Mark Fuhrman

sliming a good man like Mark Fuhrman
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$#!+ I hate this can of worms, but... I have an opinion!

Fuhrman's the kind of cop with deep personal flaws, overly authoritarian (can be a bully), but not a deeply evil man. In a crisis, a firefight, you'd be glad to have a cop like that on your side. Even with his supposed racist prejudice against mixed-race couples, I readily imagine him taking the side of an endangered mixed-race couple against creeps. Might have some great war stories he'd tell over a cold one. Not dishonorable.

But not wise. Fuhrman practically single-handedly destroyed the case. Handed to the defense on a silver platter. His unauthorized involvement, the spot of blood on the car no one else ever saw, his 'surprising' discovery of both bloody gloves, one at the scene, one behind OJ's, his history of problems with OJ, and a rep for evidence manipulation, pleading the Fifth... not hard to 'smear.' Bad as a witness, just part of a totes prosecutorial clusterfluke.

NB: Practically all I 'know' of him is from watching the trial, which I did up to where the prosecution rested. And having met his type in real life now and then.