 You're welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. I'm going back in time to the 17th of June 1994 to tell you about the famous OJ Simpson police chase. So football lovers around the world had sat down that particular day watching a game, glued to the television screens when they, the program was interrupted to show a live chase of a fleet of black and white police cars pursuing a white Ford Bronco along interstate lines in Los Angeles, California. This was a very interesting situation back then in 1994 because we know the very popular legendary actor, footballer, OJ Simpson, he was loved by all because of the beautiful game that he played and his skills on the pitch. But the police had found his ex-girlfriend, her name, I beg your pardon, ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman. They had found their bodies outside their house a few days ago. Police had begun investigating the case and by the 17th of June 1994, the police had decided that OJ Simpson was a lead suspect in that case. So they went to arrest him and when they went to the house, what happened was OJ Simpson and his friend called Al Curling, they snuck out through the back door, entered Al Curling's white Ford Bronco and began to drive. Al Bronco simply put a call through to the police to say he is in the car and that OJ Simpson had put a gun to his head and had ordered him to drive to his house. He didn't want to be arrested. He simply wanted to go home. They said he wanted to meet his mother at home as well. So basically the police was chasing him. It wasn't a very fast chase. It was a very slow chase. I mean, you can see a line of police cars that were following him patiently behind. That football game was interrupted. People just started to watch a live action movie. Police chasing that car and commentary saying, OJ Simpson has a gun to his head, so don't do anything too drastic. Let's just follow him. Then he pulled over to the house and he was in the house for a while. He came out at about 9 p.m. that night. The police immediately arrested him. So at the end of the day, it was found that, you know, he wasn't guilty of that particular murder or those murders, but at the end of the day, he was found liable of the murders and he was asked to pay huge sums of money to the family of his ex-wife and his friend. And the court had ordered him to pay 33.5 million US dollars in damages to the family. That's because OJ had acquitted Simpson of the murder charges in October 1995. But that separate civil trial in 1997, you know, found him liable and asked him to pay money to the families. So this was what happened today in history. That famous OJ Simpson police chase in real life. Live action. Live action. We know that many years later, of course, OJ Simpson continued to fall, fall out with the law. He was arrested. There was a time he broke into a hotel, stole his sports memorabilia. He said it was his. It was stolen from him at gunpoint, so he wanted to retrieve it. But the hotel called the police to say this guy had broken into a hotel to steal this. You know, he was also, he has just done a lot. You know, he was in prison for a while, was released in October 2017. You know how they say it never rains, but it pours because when things happen, they just come in their numbers. But that was really something. And the number of people who actually attuned in to watch that particular incident was massive. Also today in history in 2017, Bill Cosby was in the news. At that particular time, there has been so much sexual allegations, you know, and indecent behavior, you know, allegations against him. And it went to trial. And at that particular time in 2017, the jurors just could not reach a verdict. The judge in the sexual assault trial of Bill Cosby declared a mistrial of the jurors reported being hopelessly deadlocked after six days of deliberations, bringing an inconclusive end to this phase of one of the highest profile cases in recent history. District Attorney Kevin Steele of Montgomery County in Pennsylvania immediately vowed to put Cosby on trial again. The outcome denied a vindication to either the defendant or the dozens of women who have accused Cosby of one of the world's best known entertainers of assaulting them over a span of decades. The exhausted jurors deliberated for about 52 hours longer than the defense and prosecution had spent presenting their cases and as much as 12 hours per day. But they could not reach a unanimous verdict on charges that in 2004 Cosby drugged and assaulted Andrea Constant in his home near her. Okay, Cosby's wife then came out released a skating statement accusing the District Attorney of being heinously and exploitatively ambitious, the judge of overtly and arrogantly collaborating with the District Attorney and some news organizations of greedily selling sensationalism at the expense of a human life. Now, Judge O'Neill praised the jurors for their service and asked them not to discuss their deliberations. For 52 hours the judge could not reach a verdict because they said they were really exhausted and that lots of women had come out at that particular time and netted all of them, saying almost the same thing that at one point in time over decades that a big Cosby had dropped them and had some sort of indecent behavior with him. Yes, indeed. So despite the fact that this was a mistrial, mistrial meaning that there was an error in the proceedings. Yes, they couldn't reach a verdict. You just imagine coming together all the jurors saying, did he actually do this? Did he not? They couldn't determine. They could just put maybe a guilt or an innocent man in prison so they just have to declare a mistrial. Of course it went to trial again. So that didn't, yes, it did go to trial again but that initial mistrial did not do any damage control because Cosby's name now is tannished forever in history. Despite all the remarkable achievements he's had, the Bill Cosby show is known as a comedian. And what we're taking away from him, lots of stuff that he's gotten over the years were just as trooped of him because they felt they could not really be associated with someone who has dented his image specifically. Yes, and this sexual harassment thing is a very big issue in our society. It happens here in Nigeria. In one of the newspapers we read this morning, also about Baba Ejesha, we know he's a popular Nigerian actor. Now this sexual harassment case for a very young child now has tannished his image in Nigeria. So yes, we should all be careful. We should. Yes. And we should just try to keep it all in if we cannot really of the people. When they say no, respect the no. No means no. Exactly. If they said yes and they said no later, it is a no. It is a no. All right, that's it on Today in History. I went back to the year 1994 to tell you about the famous OJ Simpson police chase. And of course in 2017 where the jurors could not reach a verdict, the Bill Cosby's trial and of course they declared it a mistrial. Yes, let's take a break here and go straight into our first conversation about politics to stay with us on the breakfast.