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[ Crowd cheering ]

I'm ready to retire.

For the last couple of years

I've gotten very busy
on the off season.

Mainly, because
early in my career...

I had those rough years
in Buffalo.

I sort of told myself then

I would, uh, put my energies
in something that was gonna

sustain me and last.

I knew then that I would
have trouble adjusting

to not being a football player.

So, I said,

"Hey, I better start
preparing myself for-- for--

for, you know... now.
[ Laughs ]

I wanna tell you that over the years

I've heard your applause,
and I appreciated your cheers.

And I want you to know

that I already know
it's what I'm gonna miss most.

Thank you all, very much.

[ Crowd cheering ]

[ Birds chirping ]

[ Bus approaching ]

Growing up in Brentwood
was really a wonderful experience.

It's very quiet.

It's very affluent.

Very safe.

Very white.

Burglaries were very rare.

Violent crime almost nonexistent.

You could leave your door unlocked.

Never have to worry about anything.

I graduated the academy in 1975.

And then transferred to West L.A.
1978-79.

West L.A., the whole division,
Bel Air, Brentwood, all--

it's loaded with stars.

And I'd sit back and go,

"Man, am I really getting paid
for doing this?"

When I first got there,
O.J. had just moved

from around Mulholland
over to Rockingham.

O.J. Simpson living in Brentwood
was really an anomaly.

He'd be one of maybe
three black people

in the entire community.

Los Angeles is unlike other places.

If you're a celebrity,
you have no color.

People enjoy having you
in their neighborhood.

Especially if you're
a celebrity like O.J.

where everyone's husband
worshipped him as a sports hero

and couldn't wait to shake hands.

Once I found out he was living
on Rockingham,

I decided I'd go by there,
you know, and let him know...

"Hey, you know?
O.J., I'm here."

This is where I work.

O.J. was great.

He'd always referred to the LAPD
as "the boys." You know?

"How's crime today?"

"Hey, Shipp, what's going on
in my area, man?"

"Is you keeping the peace?"

You know, stuff like that?

And I'd be like,
"Hey, man, everything's good."

70-80 percent of the people
in the city of Los Angeles,

were thinking LAPD does a great job,
we don't have crime here.

They thought out in the Valley
or West Los Angeles,

"Hey, man, they're great."
They smile. They wave.

They're always around
when you need them.

Well, that wasn't how other parts
of the city were being treated.

On January 3rd, 1979,

two members of the Los Angeles
Police Department

shot and killed Eulia Love
at her home,

in a dispute over $22.09 utility bill.

She died on her front lawn

before the eyes
of her own children.

There is no single event
that had a more profound impact

in LAPD history
up to that point and time

than the shooting
of Eulia May Love.

This is where Mrs. Eulia Love stood
the day the shooting took place.

There was an officer here,
an officer there.

She held a knife in her hand,
there was a scuffle,

the knife was knocked out
of her hand,

she reached for it,
and as she threw it,

the officers opened fire.

This was a big deal.

This is a woman
who's had a tough time.

And she was desperate.

So, there was a lot of empathy
going out to her

from the community.

Once again, we have a member
of the black community...

dead...

under circumstances that are
highly questionable at best.

It has been determined
that the evidence

does not warrant the filing
of criminal charges.

This was a justifiable homicide,

uh, committed by the officers
in their own self-defense.

As far as LAPD was concerned,
it was just an event.

And everybody was supposed
to accept it.

This was on the lips and minds
of everybody in the community.

The people gonna get justice,
and it's gonna be in the street.

It didn't help that you had
a police chief,

who behaved poorly,

and, in many ways, irresponsibly.

And I've commented on the media
squeezing out the last, uh....

tear of emotion in this situation,

where they talk about a $22 gas bill.

It doesn't make any difference,
but it was, uh...

a $69 gas bill.

Gates was Gates.

He's going to be fully supportive
of his officers.

I guess they don't think I have
any sympathy for anyone,

other than police officers,
and that's simply not true.

I have great empathy and sympathy
for Eulia Love and her family.

Deeply sorry that it happened,
but it did happen.

I...

[ Clears throat ]
was a big fan of Daryl...

Francis Gates.

Gates introduced the SWAT model
of law enforcement,

introduced the D.A.R.E. program
to all of law enforcement.

So he was an innovator.

But he was also a controversial guy.

GATES: We have officers out there
doing the job.

Attempting to make good judgment
based on the information they have,

protecting themselves
and protecting

the people of the
city of Los Angeles,

that we will go to hell for.

He loved LAPD.
He loved his officers.

And there were times that I believe
that his love for his officers...

and the law enforcement mission...

conflicted.

O.J. Simpson
and Elizabeth Montgomery

are two police detectives
who have a problem.

They're falling in love,
and it's breaking all the rules.

But you are a married man,

and your conduct is
supposed to be exemplary.

Would it make any difference
if I was a white cop?

It's a bittersweet story
of two people caught between

their emotions and their actions

in "A Killing Affair".

Sunday at 3:00 on channel 9.

Life for a black person...

in a way, unfortunately,

is different than for white people.

And especially for black people
who attain great success.

Is there pressure
from your community

for you to really walk
the straight and narrow?

I know that you are currently dating
a white woman.

I wouldn't be asking this question
if we were living in different times,

but we aren't,
and there seems to be...

this sort of dichotomy here.

How do you answer it?

Well, I rebel against images
because...

then, um...

you know, people tend
to expect things from you.

I-- I think I created an image
by being me.

When I get into
these arguments with...

people of the bla--
people of my community,

the black community,

I say, "Hey, I--
I've accepted Jesus Christ"

and, uh, I try to do unto others
as, uh...

you know, I would have them
do unto me.

And after that, hey,
my life is mine.

And I... I do what is morally right
and acceptable to me.

I am not prejudiced in any form.

Obviously, I got a white girlfriend.
[ Laughs ]

I admired his celebrity status.

We thought he had accomplished
quite a bit.

To move from an athlete...

to... a position of celebrity,

and loved by all the people,
not just black folk.

[ Gospel singing ]

I invited O.J. here,
early on in the '80s.

He didn't come as often
as I thought he should.

But he did come to church.

I think he was very in tune with...

who his mother
wanted him to be.

She wanted him to be honest,
to be religious.

Just to rise
above a lot of the things

that he saw growing up.

His mother
was a staunch Christian.

And she had embedded within him
the tenets of Jesus Christ.

I would talk to him about having
achieved money and fame.

But all that came from God.

And there are times
when you should...

respond to how good God
has been to you.

Now, some days,
depending on his mood,

he would agree.

But he was not out there...

publicly...

fighting for African-Americans.

I think each person
who is in the limelight

has an obligation...

to make things better
for the last, the lost, the least,

the left out, and the looked over.

And I thought he should
have done more.

If we, as Black people,
do not take on the responsibility...

to do something for ourselves,

we really should be scorned
in the eyes of the world.

In my circles, there were not
a lot of people

who were preoccupying themselves
with getting to O.J.

or believing that O.J.
could be turned around,

or someday was gonna
come to his senses

and embrace all of the things
that have the values that we had,

in terms of really, really

doing something demonstrative
for the Black community.

O.J. was just one of those things

that you just kind of dismissed,
"Oh, that brother's a lost cause."

His voice was mute...

on any issues that related
to Black people and our salvation,

police brutality, all of those things.

He was just a non-entity.

[ Applause ]

I don't know that he felt
that he was sacrificing

what other people
thought he was.

But you're sacrificing who you are...

who you are raised to be.

How does one sustain that
over that period of time?

How does one bend one's soul
to that degree of denial?

[ Sirens wailing ]

It's easy to tell
while laid out on the ground,

while he's bleeding to death.

Is that what makes you happy?

[ Indistinct chatter ]

Did you hear?
Did you see what was going on?

Did he see everything happening
in South Central?

Yeah.

Did he want to take that
home with him?

Did he want that to be
who he was?

Who he identified with?
No.

He stayed in Brentwood.

When you live in South L.A.,

I mean you live here,

this is where you breath,

this is where you occupy your space,

I'm not sure if, you know,
a lot of people even know

where Brentwood is.

That's just the reality...

of Black America
and White America.

Two totally... separate worlds.

[ Orchestra playing ]

He's somebody who learned
how to live with,

be totally accepted by a white world.

[ Orchestra continues playing ]

Underneath that,

he learned all of the indignities
of the Black world.

Although it's impossible to believe
that he's that brilliant an actor.

I think he was always kind of on
when he was in a White world,

and he weren't when he was
in a Black world.

Which makes him the right soul
for Coalhouse Walker.

He very much wanted to be cast
in E.L. Doctorow's "Ragtime".

And he worked hard
on trying to get that part.

He saw the part as being

something that he could go into
a new dimension as an actor.

Let's go to your acting career
for a moment.

Why did you want the role
of Coalhouse Walker Jr.?

Well, first of all, it, um...

it was the only part thus far
that I've ever actively

went after and didn't get.

So, I'd consider it my only failure
in film.

[ Laughs ]
Thus far.

[ Birds chirping ]

Good afternoon.

I wonder if you might be
able to help me.

Uh...

Uh... what do you want?

Well, I'm looking for a young woman
of color called Sarah.

Uh... who are you?

Oh, I'm sorry.

My name is Coalhouse Walker Jr.

When I read the book,
I could identify with this guy...

so much-- He was a Black man
in-- at a time

when you were supposed
to know you were Black.

You were supposed to know
you had a place.

Would you please
wait around the back?

I was raised in the sports world

where you're only, uh,
judged by your abilities...

and, uh, you know,
what you have to give.

[ Playing piano ]

Who is Coalhouse?

Well, he's a guy
who created himself.

And destroyed himself...
ultimately.

[ Angry chatter ]

He was a guy among other things
who was very prideful and suffered.

Suffered for his pride.

Mr. Walker, let me
give you some advice.

You spend the money
on your wedding.

Build yourself a home and a family
where you can find some comfort.

And just forget that some damn
white man caused you offence.

I can understand exactly
what he felt.

When he walked in a room,

he gave no credence
to the fact he was Black

and he wasn't supposed to say things
or be treated any differently.

And, uh...

Uh.. that's the way I've tried
to look at my life.

So, I felt I was the right person
for that role.

I felt that I was today's
Coalhouse Walker.

"Just forget it"?
Is that it?

I've spent my whole life forgetting.

You're a young man.
You better start learning now.

Learning what?

How to be a nigger?

You know, there was some tragedy
in your life...

in the last 10 years.
You lost a child.

I wanna talk
about how it changed you.

The baby drowned
in a swimming pool.

On Rockingham, there.

He was away.

You know, he was always gone.

Four, set!

I don't know how much
it changed me.

I've always tried to live my life
to the fullest.

And, uh...

I used to be so busy.

And I was on the road so much,

that in a sense it partially
cost me a marriage.

When I lost my daughter...

I was gone.

When my first daughter was born,
I was gone.

[ Crowd cheering ]

When you lose a child,
it's very hard.

Three weeks before Aaren drowned,
my son drowned...

in a pool, that Boys Club
in San Leandro, California.

So, the tragedy affected us both.

It still affects me.
So, I know-- how it affects him.

He didn't bring it up,
and we didn't talk much about it.

Hey, O.J.!

I think it's the single
most horrible thing in the world.

[ Crowd cheering ]

I think what you
learn in the streets,

is how to bury things.

And he blamed Marguerite.

He got rid of that memory
when he got rid of that wife.

He just compartmentalized it.

And got 'em out.

If anything, I made up my mind
that I would be around.

And, uh...

it's nice to be loved
by everybody.

But there's some people
that love you a little more.

So, I guess if anything,

I-- I just want to be
a little more loving

and be there a little more
to the people that have, uh,

have chosen to share
their lives with me.

And now by the...

authority committed unto me

as a minister in the church
of Jesus Christ

and according to the laws
in the State of California,

it gives me great delight,
O.J. and Nicole,

to pronounce you
husband and wife.

[ Applause ]

[ "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
plays ]

We love "Juice" like my brother.

I'm thrilled he's my partner,
and we're just...

totally knocked out
that he finally took the step...

[ "Jump (For My Love)" plays ]

They had a great wedding.

Of course, they had amazing music.

And it was all, you know,
Christal champagne,

all you could drink.

Where are the drugs?
No, I'm just kidding.

It was a great party.

And they made a really strong,
gorgeous couple.

I just felt that they were
the ideal couple.

Because it seems like to me,
from what I saw,

it seemed like they just
had so much fun all the time.

I'm married!
I don't believe it!

[ Laughing ]

I'm married!
I really don't believe it.

[ Laughing ]

Nicole was funny,
and she was fun to be around.

She was a very good friend.

When Nicole came into my life at...

what for any athlete
is very difficult time,

it was at the end of my career,

I was also going through a divorce
at the time and, uh...

All my life, I wanted to be a father.

I never really thought
about being a husband.

And I thought I had given up...

the opportunity
to watch my kids grow

until you came into my life
and made this house a home,

brought my kids in.

You brought love into my house.

[ Cheering ]

He was really proud of her.

And she had definitely taken over.

I mean, she was running the show
at Rockingham.

Rockingham, it was his Graceland.

It was all of their Graceland.

We never said,
"I'll meet you at O.J.'s house."

It was always,
"I'll see you at Rockingham."

It was what brought
all of us together.

It was a special place.

I mean, you never knew
who was gonna be there.

He gravitated toward celebrities.

In any field.

And that's the glue
that bonded him to Los Angeles,

and also made Rockingham
that castle.

You'd have the greatest athletes
in the world show up.

The most interesting politicians,
you know?

The entertainment world.

And everybody always had
a wonderful time

because it was "The Juice".

I've always had a large
what I call "family"...

A large circle of friends,

and you need 'em more, I guess,
in your life.

At my house, I mean,
I have to be successful

to pay for the soft drinks
and the beer

that the guys drink
at the house on the weekends.

He flew a flag at Rockingham
every day.

He loved America. He loved
the red, white, and blue.

He loved that feeling that you get,
you know, on the Fourth of July,

and see jets fly over.

During the Olympics,
when he carried the torch.

That was a big thing to him.

That was one of the things
we talked about for years after.

How perfect the world was then.

I want to say to, uh...

the Hall of Fame members here,

I mean, as a kid,
I watched these guys

and, well, I must have
done something good

or something right to be here,
and I just want you to know

that I'll never let
you guys down, man.

I'll live up to the honor
of being in this Hall

and being on your team.

[ Applause ]

Thank you very much.

[ Applause ]

The most unique aspect
of O.J. Simpson

is that you're one of the few people

who've not only been successful
in athletics,

but that success has really
carried over to life after football.

[ Crowd cheering ]

Well, it's real exciting for me
to be back here.

You know, on the field
where I had so many thrills,

and to experience these
Buffalo Bills fans,

and, believe me, Howard,
they're in rare form tonight.

Well, he certainly tried
to be a commentator.

Peyton following Matt Suhey.

It's a testament to walk--
Walter's conditioning.

This guy works out harder
than anybody in...

He very much was involved
in corporate America

and being on boards.

I think he was trying,
very intelligently,

to parley his fame into wealth.

By the '80s,
O.J. really was a businessman.

His new friends
were all super wealthy,

powerful white men.

And I think really the reason
he surrounded himself

with all these big,
successful entrepreneurs

is because he saw himself
as one, too.

I've always been, sort of,
an inquisitive person.

And I have friends who do
a lot of different things.

And I've made it a point to find out
what the people

around me were doing.

He called me a lot.

"Now, Frank, I have this opportunity
for HoneyBaked Hams."

Or "Frank, this friend of mine
is doing some storage things

in California."

I didn't always know those answers.

But I guess I enjoyed the fact

that he trusted me enough
to do that.

I introduced him
to the business world.

I took him places...

where I think very few Black men
had ever been.

The Pine Valley Golf Club.

The number one club in America.

I got him into Arcola.

He was the first black member
of the club.

Oh, yeah, by a long shot.

This one time,
he brought Sidney Poitier.

And, of course, the whole club
was circling around the two of them.

Even the bigots
thought that was terrific.

They loved him.

Because he just fit in.

He could schmooze around
and get ingratiated,

'cause he was "The Juice".

Street-smart,
this man was an Einstein.

He could cunningly and calculatingly
figure out exactly

what these white people
were thinking about,

but he was also that way
with Black people.

It was almost magnetic,
they were just drawn to it.

And I don't care who was there,

when he got to the room, it was,
"The Juice is here."

Here's the man whose smile
is more dazzling

than all his golden awards.

Sportsman, actor,
all around wonderful

Mr. O.J. Simpson!

[ Applause ]

I always told him he had
delusions of grandeur.

He thought he could do
certain things in business

that he wasn't capable of.

AUDIENCE: Three!

One day he was gonna
run Paramount or 20th Century,

Warner Brothers...

Now, I mean, he believed
things like that.

Ladies and gentlemen,
another winning performance

from Mr. O.J. Simpson!

There's something deep-seated...

that I think a lot of people
like myself

have to face up to
about what created

this complex character.

It wasn't just him,
it was part society.

[ The Naked Gun theme plays ]
[ Siren wailing ]

We were looking for a celebrity...

and I-- I don't think we wanted
an all-white cast anymore,

as we did for the Police Squad
TV show.

This was something that, you know,
kinda looked better...

for us.

He was still in the public eye,
but yet he was economical,

because I don't think he was
in demand for movies.

Police! Throw down your guns!

O.J. was fine for Naked Gun.

There was nobody better.

[ Gunfire ]

[ Groans ]

-[ Sizzles ]
-Ahh!

Oh, no!

Naked Gun surprised me--

[ Screams ]

How funny he was.

He's a funny man.

I mean, he was always
a very funny man.

And he was always
a selflessly funny man.

-Nordberg!
-Hiya, buddy!

Hey!

The doc says I should be on my feet
and as good as new in a week!

-And back on the force.
-Nordberg, that's wonderful!

Whoa!

Oh, Frank! Everyone should
have a friend like you!

[ Nordberg screams ]

[ "I'm Into Something Good" plays]

I used to take a lot of cops
over to O.J.'s house,

and I would never tell them
who we were going to meet.

And I just loved looking
at the expression

on my partner's face

when they looked and saw
O.J. opening the door,

and it was just like looking at--

You know, 'cause some of these guys,
you know, macho cops.

"Hey," you know, "I'm LAPD".

And you could see them melt
like little kids around this guy.

Everybody loved O.J. Simpson,
all the cops.

If you asked him for an autograph,
you asked him for whatever,

I mean, he was just really,
like, your best friend.

Now, let's take a look
at today's black culture

in the city of Los Angeles.

The most important point that should
be considered

in a law-enforcement setting
involving blacks

is the matter of respect.

Everyone should be treated
in a respectful manner.

Okay, 4-23, you see that,
uh, male black.

He's walking on the north side
of the street there

on your right side.

Slow down. That's one
of the suspects there.

[ Police radio chatter ]

People who have been abused
by the police

have no regard for them.

They don't believe
that the police comes

to protect them,
comes to serve them.

That would be an unfortunate error
in judgment

for you to conclude that all persons
of a particular group

are similar to the few you have
contact while you are working.

We're sorry if, you know,
it's our job too.

that-- that we've had to do this.

We just can't let you go.

Look how I look.

I'm light, bright, but damn sure
not white. Okay?

But the reality is,
when I'm stopped by the police,

you know, they treat me
like a nigger.

Okay, let's roll,
and let's be careful out there.

In 1978, Los Angeles police chief
Daryl Gates apologized

after saying some Hispanic officers
don't advance in the ranks

because they are, quote, "lazy",

and now an NAACP official

is calling a comment
by Chief Gates,

quote, "so horrendous
that it's laughable."

It all started
when he first defended

controversial choke holds.

A number of African-American
suspects had died

after being subjected
to a choke hold,

and Gates was asked about it,
and he said the problem was

that they didn't respond the same
as normal people.

The chief needs some time off
to remove his foot from his mouth

and LAPD's choke hold
from the necks of black people.

When I started covering
the police department,

you could feel the residue
of that comment.

In fact, police officers used to
refer to the cars,

which normally people would call
black-and-whites,

they called them
"black-and-normals".

And they would call them that
in front of a reporter, by the way.

So it's safe to say
that it was a sort of easy,

call it racial insensitivity,
call it racism,

within the department.

I moved to LA in 1988.

I had a really good friend
who lived there, and she said,

"I have to give you the black man's
guide to survival in LA.

Whatever you do,
don't fuck with LAPD."

[ Police dispatch chatter]

In Los Angeles it was a day filled
with tension in many communities,

because of the current wave
of gang warfare.

I feel like a prisoner on the streets.

This city has vowed
to stop gang violence,

but as police hunt
the people responsible,

they must follow a trail of bodies.

We're gonna do
whatever's necessary,

and I told my people
we're gonna wage a war.

Operation Hammer,

that was the belief that we
overwhelm the community

with warrants where we believe
that we had violent criminals,

we could rid the problem.

Ladies, down on the ground!

Put your hands down,
kneel over there!

Over the past week or so,
Chief Gates,

how many arrests have you made?

Well, in the last month we've made,
uh, about 3,000 arrests.

Uh, just in the last weekend
we made, uh, 1,400.

You just have a culture
of officers who felt that,

uh, the only way the world
will survive

is if we neutralize
these individuals

as soon as possible.

Hands down, man.

And in the process of doing that,

they debased and demeaned
the community.

You understand me?

There was no conversation
with the community about

"How should we deal with this?"

It was just hammer,
hammer, hammer.

We have a war.
We are going to be successful.

Whatever it takes,
we will do it.

I'd just put the kids into bed,
and the next thing I know,

they just came in with guns
and they were saying, "Get down",

and they grabbed me
by the back of my head,

and he threw me on the floor,

then they kicked me,
and they hit me on my back,

and they said, "Get down, bitch."

And then the kids were
just hollerin' and screamin'.

And the next thing I know

they were just tearing
the place up.

1988, 39th and Dalton.

Not the best police practices.

Not the best way to manage
a, uh-- a warrant service.

Everything was destroyed as police

batted and rammed their way
from room to room

searching for drugs.

Much of what they found were
screaming mothers and children.

This is my bedroom over here,

but they even broke all the mirrors
and stuff out of the bed.

They went in and literally
destroyed the apartment

where supposedly a lot
of drug activity was going on.

All this resulted in three quarters
of an ounce of rock cocaine seized

along with six ounces of pot.

You wouldn't go to Beverly Hills
and do that,

even if you thought there was a--
a mafia hangout.

Even if you thought
it was legitimate.

I called my insurance,
and I told them what happened.

He said he had never heard
of the police doing this.

When you don't live in the community,
you don't think of 'em as human.

In my wildest dreams,
would have never thought

the police of the city of Los Angeles
would treat someone that way.

They started kicking me.

What they tell ya?

They didn't tell me nothin',

they started kicking me
and hitting me

on my ribs and stuff.

Chief Gates, we're proud of you,
We're proud to wear the 'PD blue.

[ Applause ]

You'd go to the power
of LAPD back then.

They pretty much could do
what they wanted to do.

Yeah.

Hi, I'm O.J. Simpson,
and this season on HBO,

I'm gonna be high-stepping
right into your living room.

All right, we'll do it again.

When O.J. was at SC,

in my generation you didn't have
the jerseys you could go buy,

so I would take my T-shirts
and write "Simpson",

and I'd put, you know,

like, you know, his number, 32,
and, "Okay, I'm O.J."

Hi, I'm O.J. Simpson,
and this season on HBO,

I'm gonna be high-stepping
right into your living room.

I just thought, "One day,
I wanna meet this guy."

Okay, what's the next one?

And it was through Marcus Allen.

Follow me through Training Camp,
and I guarantee that I'll--

Hey, Juice, I did hear my name.

Hey, man, this is my spot,
Marcus.

Well, I've got the ball now.

I'd been marketing Marcus
for a few years.

And I told him, uh,

"O.J. ever needs a manager,
let me know."

Training Camp is a time
to show what you can do.

It's a time to show off your skills.

You can prove yourself as a man.

Blah, blah, blah.

I did public appearances,
endorsements,

-TV commercials...
-[ Clears throat ]

...autograph signings,

basically everything
encompassing his image.

This week in Training Camp...

This week in Training Camp...

This week in Training Camp...
No.

The big thing that has always been
in everybody's head is image.

Image is everything.

Never do anything that is
going to harm his image.

Thank you guys.

I remember he had a--

a little hundred-yard dash
with Marcus Allen one day.

And he had bad knees, O.J.,
from all the running.

And he beat fuckin' Marcus.
I couldn't believe it.

It's something inside of him.

He wanted to win,
no matter what it took.

Chopping through that swing.
And look out.

[ Applause ]

When he first started playing golf,
he violated every rule.

Okay. He's gotta work
on his balance a little bit.

I played with O.J.
and this other friend,

Little Joe Kolkowitz.

O.J. had the worst form
of anybody on this planet

when he swung a golf club.

One day, on the first tee,
he hits this big drive,

and it hooks into the trees,
heavy stuff.

So we go down the fairway,
we're waiting and waiting

'til Joe goes after him.

All of a sudden,
he finds his ball

after a place where
we probably went over.

He sees the ball sitting on a tee,
and he says to O.J.,

"You can't do this shit, man."

I go, "Juice, come on."

"Do you know what the odds
of the ball landing on a tee

in this area--?"

He totally was not going
to confess to the whole thing.

He definitely cheated.

Yes. Yes.

What he'd do,
he had a ball in his pants,

and he'd drop it out and then,

"Hey, you guys,
come on over here."

You know, "Here's my ball."

And he did that to the point
where finally

a bunch of guys got together,
and they hired a caddy.

We called it The Juice Patrol.

And so he'd follow O.J.
around in another cart,

[ Laughs ]
so he wouldn't cheat.

It was funny. It was, you know,
it was like you couldn't get mad.

It was very hard to get mad at him.

One of the things you pride yourself in
in being a golfer

is you don't cheat,

but people made a joke out of it,

because they so badly
wanted him to understand

the rules and regulations
of this part of society

that didn't tolerate
that type of behavior.

And yet he had
that amazing charm

that you'd somehow let him
get away with certain things.

-[ Applause ]
-Juice! Juice!

Juice! Juice!

Touchdown!

Whenever you went
somewhere with him,

like, doors would just open,

and, you know, people would
pick up checks.

I'd say to him, "Hey, Juice,

how are we going to get in...
somewhere?

We don't have any tickets."

He would go like this--

He-- That's his ticket.

I think he became entitled.

I certainly felt bedazzled
by O.J. and Nicole and their lifestyle,

and I was very charmed by him,

but I always did sense
that part of it was not sincere.

The other side
is my better side, I think.

Turn the other side for me.

And I did feel that he
took advantage of that.

And if you allowed him to,
I think he would, uh, use you.

All right, we're set here.

My kissable lips, ooh.

While he was married,
his integrity was--

I mean, uh... not as I would have it.

I will put it that way.

He was an incorrigible womanizer.

He just never stopped.

He cornered me a couple times
and tried to make, uh,

sexual, you know, advance and,
you know, I kind of pushed him off.

I think O.J. felt entitled
to anything O.J. wanted,

and I think that he really needed
that adulation from other women.

She knew he had affairs,
and it drove her crazy.

Most of their big fights

were about his affairs
with other women.

He went out of his way
to almost rub it in her face.

He'd be in Las Vegas at a show
and be holding hands

with another woman.

She would be watching TV,
and, I mean,

I don't know how she put up with it.

He was pretty darn brazen.

I think he even blamed his affair
with Tawny Kitaen

on the fact that Nicole got fat
when she got pregnant.

And he didn't wanna
have sex with her.

Something as superficial
and cold as that.

♪ ...on the hammock, take a little swing. ♪

Look! See the trees?

I told him, "Man, you're breaking
the laws of God,

and nobody does it with immunity.

You're gonna pay for it, man.

One day everybody's gonna know
everything that you've done, man."

[ Police siren ]

When you hear a call come out,

and the 911 operator puts out
on the call

that she can hear the woman
being beaten in the background,

that-- that's serious.

When I got there,

I saw an electronic buzzer system,
so I pushed the button.

Almost simultaneously,
a tall, female blonde

came running out of the bushes.

She's wearing nothin'
but a bra and sweatpants,

covered in mud.

And she kept yelling,

"He's gonna kill me!
He's gonna kill me!"

When that gate opened,
she ran up

and just put her arms around me
and clasped on me.

She was so wet and cold

that you could feel her
shivering to her bone.

And I said,
"Well, who's gonna kill you?"

She said, "O.J."

She says, "You guys have been
up here eight times before.

All you do is talk to him,
you never do anything.

He's gonna kill me."

Her face had already swollen.

She actually had an imprint

on one side of her face
and her forehead.

So I said, "Do you want him
arrested for beating you?"

She said, "Yes."

About that time, O.J. Simpson
came right up to the fence,

and he started yelling,

"I don't want her in my bed anymore.

I got two other women.

I don't want her in my bed
anymore."

He's got a receding hairline,
so you can see his forehead,

and this vein was popping out,
pulsating,

and it was right up his forehead.

I told him, "I'm placing you
under arrest for beating your wife.

You're gonna have to go get dressed
so I can take you to jail."

He turned around and went back
in the house to get dressed.

Suddenly I saw a Bentley pull out
of the other driveway.

[ Car tires screech ]

So I said, "Back up.
He's trying to get away in a car."

And we backed out of the driveway,
and I never caught him with that car.

I never found him.

[ Marching band music ]

Downtown Los Angeles,
little ocean haze.

There is no smog today,
everybody's takin' it easy.

Here at the 75th Rose Bowl game,
score 7-3.

1989, Trojans were in the Rose Bowl.

I was privileged enough to--
to have sideline passes

and that was actually the first time
I'd ever been to a Rose Bowl game

on the sidelines, 'cause
when I was a walk-on at USC,

I never got to play.

[ Crowd cheering ]

I was just having
the time of my life.

All of a sudden, one of O.J.'s really,
really good friends

came up and tapped me
on the shoulder.

He said, "Hey, man, uh, O.J.
had a problem last night, you know,

and, uh, he really needs
to talk to you."

[ Crowd cheers ]

[ Referee whistle blows ]

It's over.

[ Crowd cheers ]

When I called, he said,
"Hey, man, I had a little riff.

Boys had to come out.

Right now I feel like I'm a fugitive."

And he explained to me
that they had an argument,

and she got real physical with him,

and he had to defend himself
and grab her and hold her--

The way he-- he told me the story,
I'm thinkin',

"Hey, man, no big deal. You know?
Um, you didn't hit her.

You know, you said
she was aggressive,

and you were trying to
stop her from--

from beating you up.
Um, no big deal."

And-- And when I got to work
the next morning, it was a big deal.

I got a call from downstairs,
"Someone wants to talk to you,"

and there's Nicole in the lobby.

"Hey, Nicole, what's up?"

You know, she-- she goes,
"Did you hear about what happened?"

I said, "Yeah, I did hear
what happened."

And she told me
it wasn't the first time.

Showed me the pictures
from the past...

...beatings,
and I looked at those pictures

and my heart just-- just, like, dropped.

I was like, "Man, this guy
is a typical batterer."

The '89 thing, the way I saw him
act in Hawaii that Christmas

convinced me that, um,

boy, there was something really,
really wrong.

He freaked out about Nicole
sitting their little son

next to a homosexual
in a restaurant they were at.

I mean, he just freaked.

And they fought
all the way back.

The next day I got a call that, uh,
he freaked out on New Year's Eve,

and he beat the hell out of her.

Nicole knew that I used to
teach domestic violence

for the Los Angeles
Police Department.

And she asked me,

"O.J.'s dad is gay.

Do you think this is
why he beats me?"

And I was like, "I-- I, you know,
I don't know,

but a lot of that stuff has to do
with their self-esteem."

O.J. Simpson that night

definitely got
preferential treatment.

Had that have been anybody else,
you or me, we'd have gone to jail.

I did place him under arrest.

I tried my best,
but couldn't get to him.

But when you tell someone
they're under arrest,

they are under arrest.

If he flees,
then, he's a fleeing felon.

But the unique thing about O.J. is
it was O.J.

Where can he go?
Where can he hide?

Where can he run to...

on the face of this earth?

Where can he go?

[ Police dispatch chatter ]

[ Police sirens ]

[ Helicopter blades ]

Now the story that might never
have surfaced

if someone hadn't picked up
his home video camera.

I can remember that moment
like it was yesterday.

I was laying in my bed,
and I called out to my wife.

I said, "You gotta come see,
you can't believe this."

How will the police justify this one?

How will they get out of this one?

Police say the man,
25-year-old Rodney King,

was involved in a high-speed chase,
wanted as a parole violator.

The police department says
there will be no comment

until its investigation is complete.

As yet, no charges have been filed.

This is what happens when you
take away a tool

that would have ended this
in 10 seconds.

Choke hold.

Look how this thing looks.
You can't justify that.

I was the captain at Watts
at the time.

Atten-hut.

The next day, we had a training day.

I remember standing in front
of all of the troops, and I told them,

"The LAPD will never be
the same again."

Oh, it was devastating,

because there's gonna be a belief
that if these guys do it,

everybody else does it.

Those guys driving down the street
in the black-and-white do that.

And that's just not the case.

But that visual image,
folks remember that,

and they will take it
to their grave.

That home video showing
a black motorist

being beaten by a white
Los Angeles policeman

has triggered investigations
now by the FBI,

the district attorney there,

and the police department itself.

The media didn't give LAPD
a break on this one.

They showed that tape
over and over and over.

I mean, it wasn't just in Los Angeles.

It was all over the world.

[ French-language newscast ]

I was embarrassed
for Los Angeles.

The real significance wasn't
what you saw on the tape.

That tape became exhibit one

for every mishandled abuse
and excessive force incident

that anyone had
ever experienced.

This is an aberration.

This is something that should
never have happened.

We had in place
all of the procedures

that would keep it
from happening.

Those procedures fell down
because of human error.

And we will deal with that
human error.

I believe things like that
do happen from time to time,

but they are anomalies.

That's not what happens
all day, every day

in the thousands of contacts
that occur.

I don't believe it.
I'll never believe it.

Daryl Gates started out saying
it was an aberration.

And we say, "Darryl,
don't you remember Eulia Love?"

[ Cheering ]

I think the thing that's most shocking
about the King incident

isn't even what happens to King.

It's the fact that all those officers

go back to their police divisions
that night,

none of them knowing
that a video tape exists.

They all file their reports

and not one of 'em says,
in any document,

that they saw anything go wrong.

That suggests to me
a culture in which

this wasn't perceived
as something wrong.

In Los Angeles today,

four men were arrested,
photographed, and fingerprinted.

They were policemen,

charged with assault
with a deadly weapon

in the beating of a black motorist.

Named in the indictment:

officers Laurence Powell,
Ted Briseno

and Timothy Wind

and their supervising sergeant,
Stacey Koon.

The FBI will investigate
whether the federal civil rights

of the victim, Rodney King,
have been violated.

A story is not a story
unless there's conflict.

Do you really wanna say
this is a felon

speeding on the freeway
under the influence

of a hallucinogenic and/or alcohol,

or do you wanna say
he's a "motorist",

and he was stopped
by these racist cops?

How do you know these cops
are racist?

They are not racist.

The furor is only growing
with the revelations

of police communications over
their in-car computer terminals.

An earlier message
from the Powell-Wind unit

referred to a previous call as
"`right out of Gorillas in the Mist."

Has there been times
that we've been brutal,

uh, used excessive force?

Absolutely.

The racist part is really tough
to choke down for me.

During my 38 years there,
I didn't see it.

Civil rights organizations say
the Los Angeles police department

has a history of brutality
and misconduct

that goes back
a quarter of a century,

including one incident
that sparked the Watts riots.

We want effective law-enforcement
in the city of Los Angeles.

You take an oath
to protect and serve,

but when you come
to the black community,

all you do is abuse!

Hey, hey! Ho, ho!

You can only take so many shots
publicly before your reputation

is so soiled that it can be
manipulated over and over again.

That will always be included
in the argument to demonstrate

how brutal and insensitive
and racist the LAPD is.

It's like you can't put Humpty Dumpty
back together again.

We're outraged, we're disgusted,
and let's close this one with,

No more! No more! No more!
No more! No more! No more!

It comes to Latasha Harlins,
coming to the counter

with what she was going to buy
in one hand,

money in the other.

Altercation,

walks away,

is shot in the back of the head.

Latasha Harlins really hit home,

because my daughter was
the same age as Latasha Harlins.

Rodney King didn't touch me
as much as Latasha Harlins,

because this girl was killed.

She was a little teenage girl
buying some orange juice.

Mm-mm.

That-- that could've been my child.

Up until Saturday morning,

Soon Ja Du was a Korean grocer
in Los Angeles.

Now she's an alleged criminal,

facing a first-degree
murder charge.

Well, at this time, she's looking
at a maximum of 30 years to life.

According to witnesses
and a security camera video tape,

Harlins never tried to steal the juice.

Instead, investigators say Du
angrily confronted the girl

and then shot her
with a .38 caliber handgun.

I hope and I know that justice
will serve itself,

and she will get what she deserved.

Soon Ja Du had no respect
for that young woman.

The way they beat Rodney King,
okay?

Her shooting Latasha Harlins...

It's the same people, okay,
that are being victimized.

The recommendation of the people
was maximum state prison.

I think that the death
of Latasha deserved that.

The court decided otherwise.

Mrs. Du is placed on formal probation

for five years on the following
terms and conditions.

Mrs. Du is to perform 400 hours
of community service.

Get the cameras off!

No cameras! Get the camera
out of my face!

The judge called for peace.
She said--

How can you have peace when--?
When this is going on?

What? This woman killed a child.

She killed a child
and not getting any jail time?

I-- I-- I haven't gotten over that,
really.

Wake up, Los Angeles! Wake up!
Let not her blood be in vain!

Latasha was killed,
our family was killed.

-Yeah!
-That's right!

Racism is not the Korean killing her,
racism is the courts system...

-That's right!
-...that allows her to kill her.

Karlin must go!
Karlin must go!

Chanting "Karlin must go",
angry protesters

stormed through security checkpoints
at the courthouse in Compton.

[ Overlapping angry yelling ]

They are still outraged over
Judge Joyce Karlin's decision

not to send Latasha Harlins'
killer to jail.

They are willing to go to jail
to get their point across.

In the community, you go to jail
for selling crack

for 20 years, 20 and 30 years.

How you gonna kill somebody
and get probation?

What kind of sense
does that make?

What kind of justice is that?

39th and Dalton,

then Rodney King,

then Latasha Harlins.

Three defining issues
in different ways,

but the tension
in the environment

and the disrespect shown
to Black life was the theme.

ESPN presents...

Sports Look

with the personalities
and cover stories

making news in the world of sport.

Now, here's your host,
Roy Firestone.

When you live your life
so publicly and, uh,

really almost with such ease,

uh, it's hard to believe that there
could ever be any rocky time.

The reason I'm bringing that
to light now

is not to dredge it up again,

but more or less talk
about how things can get distorted

to such a point that you are
portrayed as the bad guy.

Um, New Year's Eve,

you had a little bit
too much to drink.

-There was some--
-Uh, you know, that's--

You know, actually,

you know, my wife and I
have been together for 12 years

and it really--
when I look at it,

it wasn't really
that big of a fight,

it's just that because of, uh,
it being New Year's Eve--

Right.

--because it's three o'clock
in the mornin',

just finished a big party,

uh, it got a little verb--
it-- it got a little loud.

[ Laughs ]

Here's-- here's my point,
the point I'm making, Juice--

Yeah.

--is that it got to such a point

that you were portrayed in the press
for a while there like a wife beater.

Yeah, well, and that bothered me.

Obviously, it bothered
my whole family.

I mean, uh, you know,
the day after this was over,

you know, we looked at, say--

you know, we had a fight,

we were both guilty.

No one was hurt, was no big deal,
and we got on with our life.

I had always suspected
that they had violent fights.

The day of my wedding
I found out that Nicole and O.J.

were not going to be attending...

and he said it was because

Nicole was having very bad cramps
from her period.

I thought it was a lie.

It was always Nicole's fault.
I mean, even the '89 thing.

When I cornered him sitting
on a golf cart,

I listened for nine holes,

everything that she did wrong
to create what had happened.

"You think that she's bruised up,
you should have seen my face,"

you know, the-- the whole pity thing
that he always went through.

I think anybody that knew them...
it was over.

Then it was a matter of when
would Nicole have the fortitude

to just completely walk away.

She said, "Ron,

if it wasn't for the kids,
I'd be out of here."

And then I get a call from O.J.

He says, "You gotta help me here.

You-- you gotta help
save this marriage.

You gotta talk to Nicole,
tell her I'll never do it again."

I saw her start to soften,
because by this time,

O.J. is just doing everything
with the kids.

And they're just having a great time,

he's taking them here,
he's taking them there.

She's looking at me goin',

"Hey, Ron, he's really changing.
He's really changing."

When it turned toward
the domestic violence,

that was one
that nobody wanted to hear.

The police didn't wanna hear it,

most certainly Hertz
didn't wanna hear it,

NBC didn't wanna hear it.

Nobody wanted to deal with that.

Back to you, Bob.
[ Laughing ]

When we heard that,
I thought that was it.

That's-- it's over.

You know who called me to tell me
that it was a false arrest?

Nicole.

Nicole called me and said,

"Frank, it didn't happen that way."

They'd had a terrible argument,
but he wasn't abusive.

They just overreacted.

I certainly understand
how she got involved with him,

and I could understand how hard
it would be to leave that.

There was a lot to leave.

Especially if it was to go back
to your parents' house

in Laguna Beach and start over.

O.J. was the income producer
for the family.

For not only just Nicole and O.J.

but for Nicole's father,
and mother, sisters...

He was the-- the money man.

Nicole told me that she felt
her family would side with O.J.

And that-- and that disturbed her
a great deal.

Nicole was like the trophy to him.

You know, something that--
that he possessed,

that he wanted control of,
you know?

And "You better do what I say,"
but, you know,

"You better go along
with this program."

I-- I totally believe
he was concerned about his image.

What kind of public reaction
did you get,

and what kind of corporate reaction
did you get, Juice?

Surprisingly, so supportive
it was unbelievable, you know?

So supportive, you know?

Uh, most of the people that I work with
know us real well,

so they can see first-hand
that there was, uh, you know, that,

hey, our relationship
was as strong as--

not only as it's ever been,
but as strong as any body's I know.

So nobody dropped you
from any contracts?

-No. No. No.
-See, the one thing that--

another thing people
don't realize about O.J.

is he is extremely, uh, well-involved
in the business community.

And he doesn't wanna do this,
'cause it's embarrassing to him,

but he is one of the owners
of HoneyBaked Hams,

uh, Ramada Inns,
a couple of Ramada Inns,

three Ramada Inns,

very involved, of course,
with Hertz.

And when something
like this happens,

it takes a toll,

it takes a bite out of it,
but, you know,

it boun-- you bounce back
from something like this.

Once they really, really
got back together,

you know, I mean,
we were still friends, you know,

I still know the guy and everything,

but, you know,

he kinda had that, uh, attitude,

"I'm back. I knew I'd be back."

You know, "Hey...
Don't worry about it."

You know, "Everything's fine."

This is where O.J. Simpson
performed community service

as part of his sentence
for beating his wife, Nicole.

For part of his punishment,
Simpson went golfing.

He spent his 120 hours
of community service

organizing a celebrity tournament.

Prosecutors in the case say
they wanted him to go to jail.

Can you imagine if every time he did
something violent like that

that a report would've been made?

When I got to the station,
I checked the computer,

there would have been eight previous
domestic incident reports on file.

Then I would have put that
in my report

and sent it on to the prosecutor,

that most likely that would have
been filed as a felony.

Because it would have shown
that a slap on the hand

is not going to cure this
from happening again.

And that's why I hung
onto the report.

I don't have a garage full of reports,

I have one report, one,

that was O.J. Simpson's report
because I thought

that the case might be mishandled,
and I needed proof

that it actually happened,

and I thought he was gonna kill her.

A controversial case involving
four Los Angeles police officers

goes to court today.

The officers face charges

stemming from the videotaped
beating of a motorist.

The case has already
raised accusations

of officially-sanctioned racism
and brutality.

At issue is the use of force.

The question is whether
their force was justified

by King's behavior
before the camera rolled.

I don't think that that
should have been prosecuted.

Those officers had
about two seconds to make up

their mind to do something,

and they did what they thought
was right at the time.

When is too much?
When is not enough?

Should they go to trial?
Definitely not.

On film, what you see was illegal.

There had to be a prosecution,

and if there isn't a legitimate reason
for this,

there's jail time involved
with this one.

I was fairly new to LA,
so I'm thinkin',

"Hey, we got 'em-- we got 'em cold.
This time we'll get justice."

And there were people who had lived
in those communities a long time,

and they were saying,

"Well, you know, maybe.
I hope so.

But it's not a done deal."

In a brand-new courthouse
in a distant LA suburb

called Simi Valley,

the city's drama is putting
a little town on the map.

The defense had the trial moved

from Los Angeles county
to this bedroom suburb.

This area is notably more white
and conservative than LA.

It was a horrible decision.

It was the worst possible decision.

And a lot of LAPD officers
live in Simi Valley.

The idea is that you get
a representative cross-section

of the community, that's what
the sixth amendment talks about,

and that people come in
with different life experiences,

because you really do need

the people to come
from different walks of life

so that you get a complete
understanding of the testimony.

Completely in fear for my life,
scared to death

that if this guy got back up,

he was gonna take my gun
away from me.

Cases involving charges
against police officers

are rarely slam dunks.

Even when they're on videotape.

Do you believe that the actions
of your officers

up to this point were having
any effect on Mr. King?

None at all. This was a managed
and controlled use of force.

It followed the policies
and procedures

of Los Angeles Police Department
and the training.

Now,
as the defense presents its case,

civil rights lawyers
like Johnnie Cochran worry

that convictions are far from certain,

because the prosecutors seem
to lack experience

dealing with cops.

Somebody with some experience
has to stand up and say,

"Look, you can't get away with this.

This isn't right,
and we're not gonna let it happen."

The prosecution's strategy
seems to be

to let the violence
of the videotape speak for itself.

But nobody is certain anymore
what that tape is saying to the jury.

I had been telling my people
at Time Magazine,

"There's something going on.

We need to pay attention.

There's a story here
beyond this trial."

I just sensed there was this unrest.

The day started like any other day,
but it really wasn't.

We were waiting for the verdict
to be handed down in the trial

of the four white police officers

that were charged
with beating Rodney King.

Sergeant Koon, how are you feeling?

No comment.

I got up that morning and I said,

"I gotta go out there
and see what's going on."

So I got on the freeway
and started looking for Simi Valley.

It's a all-white town.

I only saw white people
out there that day,

and they wasn't that kind to me
when I was asking for direction.

I wanted to be there to witness it,

and I guess I thought that
my being there

was gonna change something.

Title of accordant cause:

we the jury,
in the above-entitled action,

find the defendant,

Laurence M. Powell not guilty of--

[ Gasps, shocked reactions ]

[ Bleeped cursing ]

Man, you got to be kiddin'.

We the jury,
in the above-entitled action,

find the defendant
Theodore J. Briseno

not guilty of the crime of assault

by force likely to produce
great bodily injury

with a deadly weapon.

This 29th day of April, 1992,
signed by the court.

Title of accordant cause:

we the jury,
in the above-entitled action,

find the defendant,
Timothy E. Wind,

not guilty of the crime
of assault by force

likely to produce great bodily injury
with a deadly weapon.

I was sitting in the bureau
the day of the verdict,

with all of my white colleagues
and friends.

We the jury--

And every time they said,
"Not guilty"...

--the defendant, Stacey C. Koon,
not guilty--

...what I heard was, "Fuck niggers.
Not guilty. Fuck niggers."

No justice! No peace!
No justice! No peace!

I was at Parker Center
when the acquittals were announced.

And I recall some high-fives
and some fist-pumping in the air,

and, I mean, there were clearly
some people who felt

that the public misunderstood them,
that the media misunderstood them,

and that the jury got it right.

Well, first, all your reaction
to what has happened.

Very happy.
[ Chuckles ]

[ Angry shouting ]

I'm glad the LAPD are out there
protecting me--

I wanted to believe
that the system would work

for black people in general,

even though I knew often it doesn't,

but this time, it should work.
And it didn't.

And all I felt like,

I just wanted
to smack somebody white.

You're guilty!

Your skin color determines
what degree of justice

you have these days.

I don't think the community's
gonna take this lying down.

I don't think this is gonna be good.

No justice in America,
not for the blacks!

The justice is for the other man,
not for the brother man!

Pastor, your reaction
after that first verdict was read?

Our reaction was almost universal,
utter pain.

Justice! Justice!

Rodney King did not have
a choirboy's record,

but Rodney King
had the flesh and blood

of decency and humanity
in his heart.

What they were beating
is every Black person in America.

Don't lay down for this shit!

We had an understanding
that the night of the verdict

we would assemble
at First AME Church.

We'd been meeting with the mayor
to get ready.

I said Beverly Hills,

'cause this is some fucked-up shit
that happened, man.

-This is history...
-We're going to Westwood...

Brentwood, Whitewood. All that.

We were gonna send out groups
of young men

to walk the streets
and keep everything in order.

[ Police sirens ]

I had spent weeks talking
to Black clergy, gang members,

and they were very upfront about
what they believed would happen.

"Yeah, there's gonna be violence."

So we had everything prepared.
We had the copter fully fueled.

It seems like the only people

that didn't know
that there would be a riot

was the news media
and the LAPD.

You're looking at a live picture here
at Normandie and Florence.

There has been a mini-riot
at this location.

There's now been a tactical alert.

Officers have been ordered
to stay out of this general area.

We're gonna try to get you
more information on that.

Even before the verdict,

Los Angeles police chief
Daryl Gates was criticized

for preparing for unrest
in the event

four of his officers
were acquitted.

But when the rioting began,

where were the police
and firefighters?

[ Angry shouting ]

My most striking memory is of
members of the police commission

desperately trying to find Gates.

Which is just shocking, if you
think about it in retrospect,

that the verdicts
in the Rodney King case

were coming down and the chief
was not at Parker Center.

Gates had driven to this house
in ritzy Brentwood

to campaign against
a police reform initiative.

Fighting police reform,
that's what he was doing.

He abandoned his post

and left his troops
in a shameful state.

[ Angry shouting ]

The LAPD response was tepid.

All of the media
gets on the police department,

the people are screaming,

"We have an occupying force."

Well, gee, we don't wanna
look like an occupying force,

so maybe we'll just sit here
until it blows over.

That type of crap goes on.

And we were furious.

-Fuck the police!
-Fuck 'em! Fuck 'em!

Chaos at this particular location.

To see the very start of the violence
was very troubling.

What made it really troubling
was there was no police presence.

There's a van coming under attack.

They're pulling the driver
out of the van,

and they're kicking the driver
and beating the driver.

We captured
what essentially became

the bookend
to the Rodney King beating.

There's another driver, badly beaten.

In the case of Reginald Denny,

we had black gang members
beating a white man.

Oh, look at that. Terrible.

And there's no police
presence down here.

They will not enter the area.

That was the most disgusting thing
I've seen in my entire career.

Two blocks away we had
a platoon of metro division.

We could have cleared
that intersection in a minute.

But the commander there

didn't wanna release 'em
to do it, because of imagery.

We're on live television.

We're seeing a dark day
here in Los Angeles.

The LAPD is nowhere to be found.

So we're sitting there
in our uniforms

watching this poor truck driver
get his head beat in.

Nobody's doing a damn thing
about it.

We're screamin'.

Nobody would even move on it.

How are you this evening?

-Angry.
-Angry?

The jury is trying to tell us
we didn't see what we saw.

[ Cheers, applause ]

We've been the victims
of police brutality in this town

for too long!

[ Cheers, applause ]

We didn't come here tonight
to mourn.

We came here tonight
to say who we are.

[ Cheers, applause ]

And we ain't gonna take this
business lying down.

[ Cheers, applause ]

And we ain't gonna tear up
our community

to be proving their point.

[ Cheers, applause ]

Mark Brown, Channel Seven
waved at the monitor and said,

"The city's on fire.
It's on fire."

And I looked at him and said,
"My God."

I had no idea it was
right across the street.

Literally.

The gas station was on fire.

What I didn't anticipate
personally and professionally

was the response of the community.

I went on the streets,
and Western Avenue was in flames.

And this crowd is gathering,
and the police have now come,

and there's one guy,
and he's screaming his head off,

"Burn, baby, burn!

How you like me now,
Mr. Policeman?"

And I felt his pain.

I just didn't get it.

I just didn't understand
burning down your own community.

I didn't get what it proved.

Here are people who feel
like they have no stake,

nobody's paying
any attention to them.

This is the only way
we can get any attention.

[ Angry chanting ]

As it got darker,
a crowd began to gather out

in front of the police department.

It got increasingly unruly.

Someone grabbed me
and tore my shirt

and said something about,
you know,

"You fucking newsmen.
Why do you tell lies?"

It is the most physically-frightening
situation that I've ever been part of.

[ Angry shouting ]

[ Helicopter blades ]

Guy pulls up, and he goes,

"Mike, whatever you do,
don't go to the command post.

Go to the police station
down the street.

Because it's very violent out there."

I looked at him, and I thought,
"What a coward he is,"

get in the car, make the first turn,
and the car gets lit up by gunfire.

So I go, "Okay. Now I know
what he's talking about."

So I took my .45 out,
I put it on my lap,

I took a big gulp of Copenhagen,

stuck it down my mouth,
turned off the lights

and drove as fast as I could
to the command post.

Hindsight, the overall management
could've been done much better,

but once it got away from us,
we were cooked.

[ Helicopter blades ]

911 Emergency.

Yeah, can you send someone
to my house?

What's the problem there?

Well, my ex-husband,
or my husband,

just broke into my house,

and he's ranting and raving.

Now he's just walked out
on the front yard.

Has he been drinking
or anything?

No, but he's crazy.

Is he black, white, or Hispanic?

Black.

What's he wearing right now?

Black pants and a golf shirt.

You said he hasn't
been drinking?

-No.
-Did he hit you?

No.

Do you have a restraining order
against him?

No.

What's your name?

Nicole Simpson.

Your address?

325 Gretna Green Way.

Okay, we'll send police out.

-Thank you.
-Uh-huh.

When Nicole first decided
to leave O.J.,

she came to me.

She said, "I wanna move out"
and at that time,

I was doing real estate.

And then we had to sell
O.J. on the idea.

He was obsessed
with controlling Nicole.

I said, "Look, O.J.,
we'll get her a lease."

He goes, "Three months."

I said, "We'll get her a year lease.
You know? It'll be right nearby.

You can go to therapy and see
if you can work things out.

But she needs her space."

He really didn't wanna do it.

I think for the first time she felt free.

It was like she just came
into that sense of self,

that she was really ready to do
life for her and her kids.

She responded great
to being divorced.

She was really enjoying her life,

going out
and not being Mrs. Simpson,

being Nicole Brown.

She wanted to pursue her
photography career,

and she wanted to have
a normal life again.

It was a beautiful day,

and we skied down to the bottom
of the mountain.

And everybody's gathering
on the deck, having a great time.

I looked across the deck,
and I said, "Wow."

I said that, "That is absolutely
the most stunning woman

I've ever seen in my life.

I have to find a way
to introduce myself to her."

So I did.

When I got back to LA
several months later,

we spent more time together.

Her and friends came by
Mezzaluna one night,

and we're having a good time,
and, all of a sudden,

I see the Bentley
come screeching up

to the front of the door.

He comes in, walks straight over
to our table,

slams his hands down,

looks me straight in the eye
and says,

"I'm O.J. Simpson,
and she's still my wife."

I was sort of love-blind,

so I didn't get up, I didn't run,
I didn't back down,

I just stood my ground
from day one.

And that's when she started
to open up to me.

She told me about years of abuse
at his hands.

He would beat her and lock her
in closets at hotels

because she asked
where he was at

when he was out
cheating on her.

She was told how to look,
told how to wear her hair,

told how to dress,

told where to be,
what time to be,

how to be, everything
for O.J. Simpson.

Kind of a reverse slavery thing.
Uh, very, very odd.

You know, "That's, uh,
that's my property,"

and he always said,
"That's my booty."

The two sides of O.J.,

the O.J. that everybody
sees on TV--

And when the Cowboys
brought in their big back,

that they didn't make good tackles
on them, so the coach

was on their cases
to make better tackles,

as my family throws
snowballs at me.

Incidentally, uh--

That's not the O.J. that there was
behind closed doors,

certainly not with her,
and she told me that.

"Don't ever be
left alone with him,

'cause you don't know
what he's capable of."

He had her followed, and he would
plant people in our group

that would call him and tell him
where we're going every night.

He would either show up

or have a spy planted there
at the club

so they could watch
her every move.

He never relinquished control.
He never would really let go.

He would tell me that Nicole
tried to get him back,

that she was actually taking
golf lessons at Riviera.

And he had a girlfriend,
you know, Paula.

And he seemed enthralled with her.

O.J.'s personality
had totally changed,

and I didn't think
it was just the divorce.

Because his womanizing
didn't change.

He was truly the most jealous person
I ever met in my life.

He was as jealous as he was
a good football player.

I saw the anger,

I saw the rage in his face
on several occasions.

At me, in particular, and at her.

There was an incident
where we went over to Roxbury,

a hot club at the time in LA,

and we get in,
and she's dancing.

Maybe 20, 30 minutes go by, and I
see her coming back towards me.

She goes, "O.J.'s here."
And I go, "Ha. Great. Again."

You know, she goes,
"Let's just get out of here."

And I say, "I couldn't agree more."

So we drive back to her house
on Gretna Green.

We go inside,
and, uh, we became romantic.

We were off in a private area
in one of the living rooms,

and the next day he came over
and pushed in the back door,

confronted both of us,

and he wanted to talk to her alone.

She was trembling,
standing next to me,

holding my hand, shaking.

And she said,

"Keith, I think you need to leave me
alone with him for a couple minutes."

I could hear him screaming at her,

I could hear him
using disparaging terms

about her and me.

They walked out,
and he was O.J. again.

Shook my hand.

"Sorry, dude. No hard feelings."

You know, "I'm a very proud man."

And he walked out the house.

And she turned to me, and she was
white as a ghost, and she said,

"Oh, my God, Keith.
He watched us."

And everything changed
from that point on.

We realized
we weren't safe anymore.

We realized that nothing
was off limits.

I think she knew O.J. was always
a presence. She hated it.

She couldn't even explore
being single again and--

and free and having fun,

because everybody was still being
manipulated by O.J.

When he found out that she
had been with Marcus,

that's-- that was a real issue.

It's a time you look the competition

right in the face and say,

-"Look, I'm better than you."
-No, I'm better than you.

You may be younger,
but you ain't better.

Yo, who started?

And don't be taking
my number either.

Besides, I'm better lookin'.

I'm tired of you trying to be like me.

I remember going with O.J.
to watch Marcus play at USC.

He was kinda like a mentor
to Marcus.

They were extremely close.
Extremely.

You know, Marcus got married
at O.J.'s house.

I think she always festered
a crush for Marcus.

And he was the only person
in her life

that was as famous
and as strong as O.J.

And so I think she felt in a way
that she was safe with him.

O.J. said, "Marcus, we're 'SC guys.

We don't do that to each other.
What the hell's wrong with you?"

He was a younger version of O.J.

He was almost like the newer,
bigger, better version.

I had no-- no idea whatsoever,

uh, that they were carrying on
some kind of affair.

I was a bit stunned.

Did you ever have a romantic
relationship with Nicole?

No, I did not.

No kind of sexual
or romantic involvement

did you ever have with her?

None whatsoever.

I really do not wanna talk
about that at all.

Sometimes I'll try to sing,
but I'm not gonna do it.

Tonight I got this tequila in me.

The girl I came here with
said to me,

"Is this a blues place?"

I said, "Oh, no, no, no.
This is rhythm and blues."

[ Laughs ]

Speaking of that lady
I was talking about--

There she is.

With another shot of this tequila.

Now, watch her--
Yeah, that's right.

Now, watch her sing.

I don't know if--
Oh, my God.

[ Laughs ]

That's right.

We're live right now
all across America,

and she is my woman.

[ Laughs ]

I'm taking her tequila.

That's why I'm not singing tonight.

When they initially
got back together,

I was the first person
she told about it.

He had told her, "I'm changed.
I'm a new man.

Let me prove this to ya."

She said, "We're gonna date first,
and I'm not giving up my house,

and we're gonna see how it goes."

That was how they tried to reconcile.

She said all she really ever wanted
was her family.

It's almost like she risked everything
to have that unit back together.

911 Emergency.
What is the--?

Can you get someone
over here now, to 325 Gretna Green?

He's back. Please.

Okay. What does he look like?

He's O.J. Simpson.
I think you know his record.

Could you just send
somebody over here?

Okay. What is he doing there?

He's just-- All this again.

Could you just send
somebody over?

Wait a minute.
What kind of car is he...?

We were filming another
Naked Gun movie,

and it was the first time
I can remember him being

just in one of the foulest moods ever.

And he said, "It's just Nicole bullshit."

First of all, he broke
the back door down

to get in before...

Okay. Wait a minute.
What's your name?

Nicole Simpson.

Okay. Is he the sportscaster
or whatever?

-Yeah.
-Okay.

Thank you.

My ex-girlfriend approached him
on the movie set

and said some
very disparaging things

about Nicole and myself,

so I knew that O.J. was gonna
take it out on Nicole.

Wait a minute,
we're sending police.

What is he doing?
Is he threatening you?

I-- He's fucking going nuts.

You're gonna hear him in a minute.
He's about to come in again.

Okay, just stay on the line--

I don't wanna stay on the line.

He's gonna beat the shit
out of me.

Wait a minute, would you?
Just stay on the line,

so we can know what's going on
'til the police get there, okay?

[ Nicole sighs ]

It wasn't until years later
that I actually sat down,

and I had even listened
to the 911 call.

I knew different voices for Nicole,
and she wasn't mad,

she definitely wasn't drunk.

She's terrified.

And that was heartbreaking.
That was heartbreaking.

-Okay, Nicole.
-Uh-huh?

Just a moment.
Does he have any weapons?

I don't know.

Okay.

He went home,
and now he's back.

The kids are up there sleeping,
and I don't want anything to happen.

Okay, just a moment.

When you hear O.J.'s voice,
what do you hear?

Rage.

Is he inside right now?

-Yes. Yes.
-Okay, just a moment.

All units, a domestic violence
at 325 Gretna Green Way--

[ Indistinct shouting ]

O.J., the kids are sleeping.

Is he upset with something
that you did?

Oh, a long time ago.
It always comes back.

Has this happened before or no?

Many times.

Okay.

The police should be on the way.

It just seems like a long time

because it's kind of busy
in that division right now.

When she left him for good,
she called me, and she's like,

"Yep, this is it, Robin."

She said,
"This is it. I'm done. I'm done."

She goes, "I don't even-- I have no
feeling for him whatsoever anymore.

It's just over."

She was free,
and she was happy without him,

and I think he knew
it was really over.

The day she changed,
it was like a light switch.

He spiraled, from that day on.
Everything was different.

Who he was, that persona,
everything was gone.

She wasn't chasing him anymore
and it-- it spun him out.

We all believed that right toward
the very end when, uh,

they had split up,
after Mother's Day,

that Nicole was not
seeing Marcus again.

I absolutely believed that she was.

And O.J. told Nicole,

"You ever see Marcus again,
I will kill you."

This was obviously "I'm--
I'm gonna get back at you, O.J.

I don't care what it takes,
I'm gonna humiliate you."

If she did it,

it was more for her own
personal rebellion,

it was more for her
saying to herself,

"I'm gonna date who I want,
I'm gonna go where I want,

I'm gonna be friends
with who I want. I'm free.

You have lost me, O.J.
Watch me run."

I think there was something
about her

that was almost
unattainable to him.

Something that he couldn't
quite control.

And I think that that was
part of the attraction.

And I think, in the final analysis,
that's what got her killed.