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From: Jasper
Date: 6/19/03
Time: 10:23:53 PM
Remote Name: 68.73.193.246
John,
On the small portion of the tapes that Ito allowed into evidence Fuhrman boasted about being able to beat up people without leaving a bruise. He lamented the tearing down of a precinct where his tone made it clear that he loved the smell of all the people who had been killed there. He railed against the ban on the chokehold citing the number of people who had been killed by it. He referred to these people by the n-word.
Fuhrman put a black man in a chokehold for jaywalking and threatened to kill him. He referred to the man by the n-word. This wasn’t in the tapes. It was in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Run of His Life. Fuhrman’s victim was a co-worker of Toobin’s wife.
Two white women testified about Fuhrman’s use of the n-word coupled with his passionate desire to see these people dead. In the tapes, you had Fuhrman boasting about his ability to arrest “niggers” and make up evidence against them later….
Most black people know many white people. Let’s say you’re black. One day you turn a corner where a white guy who has never uttered a racist word in your presences is telling a racist joke to his white friends. Do you conclude that he is capable of murder? Of course not… You’re at lunch with a bunch of white guys. Everyone is having a good time and the word just slips out of someone’s mouth. You don’t have to be psychic to know what word he was thinking because he just told you. His use of the word in that context also tells you why it slipped. Because he was not thinking of you as one of “them.”
If ANYONE of any color with life or death power over you calls you a “nigger” and treats you accordingly, that’s different. That’s what Fuhrman did. He did it with Joseph Britton (a definite bad guy), Jarvis Bowers (a definite good guy) and Roderick Hodge (a bad guy according to Fuhrman). He told his shrink that he did it to a host of people he referred to only as “niggers.” He told her that he beat them up to “relieve tension.” In other words, he associated the name with targets for “special attention.”
The issue was anyone interested in the truth was whether Fuhrman could be trusted to tell the truth in a murder case where the victims where white and the accused was black. HOW did he use the n-word? What was the context? He swore that he didn’t use it.
The tapes proved that Fuhrman was a liar. He boasted about how good a liar he was, about his ability to MURDER people, to contrive evidence and to get away with it. He told his shrink that if he had caught his second wife with her lover he would have killed them both (sound familiar?). At every point in the spouse abuse case against O.J., Fuhrman was there. He associated himself with every scrap of evidence against O.J. He had ambitions to make “the big arrest” that went back to his earliest days with the LAPD. The tapes were a product of his ambition to become a celebrity crime writer. He got everything he wanted by putting himself in all the right places at all the right times.
How does this boil down to a predominately black motive to attack Fuhrman based on one tacky word? It doesn’t. Not sure what it says about you, though, John. --Jasper