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Oj Simpson Responsibility

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“The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.” Orenthal J Simpson: famous football player, father of four, and recent husband of the dead Nicole Brown Simpson. Being in a relationship with Nicole for seven years made outsources conclude/believe that Simpson really did love his wife. However, the reports and phone calls made by Nicole Brown Simpson to the police would say otherwise. The day June 12th, 1994 would haunt Orenthal Simpson the rest of his life, this is the day that he should have taken “complete responsibility” for his actions; afteral, Orenthal J Simpson murdered his wife and her friend Ron Goldman. Simpson was proven innocent, although evidence …show more content…

However, behind closed doors, this was not the case. Simpson was a “wife beater,” the first time that Nicole reported the abuse to the police she had been seen by the police running from her house, “...her lip bloodied, face swollen and eye blackened, sprinted across the lawn and collapsed on the ground” (Globe). What more of evidence would it take the LA police department to arrest Orenthal Simpson for abusing his wife? Simpson was pressed with domestic violence, but the charge was seen as a joke. Although the case was looked over, Simpson’s secret of beating his wife was soon released to the public, “According to police records released Thursday, Mr. Simpson beat his wife, Nicole, so badly on Jan. 1, 1989, that she required treatment at a hospital. The records also portray her as terrified for her life” (Rimer). The news of Simpson’s secret violence was soon dismissed by the public and life continued for the football star. Nicole was finally finished with their relationship, in 1992 Nicole and Orenthal were legally divorced, with the end of the marriage should have meant the end of the abuse. Nicole and Simpson kept seeing each other and again, the abuse towards Nicole continued. The abuse was not a matter that should have ever been “looked over,” Huffington Post Crime states that many cases of …show more content…

DNA blood evidence, spouse abuse, and found objects on Simpson’s property prove him guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Simpson took away two lives that will never be able to be brought back; this was all due to the fact that race was brought into the case. Murder is murder, it does not change just because someone is defined differently by their skin color, there should be equal punishments to all races and individuals. OJ Simpson might have wrongfully outsmarted the court; however, he was not witty enough to prevent what the future had in store for

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