'I'm gonna O.J. you': How the Simpson case changed perceptions — and the law — on domestic violence
Los Angeles Times - 2024-04-13T12:00:40.608Z

It wasn't long after the televised spectacle of O.J. Simpson fleeing a phalanx of police cars in a slow-moving white Ford Bronco on June 17, 1994, that batterers across Los Angeles adopted a bone-chilling new threat. I'm gonna O.J. you. "We all heard it working with our clients," said Gail Pincus, executive director of the Domestic Abuse Center in Los Angeles. "I heard it directly from the abusers. It was a form of intimidation, of silencing and getting compliance from their victims." Abuse... Read this story