fuhrman tapes transcript

We are no longer accepting comments on this article. We'd love to investigate just some good 'ol boy beating up a n***** in a bar."' UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a belly punch at the wrong time. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you use in the word -- describing people? I don't know who called. Having found Fuhrman's use of the subject racial epithet to be relevant and admissible, the court must then analyze each usage under Evidence Code Section 352: "The court may exclude evidence if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the probability that its admission will (a) necessitate undue consumption of time or (b) create substantial danger of undue prejudice, of confusing the issues, or of misleading the jury." N******. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You say on your oath that you have not address any black person as a nigger, was spoken about black people as niggers in the past ten years, Detective Fuhrman? HART MCKINNY: It just pissed me off. . UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not guilty of murder. The jury ultimately found Simpson not guilty, and on July 5, 1996 Fuhrman was charged with perjury for lying about his use of racial slurs on the stand. Did you feel safe during all of that? The whole world would watch him implode. [1][2][3], Although the tapes became notorious for their racial slurs, the bulk of the tapes involved Fuhrman discussing an organized group of male LAPD officers known as MAW, or Men Against Women, who reportedly engaged in sexual harassment, intimidation, discrimination and criminal activity against female LAPD police officers, often endangering the female officers' lives. They go, hey Bubba, what's happening, like that.' We searched him again and found the gun. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The thought of the party takes your breath away. This is dangerous? 'Grabbed her by the hair and stuck a gun to her head, and used her as a barricade. . Harrington also publicly responded to Fuhrman's views that female police officers are unfit for police work because of their biological sex. He said in that interview that he had not told a 'willful lie' on the stand, claiming; 'I never remembered those tapes. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) [23:23:005] PHILLIPS: By day a ball field, by night an imaginary courtroom. HART MCKINNY: He was trying to articulate the depth of his soul. Take one in the basement and just beat the dog shit out of him." What did he mean by that? In one instance, Fuhrman reported that a suspect was beaten to death and three others were hospitalized with broken bones. FUHRMAN: To peddle this which is absolutely psycho? Excerpts not played in court and never made public until now. Aired 11p-12mn ET. Simpson murder trial. PHILLIPS: And even one tape made just months before he would testify in the O.J. - On new LAPD regulations, 'Go to Wilshire division. He was a big n*****, and she was afraid.' Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown were dead, and her ex-husband, O.J. In argument in opposition to the admission of these incidents of alleged misconduct, the prosecution has challenged the sufficiency of the defense showing on this issue. FUHRMAN: You've got to be able to shoot people, beat people beyond recognition and go home and hug your little kids. HART MCKINNY: I spent time writing here thinking about what it would be like for the MAW guys to be here. He was angry. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Flames are jumping about 25 feet in the air -- PHILLIPS: A city torture by a history of racial rage. Judge Lance Ito ruled against use of the tape . - On why he takes martial arts classes, 'Don't they think they are physically capable? Go "on guard?" PHILLIPS: Does it feel good to talk about this? It was revealed around this time that she had completed her screenplay based on her interviews with Fuhrman, for a film she had decided to call Men Against Women. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He shined his light and just sat there. HART MCKINNY: Depending on the crime committed, the grand dragon would determine what the (inaudible) would be. They don't want anybody but good people in their town, and anyway you can do to get them out of there that's fine with them. - Speaking about threats to police, 'She was afraid. PHILLIPS: What if somebody had come towards you? . Witnesses who were members of the police force were listed on a spousal conflict form and Captain York was required to review the list and sign off on the fact that she did not have a relationship with any members of the LAPD who would appear at trial. They're easy. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We will be doing a reorganization of the department, and it will serve the best interest of the duties of this department and the citizens of Los Angeles. Don't talk to her and they would back away. I was extremely scared. FUHRMAN: I guarantee you every Hitler's birthday there's a celebration behind closed doors. I couldn't believe it. You go to Pacoima, you got bikers and n******.' PHILLIPS: And it was sure happening in L.A. in the 1980s with resentment and retaliation against the campaign to recruit more women and minorities to the LAPD. - On making arrests, 'She's a policeman in this city, and don't you ever fight or f*** around with policemen. Fuhrman had previously been to O.J's home, years earlier, on a domestic abuse call. That request was later withdrawn by the prosecution, and Judge Ito decided to stay on the case after he asked another judge to make a ruling on whether or not he believed his wife was now a relevant witness given statements made by Fuhrman in the tapes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Fire and the blaze were held off by rioters. PHILLIPS: Coming up O.J. BAYAN LEWIS, FORMER ASSISTANT CHIEF, LAPD: Because the command staff that was in charge of him did not do the job they should have done, which is to deal with the issue in a strong manner. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A massive combined National Guard and police sweep is underway to bring peace and order. . Somebody's got to make the decision. PHILLIPS: Mark Fuhrman certainly was certainly persona non grata, exposed as a liar and forced to go silent. HART MCKINNY: I'm thinking that she wanted to protect the integrity of the trial. "[14] In their report, the Commission characterized the actions and lack of actions by the supervisors in addressing systemic misogyny in the police force as "unconscionable." And he said I work with them and they're incompetent. PHILLIPS: However, there was, as Fuhrman describes, a way to avoid being quote put on trial. PHILLIPS: Its fiction, and the title, the same as Fuhrman's real-life secret society, Men against women. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's an outrages ruling and we're going to appeal. - On construction of a new police stations, By UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They show the tapes will show he was a racist capable of planting a bloody glove. FUHRMAN: Guys get a lot of time on the street, but now they are studying. You'll do what you're told, you understand n*****.' , updated Superior Court Judge John Reid said York was not relevant to the case after listening to the tapes, and the trial resumed soon after. In another story Fuhrman admits that he will appear at trials and provide information under oath to support officers even if he does not know the information to be true claiming that unlike his fellow officers he knows how to testify. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Simpson you are charge with the crime of murder. PHILLIPS: Violent. PHILLIPS: She teaches screen writing at the University of North Carolina, School of the Arts. - On working Mardi Gras, 'There is going to be a massacre in the future and they know that. Of the 29 incidents described in McKinny's tapes and transcripts, 17 could not be connected to known events. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The tenured officers, he and the other officers would sit in the back and throw paper or pencils and make loud and vulgar comments as the watch commander read our names and they say she is a pig and things like that. After that you usually get the truth. HART MCKINNY: Even before the trial started he knew how important he was to this case. Chris Spargo For Dailymail.com, The Uzbek Marie Antoinette: Mindblowing life of glamorous 'princess' who sells 5,000 dresses for children - but is linked to despot who boils his enemies in OIL, Busted! Depositions and Interviews. PHILLIPS: Why? PHILLIPS: Tonight after O.J. PHILLIPS: The verdict didn't make her feel any safer. all kinds of stuff. How did we even let him stay on the job? Fuhrman was the first cop on the scene. Fuhrman was being interviewed by a woman named Laura. "Research shows women officers are more skillful at de-escalating potentially violent situations than their male counterparts, and so MAW's efforts to drive women out only exacerbates the LAPD's excessive force problems," explained Harrington, "The Fuhrman tapes reveal just how aggressively women police officers are shunned for their more community-oriented policing skills and their refusal to go along with using excessive force. PHILLIPS: In 1983 she was new to the force and ready to protect and serve in west L.A. at roll call, rookie officers like Morris sat up front. 06:17 BST 30 Mar 2016. He found crucial evidence against O.J. Read Best of the Sidebars in the OJ Simpson Trial. HART MCKINNY: I could tell there was a story - I didn't t know what the story was that I was - to deal with him. HART MCKINNY: I didn't go out of the house for a while. As of mid-April 1995, all transcripts were converted to proper case thanks to Did you ever at any point feel I need to report what he is saying? Fuhrman was the cop who decided that speck of blood was probable cause to climb over the wall to O.J. Did you find that odd at all that he was ok being recorded talking about this? They didn't understand why these tapes had to come about. HART MCKINNY: No. So I just handcuffed him and went the scenic route to the station. The glove is everything. Yes, sir. Discussion of the O. J. Simpson Murder Trial Is On-Line as Well as on the Air -- N.Y. Times, February 14, 1995. Following are excerpts from the ruling yesterday by Judge Lance A. Ito of Superior Court allowing the jury in the O. J. Simpson murder trial to hear two examples of racial epithets by Detective Mark Fuhrman in conversations with Laura Hart McKinny but barring examples of Mr. Fuhrman's boasting of misconduct: The Fuhrman tapes and transcripts raise a number of complex and compelling issues. Simpson. FUHRMAN: Sure. On September 5, 1995, jurors in the case heard a recording of Fuhrman briefly saying the n-word twice, including when he spoke about his hometown by saying; 'We have no n****** where I grew up.'. O.J. PHILLIPS: Did you feel a need to protect him? Mark Fuhrmaans Testimony Transcript Lancelot outhitting autobiographically as two-sided Joshuah garagings her yellowbelly miscast atoningly. Did he ever say why? For more than 20 years, you were the woman with the tapes that changed the face of this trial. Held her like this, threw the pitch down the stairs. So to this day you don't know who gave you up, basically to the defense. LAURA HART MCKINNY, JOURNALIST: I picked up the phone. The Fuhrman tapes are 13 hours of taped interviews given by Los Angeles police officer Mark Fuhrman to writer Laura McKinny between 1985 and 1994. Then he and the other officers went out back according to Fuhrman and washed off the blood with a hose before returning to work. 'I had 66 allegations of brutality: AEW, under color of authority, assault and battery under color authority. [Women] don't pack those qualities." She could have profited handsomely from those tapes but she didn't. They're unable to hold a gun. That -- that part hasn't been good. When there was an officer-involved shooting, some officers of the MAW Group would celebrate it. It is pretty tough, huh?' FUHRMAN: The worst male officer has that adrenalin, that ability to attack -- not the women don't, but they're very uncomfortable with it. The defense may present McKinny's testimony as follows: b. Screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny was interested in writing a screenplay and a novel about the experience of women police officers. A sign to find anything that would support the defense's strategy that Mark Fuhrman was a racist who planted evidence. Fuhrman later describes the aftermath of the brawl, saying; 'We broke 'em. - On racial profiling suspects, 'How do you intellectualize when you punch the hell out of a n*****? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. "No problem, not even any marks, Dana." The Fuhrman tapes revealed. Citing 'an overriding public interest' in the tapes, Superior Court Judge Lance Ito allowed Simpson's defense team to play portions of Fuhrman's audiotaped interviews with North Carolina . PHILLIPS: They swayed a verdict. Go for Shapiro, he's an a******.'. MARK FUHRMAN, DETECTIVE: That is what I am saying. There will be a bingo moment or I get chills and when I get chills I can help somebody else get chills. But then I really saw how serious Mark Fuhrman was about the other men talking to the women. Stop them. "[6][7], The tapes, as well as Fuhrman himself, became central to the 1995 O. J. Simpson murder trial. - On racial makeup of LA, 'N***** drivin' a Porsche that doesn't look like he's got a $300 suit on, you always stop him.' In 1985, 10 years before the O.J. PHILLIPS: McKenna was a private investigator working for O.J. Trial Transcripts PHILLIPS: Decades later, are you glad you didn't destroy those tapes? People there don't want Mexicans in their town. They would impugn the integrity of the LAPD. - On his hometown, 'When I came on the job all my training officers were big guys and knowledgeable, some n*****'d get in their face, they just spin 'em around, choke 'em out until they dropped.' We have no n****** where I grew up.' And I think everybody's better for it. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. He didn't get out. The defense contends the tapes portray Fuhrman as a liar - he testified earlier in the trial that he hadn't used the racial slur in the last decade - and show he is capable of planting evidence against Simpson. "Both down when I arrived. Simpson -- that is until Simpson's defense team discovered recordings of Fuhrman speaking about his racist views, a career of police brutality, and routine evidence tampering to a writer. 'I was a lamb. They're utterly incompetent and they're dangerous. Your charges are as follows. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is this your verdict, so say you one, so say you all? My first failure was the lure of greed, and the second was my lack of compassion. PHILLIPS: What were you thinking when he was saying those things? The Fuhrman Tapes with Transcript - O.J. PHILLIPS: Then Morris says came a high priority call, burglary in progress. The Fuhrman tapes are proof of an unrepentant streak of violent racism in the LAPD, and the O.J. Fuhrman first uses the racial slur while complaining about changes in the LAPD, saying; 'That we've got females and dumb n******, and all your Mexicans that can't even write the name of the car they drive. . HART MCKINNY: Good afternoon Mr. Cochran. [23:45:00] PHILLIPS: But his silence would not protect him. PHILLIPS: And divided our country. And, if I go down, they lose the case. I was extremely nervous. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The defense will question screen writer Laura Hart McKinny about interviews she taped with Fuhrman. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you say on your oath that you have not addressed any black person as a nigger or spoken about black people as niggers in the past 10 years, Detective Fuhrman? HART MCKINNY: The thought of a kill party takes your breath away. That's all I can do.'. The defense proffer essentially argues that because Fuhrman allegedly suppressed information given to him by Rosa Lopez that was arguably favorable to the defendant, it can be assumed that he would plant the glove.

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fuhrman tapes transcript