On Sunday, O.J. “The Juice” Simpson’s Twitter account @TheRealOJ32 allegedly sent knife emojis and threatened to cut the owner of parody account @KillerOJSimpson.
The parody account pokes fun at the former NFL star who was charged and acquitted in the 1994 killing of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman.
Videos posted Monday on the “@KillerOJSimpson” Twitter page show threats including a string of 16 knife emojis and the warning, “I WILL FIND YOUR ASS AND CUT YOU,” New York Post reported.
The parody account has a profile image of Simpson smiling and holding a butcher knife in a black-gloved hand.
Other content on the parody page includes a pinned tweet of a Father’s Day video that Simpson, 71, posted on Saturday — with added audio of someone repeatedly screaming “Police! Help!” in the background, New York Post reported.
Monday marked the 25th anniversary of the now-legendary slow-speed police chase with O.J. in a white Ford Bronco that ended with him being arrested on murder charges.
Simpson served nine years in prison for an unrelated armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room, and was released on parole in 2017.
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A spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Public Safety told the New York Post that Simpson is still on parole and that the Division of Parole and Probation “takes threats or acts of violence against public safety very seriously and is looking into the alleged complaints.”
Simpson — or whoever created the @TheRealOJ32 account — created it just last week. The parody account may be “real”, but Simpson’s account could be fake.
“First off, OJ Simpson probably doesn’t know how to send a DM on Twitter, let alone send an emoji,” Barstool Sports website reported. “Imagine him looking for the knife emoji? Would drive him insane,” the site said.
If the threat is real, O.J. could go back to jail, The Grio reported.
Knowingly threatening someone with bodily injury in the future is considered harassment and punishable as a misdemeanor for a first offense, according to Nevada law.
Simpson’s lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, confirmed the authenticity of Simpson’s Twitter account last week, telling CNN: “He will not be negative. Nor will he comment on the LA thing. It will be one of the best accounts on Twitter to follow.”
Simpson launched his new Twitter account Friday night with a selfie video saying he’s “got a little getting even to do.”
