Talk:Ron Goldman/Archives/2015

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Karate skills

"He was also an avid Karate practitioner, in the discipline."

We do we need this 'in the discipline' bit exactly? What does it add? Seems to just be pandering towards karate.

Also why "avid"? How do we even set standards for that? Seems like OR. Two references are linked for the sentence:

The Guardian summarizes "If I Did It" and merely says "Goldman then assumed a karate position, angering Simpson, who dared him to fight."

The Times goes:

Mr. Simpson says: “As things got heated, I just remember Nicole fell and hurt herself. And this guy kind of got into a karate thing.”

After she “fell,” Mr. Goldman squared off against Mr. Simpson in a karate stance. Then Charlie showed up with the knife.

Neither of these references describe him as being 'avid', merely that he did a karate position/stance/thing.

Furthermore, the problem with using EITHER of these as references is that they are both from stories presented as fiction by OJ Simpson. Neither are REAL references for Ronald practicing karate.

I'm going to see if I can find a good reference to replace this with. Ranze (talk) 04:32, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Allegations of criminal records

Came across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itbSHYJAZEo which has a guy named Thomas H. Johnson III called "Investigative Team Leader" for "Ocean Medical Investigative Group" saying that Goldman owed a bunch of parking ticket money and didn't pay it and it grew to be 16K. If this was verifiable should it be included?

It also alleges Section 6254 protects his criminal record, something to do with a "snitch law" for confidential informants. If there is any truth to that should it be included? Ranze (talk) 04:48, 29 March 2015 (UTC)