Yes. Very obviously. It was a competition of who was worse. The rich psychotic black man that killed his wife over his own paranoia and violent temper? Or the white racist cops making no effort to hide their racism and contempt for him because of it. Doing anything to bury him. The racism that the general public had towards black people after the verdict only made matters worse.
I still have older relatives saying that the all black jury ruled him innocent because of their collective victim complex.
I still have older relatives saying that the all black jury ruled him innocent because of their collective victim complex.
I find this view extremely common among nearly every white person who paid attention to the case in real time (so that’s most white Americans over 40).
