For someone whose name was, in the mid-1990s, probably one of the top five most recognized names in America, coverage of the recent passing of former LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman was almost anticlimactic.

Mark Fuhrman served on the LAPD from 1975-1995 and became famous for finding the glove that contained the blood of football legend O.J. Simpson and the two murder victims, O.J.’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. The glove(s) and Fuhrman became, in the public mind, a tremendous part of the presumed guilt or innocence in two ways. The first was “if it (the gloves) doesn't fit, then you must acquit,” and the second was the insinuation from the defense that Mark Fuhrman planted the glove as part of a frame-up against O.J. Simpson. This insinuation came from the fact that Fuhrman said he had not used the “N word” in the last ten years before 1995, when he had.

Like most conspiracy theories, the Fuhrman theory is ludicrous and would require coordination beyond what is possible even in the most exceptional circumstances. It also does not pass the vibe check.

Perhaps first and foremost, O.J. Simpson is the last person a racist LAPD would have wanted to frame. There may have........

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