Lawrence Jones Reflects on Race and the O.J. Simpson Trial [Video]

Fox News’s Lawrence Jones reflected on the racial aspect of the O.J. Simpson trial on Outnumbered Thursday, suggesting that “a lot of Black folks wanted America to feel their pain.”

“Well, I think it’s important to go back to, as a criminal justice major we studied this case extensively, and you have to go back to the moment in time of racial tension — then at an all-time high, at that time — and you would think every case was treated just by the merit of the facts. And it wasn’t because you had the court of public opinion,” began Jones.

He continued:

We were at each other’s throat as a country. A lot of Black folks wanted America to feel their pain and they used the murder of this young woman, to celebrate outside when he [Simpson] was found innocent in that case.

But it also showed the criminal justice system in a new light. And essentially, if you had …