If you glanced at the headlines from the legacy media outlets about the death of Orenthal James Simpson this week, you might think that he was a famous football player who overcame a racist judicial system instead of the murderer he was.

Simpson infamously killed his former wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994. A Los Angeles jury acquitted him of this heinous crime in 1995 in what was widely recognized as a miscarriage of justice but celebrated by the local African American community as a sort of payback for the Rodney King riots of 1992.

But as news of Simpson’s death made its way across the media landscape, legacy outlets took turns eulogizing him and painting him as a victim or a hero instead of a famous football player who murdered two people.

“He wasn’t a social justice leader, but he represented something for the black community, particularly because there were two white people killed,” said Ashley Allison, a CNN political commentator and an alum of President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. “And the history around black people persecuted during slavery.”

Another CNN reporter, Stephanie Elam, said, “So many people were just happy to see that someone who is rich and famous, and black, could get away with what other people did in the system as well, too.”

The Associated Press ran the headline “O.J. Simpson’s murder trial lost him the American dream” while playing up the racial resentment that was Exhibit A of the televised trial.

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The media, of course, played a central role in the circus that was the infamous 1994 slow speed chase and the 1995 trial. But even 30 years later, the unwillingness of these same outlets to recognize the monster that he was, in the name of getting even with white people, is abhorrent.

Instead of allowing Brown and Goldman to rest in peace, the legacy media could not help but dance on their graves one more time and glorify the man who murdered them.