Boris Johnson says he feels ‘like OJ Simpson’ as he struggles to put on gloves

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BORIS JOHNSON HAS said that he felt “like OJ Simpson” as he struggled to put on a pair of gloves today.

The British prime minister referred to the moment of Simpson’s murder trial in which the actor and American sports star had difficulty donning the gloves believed to have been used in the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and his friend. , Ronald Goldman.

Johnson was putting on a pair of disposable blue gloves during a visit to a coronavirus vaccination center in Cwmbran, South Wales, when he made the comparison.

Simpson was acquitted of murder after the 1995 trial, and his attorney, Johnnie Cochran, focused on the gloves as one of the key pieces of evidence.

“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit,” he told the jury.

Two years after Simpson’s 1995 acquittal, a civil court jury found him responsible for the deaths of his ex-wife and Goldman, and ordered him to pay his survivors $ 33.5 million.

The Prime Minister was later asked about easing lockdown restrictions in England, saying his government would take a “cautious and prudent approach”.

Johnson stressed that any easing of restrictions must be done in stages, saying that his roadmap out of the lockdown on Monday will be done in a way that ensures it is “irreversible.”