O.J.シンプソン事件の重要人物であった元ロサンゼルス市警察（LAPD）刑事のマーク・ファーマン氏が、74歳で死去した。同氏は進行性の喉頭がんと闘病の末、アイダホ州で息を引き取った。
マーク・ファーマン氏は昨年喉頭がんと診断され、闘病を続けていたが、5月12日にアイダホ州で死去した。1週間の入院を経て治療を中断しており、葬儀の予定はない。同氏は引退した刑事で、事件現場で血の付いた手袋を発見した人物である。その後1996年には、人種差別的な言葉の使用に関する証言をめぐり、重罪である偽証罪について争わないとする答弁を行っていた。
X上でのマーク・ファーマン氏の死に対する反応は様々であり、刑事としての功績を称える声や哀悼の意が寄せられる一方で、O.J.シンプソン事件での偽証や人種差別的発言が被告の無罪判決を助長したとの批判もあがっている。ユーザーは同氏を愛国者や偉大な人物と評する一方で、殺人犯を逃がす結果となった嘘を指摘したり、同事件が残した影響に言及したりしている。ニュースのシェアは、個人的な意見を最小限に抑えた事実に基づいた内容が主流となっている。
Awful. The man was a saint and a patriot. Rest in Peace, Detective Fuhrman. 🙏❤️
— Medici (@ForzaMedici) 2026年5月19日
Mark Fuhrman's perjury was a historic tragedy for the American justice system. His lies on the stand gave the Dream Team the exact race-card distraction they needed to weaponize the jury and let a double-murderer walk free. Rest in peace to Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. 🇺🇸
— RedStateStrategy (@oioi16p) 2026年5月19日
Mark Fuhrman was a great detective. May he RIP...
— Peter Garland (@TheRealPDQ) 2026年5月19日
No one forced them to put a racist perjurer on the stand. No one forced him to lie, and no one was stopping Fuhrman from realising how compromised he was and sitting this one out. He just couldn’t get his race boner to quit so OJ died a free millionaire.
— Bibinyi (@swartgevaar1) 2026年5月19日
Mark Fuhrman the O.J. Simpson detective passed away at 74 years old today. Many blamed his bungling stuff on the case for O.J. getting off. I remember that case was 24 hr cover about it . The case actually is what put CourtTV on the map. Nobody watched it until the O.J. case pic.twitter.com/BJvX26bzTj
— Rob V (@RobV59) 2026年5月18日
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