{"id":7047,"date":"2015-10-03T03:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T09:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=7047"},"modified":"2015-09-18T19:42:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T01:42:51","slug":"you-must-acquit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/you-must-acquit\/","title":{"rendered":"You Must Acquit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/oj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8797\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/oj.jpg\" alt=\"oj\" width=\"468\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/oj.jpg 468w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/oj-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a>20 years ago today, I was at the Hilltop Apartment of my friend Tina, along with our other friend Kelley, waiting for the verdict to be read in the OJ Simpson trial before heading off with Kelley to a Business Law exam. \u00a0I imagine all of us were surprised that Simpson was found not guilty, more than 8 months after the trial began.<\/p>\n<p>On June 13, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were found murdered in Brentwood, California. \u00a0Immediate suspicion fell upon OJ Simpson, the ex-husband of Nicole Brown Simpson and NFL Hall of Famer. \u00a0He was arrested four days later, after leading police on a slow speed chase around Los Angeles from the back of a white Ford Bronco driven by his long-time friend Al Cowlings.<\/p>\n<p>The trial, which made stars out of nearly everyone involved, from the witnesses to the police to the lawyers and the judge, was the news story of 1995. \u00a0While most people assumed Simpson did it, his defense hinged on racist cops who were out to frame the celebrity for having married a white woman.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember much about that particular Business Law exam, or class, to be honest. \u00a0But the events of this day have stayed with me for the past 20 years. \u00a0The day a man (likely) got away with murder due to the color of his skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 years ago today, I was at the Hilltop Apartment of my friend Tina, along with our other friend Kelley, waiting for the verdict to be read in the OJ Simpson trial before heading off with Kelley to a Business Law exam. \u00a0I imagine all of us were surprised that Simpson was found not guilty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5895,289,5894,4220,4075,5892,5891,5893,1359],"class_list":["post-7047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-al-cowlings","tag-boiler-up","tag-ford","tag-kelley","tag-nfl","tag-nicole-brown-simpson","tag-o-j-simpson","tag-ronald-goldman","tag-tina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions\/8799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}