Word: fuhrmans
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...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...
...Fuhrman's transfer in 1985, to the station in largely middle-class West Los Angeles, appears to have eased the pressure. But Fuhrman also seems to have worked at his rehabilitation. Beginning in 1981, Fuhrman saw psychiatrist Dr. David Gottlieb twice a week; he enrolled in art classes and started exercising regularly. "The doctor is good," Fuhrman told another psychiatrist in an evaluation for the L.A.P.D. in 1983. "I used to look for people to hurt; now I'm calming down, but the city won't let me." Does the fact that Fuhrman's friends claim he now socializes with...
...soon as he can, Fuhrman and his third wife intend to get out of town and move to their new house in Idaho--a house that is not near any of the state's white-supremacist compounds. Hackett says Fuhrman told her during a recent conversation, "I just can't believe that all this is happening." But as everyone who has been drawn into this surreal web is coming to learn, all's fair in the court...