O.J. Simpson was amongst these featured within the “In Memoriam” section on the 2024 BET Awards on Sunday night time — a transfer that got here as a shock to some in attendance.
The viewers had been applauding alongside as images have been proven through the montage. However when Simpson’s picture got here onscreen, with the figuring out description of “Former NFL Participant,” a noticeable silence fell over the gang.
A second later, there was a smattering of applause, however many within the viewers have been a bit stunned to see his face, with one individual in attendance noticing some titters among the many crowd.
Among the many luminaries featured within the “In Memoriam” section have been Invoice Cobbs, Carl Weathers, Willie Mays, Clarence Avant, Maurice Hines, Richard Roundtree, Ron Cephas Jones, Rudolph Isley, Irish Grinstead of the group 702, Louis Gossett Jr., 2 Reside Crew rapper Brother Marquis and civil rights activist Dexter Scott King.
Along with being a school soccer star turned professional athlete, Simpson, after all, was an actor, most notably showing within the Bare Gun franchise.
However his legacy will ceaselessly be tarnished after being accused of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her pal Ronald Goldman amid a high-profile televised automotive chase and trial during which he was in the end acquitted of homicide fees.
Simpson died in April at age 76.