OJ Simpson was included in the “In Memoriam” segment of the 2024 BET Awards…
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Check out the clip from the ceremony — the audience applauded enthusiastically on Sunday as photos of the deceased appeared on the screen… but when OJ’s photo appeared, labeling him “Former NFL Player,” an awkward silence fell over the room.
As the shock wore off, a few hesitant claps could be heard… but the atmosphere remained restless.
One thing was clear: OJ didn’t come close to receiving the thunderous applause Clarence Avant, Willie Mays, Louis Gossett Jr., Carl TimesIt is Cobbs Account he did.
The In Memoriam segment was presented as “a tribute to the Black excellence we have sadly lost this year.”
JO died in April at 76 years old of prostate cancerafter several months in palliative care.
His passing provoked mixed reactions – some in the football community paid tribute to the athlete, while others remembered Simpson, who was acquitted of double homicide in 1995, as a killer.
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TMZ’s Tubi Documentary, “OJ, how he really did it,” chronicles Harvey Levin experience covering the murder trial, with unpublished stories about the case.