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#12: The People vs O. J. Simpson - Marcia, Marcia, Marcia and the Race Card

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Exhibit C, Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.210.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In the sixth episode about The People vs. O. J. Simpson, Jim Clemente, Laura Richards and Lisa Zambetti examine how evidence was handled, how Johnny Cochran played to racial tension and double standard of how Marcia Clark was treated by the media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:31.0

Hello and welcome back to Real Crime Profile. I'm Jim Clemente, retired FBI

0:37.2

profiler and former New York City prosecutor and we're talking about the

0:42.5

people versus OJ Simpson. With me today is Laura Richards founder of Paladin

0:49.3

National Stoking Advocacy Service and Criminal Behavioral Analysts. And Lisa

0:53.6

Zambetti, a casting director for Criminal Minds where Jim Clemente is my

0:57.0

colleague. And today we're going to be discussing episode five of the people

1:04.4

versus OJ Simpson. This episode was entitled Race Card and basically that is

1:13.6

another way of saying I think it's a Johnny Cochran commercial and I think it

1:19.1

was basically his idea at least as depicted that he should focus on the

1:26.6

racial divide in the city of Los Angeles and the wake of the Rodney King

1:31.0

incident and acquittals of the police officers to use that as an as an

1:36.7

advantage in the defense of OJ Simpson. So one of the first things that obviously

1:44.5

stood out in this episode to me was the incident in which Johnny Cochran was

1:50.0

driving in this case depicted him with two of his daughters in the back of

1:55.4

Mercedes-Benz and he was pulled over by a sole police officer on a motorcycle

2:03.2

but as Laura Richards pointed out that's not exactly what it was like in the

2:08.5

real world. Well it certainly happened in this incident did happen but it

2:13.3

happened in 1980 not 1982 and I think it was a son and a daughter in the back of

2:19.1

the car and they were on their way to buy some toys rather than going to I

2:24.2

think in the show it showed that they were going somewhere to eat yeah hamburger

2:28.8

hamlet or something. But it was here in LA Laura it was yeah I mean it did happen

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