ARCHIVE: O.J. Simpson verdict sparks outrage for some, jubilation for others in WNY (10/3/95)

The Oct. 3, 1995 verdict that acquitted O.J. Simpson of murder for the deaths of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman drew mixed reaction across the country.
This video shows News Source 13's coverage of how people in Rochester and across Western New York reacted to the Buffalo Bills Hall of Fame running back avoiding conviction.
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[@caseclosed9342]

The only reaction footage I’ve seen where there are white people celebrating the verdict.

[@RaiKap-qf3jx]

Yes always there had to be some whites who had doubts about OJ,s guilt.The media did not deduct this at the time

[@MaelstromTailcatchter]

Lawyers.

[@greeneyedsoutherngirl6468]

You missed it at my family’s house then. We didn’t believe he was guilty. I watched every second of that trial with my parents-there was plenty of reasonable doubt! He was found not guilty! End of story. What detective pleads the fifth to planting evidence??? That did it for me. I wish people would just let it go. They never let it rest. I send my prayers to OJ Simpson’s family and kids 🙏🏻💐♥️ They can’t bother him anymore.

[@phylomenad1145]

True

[@Sinatra021]

Lawyer seeing a huge payday

[@goldbrick2563]

Love the different viewpoints and variety of people interviewed: women, men, academics, asians, whites, blacks, spanish, young, old. Pretty cool. So much better journalism than what is avail today

[@scoop0213]

This is probably the best comment ever

[@robertfrank9936]

These people didn't feel this way when it came to Rodney King. Hmmm

[@slickrick2420]

Because it was literally caught on tape. Yet the white jury made an unfair and racially motivated jury nullification.

[@christyjackson4835]

Wasn't that on video though ?? Nobody witnessed Nicole or Ron's murders. The fk?

[@teddyjam8134]

Try the case again without Mark Fuhrman?! Nope. He's a major part of the case.

[@nadinekeating3255]

Well, this case couldn't have been tried again, with or without Mark. Lol. He was acquitted. Trying him again would be double jeopardy.

[@teddyjam8134]

@@nadinekeating3255 I'm aware of double jeopardy per the U.S. constitution, but IF it could be done is what I was referring to.

[@kalel311superman9]

i was in 8th grade when this happened my history teacher turned the tv on the day the verdict was given so i watched along with my classmates

[@kmo1765]

I was in 6th grade all my classmates was happy including my teacher Ms. Gold 😂😂

[@louisbarrow4671]

I was in the 4th grade at the time and my teacher had the TV on when the verdict was read.

[@phylomenad1145]

Celebrating run on sentences.

[@GAURAV25855ify]

I was in 5th grade when it happened

[@africanqueen1655]

There is nothing more spectacular than being framed by police with blood evidence & winning the case. 🙏🏿🙌🏾👏🏾

[@theholodomorisnttaughtinam2796]

The image of Robert Kardashian’s face when the verdict was read is something that’ll always stick with me. To this day it screams of “My God, what have I done?!?”

[@applejuicejunkie316]

Kardashian was a Judas and that's why he died before OJ.

[@scoop0213]

He gained more fame and money than he imagined 😂

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

Same thing with Kim Kardashian

[@DinaMule]

And we got the Kardashians 15 years later in a reality show

[@asmith8947]

He knew his friend was guilty, He did not want to sit in court with him day after day but felt obligated to.

[@christyjackson4835]

Christopher Darden also took a chance on asking OJ to try on gloves that DID NOT FIT.

[@mimiz7937]

Regardless of anyone's thoughts on OJ, one thing you can't take away from him is the talent he had as football player, millions loved him. Even towards the end of his life. Simce the media blew up his personal life with his ex-wife, unfortunately he got caught up in a on again off again volatile relationship with Nicole even after their divorce. Why do people give a s*** about their personal lives, and their domestic violence they had? It takes two people to have arguments, and to feed into each other's drama. They were both equally messed up.

[@nadinekeating3255]

He's not "innocent" in the eyes of the law, he's "not-guilty". There is a big difference between the two. Being found "not-guilty" isn't the jury deciding that the defendant absolutely did not commit the crime, it just means the state didn't successfully prove guilt. Innocence never has to be proven, only guilt does. Even then, it's beyond a *reasonable* doubt, not beyond *all doubt.*

[@dendennis9060]

Thank U,Infinite Intelligence 🙏

[@redcomic619]

2:50 R.I.P. Otis L. Hightower

[@daviddavis3389]

Wasn't H Otis Hightower once a police officer, and was in a movie? Yes, he was a large, tall black man name tackle berry...the movie was called police academy....it's strange he is different he looks her!

[@gabegood8989]

yep.. when the top cop is a racist.. racism is an issue in the case.

[@jonjahr3403]

Thank you for posting this! It's interesting to see all of these different perspectives. Sadly, Ron and Nicole's friends and family are left to pick up the pieces and move on with their lives without closure. And that's something that i feel got lost in all of the frenzy that came with this case. Regardless of the outcome, the one thing that stays the same is two human beings remain murdered and will never get the opportunity to achieve their full potential. And that's terrible😢 but in the end I've never lost any sleep over the outcome. Why? Because the system worked exactly as it is meant to. A man was charged with a serious crime, he was tried for it, the trial revealed major weaknesses in the State's case against him and the jury i think saw that.

[@kaharold]

I Wonder IF He Would of Killed His First Wife Magurite, With HER Being A Black Woman Will It Be this Much Reaction With People Worried About IF He's Innocent OR Guilty..

[@lillianmartinez7174]

I have no good words to say

[@redcomic619]

I do. OJ Simpson was a great man. Found not guilty.

[@duduchief]

Somebody said it should be retried without mark fuhrman?!? That is the whole case!!! Fuhrman finds blood on car and he finds glove….

[@phylomenad1145]

Look at the look on Robert Kardashian's face.

[@dctalk1117]

2:35 I cannot believe they let this man off........dang that like saying you know he's guilty but glad he got away with murder lol

[@schooltrashers]

He didn't murder anybody.

[@Paris-fj6zq]

CAN'T LIE TO GOD.

[@nvkulk]

Rip Norberg

[@daviddavis3389]

Where in the heck is cheektowaga?

[@jaylacy9912]

lol I feel like anybody who was attorney at that time was working this case like it was there’s

[@redcomic619]

0:45 famous Rochester attorney John Parrinello

[@daviddavis3389]

Is that famous man madkock property mason?

[@daviddavis3389]

Perry mason?

[@redcomic619]

6:00 Bill Johnson was the best mayor Rochester ever had. History is going to judge him kindly.

[@markjackson1512]

Rip oj simpson Rip JOHNNIE COCHRAN

[@schooltrashers]

💯🙏

[@applejuicejunkie316]

8:10 the white man here was probably the most correct in the whole scheme of things. The black woman right after saying you know who did it is just as guilty isn't true.

[@jovijohnson5418]

Look the Karen's are upset

[@Pasha_Sabbah]

Of course they because he’s a Black man. If a white guy got away with murder of his white wife, they would be okay with it. Love seeing them seething in comment

[@asmith8947]

Beware the errant apostrophe. "Karens"

[@sreyasdesai4865]

Karen at 4:00

[@sreyasdesai4865]

Karen professor @ 5:00

[@markm.j.lewandowskijr1171]

@ 7:58 the Women's name tag shows that store with the TV'S and customers, is an old SUN store. I remember those in Cheektowaga.

[@an152771]

Unfortunately, OJ never found the true killers before he passed

[@marcellacastillo2631]

This man here are A holes like OJ

[@NebraskaPoliceDepartment]

Rip juice

[@RANDY4410]

I was listening to the verdict in a van on my job with my coworkers, I was shocked that he was not found guilty with all the evidence that was present at the scene of the crime pointing to OJ, he was guilty but the jury saw it as a black & white thing I believe

[@raimeyewens7518]

Racism was on trial not oj. We had seen the LA riots. They knew if they voted guilty it would happen everywhere. And the one juror said she voted not guilty as payback and not what she really thought. It’s not hard to spread your fingers in a leather glove so it doesn’t go on.

[@papertags]

@ 6:31 don't ignore this part.

[@AlexisVallejo-zs4ob]

Oj won't be miss

[@applejuicejunkie316]

I miss him right now

[@AlexisVallejo-zs4ob]

@@applejuicejunkie316 you miss when you had a Brian hope he's in hell

[@Grundewalt]

Never forget the level of trust the "ambulance chasing" journalism has nowadays and point the begining at that chase, with a lady journalist specialised in "crime" and "celebrities" . I kid u know these were her words about her time when she aquired her own celebrity reporting on that. After that, reporting or even making the news was considered as a legitimate path to unseen before wealth and notoriety and wealth (circle complete). Oj, Trump, ophrah..If u see the things that influencers nowadays are ready to do for clicks … That points to this story and the role it played in trump election, russian ongoing hybrid war against America and the complicity of the traditional and now the digital media in it. the fourth estate made its metamorphosis into the fifth column of kleptocracy and all came to us because of tucker carlson type of pple in the media that report on celebrities and said to themselves: why not me?

[@bchooper5603]

Word salad Tucker Carlson doesn't report on celebrities. He never has. Democrat media outlets sure do though.

[@Grundewalt]

@@bchooper5603 TC sure want the notoriety that right wing BS spewing media wanted. And all started with this POS OJ

[@KLS2001_]

literally diarrhea of the mouth like wtf r u even saying bro

[@dennisgregory9970]

The juice on the loose

[@homiedclown2623]

The Juice is no longer loose

[@Jenna-Tailya]

No justice , no peace

[@scoop0213]

Yt ppl mad af😂

[@Bizarrebirchdoesgame]

people with a brain were mad... He murdered two people.

[@schooltrashers]

​@@Bizarrebirchdoesgame no he didn't. People with a real brain knows OJ is innocent.

[@bobbythefatass9663]

⁠@@schooltrashersno lol there’s DNA evidence he did it tf

[@pacman1153]

@@schooltrashers Even Ray Charles knows OJ was/is guilty.

[@StonedMickey]

I wonder when he was on his death bed, did he have the decency to admit he was the killer? Dubious, he was as evil as they come.

[@michaelterrell2108]

No he didn’t.

[@asmith8947]

Doesn't matter. It is blatantly obvious he did it.

[@daviddavis3389]

Stone Cold Steve Austin? Wanna be?

[@C0H87]

I have a great deal of respect for people of color who saw through the bs and were able to look at it through the lens of did he or didn’t he. Fresh off the heels of Rodney king it was absolutely understandable why some would celebrate this verdict. But at the end of the day murder is murder no matter the race. And it took a lot of courage for some to to express that opinion.

[@markjackson1512]

RIP OJ Simpson RIP JOHNNIE COCHRAN

[@rosalindhampton24]

🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🕊️🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

[@fredfells209]

Wyt people cheering they said it was only blk people happy 😂 God Speed Juice

[@darleneullah8201]

Don’t say that he just might speed yours

[@optimisticcosmic]

They were lawyers. Probably defense attorneys.

[@fredfells209]

@@darleneullah8201 and yours...

[@EmbeddedNick]

Yet look who's the first person in this comment section looking up to and glorifying a murderer lol

[@Art--Deco]

@@EmbeddedNick hush, bozo

[@bilalabdulhaqq8541]

If it don’t fit, acquit. God bless you O.J. R.I.P. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿, you are still my hero

[@whateverforever3785]

how can a murderer like OJ rest in peace? we all know he's guilty and we all know the verdict was not guilty simply because of rodney king. Whenever there is injustice especially when the case is police brutality, blacks vandalize their own neighborhoods and kill whites.

[@asmith8947]

Mine too. It takes quite a guy to get away with murder in the face of a mountain of proof he did it.

[@In-Christ-Alone]

Should have been convicted...

[@sameemas1723]

Hey , if Trump can get away with multiple crimes, why can't O.J.

[@Pasha_Sabbah]

Love seeing y’all Karens seething in comment

[@sameemas1723]

@@Pasha_Sabbah does that include you too for commenting ? Karen ? Yes ? No ?

[@my.0224]

Be upset with Mark Perjurer Furhman.

[@sameemas1723]

@my.0224 alls I know O.J. is the Greatest Buffalo Bill ever

[@greauxapair7803]

This was in the Top 10 Greatest Days in history.

[@40goingwest]

If the glove don't fit..... Man, that was it. Remember?

[@belusbell5663]

They tried to Frame OJ 🍊

[@disendangered]

Sorry but he didn’t do it. And realistically, if he did, why does it matter? Are we really crying over a cheating woman and her bum boyfriend?

[@dashhill443]

Was she still married to womanbeating OJ at the time? I cant remember.

[@hood_TheJoker]

not guilty... deal with it..OJ❤️❤️

[@peterwilson4248]

The Juice spirit is now on the loose in the ethers. Fair winds and following seas to your resting place - your earth burdens are effectively terminated. RIP, Juice!