Fuhrman appeared more than once on Oprah, and took some lumps there, his book, Murder in Brentwood, is also a good read.
I am one who felt Fuhrman was a racist, at least early in his career. He was a Vietnam vet, and when became a cop was assigned to some of the toughest, most crime infested areas, areas with a lot of minorities. This was during a time when most white LA cops were at least biased, just like Darrell Gates, and some of the senior officers Fuhrman admired for their police work, were even tougher, and used the n-word freely.
Fuhrman nearly broke down from this, and petitioned to retire because of it. He was transferred, got some help, slowly recovered, took the detective's exam, passed with flying colors, and over the next 10 years became by nearly everyone's standard an excellent detective. Even Chris Darden, who didn't like him, said he was extremely meticulous as a detective with evidence. It's also known that Mark did help a black man who had been in his mind wrongly accused. So, as I said, back in his young police days, in the nasty parts of town, he probaly was a racist. But by the time he was a seasoned detective, he had completely turned his life around.
As to him planting evidence, keep a few things in mind. There were several cops who showed up before him, and up to 10 responders on the scene before he got there, though most were kept in the front area, away from the bodies. For the first several minutes, they didn't even know this was OJ's wife. His partner, Brad Roberts showed up shortly after Fuhrman, and a few minutes later, both Lange and Vanatter. In order for Fuhrman to have planted evidence, he would have had to know this was Simpson's wife, presume Simpson had no aliabi, found a glove when no one was looking, know it probalby fit OJ, know that no other evidence (hat, hair, etc.) would implicate anyone else. Then work in consort with Roberts, Vanatter & Lange (who he'd never met, and were condescending to him), and other police there he'd never met, to conceal and place evidence, then make sure that Dennis Fong and the criminalists would make just enough mistakes at the crime scene to the planted evidence wouldn't be hidden, and the lab would do the same... it goes on and on and on how absurd it is.
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