Hello Family,

I just saw on the news, but can't find a link yet online ... that our beloved Johnny Cochran has passed away.

Peace and Blessings Family.

:heart:

Destee

Very sad to hear this. The brother was a genious at what he did!

I can't find a link either Destee, until I do I'll consider it a hoax...although I am aware that he has cancer.

Confirmed on cnn news. Very true.

RIP

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4328522/detail.html?rss=la&psp=news

May he rest in peace :( our community has suffered a great loss

I cant believe it...i just read it..it made my heart hurt... OMG.. Im over here in tears. RIP Johnny

Wow, I was not aware of this. I wasn't even aware of his illness. He will never be forgotten. Rest in peace brother...

First off, if you want me to post the link I found it on, let me know. Secondly, I just read a 4-page article on that, and it is very sad, but he did pass away via natural cause. We are going to experience a painful few weeks for the next few weeks is you ask me, especially those practicing law. Why is it that at his death, I find out about his great accomplishments?

RIP Johnnie Cochran, and God Bless the FULL Cochran family!

CD

God has brought another one of our soldiers home. God bless the Cochran family. Brother Johnnie Cochran will be missed but never forgotten.

I still can't believe it....

I didn't even know the brutha was that sick.


Well, from God we all come and to God we all shall return.

Rest in peace brutha J.C.

wow...I didnt even know he was sick...

May he rest in peace

Peace and blessings to his loved ones



Angel

peace to the God,

May the creator find him agreable & say "well done my good AND faithful servant"..............

Ashe'

Oh, how horrible.

I'm heartbroken. I miss Johnnie already. May our brother RIP.

Johnny Cochran was not afraid of his Enemy's and demonstrated curage when defending Africans in America, this is what he is famous for and will be missed as a example of Strenth for Black Men and Women. May the Creator be pleased with his Soul and Bless his Family with Peace.
Brother Johnny Cochran has passed into our-story and into the realm of the Ancestors. "As we leave this Life, Others will come" Brothers and Sisters
Sincerely

RIP Johnnie Cochran

it's true...the Brother will be missed. He was 67 and sick but I personally couldn't tell because he always lQQked well. I have heard what a good person he was and some may say he's dead, but life is just beginning for this brother...He was known for his catchy phrases in and out of court so Rest In Peace now you pain shall cease...You'll be missd Brother C.

R.I.P. TO brother Cochran, one of the greatest leagal minds to walk this so called planet earth.

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A true worrior to his heart
may blessing be upon his family
surely his legacy will live forever !

R . I . P ~ brutha Johnnie Cochran

sad sorrowful news to hear ......i just saw it on T.V

Johnnie's career will be noted as one marked by 'celebrity' cases and clientele," his family said in a statement. "But he and his family were most proud of the work he did on behalf of those in the community."

With his colorful suits and ties, his gift for courtroom oratory and a knack for coining memorable phrases, Cochran was a vivid addition to the pantheon of America's best-known barristers.

The "if it doesn't fit" phrase would be quoted and parodied for years afterward. It derived from a dramatic moment during which Simpson tried on a pair of bloodstained "murder gloves" to show jurors they did not fit. Some legal experts called it the turning point in the trial.

Soon after, jurors found the Hall of Fame football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

"Johnnie is what's good about the law," Simpson said in a telephone interview from Florida. "I don't think I'd be home today without Johnnie."

For Cochran, Simpson's acquittal was the crowning achievement in a career notable for victories, often in cases with racial themes. He was a black man known for championing the causes of black defendants. Some of them, like Simpson, were famous, but more often than not they were unknowns.

"The clients I've cared about the most are the No Js, the ones who nobody knows," said Cochran, who proudly displayed copies in his office of the multimillion-dollar checks he won for ordinary citizens who said they were abused by police.

"People in New York and Los Angeles, especially mothers in the African-American community, are more afraid of the police injuring or killing their children than they are of muggers on the corner," he once said.

By the time Simpson called, the byword in the black community for defendants facing serious charges was: "Get Johnnie."

Over the years, Cochran represented football great Jim Brown, actor Todd Bridges, rappers Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs.

"He was a brilliant strategist who never lost touch with the common man," said Sanford Rubinstein, an attorney who worked with him on the case of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima, who was tortured by New York police. "He took particular pride in standing up with those who were wrongfully treated. He truly loved people and the public adored him."

He also represented former Black Panther Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. When Cochran helped Pratt win his freedom in 1997 he called the moment "the happiest day of my life practicing law."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050330/ap_on_re_us/obit_cochran

When I heard this last night...it felt like I had lost someone very close to me.
I still don't quite believe it :crying: Rest in peace beloved...you're with the angels now

Akilah

NOW who can we count on to serve our people right in the courthouse?

CD

I love that term "warrior" because that is what that brother was. May God and the Ancestors bless him and his family. He worked for the underdog, especially Black folks. He is a wonderful spirit now. May we be blessed to be fearless like him.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050330/ap_on_re_us/obit_cochran

thank you brother pan