American Manhunt: O.J. Simpson

Well put together documentary but nothing really new. But, it did once again remind of what a miscarriage of justice this verdict was. The fact that Carl Douglas & Thompson could sit there & act like OJ wasn't guilty as hell was sickening. And the jury will forever have blood on their hands. I can't say that I totally understand the racial dynamics & mistrust between the LAPD & the black community, but the evidence was there & they used their verdict to send a message. But, what if had been their loved one? I'm not sure we really needed another documentary on this crime unless someone is going to tell us that he confessed to someone. There is no new information. Just a tragic reminder of how money, celebrity & the twisting of the black community's historical issues with the LAPD let a murderer go free.

Playing the race card in such a deleterious atmosphere, how can one stoop so low? When real people have suffered from racism, how can one dare push that button only to escape the consequences of their actions? OJ was a disgusting human being, and his lawyers weren't any better.

The guy was black only when it suited him, and obviously the color of his skin had nothing to do with the infuriating amount of evidence pointing at him and only him.

I am so mad to this day at this stupid jury who gave him a free pass, simply to get back at the police. Did they really swallow that "I'm a victim of a biased system" narrative? It delegitimized every effort made for the black cause, emptying it of any substance.

It reminds me of the story of the boy who cried wolf.

The Ezra Edelman series from 2016 was so good I couldn't help but compare the new Netflix series to that. I remember the day the verdict was read I was in Paris, CA at a Walmart watching the verdict being read and the shouts of joy from the people around me. It's hard to believe anyone actually believed he was not guilty at the time. Payback for Rodney King? Perhaps...

This series is very well produced and informative and there were a few things I had not heard before. I wish Marcia Clark was involved with this series besides file tape but I can understand not wanting to go through the story yet again.

It's a story we've all heard a million times by now, so it's nothing particularly groundbreaking. It was interesting to hear from some of the witnesses who never testified. As bad as human memory and eyewitness testimony is, it's still considered good evidence, and may have actually done something impactful in this case. The one thing this documentary did manage to do that I was impressed with was to find the only person in America who seems to still honestly believe OJ was innocent. I get that he has a business and he can't go around saying his former clients were guilty, but come on man. Of course OJ did it.

30 years ago we were shocked by the "not guilty" verdict of OJ Simpson after viciously killing his ex wife and an innocent man delivering some left behing goggles. Having read the detailed, informed and meticulous reports by Dominick Dunne in Vanity Fair, plus having seen American Crime Story and ESPN's 30 by 30 documentaries, revisiting that atrocious trial turns my guts inside out, but at the same time shows how rotten and fractured the country that once was the most powerful in the world has become. So rotten that it has just chosen a convicted felon, narcissistic buffoon to be their president. Twice. Watching the awfully distorted defense attorney Carl Douglas spitting out his resentment with his smallpox poked face pretending his client was innocent tells a lot about how hypocrisy permeates this once morally outstanding nation. The fact that Netflix is able to renew my indignation while I'm watching those crooks have the light of day, again, is proof that the series is really well made and to the point. I hope you don't rest in peace, OJ.