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...victim of the Los Angeles Police Department; all they had to do was replay in their minds the videotape of the savage beating administered four years earlier to an unemployed black construction worker named Rodney King. One whiff of the foul odor of institutional racism--and retired detective Mark Fuhrman, a key prosecution witness, stank to high heaven--and a case that many had thought unshakable became unmakable...
...client may or may not have got away with murder, during the Simpson trial Cochran, repeatedly and effectively, managed to get away with rhetorical arson. He ignited a battle with prosecutor Christopher Darden over the word "nigger." He dragged the ghost of Malcolm X into the courtroom by dubbing Fuhrman and detective Philip Vannatter "twin devils." By the end of the trial he had taken to showing up flanked by Nation of Islam bodyguards. And, to the horror even of some members of the defense team, he made the odious and hyperbolic comparison of Fuhrman and Adolf Hitler...
...support Williams. This is far from the truth. The L.A.P.D. has more than 10,000 employees, and they are representative of society. The nearly 16% female membership is a much higher figure than in most police departments. As in any large organization, there are some bad apples, but Mark Fuhrman is no more representative of L.A.P.D. officers than O.J. Simpson is of retired N.F.L. football players. DANIEL B. WATSON, Commander Los Angeles Police Department Los Angeles...
...that this was primarily due to the mishandling of the case by the Los Angeles Police Department. Whether Simpson is guilty, only he only he knows for sure. But given the multitude of mistakes made during the investigation and the blow to the prosecution of having Detective Mark Fuhrman perjure himself on the stand, was there any other verdict the jury could have returned? HEIDI R. HETTINGER, Champaign, Illinois Via E-mail
...protest his invasion of Cambodia. The recent Million Man March proves that working and middle class resistance to today's reactionary climate can be tapped. Liberals need to flex their might in the streets. Corporations should be held accountable for using Third World slave labor. Cops like Mark Fuhrman should fear for their lives...