If there’s one person in the United States who would want fewer police to be in his affairs it’s O.J Simpson. However, with ranted against West Hollywood for voting to cut the L.A County Sheriff’s Department funding.
O.J Simpson SLAMS West Hollywood for Voting to Cut Funding to the L.A County Sheriff’s Department – “Trust Me, We Need Police”
Simpson would include his own experiences with the police in driving home that law enforcement needed proper funding.
“I spent a little time in one of our institutions and trust me, we need police. We need the sheriff’s department. I always said they should just redirect some of those funds to better training and I always say to expanding the IA – internal affairs of police to investigate the police. But defunding the police as a whole or the sheriff’s department as a whole, no.”
For those of us old enough to remember, O.J Simpson was in the infamous white Bronco police chase following the murder of his estranged wife Nicole Brown-Simpson in June 1994. After his arrest, he was tried as the primary suspect in the murder of Nicole and her guest Ronald Goldman.
Armed with superstar lawyers such as Robert Shapiro, F. Lee Bailey, Johnny Cochran and Robert Kardashian, Simpson was able to about to walk out a free man. Most notable in the trial was how Simpson’s team slammed the LAPD throughout for its handling of evidence and documented racism.
Given that the LAPD and Los Angeles were still raw from the Rodney King beating verdict in 1992, the tactic of putting the police department on trial helped to secure Simpson’s freedom.
There are times ex-convicts might need police assistance, after all. Regardless of the situation and the person calling, you wouldn’t want the skeleton crew responding because of budget cutting.
Simpson also said that he found the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade concerning and that he believed President Trump was involved in or instigated the election protesters on January 6th knowing some were armed.
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