Where is the victim’s voice? Where are her words? “I’m scared,” Nicole Brown told her mother a few months before she was killed. “I go to the gas station, he’s there. I go to the Payless Shoe Store, and he’s there. I’m driving, and he’s behind me.” Five days before Nicole Brown Simpson was murdered on June 12, 1994, she called a battered women’s shelter in terror that her ex-husband was going to kill her. The jury was not told this, because she couldn’t be cross-examined. It was Nicole who asked the police to arrest Simpson in 1989, the ninth time the police had been called. Arrest needs to be mandatory. What dignity is there, after all, in confessing, as Nicole did in her diary, that O.J. started beating her on a street in New York and, in their hotel room, “continued to beat me for hours as I kept crawling for the door.” He kept hitting her while sexually using her, which is rape—because no meaningful consent is possible or plausible in the context of this violence. Those of us who are not jurors have a moral obligation to listen to Nicole Simpson’s words: to how O.J. Simpson locked her in a wine closet after beating her and watched TV while she begged him to let her out; to how, in a different hotel room, “O.J. threw me against the walls. . . and on the floor. Put bruises on my arm and back. The window scared me. Thought he’d throw me out.” We need to hear how he “threw a fit, chased me, grabbed me, threw me into walls. Threw all my clothes out of the window into the street three floors below. Bruised me.” We need to hear how he stalked her after their divorce. “Everywhere I go,” she told a friend, “he shows up. I really think he is going to kill me.” Words matter. O.J. Simpson’s defense team asked Judge Lance A. Ito to order the prosecution to say domestic discord rather than domestic violence or even spousal abuse—already euphemisms for wife-beating—and to disallow the words battered wife and stalker. — Andrea Dworkin evergreenreview.com/read/in-memory…
@DrProudman It wouldn’t have mattered what the jury was told. It took 4 hours for a verdict after a 9 months trial
@DrProudman I'll never forget the palpable injustice of this case. It's the most memorable court case of our time and the fact that jurors admitted he was let off in response to Rodney King is disgraceful
@DrProudman @HIHKatharine Because that jury did not care about her or Ron Goldman. One juror even said that they (mis)used the system for what they called “payback” for Rodney King. Ironically King did not benefit from this and everyone on that jury should have been prosecuted.
@DrProudman Don’t forget about the safety deposit box…bustle.com/articles/16705…
@DrProudman Every msm news channel are describing OJ as acquitted wife killer. No mention of the gentleman who was also killed. See the framing? See it?
@DrProudman Always wondered how the kids saw him and if they knew he killed their mom.
@DrProudman When a woman says she scared of her spouse, it should always be taken seriously. This is such a sad story
@DrProudman It's what I expected. Another Michael Jackson amnesia-upon-death w/ppl who are still celebrating OJ being 'found' not guilty or wants this to be an us v them thing. Answer me this, ppl: how differently would this been treated by EVERYONE if Nicole had been a black woman?
Thank You So Much For this message. A victims voice should always be heard even if she’s been murdered. I feel nothing but relief that he is dead and gone. I feel nothing but compassion for Nicole Brown, Simpson, and Ron Goldman and their families for the horror they had to experience because of this monster. My close friends know this story and I rarely reiterate it, but I met O.J. Simpson and an alpha-beta grocery store in Santa Clara, California when I was a teenager. He dogged me up and down the isles, asking me what my name was and asking me where I was going. I was so terrified . I knew who he was, but I didn’t understand how this man who was like 15 years older than me was following me like a bloodhound. When I went out to the car where my friends were waiting, he followed me again and parked his car behind us so we couldn’t back out, and he asked club we were going to and one of my friends with starstruck and said the name of the place. I was so frightened by his behavior that I told my friends to take me home. I didn’t wanna go anywhere where he might show up. Prior to this, I had no bad impression of him. Abusive men give very strong signals about their potential. This occurred 15 years before he killed his wife. I have no doubt whatsoever that he wasn’t absolutely terrifying Person to be married to or in a relationship with. Going forward I wish the law would allow the victim, her place in the proceedings where her voice would be heard. To not allow this is to facilitate further male abuse of women.🙏
@DrProudman I was a huge fan of OJ but I knew he was guilty. He needed to pay. To say I was devastated he was acquitted is an understatement. I hoped & still hope those jurors never found another day’s peace after their miscarriage of Justice. Jury nullification my ass!