Breaking down the mixed verdict in Jonathan Majors' assault trial
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- ABC News’ legal contributor Brian Buckmire breaks down the mixed verdict from the Jonathan Majors assault trial.
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Even though she chased him for several blocks. He still was found quilty.. WOW
He should of ran faster and screamed for help lol
😆 Only in America
Sounds about white
Exactly. Terrible
They went by the evidence. Police found her unconscious in their apartment. Learn to do some research!
Dammmm!!!! My man ran away and still got found guilty......That don't look like a woman that didn't want the smoke. He was leaving her, and she wasn't having it.
Untrue. She found texts on his phone, he reacted belligerently. There was no break up until she had to go to the hospital for her injuries. Regardless, she didn't assault him--he assaulted her. If you can't break up with someone without harming them, YOU have a problem--not her.
@@MsBlushing24nice job at spreading misinformation. With an ounce of research, you'd understand she committed assult on 1st degree. Snatching the phone and scratching and pulling at him. He committed third-degree for putting her in the car. That's not belligerent, in fact it's self-defence but the court of public opinion wins. So facts are out the window
So you are one of the morons who take a definitive conclusion based on a 15 seconds clip without a context that was spreading on twitter.
Naw she tried to take his phone when she thought she saw texts on them, and was trying so hard to get the phone she broke her finger, then proceeded to chase that man for blocks, before going to get even more drunk, then he had to call the police to check on her drunk ass in the morning to get her some help, and the police coached her into saying he hurt her. Why do you think he got charged with next to nothing? So the state could save face after even bringing this bs case. @MsBlushing24
The gravy train was pulling out of the station and she chased it down five blocks. Then the DA picked up the tab, after she abused his credit and allegedly jacked his stuff. I actually think she still has his phone.
She ruined his career. She’s a liar. The night of the incident, she was drunk. Majors even said it
And now she got away with destroying his dreams and career, and now time to collect her money and on to the next high profile Man.
Nah I don't think any high profile man is going to deal with a chick that could damage their career. Chick reputation is finished. Jury can say what they want but the public has their opinion too.
#BelieveWomen
@@5280BLMWhen a woman refuses to admit under oath that she ran five blocks chasing after someone who was trying to get away from her - when we can all see from the video footage that she did - no one is obligated to believe that woman unequivocally.
And in this case the jury didn't believe her story about him assaulting her with intent.
We need to start doing the due diligence and examining the facts in each case. There are no shortcuts of unequivocally believing one side or the other by default. Someone will always take advantage.
It is getting to the point where anyone wanting to end a relationship will have to call the cops just for it to be civil.
You're completely reading into this wrong.
@@MsBlushing24 Enlighten me what part I'm reading into this. He tries to leave her. She won't let him. She ends up getting physically hurt as he tries to remove himself from the situation. Now he has a guilty verdict and sentencing because she couldn't take that she was being dumped.
Being dumped because he was caught cheating
@@pauletteandriaHamilton "caught cheating" Where?
@@pauletteandriaHamilton allegedly cheating. And even if he was, why pursue a relationship with him days afterwards? She thinks he is unfaithful and still wants to be with him? That makes testifying against him sound more like revenge for being rejected.
Injuries are inevitable when picking a fight with someone who can obviously over power instead of just letting him leave with his phone or leaving herself. This goes back to my original comment. It has gotten to the point that if a man wants to end a relationship with a woman, he has to call the cops to be present so the woman can't put herself in the position of being a victim to him defending himself from her.
Please tell me the video of him putting her back in the SUV wasn't the reason why he's charged with assault. If that's truly the case, omg... this country is lost. That jury would have been as biased as they come. Assault is used WAY too loosely here, and it cheapens the claims of real assault victims.
That is the reason.
Yup. Reckless assault w/o intent after HE got assaulted ON PURPOSE
If he assaulted her unintentionally that was self defense, there is not debate. The driver testified
Facts!! Clear case of self defense
This is the first major news outlet that actually broke down the Truth if Actual charges.
The other stations make it seem like he purposely hit her. There was No evidence of the two biggest charges.
He was just pulling her off him. Trying to place her in the car. And running from her. And he tried to get her help by calling 911.
After she partied, go drunk, took some pills and used his credit.
She's white and he's black! Point blank period
She’s lucky he did not give her the OJ treatment. Scary!
I’m so confused. The taxi driver said she hit him first and stole his phone. Why does it matter if she got injured when she’s the assailant? She wouldn’t leave him alone so she was harassing him. I feel like he should countersue and sue her because he got dropped from Marvel. I’m so confused ya’ll, someone plz explain
I think the majority of us are appalled and disgusted. This guy didn’t get a fair shake at all. He’ll rebound
The DA refused to charge her but took him to court. That's why her charges of criminal mischief, assault, and harassment never happened.
This is not even a case! I’ve chased and got rough with my own brother when he took my stuff! These companies need to stop firing and ending someone’s career over nonsense!
EXACTLY!!!
I’m from the UK and I had a good job offer in the US years ago but I turned it down due to the “racial climate” in America and I’m glad I did.
This dude literally pulls away from her and tries to escape, she chases him and he’s charged with assault??? The system is a joke!
Its very dangerous to throw around the word assault. Theres no intent the jury found him guilty of accidental injury getting her in the car. Its riddiculous for him to lose his career for this. The man ran away.
Spoken by someone who throws around the word assault for people who aren't black Democrats and who AREN'T convicted of assault. You people need to stop changing the definitions of words when it's one of yours.
@@superoldgamesaturday3277 you people??? Check your language. And that statement didn't make any sense...
@@TheMrMagee Blow me, uppity, and good job proving my point and your idiocy.
@@superoldgamesaturday3277 There you go with some old timey dog whistles again. It's not 1920... WE ALL know what you mean when you use terms like "uppity".
What is your point??? You claimed "you people" changed the definition of the word assault.
Take your racist toned language to Truth social.
@@TheMrMageeI wish it was the 1920s again. Sun down laws. Quiet restaurants. Prohibition time, so no alcoholics ruining things. Marijuana was still illegal. Low overall crime. Safer suburban neighborhoods. What a great time to live!
You people in the US have gotten so soft and sensitive.
Shame on disney and marvel for punishing this man based on this verdict, more reasons not to see their movies, they didn’t learn anything from amber heard.
Noted if a girl grabs my phone leave it and go buy a new one and if she comes home drunk don’t let her in and get a new girl cause if u tell her to not come home drunk that’s abuse
Don't forget to never call the police for a white woman wile black. Whatever happens happens.
This is sick. American culture has become sick
American culture has always been sick lol
This is not even a case! I’ve chased and got rough with my own brother when he took my stuff! These companies need to stop firing and ending someone’s career over nonsense! Weak.
This is a lesson to all Black men - be careful! We pray MEAGAN will continue to stand by JONATHAN for his own GOOD...🙏
Yep stay away from them thangs that look like her.
This!!!
Never underestimate the value of a Good woman!
It’s a lesson to all black men? How about a Black Woman could have made them all eat crap but of course she didn’t. How about your black woman juror???
Bars
Black man don't speak, don't touch, don't run, stay there and get violated. Remain in the situation cause you'll be guilty anyways.
Why she’s not charge and we seen her in the wrong. So putting her back in video trying to get away from her made him guilty. Naw they had him guilty before the trail. Retrial needed ASAP
Majors did file a charge against her, and they threw it out, told her lawyer they were not going to prosecute before they even had her come in. 🙄
^ grammar yikes
Damn, I love this guy as Kang, although if it's not intentional then it's not really an Assault rather more of a collateral damage from an act that resulted in an injury and also his defense focusing solely on race stuff might be too weak of a defense rather than focusing on unintentional nature of the assault and try to push it as accident cause it's easier to defeat race stuff when it's nothing more than quarrel between couple
Anger management for someone who's running away from the aggressor really.
Btw we do know what happened inside the vehicle because the driver testified that she was the aggressor.
Unfortunately in the racist society it's still frowned upon when a black man is with a white woman and don't let that white woman say her black lover attacked her it's a wrap for that black man lies and all.
We still live is a society where Emmitt Till was brutally murder by the lies of a white woman. Such a sad and sick state of affairs.
So where's the "assault" he committed? She was chasing and harassing him..I'm confused.
I believe good always prevail over evil, this might be for now, but the Real Truth will be revealed. Sad day we live in how evil has gotten hold of so many individuals but at the end light always out way darkness. Jonathan your still a great man, just living in a corrupt and heartless world!
Amen
Unfortunately life isn't a movie good rarely wins it survives but evil tends to triumph
i dunno i'd say evil has kinda prevailed in this case...
you're dell
The world has always been evil. We’re actually living in pretty good times as much as it feels weird
Jonathan Majors getting fired from Marvel sucks. I liked him as Kang.
It's very dangerous to throw around the word assault. There was clearly no intention to hurt his girlfriend, the jury found him guilty of an accidental injury when lifting her up and trying to get her back in the car. The jury don't believe he hit her or broke her finger or anything whilst she was inside the car.
Witnesses saw no injuries on her in the club, she was clearly drunk before she went back to the flat and could have easily hurt herself before she was found collapsed in her closet wearing different clothes the morning after clubbing.
It's ridiculous for him to lose his career for this.
The man ran away from a toxic ex-girlfriend, who assaulted him in the car, there's photographic proof of his injuries too, she grabbed his phone/property which he took back, and she chased him down the street multiple blocks.
End of the day, they are both as bad as each other, and it's unfair that he could lose his career or work because of something his own girlfriend is guilty of herself. Why isn't she also on trial for assaulting him? It is not fair for men in the legal system, is rigged against them.
The only thing he's guilty of is writing a few nasty texts because the relationship was ending and was clearly toxic, and yet she did the same too... this entire trial is a farce.
Won't watch marvel movies anymore
Marvel movies sucked after Endgame. It doesn't matter.
This is messed up! If the roles were reversed in that CCTV footage they'd all be calling it harassment and seeing the person cashing as the aggressor! I hope he appeals and wins. But doubt that would save his career
*Edit; the person*chasing*..
Jonathan Majors texted the following to his girlfriend after (in a previous incident) she had head pain for days, wanted to go to the hospital, he refused to let her go and threatened to off himself if she did.
*Jonathan Majors:* I’m a monster. A horrible man. Not capable of love. I am killing myself soon. I’ve already put things in motion.
Yup, only innocent people act like this. Lol
@@KyrieBoltson he is emotional and he needs to work on that. But im not going to equate him with a violent abuser. He was too physical with a frail model that took his phone from him. He messed up. But i wouldnt paint him as someone thats just out here beating women up
@@fxlltxtsearch doubt she's a frail model seems like she's actually strong just hides it
@@fxlltxtsearch I agree! I didn't live with them so I can't say for sure what happened between them(hence probably why the conflicting verdict by jury) but I dont agree with those equating him to violent abusive DV!! He'll forever have to live with that over his head just because of this one toxic relationship
@@fxlltxtsearch His agent and public relations team dropped him immediately when the story broke. Bad sign. There were several colleagues and coworkers that broke the silence and said, effectively, that they saw this coming. Jonathan Majors chose not to take the stand in his own defense, which is strange. Usually, from a legal perspective, that is only done win a witness is so problematic that taking the stand would do more harm than good. I'm sure prosecution would've loved to examine/cross-examine him. This kind of violent behavior is rarely ever an 'isolated incident'.
His management team and defense team are to blame, the management team in getting such lawyers, and the defense, in that, they did not argue the point against what he was charged for, which was reckless assault and harassment, by stating you cannot be charged or found guilty for causing reasonable harm in the retrieval of one's stolen property and the fact that he retreated after collecting his stolen property back.
This should have never gone this far... The prosecutor's office should have refused to go forward with charges, like they did with her.
I never understood why he didn’t fire that lawyer when she blundered his PR when he was first charged. Her leaks were so badly managed.
And just like that…… His career is officially over. Now she can collect his money and pose on Instagram with another man.
He was Emmitt Tealed
White women will do your in. Im a black man
Be careful Brother!🙏
Right on. 👍
Why on earth does the culture encourage being a disgusting walking STD player? This is why masculinity is under attack in the first place I know men can have better control over their dicks, have better decision making and to not put their families in turmoil because they decided to be man whores. Men used to have honor, integrity, accountability and dependability but now they just run away like cowards when they get caught. This behavior has made our society sick countless pain has been injected onto our society because of behavior like this and it has ripple effects onto our children. With my boys I’m trying to raise them to not use women for their own needs and to not push their problems and mental issues onto others. If he was a stand up guy that wasn’t trying to play around it would never have gotten so bad.
Teach your black sons to be aware.
Yeah man. I used to think this idea was kinda exaggerated. But she didn’t know how to keep him out of trouble. Even after he called her out on it on multiple occasions.
Unintentional assault? Sooo self defense basically 😂
Camille Vasquez incoming 🤣
Of course they did. A hero based subsidiary of the world's largest family values brand.
If you look at it from a marketing and corporate positioning strategy, they had a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to vacate the relationship.
Doesn't mean his careers over. The scope of movie genres is vast. He just doesn't fit MCU and Disney anymore.
He was finished at Disney/MCU regardless of a guilty verdict, according to insiders.
Debating legalese is a nonsensical waste of time. Marvels decision "wasn't" a legal one.
It was a brand based decision.
@@Striderspawnwho cares anyways the way he beat his wife is inexcusable.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld lmao. What wife? Hes not married. And please explain how he beat her?
He tried to cover a physical altercation up, so it seems hes facing justice for that but you don't have any account of "the way" he beat her or the extent. Don't act like you know something because you read the headlines.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworldhe doesn’t have a wife and the charge was a misdemeanor. Incidental assault. You can push someone trying to get your headphones and get the same charge.
@@yahtoray3 he embarrased himself by grabbing that woman just like Jussie Smolett did on the street.
Welll the white girl successfully ruined his career
Nah, he ruined his own career. He cheated. He roughed her up. He was also toxic. Stop defending abusers.
He ruined his own career.
@@KyrieBoltson Democrats and blacks will NEVER stop defending abusers. It's in their DNA to celebrate abusers. See also, Joe Biden.
They both should have been charged with assault if Jonathan was charged. He put his hands on her when he put her in the car, and she put her hands on him when she tried to physically prevent him from escaping. Then, fearing for her safety, she chased after him as he tried to escape the conflict. Hmm.
This is a couples spat and he was in the right. appeal the ones you did lose just out of spite. This is nothing.
I'm cancelling my trip to New York for my birthday and I'm cancelling my Disney + Subscription. Kick rocks DA Fat Cat Alvin Bragg office, and Judge Michael Gaffey.
His career has been snubbed…i hope he sees this as a course correction and not a detriment…it happened, but you get certain hurdles out the way early build up your character and get back on the saddle. You got this
Who cares!!!!!!! Focus on actual news. All of this for nothing burger
Holly wood ain’t want him to be great. This case is overblown
Miscegenation leads to higher rates of domestic violence
Remember what happened to kobe when he dealt with a white lady career ruined
She went back to his apartment after she assaulted him. Took half her clothes off laid on the floor. Trying to snacth someone's phone outtve their hand is assault I thought. Him taking back hi property supposedly caused a significant cut behind her 👂. Soon as the police came she put her finger in front of the camera which the damage could've been caused by him trying to snatch away from her trying to kidnap him. I think his lawyers did a poor job. I think either way they was going to find him guilty. This is such nonsense and unfairness. He should take her back to court for kidnapping which shows in the video her trying to force him not allowing him to leave...If unfair was a picture this is it.
Lesson #1. Don't cheat on your girlfriend.
Lesson #2: Don't rough your girlfriend up, don't cut up her face and don't fracture her finger.
Jonathan Majors texted the following to his girlfriend after (in a previous incident) she had head pain for days, wanted to go to the hospital, he refused to let her go and threatened to off himself if she did.
*Jonathan Majors:* I’m a monster. A horrible man. Not capable of love. I am killing myself soon. I’ve already put things in motion.
Yup, only innocent people act like this. Lol
@@KyrieBoltson 💯
The dangers of "dating". Please Men, don't waste your time in useless long term "relationships". Get married and commit, or stay away from women. Sign prenups, and don't waste your life savings on a wedding. And please accept the woman as herself. If you can't stay with her, get divorced and move on from trying to resolve the unresolvable. Trying to have a relationship based on the world's impossible expectations is the real recipe for failure. Take it from people whose marriages have mostly failed their original expectations.
Overall from Im seeing this as he said she said, unfortunately justice is fucked up, however over all Marvel should give Majors a second chance, they did with Downey
Right
Terrible Defense Strategy!
Hummm USA 🇺🇸 the law is always for the black. May Almighty give him strength and replace all he lot back in multiple times 😢
Kang conquered the multiverse, but couldn't conquer the courtroom
Every black man seeing this case...we definitely not calling the cops. It's a lose-lose situation.
How about don't be an abusive monster and follow the law? Simple.
so why didnt he get charged with INTENTION to hurt her? stupid go look at the charges he got convicted on. you dont even think before speaking. why u not calling her an abusive monster when she got charged also? oh i know why...you're racist.@@superoldgamesaturday3277
Women that exaggerate should be charged a felony tf
One NYC is biased for the colored... Two.. he still a good actor and can still play kang. Disney and the MCU can forget this awful verdict and let him be a actor. Everyone said the video.. everyone saw a psycho women.. in the people eyes he innocent.
Hell Nawwww! Jonathan Majors texted the following to his girlfriend after (in a previous incident) she had head pain for days, wanted to go to the hospital, he refused to let her go and threatened to off himself if she did.
*Jonathan Majors:* I’m a monster. A horrible man. Not capable of love. I am killing myself soon. I’ve already put things in motion.
Yup, only innocent people act like this. Lol
If you're going to dance with the devil, you can't complain about the music
Shit's not right
Sad situation…especially with running away from her.
WHAATT????HE WAS FOUND GUILTY?? NAHH!! This place ain't real bro I'm so confused rn
😂😂😂as an African , wow ,great example of greatest justice system😂😂
Lesson. American men..... become passport bros. Get women from other countries. It is officially messed up right now for dating in the US
This brotha gonna be the black Keanu Reeves watch. Public opinion still matters
Wow. So even if he appeals, the damage has been done. From the comments, he wanted to end the relationship, but she ended him.
Another one bites the dust!
Screwed by his own lawyers. Why wouldn’t you put a grade A actor on the stand for his own defense?
Yet his career is over maybe that was her plan all along because she clearly could not get $ from their common law relationship.
how is this man guilty? runs away from her and is the one called the assaulter?
This is sad . He gets ran down on and he is the abuser? Absolutely BS in my book. She got what she wanted. Next time he should choose wisely on who he decides to deal with in the future.
It’s funny how when that white football player almost killed his black girlfriend it didn’t get much press and he brutalized her. This is crap
Marvel coward asses actually could have kept him like most people think the video coupled with the fact she was clubbing right after isn't consistent with what she claimed as a VICTIM
Jonathan Majors agent and public relations team dropped him IMMEDIATELY after the case was opened. Why? Because they knew his dirty laundry and wanted nothing to do with him anymore... And he was an up-and-coming movie star $$$. You only abandon your cash cow if your cash cow is damaged goods.
Jonathan Majors texted the following to his girlfriend after (in a previous incident) she had head pain for days, wanted to go to the hospital, he refused to let her go and threatened to off himself if she did.
*Jonathan Majors:* I’m a monster. A horrible man. Not capable of love. I am killing myself soon. I’ve already put things in motion.
Yup, only innocent people act like this. Lol
This is some BS. Can he counter sue? She CHASED him for blocks! How tf is SHE not charged wjth anything?!
“Soulja life mentality” …listen to it 🤦🏽♂️🤔
Boycott marvel if yall really care about Johnathan
justice☕...ha~
Christmas trees are pagan. Jeremiah 10:1-5
Christmas trees are pagan. Jeremiah 10:1-5
At least It was not like Johnny depp where everything was based on Amber story.....
Johnny Depp should also be dropped by Warner Brothers too.
rich black man and white woman dont mix
What happened to you America ?
He should have hired Brian!! 💯
Lol. No More Kang 🔥😩🔥💰😍
Kang for his azz beat by giant ants. He was a terrible character. Lol
They probably recast him, also having all of issues of Avengers and Fantastic Four pertaining to The Cross Time Caper, the Council Of Kangs as seen in Ant-Man III are not all different versions of Nathanael Richards but people that just took his on modus operandi that included women and even juveniles, the best known was Ravonna aka Terminatrix but you also had a Mesozoic Kang from a timeline were sapiens evolved from lizards and a Kang Fred who apparently was a caveman and named himself after Fred Flintstone, Avengers 294-297 and FF 337-341 and Avengers: The Terminatrix Objective 1-4 chronicles all these different Kangs, so overall a recasting wouldn't be a major issue, also He Who Remains is basically a TVA official who is model after the later comic writer Mark Gurenwald and Owen Wilson naturally could in theory serve the function as one of these Kangs
Such a shame. He could be a great actor
He never was.
Hes going to learnn today!!!
Deuteronomy 28:15
*WHO*
*CARES!*
consciously clicking on this video shows you actually care. even if it's a little bit
Why comment then?
@@cwalk43120 no, I’m just sick of stupid Hollywood drama that doesn’t involve anyone else’s life. Give the man some privacy to deal with his sh1t internally. What’s wrong with y’all?
But OJ’s innocent?
What the actual Phuk
Boycott Marvel.
She should have waited until he had a bigger movie. $$$ down.
I guess he who remains no longer remains
🤣🤣nice... shouldn't be laughing though... 😉
The MCU is so screwed.
Nope
@@tintintravelers It IS, but it already was before Majors and he deserved to be fired after his conviction.
Dang his Reputation took a hit 😮 we all see the warning sign but us as humans we say it will get better
He ain’t getting no jail time and if he does it’s definitely because he’s a rich black man 👀
Brothers keep your hands to yourself AND............ You know the rest.
How dare he recklessly defend himself 🙄 how tf is that assault
How dare she not let him cheat in peace
The gag here is Jonathan has a type…he will hold on to this PR type until this all clears up…he will ultimately cross right back over to what he loves best…and all you guys defending him now, lets wait for your opinions then😁🤔
That's his prerogative!
This was a horrible verdict, based on ALL the evidence. Definitely a blackeye for straight male/female relations. SMH
Well, YOU'RE Forever Single. CLEARLY.
@user-sj5ju4jb7t He's clearly an incel who thinks assault of women is OK. Then again, that's the entire Democrat party right now, who can't say that the rapes Hamas committed on October 7th were wrong, so it all makes sense.
With the world as wild as it is these days, being single is much safer and less stress for both sexes.
Having a few close friends is SO much better !
@@edwald4056 Hey, if it keeps Democrats like you from poisoning our gene pool with more wastes of DNA like yourselves, go nuts.
there is no confusion. fake abc
They f......d him up damn, I just don't get it plain as day in video or do they need imax to see him running.
Deuteronomy 28:15
😞
It seems to me that they had a toxic 🤢 relationship and were both guilty of assault. 🤷 People have to know when to get out of toxic 🤮 relationships. I agree he should get probation not jail time.
Legal expert spot with everything pretty dope
One his lawyer sucked; two, he should have just taken the plea deal. They are both guilty of domestic violence.
I agree. They just need 2 protection orders against each other for life.