O. J.
Simpson was one of the greatest American football players of all time. Acquitted of a double murder, then convicted of armed robbery, his life was nothing but a long chase. For this reason, because he was black and she was white, he single-handedly embodied the racial divide in the U.S. of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. He died Wednesday April 10 in Las Vegas of cancer at the age of 76, and it is a gaping chasm, painfully and imperfectly closed until recently. He was also a volatile and violent husband, acquitted of adouble murder perpetrated in 1994, including that of his ex-wife Nicole, triggering a controversy judicial process not yet closed to date. He had often had trouble with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), because he had often been involved in a car crash that left him with a broken leg and a black eye. He also had a history of violent outbursts, including a fight with a police officer in 1992.