Word: fuhrman
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Judge Ito emerged from his chambers this evening with a middle-ground solution to the Mark Fuhrman problem: allow the Simpson jury to hear just a smattering of the former LAPD detective's racially-charged, taped remarks. Among them are two instances in which Fuhrman says the word "nigger," despite having testified that he had not used the slur in a decade. But Ito barred the defense from using any of Fuhrman's 18 statements about police misconduct and attacked the defense theory that Fuhrman had moved a glove from the murder scene to Simpson's house to engineer...
Judge Ito will spend the next day or two in his chambers while he struggles to decide whether the jury will hear the Mark Fuhrman tapes. After both sides made their arguments this morning, he was clearly torn: "I need to sit down and look at each one of these individual situations and make the appropriate ruling," Ito said. Meanwhile, Elaine Lafferty reports, the prosecutors are wrestling with whether to distance itself from the embattled former detective. So far, they haven't. "They should move away from Fuhrman and, frankly, it is surprising to me that they've indicated that...
...Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan said the tapes made him "sick." District Attorney Gil Garcetti said they "embarrassed" him, and Police Chief Willie Williams said he was going to comb the LAPD for Fuhrman-like cops and -- somehow -- get rid of them. "The politicians are saying what they have to say, but blacks here don't believe a word of it," reports TIME's Sylvestor Monroe from Los Angeles. "No one in the black community is shocked or horrified at the tapes. They know nothing has changed in Los Angeles since Rodney King. Fuhrman just confirms...
...furor over the tapes today cost the former LAPD detective a deal with Dove Books, which announced it would dump a prospective Fuhrman volume "for both commercial and ethical reasons...
...MARK FUHRMAN More A/V fun for L.A.P.D. as O.J. detective is caught ripping blacks, Jews, women on tape...