Reply #8: Technical point.

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Criminal juries do not find defendants innocent. They merely decline to convict if they are not convinced beyond reasonable doubt. Whatever reason the jury had for acquital, the evidence against Simpson was conclusive.

There is no law prohibiting someone from discriminating against murderers, even if somehow the restaurant owner is wrong in his assumption. Further, you may be reading to much into the "back door" remark. I feeling is he mean that Justice left in a sneaky manner. Whites are not as conscious of the racial implications of words as Blacks are. The reference to segregation-era requirements about using the back door would probably not have occurred to him. Just a guess, of course, but then so is your assumption.

It may be he would have treated white murderers differently, but that may because the media orgy during the Simpson case made made the public a lot more aware of that case than they usually would have been.

Ted Kennedy is not a murderer. At worst he was negligent.