him and said, oh my god, he did it. i just remember screaming. probably the scariest moment my entire life. it was physically painful. it was not justice. the murders took only minutes. all these years later, the shock has yet to fade. it was a stunning time. and american legal theater. you think you might know the story of the oj simpson case, but there s a lot you probably haven t heard and seen. did nicole brown simpson actually predicts her own death? what she said to us was that oj is going to kill me. and he s going to get away with it. what went on in the jury room? not guilty of the crime of murder. all the people wanted to do was go home. in a frank interview prosecutor marsha clark answers the most important question of all. how did you not convict this guy? june 12th, 1994. brentwood, california. two horrific murders that came to be defined by just three words. the oj case. everybody seen a dramatic scene in both victims had their throats/
Lisa explores serious mental illness and how it s affecting her home city of Los Angeles; she meets those who are suffering as well as those who are fighting.
in 2016, i visited l.a. county jail s infamous twin towers, which is the largest mental health institution in the country. while there, i saw some inmates actually chained to tables. should all these people with mental illness be inside of a jail? oh, absolutely not. it isn t the right place. they should be in a facility that s designed to help them. we don t have that facility in california right now. that was six years ago. and today in california, unless you re very wealthy, there s still no long-term care options for severe mental illness other than incarceration. now the growing population doesn t just fill the jails. it s overwhelming the streets. and too often, cops without training are left to handle confrontations that can escalate quickly. not long ago, my family
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Story we covered earlier this week that got a big reaction from you, so i want to tell you how this worked out. l. a. times reporter alene tchekmedyian published video last month of an extreme use of force incident and l. a. county jail. she also reported on internal documents showing that officials in the sheriff s department including the sheriff himself had tried to cover that incident up in order to avoid that press. so the sheriff, whose name is alex villaneuva. he said no that is true here she s learned about this incident till months of what happened. he took immediate action as soon as he knew about it. that s where the story stood this week when that same l. a. times reporter reported that a courting to a commander in the department the sheriff had actually viewed a video of the incident five days after it had happened and he said at the time to other sheriffs of his employees quote we do not need by media at this time. l. a. times broke that story on monday and then all he do