Fox’s Lawrence Jones Reflects on Race and the O.J. Trial: ‘A Lot of Black Folks Wanted America to Feel Their Pain’

Fox News’s Lawrence Jones reflected on the racial aspect of the O.J. Simpson trial on Outnumbered Thursday, suggesting that “a lot of Black folks wanted America to feel their pain.”

“Well, I think it’s important to go back to, as a criminal justice major we studied this case extensively, and you have to go back to the moment in time of racial tension — then at an all-time high, at that time — and you would think every case was treated just by the merit of the facts. And it wasn’t because you had the court of public opinion,” began Jones.

He continued:

We were at each other’s throat as a country. A lot of Black folks wanted America to feel their pain and they used the murder of this young woman, to celebrate outside when he [Simpson] was found innocent in that case.

But it also showed the criminal justice system in a new light. And essentially, if you had the right attorney, if you had enough money, that you could get off. And so it was in front for the whole world to see. O.J. had some time to make his amends and repair his image with the American public, but I think he cemented his place in history in a negative way in 2008, when the book came out, If I Did It.

“America continues to hate this man. Rightfully so,” concluded Jones.

Simpson died on Wednesday after a battle with prostate cancer, his family announced on Thursday. The former National Football League star and actor was acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman, but was found liable for the wrongful death of Goldman and of battery against Brown. He was ordered to pay out $33.5 million to the surviving members of Brown and Goldman’s families.

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