A left-wing professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) said O.J. Simpson’s acquittal was “right and necessary” due to an alleged “racist criminal legal system.”
Mr. Simpson died Wednesday night of prostate cancer at the age of 76, surrounded by his four surviving children and grandchildren. He infamously went on trial for the double murder of his late wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman on October 3, 1995.
Professor Marc Lamont Hill was adamant in his belief that Simpson “murdered two people in cold blood” but had to be acquitted because the criminal justice system is racist.
“O.J. Simpson was a horrible liar who abandoned his community long before he murdered two people in cold blood,” Hill wrote on Twitter Thursday. “His acquittal of murder was the right and necessary outcome of a racist criminal legal system. But he remains a monster, not a martyr.”
O.J. Simpson was a terrible liar and abandoned his community long before he murdered two people in cold blood. His acquittal of murder was the right and necessary outcome of a racist criminal legal system. But he is still a monster, not a martyr.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) April 11, 2024
Simpson met his late second wife when she was 18 and working at a Beverly Hills nightclub. according to To today. The couple married in 1985 and had two children, Sydney and Justin. Brown Simpson and Goldman were found dead of stab wounds outside their Los Angeles home on June 12, 1994.
Although Simpson was acquitted of the double murder, a civil court found him responsible for their deaths and ordered him to pay $33 million in damages in February 1997. according to In the New York Times.
Simpson trial caused racial divisions across the United States at the time, with many black Americans distrusting the American criminal justice system and believing that substantial evidence against Simpson was not properly provided. according to To USA Today. Many people lost faith in the Los Angeles criminal court system, especially after police were recorded on video beating Rodney King three years ago.
