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Had a lovely time supporting cousin Carmen Goldberg and the essential work she and her incredible team at Survivors Justice Center
in Los Angeles do for low income families experiencing domestic violence.
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We are so very proud of you Carmen!! Keep being the bright light you are for our community! Hope is alive 💜

In 2015, an Ohio woman set on fire by her former boyfriend gave a recorded deposition about the attack while she was still dying from her burns, knowing the testimony would outlive her.

Judy Malinowski was an American woman who survived the attack for nearly two years before dying in 2017. Her case moved through the courts in two stages: her attacker was first sentenced on assault charges, then, after she died, prosecutors returned with her recorded words and won a conviction for aggravated murder.

The deposition she gave was used to prosecute her own killer for her own murder. A court admitted the recorded testimony of a woman speaking about an attack she had not yet fully died from. That is not a routine legal procedure. It was almost unprecedented in American law. Her case also pushed Ohio to pass Judy's Law, which increased sentences for assailants who use accelerants to cause disfigurement. The law carries her name because she put her account on the record before the record could be closed without her.

She chose to become a witness to her own death so the conviction could happen. The court let her.

She made the room hers.

The mother of Makayla Settles has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Settles' father after the teen died by su***de. See link below ⬇️

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In 1988, Robin Givens sat beside her husband Mike Tyson on national television and told Barbara Walters that her life was "pure hell." Tyson sat silent next to her as she said it.

The world's undisputed heavyweight champion was one of the most feared athletes alive. Givens was 23 years old, Black, and speaking on ABC while the man she was describing sat close enough to touch her.

The interview aired on September 26 1988 and became one of the most watched moments in television history. There was no domestic violence hotline banner. No trigger warning. No support structure of any kind. Givens said what she said, by name, on camera, to millions of people, and took everything that came after it. The public backlash against her was immediate and sustained, lasting years.

She gave other women a blueprint for naming abuse before most institutions were willing to hear it.

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In 2016, a twelve-page letter read aloud in a California courtroom stopped the country cold. The judge gave the man who assaulted her six months.

Chanel Miller was twenty-two when Brock Turner attacked her behind a dumpster at Stanford. The judge, Aaron Persky, cited Turner's swimming career and his "potential" as reasons for leniency. Miller had no name in the press at that point. She was known only as Emily Doe.

She gave herself a name in 2019 when she published her memoir, "Know My Name." But before that, her victim impact statement had already moved millions of people and landed directly on the California ballot. In 2018, voters removed Persky from the bench, the first judicial recall in the state in eighty-six years. California also passed new mandatory minimum sentencing laws for sexual assault cases involving unconscious victims. Miller's words did that.

She was never asking for sympathy. She was building a record no one could ignore.

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Happy Birthday Nicole Brown Simpson
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Denise Brown Too

She called the police nine times. The man she was calling about walked free.

Nicole Brown Simpson lived inside a marriage that the Los Angeles Police Department documented repeatedly and acted on almost never. O.J. Simpson was one of the most recognizable athletes in America. She was his wife. That combination, in 1980s and early 1990s Los Angeles, meant her calls for help produced little more than paper trails.

Nine documented calls to LAPD. A 1989 plea deal that resulted in community service and no jail time for O.J. Simpson after a brutal New Year's Day assault. Nicole was murdered on June 12 1994 at age 35, along with her friend Ron Goldman. The criminal trial that followed became one of the most watched in American history. The jury acquitted. Her name stayed attached to his.

Her sister Denise Brown spent the three decades since building the Nicole Brown Simpson Foundation, refusing to let the story settle into tabloid history and forcing a national conversation about domestic violence that courts and police had quietly avoided for years.

Nicole Brown Simpson did not survive the system that failed her. Denise Brown made sure the system knew it failed.

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