First it’s spousal abuse, then it’s murder.
That’s the chilling warning issued by Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister who says Ray Rice’s wife, who was filmed being brutally knocked out by her now hubby, faces the same deadly fate as her late sister.
“If he does this again, he could kill her,” Tanya Brown told HuffPost Live Thursday of Rice’s proven ability to physically hurt his wife, Janay.
“When I saw the video tape, I had a visceral reaction because now I know what it looked like when my sister was beaten,” she said of her late sister’s relationship with ex-NFL star OJ Simpson, who was acquitted in her 1994 murder.
“So believe me, I have some anger built up, but we’re not going to make change in this world if people aren’t educated on this, take responsibility on this and understand that if he does this again, he could kill her. So we need to take this very seriously,” she said.
Since that horrific June 1994 day when the mangled bodies of Nicole and her friend Ronald Lyle Goldman were discovered at her Brentwood, Calif. home, Brown has gone on to become a speaker for domestic violence prevention.
As she now sees it: “Get hit once and it will happen again.”
Janay, in her opinion, is no different.
“You’re gonna raise a hand to a woman of that stature, that height and that weight, you can knock her out like what we saw, and end up like Nicole,” she told HuffPost. “My ex brother-in-law, he couldn’t control his anger, and he lashed it out on my sister — and she ended up getting killed. So this is not anything to be taken lightly.”
