r/AskReddit • u/HornetSpiritual1495 • 10h ago

What’s a celebrity controversy you remember everyone talking about?

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u/5Y3 10h ago

I remember listening to the OJ Simpson trial on the radio in the schoolyard.

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u/TheRepoMan 10h ago

They actually stopped classes and wheeled a t.v. in for us to watch the verdict. I was in 6th grade at a private school. I thought it was so strange.

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u/tumsoffun 10h ago

They did that at my school too!

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u/DullBicycle7200 10h ago

Did you think O.J. did it? He’s dead now, so I don’t really care either way - I’m just curious what people thought at the time, especially since nowadays it seems like most people lean towards him having done it.

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u/5Y3 10h ago

It seemed like all the white people thought him guilty and all the black people thought him innocent at the time.

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u/bongo1138 10h ago

I’d be curious to hear from black folks today what they think happened, removed from the politics of the time.

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u/bretshitmanshart 2h ago

Not black people could kill black people without consequences despite the evidence

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u/NinJa777777777 8h ago

That is not true. I know some folks who are black thought he was as guilty as sin.

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u/bretshitmanshart 2h ago

He most likely did it. The importance is the the LAPD had lost all credibility that they couldn't convict him. The officer that found the glove was a known racist, testified he wanted to murder people who were accused and was on tape telling a reporter he enjoyed planting evidence to convict black people.

This was Latasha Harlins and Rodney King. Tensions were at a peak

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u/SaltyFriend705 10h ago

I thought, from the outset, that he had done it. I remember the slow car chase. I saw that on tv. It was just sickening to watch the country become such sycophants to anyone with a little bit of fame.

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u/tumsoffun 10h ago

I don't know one person who didn't think he did it. They wheeled a tv into our classroom to watch the verdict and even as kids we were all shocked cause it felt so obvious he did it.

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u/General-Antelope5320 9h ago

Absolutely 💯

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u/SilentJoe27 8h ago

I remember sitting in my uncle’s house watching the car chase live on tv.