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Instead, Bailey handed dynamite to Clark when he claimed last Tuesday that a black former Marine named Maximo Cordoba was ready to testify that Fuhrman had called him a nigger. Clark let loose, claiming that Bailey's proof of this event would "evaporate into thin air." In response, Bailey puffed up his chest and said, "I have spoken to him on the phone, Marine to Marine, and I haven't the slightest doubt that he'll march up to that witness stand and tell the world what Mark Fuhrman said to him." That night the TV newsmagazine Dateline NBC aired...
...confusion, on Wednesday Dateline obtained a fresh interview with Cordoba, in which he suddenly remembered he had talked briefly with Bailey. Then Dateline aired the second half of the first interview, with Cordoba now claiming that he indeed recalled--in a dream--that Fuhrman had called him a nigger. By that time, however, Cordoba's credibility was on a par with that of defense witnesses Rosa Lopez and Mary Anne Gerchas...
...Fuhrman may be the one to sustain the most lasting damage. Though he emerged from the cross-examination remarkably unscathed, months of poisonous publicity have made him a symbol of all that is wrong with the Los Angeles police department and branded him a vicious racist. Yet interviews with many of Fuhrman's colleagues and friends suggest that he is a considerably more complex character than the one so far presented to the public...
...allegations against Fuhrman, first reported in the New Yorker and Newsweek last summer, consist mainly of comments he made to psychiatrists when he was suing the city to receive permanent disability pay owing to job-related stress. Discussing rage and depression he claimed to be experiencing while dealing with violent gang members and other "slimes and assholes," Fuhrman made an aside about "Mexicans and niggers" he encountered during military service. Though Fuhrman now denies making the racial slurs during the psychiatric sessions, he was clearly a man in distress. He acknowledged to the doctors that his work in an antigang...
Many people who know Fuhrman, including African-American friends, a black former partner and black crime victims he has helped, insist he is not, and never was, a racist. Fuhrman's second wife, schoolteacher Janet Hackett, told Time last week, "There's no way I would have married someone with that agenda. I'm very sensitive to that issue. I teach kids of all ethnic groups. I don't even like [racist] jokes." Instead, claims Hackett, who is backed up by several other people close to Fuhrman, the violence he saw on the streets nearly made him snap. "Nobody understands...