O.J. Simpson Featured in 2024 BET Awards ‘In Memoriam’ Segment

O.J. Simpson was amongst these featured within the “In Memoriam” phase on the 2024 BET Awards on Sunday evening — a transfer that got here as a shock to some in attendance.

The viewers had been applauding alongside as pictures have been proven throughout the montage. However when Simpson’s picture got here onscreen, with the figuring out description of “Former NFL Player,” a noticeable silence fell over the group.

A second later, there was a smattering of applause, however many within the viewers have been a bit shocked 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” phase 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 university soccer star turned professional athlete, Simpson, in fact, 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 buddy Ronald Goldman amid a high-profile televised automobile chase and trial by which he was finally acquitted of homicide fees.

Simpson died in April at age 76.