54:52,843
the defense is going to be but I
897
00:54:52,845 --> 00:54:54,211
have been a prosecutor for 25 years.
898
00:54:54,213 --> 00:54:57,314
The evidence was so overwhelming,
899
00:54:57,316 --> 00:54:59,149
there was just no doubt.
900
00:55:01,854 --> 00:55:03,654
A blood trail that led from Bundy
901
00:55:03,656 --> 00:55:05,956
all the way into his bedroom.
902
00:55:07,259 --> 00:55:08,859
I don't think I'd ever seen that much
903
00:55:08,861 --> 00:55:11,428
evidence in any single case ever.
904
00:55:13,532 --> 00:55:18,201
When you couple that with
evidence of motivation,
905
00:55:18,203 --> 00:55:21,438
and that was the history
of domestic violence,
906
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:23,006
with Simpson physically and
907
00:55:23,008 --> 00:55:26,209
psychologically abusing Nicole Brown.
908
00:55:26,211 --> 00:55:28,011
This is my woman.
909
00:55:28,013 --> 00:55:29,379
This was a domestic violence case
910
00:55:29,381 --> 00:55:31,114
that culminated in murder.
911
00:55:31,116 --> 00:55:32,149
End of story.
912
00:55:35,454 --> 00:55:36,453
Both sides are going to try
913
00:55:36,455 --> 00:55:37,788
to place the publicity thier way
914
00:55:37,790 --> 00:55:40,857
but because this is a major celebrity,
915
00:55:40,859 --> 00:55:42,459
probably this is the most famous
916
00:55:42,461 --> 00:55:44,728
American ever charged with murder,
917
00:55:44,730 --> 00:55:47,297
there will not business as usual.
918
00:55:49,568 --> 00:55:53,270
My former criminal law
professor, Alan Dershowitz,
919
00:55:53,272 --> 00:55:57,240
was part of what would later
become known as the dream team,
920
00:55:57,242 --> 00:55:59,476
OJ Simpson's lawyers.
921
00:55:59,478 --> 00:56:00,944
So, I called up Alan, and I said,
922
00:56:00,946 --> 00:56:02,446
"You know, what do you
think of this case?"
923
00:56:02,448 --> 00:56:04,781
And he said, "I don't know,
924
00:56:06,218 --> 00:56:09,953
but you ought to look
into this guy, this cop.
925
00:56:11,256 --> 00:56:14,791
Mark Fuhrman, there's
something bad about him."
926
00:56:16,729 --> 00:56:18,729
I first met Mark during the
927
00:56:18,731 --> 00:56:21,331
execution of a second search warrant.
928
00:56:21,333 --> 00:56:24,501
I was impressed, he seemed
to have an eye for detail.
929
00:56:24,503 --> 00:56:26,737
Some of his investigative moves,
930
00:56:26,739 --> 00:56:28,805
particularly going up to Rockingham,
931
00:56:28,807 --> 00:56:32,743
struck me as this is a smart detective.
932
00:56:32,745 --> 00:56:35,512
Mark Fuhrman,
M-A-R-K F-U-H-R-M-A-N.
933
00:56:37,282 --> 00:56:38,482
When he testified at
the preliminary hearing,
934
00:56:38,484 --> 00:56:40,784
he did a really good job.
935
00:56:40,786 --> 00:56:42,285
Blood to the left of the footprint
936
00:56:42,287 --> 00:56:44,988
would indicate that the person that left
937
00:56:44,990 --> 00:56:47,858
the scene was bleeding from
the left side of his body.
938
00:56:47,860 --> 00:56:49,993
And the spot on the Bronco
939
00:56:49,995 --> 00:56:52,362
would coincide with that injury.
940
00:56:54,199 --> 00:56:55,966
He was on top of his game.
941
00:56:55,968 --> 00:56:58,468
His memory of the search of
942
00:56:58,470 --> 00:57:00,370
Rockingham was the primary thing.
943
00:57:00,372 --> 00:57:03,573
And it was detailed and consistent.
944
00:57:03,575 --> 00:57:06,143
And why was it that you
did not secure the residence
945
00:57:06,145 --> 00:57:09,846
for a search warrant
before finding the glove.
946
00:57:11,016 --> 00:57:13,350
This is not a situation where we
947
00:57:13,352 --> 00:57:14,818
had the time to stand out in the
948
00:57:14,820 --> 00:57:18,522
street and just wait and wonder.
949
00:57:18,524 --> 00:57:20,090
We had to do something.
950
00:57:22,361 --> 00:57:26,296
I thought maybe this guy
Fuhrman has done something wrong.
951
00:57:26,298 --> 00:57:27,931
Maybe, he's been sued.
952
00:57:31,570 --> 00:57:34,371
There was this dungeon like basement
953
00:57:35,474 --> 00:57:37,708
in downtown Los Angeles with all
954
00:57:37,710 --> 00:57:40,477
the records of civil court filings.
955
00:57:40,479 --> 00:57:42,145
And I started burrowing through these
956
00:57:42,147 --> 00:57:46,717
records looking for Mark
Fuhrman as a defendant.
957
00:57:46,719 --> 00:57:49,252
And that's not what I found.
958
00:57:49,254 --> 00:57:52,923
I found a lawsuit where Mark
Fuhrman was the plaintiff.
959
00:57:54,526 --> 00:57:58,095
He had actually sued the
Los Angeles Pension Board
960
00:57:59,765 --> 00:58:02,999
asking to be relieved as a police officer
961
00:58:04,703 --> 00:58:07,437
and get a pension because his mind
962
00:58:08,841 --> 00:58:12,142
was so poisoned by hatred of black people.
963
00:58:16,014 --> 00:58:19,182
And I thought to myself,
now that's a story.
964
00:58:24,089 --> 00:58:28,091
I show up uninvited at
Robert Shapiro's office.
965
00:58:28,093 --> 00:58:31,628
And I say, "I've been
looking at Mark Fuhrman's file
966
00:58:31,630 --> 00:58:34,364
and there's some pretty
amazing stuff in there."
967
00:58:34,366 --> 00:58:36,266
And I remember, to this day, he sort
968
00:58:36,268 --> 00:58:37,267
of rocked back in his chair.
969
00:58:37,269 --> 00:58:38,368
He said, "You saw that?"
970
00:58:38,370 --> 00:58:39,536
I said, "Yeah".
971
00:58:39,538 --> 00:58:41,438
He said, "You think that's bad,
972
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,307
we think he planted the glove.
973
00:58:49,715 --> 00:58:51,114
Fuhrman, according to this article
974
00:58:51,116 --> 00:58:53,817
had used a lot of racial epithets.
975
00:58:55,087 --> 00:58:57,754
Having that out there,
976
00:58:57,756 --> 00:58:59,823
really brought home the
fact that we've got a
977
00:58:59,825 --> 00:59:03,160
dynamic here we're
gonna have to deal with.
978
00:59:04,763 --> 00:59:08,632
They found a flaw in me, and
then they made up a nexus,
979
00:59:08,634 --> 00:59:11,401
a connection to the flaw to the case.
980
00:59:16,441 --> 00:59:19,009
I mean, I had a bad couple years
981
00:59:23,482 --> 00:59:24,748
but I came out
982
00:59:26,351 --> 00:59:28,318
better, I came out of it.
983
00:59:32,257 --> 00:59:33,557
It is what it is.
984
00:59:35,694 --> 00:59:38,528
That article came out at just
985
00:59:38,530 --> 00:59:39,796
about the same time, Johnny Cochran
986
00:59:39,798 --> 00:59:42,632
was coming aboard the defense team.
987
00:59:42,634 --> 00:59:44,634
And my thought at the time was,
988
00:59:44,636 --> 00:59:47,370
here comes the race card.
989
00:59:56,048 --> 00:59:58,181
My name is Johnny L. Cochran Jr.
990
00:59:58,183 --> 01:00:00,517
I am primarily a civil rights lawyer.
991
01:00:00,519 --> 01:00:01,785
And I represent a number of clients
992
01:00:01,787 --> 01:00:05,088
who have had their civil rights abridged.
993
01:00:06,525 --> 01:00:10,527
He and his firm were
central players in this story
994
01:00:10,529 --> 01:00:13,196
of the LAPD and race in Los Angeles.
995
01:00:14,366 --> 01:00:16,032
Growing up in America,
996
01:00:16,034 --> 01:00:18,001
any African American will tell you that,
997
01:00:18,003 --> 01:00:20,537
we know we have to run faster,
998
01:00:20,539 --> 01:00:22,806
jump higher, work harder,
999
01:00:22,808 --> 01:00:24,541
to do the same that anyone else has to do.
1000
01:00:25,878 --> 01:00:29,713
Johnny Cochran was
always the icon to young
1001
01:00:29,715 --> 01:00:34,050
black, brown, and oppressed
people in Los Angeles
1002
01:00:34,052 --> 01:00:36,887
because Johnny was that young
1003
01:00:36,889 --> 01:00:39,823
dashing lawyer who took on the police.
1004
01:00:41,593 --> 01:00:44,594
Johnny Cochran made his name
1005
01:00:44,596 --> 01:00:48,832
as a public lawyer in the Deadwyler case.
1006
01:00:48,834 --> 01:00:50,567
The latest explosion of violence in Watts
1007
01:00:50,569 --> 01:00:53,003
really began here 11 days ago.
1008
01:00:53,005 --> 01:00:54,838
A negro motorist driving down here
1009
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:56,539
was rushing his wife to the hospital,
1010
01:00:56,541 --> 01:00:58,108
she was having labor pains,
1011
01:00:58,110 --> 01:01:00,944
they were stopped, stopped
by a white patrolman.
1012
01:01:00,946 --> 01:01:05,749
One policeman got out
and came around to my side
1013
01:01:05,751 --> 01:01:07,284
and my husband leaned over me
1014
01:01:07,286 --> 01:01:08,551
and asked him if he would
1015
01:01:08,553 --> 01:01:11,788
lead him out to the
hospital to care of me.
1016
01:01:14,226 --> 01:01:18,295
And then he, he didn't say
anything, and he shot him.
1017
01:01:20,799 --> 01:01:22,332
And he fell over me.
1018
01:01:30,575 --> 01:01:32,275
Mr. Cochran would like to know,
1019
01:01:32,277 --> 01:01:34,978
did you get inside the Deadwyler car
1020
01:01:34,980 --> 01:01:37,580
with the upper part of
your body voluntarily?
1021
01:01:37,582 --> 01:01:38,582
Yes sir.
1022
01:01:39,618 --> 01:01:41,117
Mr. Cochran would like to know,
1023
01:01:41,119 --> 01:01:44,988
did you observe any weapons
within the Deadwyler car?
1024
01:01:44,990 --> 01:01:46,556
No, sir, I did not.
1025
01:01:46,558 --> 01:01:48,091
Mr. Cochran wants to know,
1026
01:01:48,093 --> 01:01:49,826
that became the catchphrase because
1027
01:01:49,828 --> 01:01:53,096
the lawyer, himself, could
not ask the questions.
1028
01:01:53,098 --> 01:01:56,633
He had to go through the county council.
1029
01:01:56,635 --> 01:01:57,968
Mr. Cochran would like to know,
1030
01:01:57,970 --> 01:01:59,302
if you been trained to keep your
1031
01:01:59,304 --> 01:02:00,470
weapon away from a suspect?
1032
01:02:00,472 --> 01:02:02,806
Yes, sir.
1033
01:02:02,808 --> 01:02:06,242
Johnny was like 27-28 years old then.
1034
01:02:06,244 --> 01:02:08,345
He was a young whippersnapper.
1035
01:02:09,481 --> 01:02:11,348
Mr. Cochran would like to know,
1036
01:02:11,350 --> 01:02:13,583
while you were at the Los
Angeles police academy,
1037
01:02:13,585 --> 01:02:15,685
did they train you to put your
1038
01:02:15,687 --> 01:02:18,688
upper part of your body inside a car?
1039
01:02:20,192 --> 01:02:22,425
Not specifically that, no.
1040
01:02:30,502 --> 01:02:33,103
Because it was a televised trial,
1041
01:02:34,806 --> 01:02:36,840
he became a hero to everybody
1042
01:02:36,842 --> 01:02:39,275
in to the south central community.
1043
01:02:42,714 --> 01:02:47,550
Few people had higher
standing, deeper standing.
1044
01:02:47,552 --> 01:02:52,055
Johnny was always that
stalwart defender of justice,
1045
01:02:52,057 --> 01:02:55,525
fighting against the bastille.
1046
01:02:55,527 --> 01:02:56,493
Each of the defendants across the board
1047
01:02:56,495 --> 01:02:57,627
were found not guilty of the
1048
01:02:57,629 --> 01:03:00,063
assaults on the police officers.
1049
01:03:00,065 --> 01:03:02,866
Mr. Settles was beaten, the
booking photos show that.
1050
01:03:02,868 --> 01:03:05,035
I want to know if they had
anything to do with his death.
1051
01:03:05,037 --> 01:03:06,870
I want to know, whether
or not, he hung himself
1052
01:03:06,872 --> 01:03:09,039
or whether or not he was hung.
1053
01:03:09,041 --> 01:03:10,507
The only version that you heard
1054
01:03:10,509 --> 01:03:12,342
of what transpired was what the
1055
01:03:12,344 --> 01:03:14,878
police officers told
you, isn't that correct?
1056
01:03:16,381 --> 01:03:17,313
It's not that Johnny was the
1057
01:03:17,315 --> 01:03:18,715
only good lawyer for OJ Simpson
1058
01:03:18,717 --> 01:03:20,884
but I would say that he and his firm
1059
01:03:20,886 --> 01:03:23,920
were the only lawyers that
would really understand
1060
01:03:23,922 --> 01:03:26,256
and argue this case in the context of
1061
01:03:26,258 --> 01:03:30,593
the LAPD's relationship
to African Americans.
1062
01:03:30,595 --> 01:03:33,563
Now, did he also like a big
celebrity trial, you bet.
1063
01:03:33,565 --> 01:03:35,765
Michael Jackson has maintained
1064
01:03:35,767 --> 01:03:37,700
his innocence from the
beginning of this matter.
1065
01:03:37,702 --> 01:03:41,571
He still, maintains that innocence.
1066
01:03:41,573 --> 01:03:45,241
He was a big character, he was flamboyant.
1067
01:03:45,243 --> 01:03:46,910
- I love you.
- [Hi Johnny].
1068
01:03:48,713 --> 01:03:50,280
We were talking about
different styles of lawyering
1069
01:03:50,282 --> 01:03:51,548
and how you make a case to jury
1070
01:03:51,550 --> 01:03:53,016
and one of the things he said
1071
01:03:53,018 --> 01:03:54,551
about predominately
African American juries,
1072
01:03:54,553 --> 01:03:56,619
he goes Jimmy, when is
what he used to call me,
1073
01:03:56,621 --> 01:03:57,787
he said, Jimmy, blacks like big.
1074
01:03:58,523 --> 01:04:00,356
And he liked to be big.
1075
01:04:15,874 --> 01:04:19,742
My daughter was in the Watts parade and
1076
01:04:19,744 --> 01:04:22,779
Johnny Cochran was the grand marshal.
1077
01:04:25,050 --> 01:04:28,685
He said, "I want to see
you guys at the trial."
1078
01:04:30,222 --> 01:04:33,857
I hadn't planned to go,
but since he asked me,
1079
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:37,393
I said, well Johnny wants me to come, and
1080
01:04:37,395 --> 01:04:39,796
he asked me to come,
so I'm coming down here.
1081
01:04:39,798 --> 01:04:42,565
I'm gonna find a way
to get here every day.
1082
01:04:46,104 --> 01:04:49,072
OJ Simpson is about appear
in a Los Angeles courtroom.
1083
01:04:49,074 --> 01:04:50,440
He's going to enter a plea,
1084
01:04:50,442 --> 01:04:52,509
a date for trial will be set,
1085
01:04:52,511 --> 01:04:57,080
and a judge to oversee the
trial is going to be appointed.
1086
01:04:57,082 --> 01:05:01,618
This is the time set for the
arraignment of Mr. Simpson.
1087
01:05:01,620 --> 01:05:05,121
Mr. Simpson you are charged
with the crime of murder.
1088
01:05:05,123 --> 01:05:06,823
Are you ready to enter
a plea at this time?
1089
01:05:06,825 --> 01:05:08,258
Yes, your honor.
1090
01:05:08,260 --> 01:05:10,493
How do you plea to counts one and two?
1091
01:05:10,495 --> 01:05:14,130
Absolutely 100% not guilty.
1092
01:05:14,132 --> 01:05:17,967
That's when I want to
hear, you're not guilty.
1093
01:05:17,969 --> 01:05:19,335
He was back on his feet and ready
1094
01:05:19,337 --> 01:05:21,971
to tell the whole world
that he was wrongly accused.
1095
01:05:21,973 --> 01:05:24,340
And it was just the
biggest bunch of horse shit.
1096
01:05:24,342 --> 01:05:25,975
Thank you, you may be seated.
1097
01:05:25,977 --> 01:05:28,278
But he sold it.
1098
01:05:29,447 --> 01:05:30,780
I gave him a thumbs up.
1099
01:05:30,782 --> 01:05:34,450
And he looked over at
me and he waved at me.
1100
01:05:34,452 --> 01:05:36,519
He was very good looking.
1101
01:05:37,789 --> 01:05:40,623
And that day he was really good looking.
1102
01:05:42,794 --> 01:05:45,295
I may not have thought he
was a big celebrity but it
1103
01:05:45,297 --> 01:05:48,998
became really clear to me super
fast that he was to others.
1104
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:51,467
OJ Simpson, I really admire the guy,
1105
01:05:51,469 --> 01:05:54,370
football, and great actor.
1106
01:05:54,372 --> 01:05:56,973
OJ Simpson has been a
hero of mine since college.
1107
01:05:56,975 --> 01:05:59,709
I think he's a great
man and a a great hero,
1108
01:05:59,711 --> 01:06:01,911
and has touched a lot of lives.
1109
01:06:03,248 --> 01:06:05,081
I don't think he did it,
1110
01:06:05,083 --> 01:06:08,084
doesn't seem like that kind of person.
1111
01:06:08,086 --> 01:06:11,921
I'm assigning the case to Judge Lance Ito.
1112
01:06:11,923 --> 01:06:14,657
Judge Ito is an acceptable fashion.
1113
01:06:16,761 --> 01:06:18,995
Judge Ito will be accepted
for the people as well.
1114
01:06:18,997 --> 01:06:23,266
Very well, thank you, then
that is the assignment.
1115
01:06:23,268 --> 01:06:25,868
Here's the first time we'll
really get to see the system.
1116
01:06:25,870 --> 01:06:27,737
To see if it really works.
1117
01:06:27,739 --> 01:06:31,007
For someone with some money, a celebrity.
1118
01:06:32,510 --> 01:06:36,379
A well loved, respected,
cherished type of man.
1119
01:06:36,381 --> 01:06:39,682
Now, let's see if
justice can work for him.
1120
01:06:58,203 --> 01:07:00,436
There's nothing more important
1121
01:07:00,438 --> 01:07:04,340
during a jury trial, than
the selection of your jury.
1122
01:07:07,579 --> 01:07:10,780
You can win or lose you case right there.
1123
01:07:11,950 --> 01:07:15,285
The issue of where to conduct the trial,
1124
01:07:15,287 --> 01:07:19,188
the Santa Monica court house,
largely white jury pool.
1125
01:07:20,992 --> 01:07:23,860
Downtown LA, largely black jury pool.
1126
01:07:25,330 --> 01:07:27,096
Gil Garcetti, the DA, always said,
1127
01:07:27,098 --> 01:07:30,233
"Well it just logistically
had to be downtown."
1128
01:07:30,235 --> 01:07:31,834
A lot of us thought that Gil Garcetti,
1129
01:07:31,836 --> 01:07:35,805
elected official, needed to protect
1130
01:07:35,807 --> 01:07:38,574
his reputation in the black community,
1131
01:07:38,576 --> 01:07:42,578
a big voting block, by
keeping the case downtown.
1132
01:07:42,580 --> 01:07:45,281
I'm confident that we can, indeed,
1133
01:07:45,283 --> 01:07:49,085
find white, black,
brown, every color juror
1134
01:07:49,087 --> 01:07:54,090
there is, who will, indeed,
be fair and impartial.
1135
01:07:54,092 --> 01:07:58,127
I think it would have
been societally better,
1136
01:07:58,129 --> 01:08:02,999
from the DA's perspective,
to win a conviction downtown.
1137
01:08:03,001 --> 01:08:04,867
And to not be accused
of having stacked this,
1138
01:08:04,869 --> 01:08:06,969
in such a way that whites were to
1139
01:08:06,971 --> 01:08:09,672
stand in judgment of black men.
1140
01:08:12,143 --> 01:08:13,976
If you have a juror who believes
1141
01:08:13,978 --> 01:08:18,114
police never do anything
wrong, you're in tough shape.
1142
01:08:18,116 --> 01:08:20,983
Certainly, you can find most people,
1143
01:08:20,985 --> 01:08:23,186
want to believe their police officers are
1144
01:08:23,188 --> 01:08:24,554
fair and want to do their job and so
1145
01:08:24,556 --> 01:08:27,123
that's a given, you start with that,
1146
01:08:27,125 --> 01:08:28,524
but you've got to find that person who
1147
01:08:28,526 --> 01:08:30,126
understands that in the real world
1148
01:08:30,128 --> 01:08:32,762
that doesn't happen all the time.
1149
01:08:35,834 --> 01:08:39,535
We interviewed over 5000
people in Los Angeles
1150
01:08:39,537 --> 01:08:41,971
in perpetration for the OJ Simpson trial.
1151
01:08:41,973 --> 01:08:43,940
The conclusions were that
1152
01:08:45,210 --> 01:08:48,077
just presenting the straight up evidence,
1153
01:08:48,079 --> 01:08:50,246
you weren't going to get a lot of
1154
01:08:50,248 --> 01:08:54,217
sympathetic African American females,
1155
01:08:54,219 --> 01:08:57,053
many harbored a resentment that this
1156
01:08:57,055 --> 01:08:59,722
famous athlete, this charming guy,
1157
01:08:59,724 --> 01:09:01,924
had a married a white, blonde woman
1158
01:09:01,926 --> 01:09:05,828
rather than someone
from his own community.
1159
01:09:05,830 --> 01:09:10,032
But the antagonism was to her and not him.
1160
01:09:10,034 --> 01:09:12,502
OJ you look gorgeous right now.
1161
01:09:13,938 --> 01:09:16,539
How come you're so loyal to this man
1162
01:09:16,541 --> 01:09:19,575
who married a white woman?
1163
01:09:19,577 --> 01:09:23,513
And was dating her while he
was married to a black woman.
1164
01:09:25,383 --> 01:09:27,216
I mean, doesn't any of this make
1165
01:09:27,218 --> 01:09:31,053
you feel a little less defensive of him.
1166
01:09:31,055 --> 01:09:33,723
Marcia Clark had this
1167
01:09:33,725 --> 01:09:37,093
faith about her ability to connect
1168
01:09:37,095 --> 01:09:39,328
with African American woman.
1169
01:09:40,799 --> 01:09:42,365
African American women had been some
1170
01:09:42,367 --> 01:09:44,534
of my best jurors on previous cases.
1171
01:09:44,536 --> 01:09:47,370
Even when the defendant
was an African American.
1172
01:09:47,372 --> 01:09:49,272
There was just a way, an easy way I had,
1173
01:09:49,274 --> 01:09:51,741
that I could talk to them.
1174
01:09:51,743 --> 01:09:53,042
Now, we will show you the other side
1175
01:09:53,044 --> 01:09:55,278
of the smiling face that you
saw on the Hertz commercial.
1176
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:58,047
We had trial simulations.
1177
01:09:58,049 --> 01:09:59,882
The one you never saw on camera.
1178
01:09:59,884 --> 01:10:02,885
Marcia was not received positively.
1179
01:10:04,222 --> 01:10:07,623
Marcia Clark, every black woman, bitch.
1180
01:10:10,728 --> 01:10:12,128
When they had the mock jury,
1181
01:10:12,130 --> 01:10:13,763
the mock trial, and some of the comments
1182
01:10:13,765 --> 01:10:15,731
came back about you, about maybe being
1183
01:10:15,733 --> 01:10:17,066
really hard or tough, what did you
1184
01:10:17,068 --> 01:10:18,935
think when you heard some of that.
1185
01:10:18,937 --> 01:10:22,305
I was very surprised, the balance of them
1186
01:10:22,307 --> 01:10:25,241
said good things, so, you know, the media
1187
01:10:25,243 --> 01:10:27,510
takes one kernel and blows it up into
1188
01:10:27,512 --> 01:10:29,045
a huge bowl of popcorn.
1189
01:10:31,282 --> 01:10:33,082
Marcia tended to discount the
1190
01:10:33,084 --> 01:10:35,284
fact that black women jurors didn't
1191
01:10:35,286 --> 01:10:37,887
seem to appreciate her very much.
1192
01:10:39,691 --> 01:10:41,123
I had no illusions about what
1193
01:10:41,125 --> 01:10:43,593
I was going to be up against.
1194
01:10:43,595 --> 01:10:44,827
The odds were stacked against us
1195
01:10:44,829 --> 01:10:46,462
in terms of the African American jurors
1196
01:10:46,464 --> 01:10:49,465
because that's what the polls showed.
1197
01:10:49,467 --> 01:10:50,833
A California poll, released
1198
01:10:50,835 --> 01:10:53,269
today, found that only 10% of blacks,
1199
01:10:53,271 --> 01:10:54,504
who were surveyed, believed it is very
1200
01:10:54,506 --> 01:10:56,939
likely, that Simpson was guilty.
1201
01:10:59,110 --> 01:11:02,345
The ideal juror would have been
1202
01:11:02,347 --> 01:11:05,047
younger, i.e. someone not familiar
1203
01:11:05,049 --> 01:11:08,451
with Simpson at the high of his fame,
1204
01:11:08,453 --> 01:11:10,253
Asian, or probably white.
1205
01:11:12,690 --> 01:11:14,690
All we want, just give me,
1206
01:11:14,692 --> 01:11:17,693
12 fair, responsible, unbiased jurors
1207
01:11:19,697 --> 01:11:21,497
who are going to follow the law
1208
01:11:21,499 --> 01:11:24,300
and put aside their personal feelings
1209
01:11:24,302 --> 01:11:27,904
and do what the court
and the law requires.
1210
01:11:35,146 --> 01:11:36,879
In Los Angeles today,
the judge and lawyers
1211
01:11:36,881 --> 01:11:38,848
in the OJ Simpson murder trial began
1212
01:11:38,850 --> 01:11:42,084
interviewing prospective
jurors face to face.
1213
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:50,927
Just to set the scene for you,
1214
01:11:50,929 --> 01:11:53,029
when all the jurors walk in,
1215
01:11:53,031 --> 01:11:56,532
all the attorneys are lined
up like a receiving line,
1216
01:11:56,534 --> 01:11:59,368
and several times during the proceedings,
1217
01:11:59,370 --> 01:12:01,571
OJ Simpson would turn and seem to
1218
01:12:01,573 --> 01:12:03,272
make eye contact with people,
1219
01:12:03,274 --> 01:12:07,076
and occasionally smile
at people in the audience.
1220
01:12:36,374 --> 01:12:39,041
The quest for impartial jurors has
1221
01:12:39,043 --> 01:12:41,877
been going on now for more than a month.
1222
01:12:47,452 --> 01:12:49,785
They called me to the chair.
1223
01:12:51,322 --> 01:12:54,256
When I sat down, I didn't
even put my purse down.
1224
01:12:54,258 --> 01:12:56,726
Because I felt like it
was going to be that quick.
1225
01:12:56,728 --> 01:12:58,394
They were going to say, you're excused.
1226
01:12:58,396 --> 01:12:59,495
I'm looking at the list,
1227
01:12:59,497 --> 01:13:01,097
I know what's coming up.
1228
01:13:01,099 --> 01:13:02,264
I know who's left behind me.
1229
01:13:02,266 --> 01:13:03,466
I know what I've got in the box.
1230
01:13:03,468 --> 01:13:04,900
I have to look and see,
1231
01:13:04,902 --> 01:13:07,269
am I going to do better or worse.
1232
01:13:07,271 --> 01:13:10,272
There was a process,
of what I have labeled
1233
01:13:10,274 --> 01:13:11,741
as reverse Darwinism,
1234
01:13:13,344 --> 01:13:16,445
I call it the survival
of the most unfit jurors.
1235
01:13:16,447 --> 01:13:17,480
Many it seems want to watch,
1236
01:13:17,482 --> 01:13:20,449
but fewer wish to serve.
1237
01:13:20,451 --> 01:13:22,852
91 of 219 people summoned for
1238
01:13:22,854 --> 01:13:25,087
Simpson jury duty,
said in a questionnaire,
1239
01:13:25,089 --> 01:13:28,758
a likely 6 month trial would
be too great a hardship.
1240
01:13:32,597 --> 01:13:34,997
I think it's the only way, to ensure
1241
01:13:34,999 --> 01:13:38,901
that we are going to have
a fair trial for both sides.
1242
01:13:42,006 --> 01:13:46,542
Jurors who were available for six months
1243
01:13:46,544 --> 01:13:49,912
skewed heavily towards
a lower socioeconomic
1244
01:13:52,550 --> 01:13:56,585
strata of jurors and a
much more diverse jury pool.
1245
01:13:58,856 --> 01:14:00,556
A lot of smart jurors who might have been
1246
01:14:00,558 --> 01:14:04,527
open to DNA scientific evidence
simply went by the wayside.
1247
01:14:06,564 --> 01:14:09,799
We didn't have many of our type of juror.
1248
01:14:11,836 --> 01:14:13,569
I thought, okay, I better
quit while I'm behind
1249
01:14:13,571 --> 01:14:15,838
and not get further behind because it was
1250
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:18,908
only going to go downhill from there.
1251
01:14:20,378 --> 01:14:21,811
They said, your honor we accept,
1252
01:14:21,813 --> 01:14:24,947
and at that point, I sunk in my chair.
1253
01:14:26,250 --> 01:14:28,317
I was stunned.
1254
01:14:28,319 --> 01:14:31,887
Oh my God, oh my God,
and I told my daughter,
1255
01:14:33,424 --> 01:14:36,092
and she said, oh mother, oh my God.
1256
01:14:40,431 --> 01:14:43,299
And my son, he said, oh my God, mother.
1257
01:14:46,738 --> 01:14:49,004
And that was it.
1258
01:14:49,006 --> 01:14:52,908
In the end, we did the best
we could with a bad lot.
1259
01:14:55,513 --> 01:14:58,848
We wound up with eight
African American women,
1260
01:14:58,850 --> 01:15:01,584
I thought, you know it
will be an uphill battle
1261
01:15:01,586 --> 01:15:03,352
but I think they'll listen.
1262
01:15:03,354 --> 01:15:06,055
Thrilled, we're thrilled.
1263
01:15:06,057 --> 01:15:08,591
We were so stunned
1264
01:15:08,593 --> 01:15:12,194
that we had such a large
collection of favorable jurors.
1265
01:15:13,598 --> 01:15:16,432
75% of the actual jurors believed
1266
01:15:18,469 --> 01:15:20,870
that he could not have
committed these murders
1267
01:15:20,872 --> 01:15:24,607
because he excelled at football at USC.
1268
01:15:24,609 --> 01:15:25,708
The only thing that could get you
1269
01:15:25,710 --> 01:15:27,209
through some times is that guys
1270
01:15:27,211 --> 01:15:29,478
look at each other and
say, hey man, we are SC.
1271
01:15:32,116 --> 01:15:35,384
We were about to walk in to
1272
01:15:35,386 --> 01:15:37,486
the lockup from the court room.
1273
01:15:37,488 --> 01:15:39,855
OJ looked back one last time,
1274
01:15:41,058 --> 01:15:42,491
it was me, Johnny, we were going
1275
01:15:42,493 --> 01:15:44,226
back to talk about everything
1276
01:15:44,228 --> 01:15:46,629
and OJ said, "Guys, if this jury
1277
01:15:47,899 --> 01:15:50,399
convicts me, maybe I did do it."
1278
01:16:15,960 --> 01:16:19,929
It has seven months to reach this point.
1279
01:16:22,466 --> 01:16:23,866
We are, and I think the client,
1280
01:16:23,868 --> 01:16:26,268
is really, really pleased, that we
1281
01:16:26,270 --> 01:16:30,105
can have someone stand up and
speak to the tryers of fact.
1282
01:16:31,342 --> 01:16:34,176
Time to stop posturing.
1283
01:16:34,178 --> 01:16:35,444
Let's go to trial.
1284
01:16:35,446 --> 01:16:38,614
Have a good one everybody.
1285
01:16:38,616 --> 01:16:40,683
Five, four, three, two, one.
1286
01:16:48,125 --> 01:16:51,594
Council and the audience please be seated.
1287
01:16:53,231 --> 01:16:55,497
Alright, are both sides prepared
to go forward, Mr. Cochran?
1288
01:16:55,499 --> 01:16:56,465
We are, your Honor.
1289
01:16:56,467 --> 01:16:57,333
Ms. Clark?
1290
01:16:57,335 --> 01:16:58,534
Yes, we are, your Honor.
1291
01:16:58,536 --> 01:16:59,535
Alright, do the people wish
1292
01:16:59,537 --> 01:17:00,302
to make an opening statement?
1293
01:17:00,304 --> 01:17:02,304
Yes we do.
1294
01:17:02,306 --> 01:17:03,339
Alright, you may proceed.
1295
01:17:03,341 --> 01:17:05,441
Mr. Darden, thank you.
1296
01:17:07,245 --> 01:17:09,645
When we started off,
1297
01:17:09,647 --> 01:17:13,749
the prosecution had their team of lawyers.
1298
01:17:13,751 --> 01:17:17,086
Your Honor Judge Ito, Mr. Cochran,
1299
01:17:17,088 --> 01:17:19,421
Mr. Shapiro, and Dean Allman.
1300
01:17:20,558 --> 01:17:22,825
And here's this new face at the table.
1301
01:17:22,827 --> 01:17:24,760
And to you ladies and
gentlemen of the jury,
1302
01:17:24,762 --> 01:17:26,862
Good morning.
1303
01:17:26,864 --> 01:17:29,365
And I'm like, why are they bring him here?
1304
01:17:29,367 --> 01:17:30,532
And we're here today,
1305
01:17:30,534 --> 01:17:32,668
obviously, to resolve an issue,
1306
01:17:33,871 --> 01:17:35,371
to settle a question,
1307
01:17:35,373 --> 01:17:37,573
a question that has been on the minds of
1308
01:17:37,575 --> 01:17:40,576
people throughout the country
these last seven months.
1309
01:17:40,578 --> 01:17:42,011
Certainly has been on the mind
1310
01:17:42,013 --> 01:17:43,612
of my people up in Richmond, California
1311
01:17:43,614 --> 01:17:45,614
and friends in Fayetteville, Georgia
1312
01:17:45,616 --> 01:17:46,715
and all across the country and
1313
01:17:46,717 --> 01:17:48,384
everybody wants to know, did OJ Simpson
1314
01:17:48,386 --> 01:17:51,820
really kill Nicole
Brown and Ronald Goldman?
1315
01:17:55,393 --> 01:17:58,527
It was apparent to everyone in America,
1316
01:18:01,299 --> 01:18:03,432
why he was now on the case.
1317
01:18:05,269 --> 01:18:07,536
Well, certainly because he was black.
1318
01:18:07,538 --> 01:18:09,872
If that was pearbuddy,
because he was a good lawyer.
1319
01:18:09,874 --> 01:18:11,607
He's a good lawyer, we
needed to add to the team.
1320
01:18:11,609 --> 01:18:14,944
Thicken the team up,
that's the party line.
1321
01:18:16,714 --> 01:18:20,449
I thought Chris was a
very good trial lawyer.
1322
01:18:20,451 --> 01:18:23,052
Any questions for Chris?
1323
01:18:23,054 --> 01:18:24,620
He was young, he was learning.
1324
01:18:24,622 --> 01:18:26,455
Come on, man, come on.
1325
01:18:26,457 --> 01:18:29,558
Look at this guy, come on,
we have to drag him over.
1326
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:31,327
But he was very good.
1327
01:18:32,897 --> 01:18:35,898
There was a little bit of cockiness.
1328
01:18:35,900 --> 01:18:39,101
But it was not an offensive cockiness.
1329
01:18:39,103 --> 01:18:40,569
I don't care what anybody says,
1330
01:18:40,571 --> 01:18:41,937
I dress much better than Johnny Cochran.
1331
01:18:43,341 --> 01:18:45,741
Johnny, I'm going to introduce you to my,
1332
01:18:45,743 --> 01:18:48,978
well I'm gonna show you the
rack where I buy my suits.
1333
01:18:48,980 --> 01:18:50,112
He had a pretty good reputation
1334
01:18:50,114 --> 01:18:52,514
as someone who can build a case.
1335
01:18:54,085 --> 01:18:58,620
And of course, most
notably, Chris was black.
1336
01:18:58,622 --> 01:19:00,522
And Marcia and I were not.
1337
01:19:07,031 --> 01:19:09,999
You hear a lot about
this talk about justice.
1338
01:19:10,001 --> 01:19:11,834
I guess, Dr. Martin
Luther King said it best,
1339
01:19:11,836 --> 01:19:14,103
when he said that, injustice anywhere
1340
01:19:14,105 --> 01:19:17,006
is a threat to justice everywhere.
1341
01:19:17,008 --> 01:19:20,609
So, we are now, embarked
upon this search for justice.
1342
01:19:22,113 --> 01:19:25,114
I have to tell you
personally, for all the cases
1343
01:19:25,116 --> 01:19:27,783
I've tried, I never felt so white.
1344
01:19:29,053 --> 01:19:31,320
It seems to me that the fact that blood
1345
01:19:31,322 --> 01:19:35,057
mysteriously appears on
vital pieces of evidence
1346
01:19:35,059 --> 01:19:39,828
and it's predicted what the
results will be regarding DNA,
1347
01:19:39,830 --> 01:19:43,232
when that evidence is
still in the police lab,
1348
01:19:43,234 --> 01:19:47,136
is devastating evidence of
something far more sinister.
1349
01:19:48,739 --> 01:19:52,574
Using the concept of a
conspiracy, historically,
1350
01:19:54,078 --> 01:19:59,214
in Los Angeles will
resonate with diverse jurors,
1351
01:19:59,216 --> 01:20:01,550
who know about this history.
1352
01:20:03,721 --> 01:20:06,388
You had to have someone to blame.
1353
01:20:08,259 --> 01:20:11,493
Detective Mark Fuhrman,
now it's very interesting,
1354
01:20:11,495 --> 01:20:14,596
that the prosecution never once
1355
01:20:14,598 --> 01:20:16,865
mentioned his name yesterday.
1356
01:20:16,867 --> 01:20:18,834
It's like they just want to hide him,
1357
01:20:18,836 --> 01:20:22,438
but they can't hide him, he
very much a part of this case.
1358
01:20:24,375 --> 01:20:26,809
Chris Darden saw that this case
1359
01:20:28,379 --> 01:20:31,847
was becoming this weird
referendum on the LAPD,
1360
01:20:36,754 --> 01:20:40,789
on the history of race in Los Angeles.
1361
01:20:40,791 --> 01:20:43,659
And Chris, he understood those issues.
1362
01:20:44,862 --> 01:20:48,797
He had worked in what
was then our SID unit,
1363
01:20:48,799 --> 01:20:51,667
which investigated police abuse cases.
1364
01:20:53,571 --> 01:20:55,370
They obtained those warrants
1365
01:20:55,372 --> 01:20:58,774
simply to level and make
uninhabitable those locations.
1366
01:20:58,776 --> 01:21:00,876
Andyof the police officers that were
1367
01:21:00,878 --> 01:21:03,612
called to testify by
us, lied on the stand,
1368
01:21:03,614 --> 01:21:07,116
it was obvious to everyone
that they were lying.
1369
01:21:07,118 --> 01:21:10,786
Every black lawyer idolized
Johnny Cochran in 1994.
1370
01:21:13,891 --> 01:21:17,893
And I say, Chris Darden
wanted to out Johnny, Johnny.
1371
01:21:21,265 --> 01:21:23,165
He wanted to beat the man
1372
01:21:24,602 --> 01:21:26,869
on the biggest stage of his career.
1373
01:21:33,978 --> 01:21:35,811
Police detective Mark Fuhrman,
1374
01:21:35,813 --> 01:21:39,748
did he find or plant a bloody
glove at Simpson's estate?
1375
01:21:39,750 --> 01:21:41,950
Judge Lance Ito must soon decide
1376
01:21:41,952 --> 01:21:43,352
whether the jury gets to hear
1377
01:21:43,354 --> 01:21:46,655
about detective Fuhrman's checkered past.
1378
01:21:48,092 --> 01:21:51,260
We knew Fuhrman was going
to be an important witness.
1379
01:21:51,262 --> 01:21:54,029
People had indicated that
he had used racist language
1380
01:21:54,031 --> 01:21:57,799
in an offensive way, I
think, in a way that jurors
1381
01:21:57,801 --> 01:22:00,102
and everybody else would not like.
1382
01:22:00,104 --> 01:22:02,271
The N word, or any other racial epitaph,
1383
01:22:02,273 --> 01:22:05,941
has an inflammatory effect,
that is incomparable,
1384
01:22:05,943 --> 01:22:08,677
and to that specific issue,
1385
01:22:08,679 --> 01:22:10,846
Mr. Darden wishes to
address the court, and
1386
01:22:10,848 --> 01:22:13,982
I think I'll conclude
my comments at this time.
1387
01:22:13,984 --> 01:22:16,552
Mr. Darden, good morning.
1388
01:22:16,554 --> 01:22:19,555
Good morning, your Honor.
1389
01:22:19,557 --> 01:22:20,856
Your honor, I think the best indication
1390
01:22:20,858 --> 01:22:22,791
or evidence on just how inflammatory
1391
01:22:22,793 --> 01:22:25,794
the use of the word is, is the fact
1392
01:22:25,796 --> 01:22:28,030
that it appears that Mr. Cochran and I,
1393
01:22:28,032 --> 01:22:31,066
the only two black lead lawyers
1394
01:22:31,068 --> 01:22:33,001
on each side of the council table
1395
01:22:33,003 --> 01:22:34,836
are some how dragged into this issue,
1396
01:22:34,838 --> 01:22:37,306
to argue the issue to the court.
1397
01:22:37,308 --> 01:22:40,075
They used him to make the argument,
1398
01:22:41,845 --> 01:22:44,846
that an African American jury
1399
01:22:44,848 --> 01:22:48,850
can not listen to the
utterance of that word
1400
01:22:48,852 --> 01:22:52,921
in some sort of
dispassionate, objective way.
1401
01:22:52,923 --> 01:22:54,156
It blinds people,
1402
01:22:55,826 --> 01:22:56,992
it will blind the jury.
1403
01:22:56,994 --> 01:22:59,261
It will blind them to the truth.
1404
01:22:59,263 --> 01:23:02,831
They won't be able to discern
what's true and what's not.
1405
01:23:02,833 --> 01:23:04,700
He hit the nail on the head.
1406
01:23:04,702 --> 01:23:06,268
He said, if you do this, you know,
1407
01:23:06,270 --> 01:23:08,870
then that's all that this
case is gonna be about.
1408
01:23:08,872 --> 01:23:12,241
All they'll think about is
frame up, frame up, frame up.
1409
01:23:12,243 --> 01:23:13,609
All they do is mention the word,
1410
01:23:13,611 --> 01:23:16,111
say to Mark Fuhrman, hey did you ever
1411
01:23:16,113 --> 01:23:18,547
use that N word, and he'll
say, Yeah and it's over.
1412
01:23:18,549 --> 01:23:21,016
He must have planted the glove.
1413
01:23:21,018 --> 01:23:23,885
I remember whispering to Johnny,
1414
01:23:23,887 --> 01:23:25,287
is this nigger serious?
1415
01:23:25,289 --> 01:23:27,289
And I'm not saying Mark
Fuhrman is a racist.
1416
01:23:27,291 --> 01:23:29,024
Is this nigger crazy?
1417
01:23:29,026 --> 01:23:30,459
He was suffering from stress and
1418
01:23:30,461 --> 01:23:31,560
it has to be stressful to be a
1419
01:23:31,562 --> 01:23:33,028
police officer in the city of LA,
1420
01:23:33,030 --> 01:23:34,363
geez the stuff that is going on
1421
01:23:34,365 --> 01:23:37,766
in this city in the
last five to six years.
1422
01:23:37,768 --> 01:23:38,867
Is he serious?
1423
01:23:40,271 --> 01:23:42,938
Or is he just carrying
the white man's bucket?
1424
01:23:42,940 --> 01:23:44,273
It will give them a test, and
1425
01:23:44,275 --> 01:23:46,241
the test will be, who's side are you on?
1426
01:23:46,243 --> 01:23:48,744
The side of the white prosecutors
and the white policemen
1427
01:23:48,746 --> 01:23:50,612
or on the side of the black defendant and
1428
01:23:50,614 --> 01:23:54,483
his very prominent and
capable black lawyer.
1429
01:23:54,485 --> 01:23:56,818
That's what it's gonna do, either you're
1430
01:23:56,820 --> 01:24:00,155
with the man or you're with the brothers.
1431
01:24:01,792 --> 01:24:03,825
I must say, and this is one of those
1432
01:24:03,827 --> 01:24:05,761
sort of bracing moments, this is why you
1433
01:24:05,763 --> 01:24:07,996
need diversity in newsrooms, by the way,
1434
01:24:07,998 --> 01:24:09,398
is that I came out of there thinking
1435
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:11,233
that Darden made a pretty good point.
1436
01:24:11,235 --> 01:24:13,068
That it's such a shocking word,
1437
01:24:13,070 --> 01:24:16,571
that I found myself
flinching at the use of it.
1438
01:24:16,573 --> 01:24:18,006
My colleague, Andrea Ford,
1439
01:24:18,008 --> 01:24:20,809
an African American women, was outraged.
1440
01:24:20,811 --> 01:24:22,678
She felt it was really insulting
1441
01:24:22,680 --> 01:24:24,780
to blacks, to African Americans,
1442
01:24:24,782 --> 01:24:26,014
to think they couldn't hear the word
1443
01:24:26,016 --> 01:24:28,984
and give it the proper weight.
1444
01:24:28,986 --> 01:24:32,087
And I remember thinking,
after talking to Andrea,
1445
01:24:32,089 --> 01:24:34,823
wow, that didn't really occur to me.
1446
01:24:34,825 --> 01:24:37,359
It is a reminder, that who we are
1447
01:24:37,361 --> 01:24:39,995
and how we're brought up does
affect the way we hear things.
1448
01:24:39,997 --> 01:24:41,196
Thank you very much, Judge Ito.
1449
01:24:41,198 --> 01:24:43,365
I have a funeral to attend today but
1450
01:24:43,367 --> 01:24:46,702
I would be remiss were I not at this time
1451
01:24:46,704 --> 01:24:47,969
to take this opportunity to respond
1452
01:24:47,971 --> 01:24:51,006
to my good friend, Mr. Chris Darden.
1453
01:24:51,008 --> 01:24:52,974
When Johnny gets angry,
which is very rare,
1454
01:24:52,976 --> 01:24:56,611
you know, he's remarkably
articulate and good.
1455
01:24:57,815 --> 01:25:00,015
Johnny got angry that day.
1456
01:25:00,017 --> 01:25:02,017
His remarks this morning
1457
01:25:02,019 --> 01:25:03,518
are perhaps the most incredible remarks
1458
01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:06,321
I've heard in the court of law
1459
01:25:06,323 --> 01:25:09,124
in the 32 years I've been practicing law.
1460
01:25:09,126 --> 01:25:12,861
His remarks are demeaning to
African Americans as a group.
1461
01:25:15,032 --> 01:25:17,566
And so I want, before
I go to this funeral,
1462
01:25:17,568 --> 01:25:21,136
to apologize to African
Americans across this country.
1463
01:25:21,138 --> 01:25:23,839
African Americans live
with offensive words,
1464
01:25:23,841 --> 01:25:26,308
offensive looks, offensive treatment
1465
01:25:26,310 --> 01:25:27,943
everyday of their lives.
1466
01:25:29,980 --> 01:25:34,049
To say they can't be fair
is absolutely outrageous.
1467
01:25:34,051 --> 01:25:35,051
I am ashamed
1468
01:25:36,587 --> 01:25:38,854
that Mr. Darden would allow himself to
1469
01:25:38,856 --> 01:25:41,390
become an apologist for this man.
1470
01:25:42,860 --> 01:25:46,995
You can't justify that
in a civilized society.
1471
01:25:46,997 --> 01:25:50,732
Nobody wants introduce race
into this case, your honor.
1472
01:25:50,734 --> 01:25:52,000
Johnny was dying to get the word
1473
01:25:52,002 --> 01:25:54,035
nigger in front of the jury.
1474
01:25:54,037 --> 01:25:57,072
He also did it in such a way
1475
01:25:57,074 --> 01:25:59,508
that, frankly, he made
Darden look ridiculous.
1476
01:25:59,510 --> 01:26:01,209
To come here and testify
as an expert to you
1477
01:26:01,211 --> 01:26:03,211
of what black people think in America.
1478
01:26:03,213 --> 01:26:05,881
All across America, today, believe me
1479
01:26:05,883 --> 01:26:08,750
black people are offended
at this very moment.
1480
01:26:08,752 --> 01:26:11,453
I think that Johnny was rough on him.
1481
01:26:11,455 --> 01:26:13,355
I think it hurt his feelings.
1482
01:26:13,357 --> 01:26:14,756
A lot of people thought that Chris
1483
01:26:14,758 --> 01:26:17,559
would end up at the Cochran firm.
1484
01:26:17,561 --> 01:26:20,128
And, obviously, that didn't happen.
1485
01:26:21,598 --> 01:26:23,432
People had contempt for him because
1486
01:26:23,434 --> 01:26:27,169
they felt like he was a
tool that was being used.
1487
01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:30,205
So time to not to do things that
1488
01:26:30,207 --> 01:26:33,275
it seems to me will last
a person's entire career
1489
01:26:33,277 --> 01:26:36,978
such as insulting a whole race of people
1490
01:26:36,980 --> 01:26:39,247
who have meant so much to this country.
1491
01:26:39,249 --> 01:26:43,218
Let's be clear about this, the subtext
1492
01:26:43,220 --> 01:26:45,754
of everything that Johnny Cochran said
1493
01:26:45,756 --> 01:26:48,156
about Chris Darden was, Uncle Tom.
1494
01:26:50,260 --> 01:26:52,828
And it was egregiously unfair.
1495
01:26:54,798 --> 01:26:56,832
Johnny Cochran, among other things,
1496
01:26:56,834 --> 01:27:00,068
tried OJ was an African
American defendant.
1497
01:27:00,070 --> 01:27:02,671
When OJ Simpson didn't really have
1498
01:27:02,673 --> 01:27:06,575
much of a reputation as an
African American person, really.
1499
01:27:07,945 --> 01:27:09,344
I used to walk on the wild side,
1500
01:27:09,346 --> 01:27:11,680
now I just take a brisk walk.
1501
01:27:14,852 --> 01:27:17,118
This was not a person
that you thought of as a,
1502
01:27:17,120 --> 01:27:21,122
kind of, iconic black
figure in Los Angeles.
1503
01:27:21,124 --> 01:27:24,593
I mean, he lived two
blocks from Mayor Riordan.
1504
01:27:31,268 --> 01:27:34,202
We wanted the jury to see Bundy
1505
01:27:34,204 --> 01:27:35,871
but the defense said, well if we're
1506
01:27:35,873 --> 01:27:40,008
going to do that, we
have to go to Rockingham.
1507
01:27:40,010 --> 01:27:41,543
They do not need to go to Rockingham
1508
01:27:41,545 --> 01:27:44,679
but if they do, show them
where they found the glove.
1509
01:27:44,681 --> 01:27:48,350
That's all that arguable relevant.
1510
01:27:50,487 --> 01:27:52,554
We come to find that Ito was going
1511
01:27:52,556 --> 01:27:55,223
to let them go into Rockingham.
1512
01:27:55,225 --> 01:27:56,324
He's going to march the jury
1513
01:27:56,326 --> 01:27:57,492
through the inside of the house,
1514
01:27:57,494 --> 01:27:59,628
which is relevant to what?
1515
01:27:59,630 --> 01:28:01,530
No part of the crime
happened inside the house.
1516
01:28:01,532 --> 01:28:03,431
What are we doing there?
1517
01:28:08,205 --> 01:28:12,874
What we did that day
is create an illusion.
1518
01:28:12,876 --> 01:28:16,044
When you would walk up the grand staircase
1519
01:28:17,881 --> 01:28:22,317
there was a large wall
with pictures of the family,
1520
01:28:22,319 --> 01:28:23,785
pictures of friends,
1521
01:28:25,589 --> 01:28:28,523
pictures of OJ's career,
1522
01:28:28,525 --> 01:28:32,727
problem was the overwhelming majority of
1523
01:28:32,729 --> 01:28:36,631
pictures were of Caucasian
friends and colleagues of his.
1524
01:28:42,272 --> 01:28:45,240
We had an African American jury
1525
01:28:45,242 --> 01:28:48,910
and we wanted to make
sure that the home setting
1526
01:28:51,114 --> 01:28:54,916
would reflect the themes
that we wanted to reflect.
1527
01:28:56,720 --> 01:28:58,019
We took all of his white friends down.
1528
01:28:58,021 --> 01:29:00,755
Put all of his black people up.
1529
01:29:00,757 --> 01:29:03,925
Pictures he probably had never seen before
1530
01:29:05,095 --> 01:29:06,962
because that is what we were told
1531
01:29:06,964 --> 01:29:08,997
the jury would identify with.
1532
01:29:10,233 --> 01:29:12,033
We made him blacker.
1533
01:29:13,303 --> 01:29:16,037
There was a Norman Rockwell lithograph
1534
01:29:17,574 --> 01:29:19,941
that we took from Johnny's office
1535
01:29:22,212 --> 01:29:25,880
and we put that picture at
the very top of the stairs.
1536
01:29:29,119 --> 01:29:34,456
We did not remove all of his
pictures with white people.
1537
01:29:34,458 --> 01:29:36,224
The whole house would have been gone,
1538
01:29:36,226 --> 01:29:39,995
would have been dark, we didn't do that.
1539
01:29:39,997 --> 01:29:44,566
You have got to be kidding
me, it's night and day.
1540
01:29:44,568 --> 01:29:46,234
This was an African American man's house.
1541
01:29:46,236 --> 01:29:50,472
Who had no associations with
any white guys whatsoever.
1542
01:29:50,474 --> 01:29:52,040
Marcia saw the wall
1543
01:29:55,078 --> 01:29:58,480
and she said, "Carl, you
know damn well, he has never
1544
01:29:58,482 --> 01:30:03,284
had this many black people
on his wall, his entire life."
1545
01:30:03,286 --> 01:30:06,321
I said, "Marcia, what are talking about?
1546
01:30:06,323 --> 01:30:10,525
How dare you accuse us of such things."
1547
01:30:10,527 --> 01:30:13,595
I was miserable, I was angry.
1548
01:30:13,597 --> 01:30:15,830
That is very dirty pool.
1549
01:30:15,832 --> 01:30:17,999
If we had had a Latin jury,
1550
01:30:18,001 --> 01:30:20,001
we would have had a picture
of him in a sombrero,
1551
01:30:20,003 --> 01:30:24,439
there would have been a
mariachi band out front,
1552
01:30:24,441 --> 01:30:27,842
we would have had a pinata
at the upper staircase.
1553
01:30:27,844 --> 01:30:29,678
I objected, we went outside,
1554
01:30:29,680 --> 01:30:31,212
we convened a hearing and I said,
1555
01:30:31,214 --> 01:30:33,281
this has no relevance whatsoever.
1556
01:30:33,283 --> 01:30:34,482
They've now changed the scene.
1557
01:30:34,484 --> 01:30:35,984
It was never relevant to begin with
1558
01:30:35,986 --> 01:30:38,553
and now it's completely irrelevant.
1559
01:30:38,555 --> 01:30:40,188
You know the defense is always
1560
01:30:40,190 --> 01:30:42,457
going to push the envelope,
that's what they do.
1561
01:30:42,459 --> 01:30:45,627
It's up to the judge to stop them.
1562
01:30:45,629 --> 01:30:48,096
Ito let them get away with it.
1563
01:30:52,536 --> 01:30:55,203
All of a sudden he became black.
1564
01:30:55,205 --> 01:30:58,940
They threw off the cape
and now he's one of them.
1565
01:31:02,245 --> 01:31:04,813
I was surprised to see the depth
1566
01:31:04,815 --> 01:31:06,314
of feeling that so many people in
1567
01:31:06,316 --> 01:31:07,849
the black community, certainly those
1568
01:31:07,851 --> 01:31:11,586
around the courthouse, had for him.
1569
01:31:11,588 --> 01:31:12,821
I feel that he is not guilty and
1570
01:31:12,823 --> 01:31:14,989
I also feel that he is being unfairly
1571
01:31:14,991 --> 01:31:17,192
treated as so have a lot of African
1572
01:31:17,194 --> 01:31:22,063
American persons who have been
through the judicial process.
1573
01:31:22,065 --> 01:31:24,566
I think that you find among black people,
1574
01:31:24,568 --> 01:31:27,335
an incredible amount of forgiveness
1575
01:31:27,337 --> 01:31:29,838
for anybody living through the pain
1576
01:31:31,541 --> 01:31:33,942
of being black in America.
1577
01:31:33,944 --> 01:31:35,443
They were not involved with OJ
1578
01:31:35,445 --> 01:31:37,512
in terms of critical thinking.
1579
01:31:37,514 --> 01:31:38,580
Why does he mean so much to you?
1580
01:31:38,582 --> 01:31:40,849
You know, I can't answer that,
1581
01:31:40,851 --> 01:31:41,783
this is just something thats
1582
01:31:41,785 --> 01:31:43,618
really struck a cord with me.
1583
01:31:43,620 --> 01:31:45,854
And I'm just compelled to be here.
1584
01:31:45,856 --> 01:31:49,557
He was a black man who
was on trial that they
1585
01:31:49,559 --> 01:31:53,495
perceived that white people
were trying to unfairly harm.
1586
01:31:57,467 --> 01:31:59,067
They're trying to railroad him,
1587
01:31:59,069 --> 01:32:00,368
they need to find the murderer.
1588
01:32:00,370 --> 01:32:02,537
Go out and look for the murderer.
1589
01:32:02,539 --> 01:32:06,541
He's accused but we all
know he didn't do it.
1590
01:32:06,543 --> 01:32:10,378
He was wealthy, he was powerful,
he was this, he was that,
1591
01:32:10,380 --> 01:32:12,347
there is a
B-U-T, but,
1592
01:32:16,319 --> 01:32:18,052
he was black.
1593
01:32:18,054 --> 01:32:19,287
So, he didn't do it?
1594
01:32:19,289 --> 01:32:20,054
No, he didn't do it.
1595
01:32:20,056 --> 01:32:20,955
How do you know?
1596
01:32:20,957 --> 01:32:21,956
I know he didn't do it.
1597
01:32:21,958 --> 01:32:22,757
How do you know?
1598
01:32:22,759 --> 01:32:24,259
I just know.
1599
01:32:24,261 --> 01:32:27,796
You may be at the top
house in Beverly Hills,
1600
01:32:29,566 --> 01:32:33,001
and I may be in the
basement of a place in Watts
1601
01:32:37,474 --> 01:32:39,374
but we are connected.
1602
01:32:51,754 --> 01:32:56,754
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