This. There was some schadenfreude at watching white America's get their brains broken on how the justice system is trash on some 'First time here?'. While you will always have a fringe that truly believe he was innocent (and tbh I don't blame them, how many terrible run ins many of them had with the system to not trust it on such a level?) it was more a nihilistic celebration.
Even the media coverage at the time of 'Pan the camera to a poor neighborhood, look at those blacks celebrating' without any deeper dive. It was a shocking crime in Middle America because they were perfect angels in regards to skin color and class along with their mourning parents; you're dealing with a drug epidemic and historic crime highs where sadly outside of the intersection of celebrity race and class 'It was a Tuesday'(c) where cops wouldn't have bothered really investigating the crime to that level if it was your usual poor neighborhood shooting. Cops ignoring previous domestic abuse allegations? Two people murdered on a city street? This is America business as usual. Arrest easiest closet person to crime innocent or not, railroad, get overtime, go home to burbs.
Irony is OJ did his best to leave his blackness to the side and be 'post race' and suddenly his trial is synonymous with American racism.
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