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Majors And Misdemeanors
By Trevor David Houchen

There's something fishy about the Jonathan Majors verdict and subsequent “situation”. That situation is that Majors has been fired by Marvel Studios, along with a plethora of other opportunities, organizations, and engagements having either disassociated themselves with Majors, or abandoned him outright, including his own PR firm and management team. By all accounts, it seems dude's career is possibly dead in the water. He's been thrown under the bus and the bus has run him over, reversed, and run him over again.
And for what?
A fractured finger, essentially.

Johnathan Majors was on the brink of superstardom. He was considered the centerpiece of the next iteration of Marvel movies, starred opposite Michael B. Jordan in “Creed III”, and was the lead in HBO's “Lovecraft Country”. Disney was set to release “Magazine Dreams”, another Majors film which received great reviews when it premiered at Sundance, but they've since removed it from their roster of releases.. He also starred in “Devotion', a film inspired by the true story of Jesse Brown, the first black aviator in the US Navy. Majors was also in “The Harder They Fall” alongside Lakeith Stanfield and Idris Elba. After being noticed by Hollywood in his indie debut “The Last Black Man In San Francisco”, (in which he doesn't play the lead role), Majors' notoriety took off and hadn't stopped. His career was on fire, like a comet streaking through the Hollywood sky, and then, something bad happened.
The comet crashed into a white woman.

Now before you start thinking this is another “black celebrity gets involved with a white woman and finds his career in ruins as a result” story, it isn't. Or maybe it is. I'm not sure.

And that's the point.

Unless you've been buried under a rock for the past few months, which isn't such a bad idea actually, you know Majors was convicted of third degree assault recklessly causing physical injury, and second degree harassment of his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. The assault charge results from a fractured finger Jabbari claims she sustained as a result of Majors' reckless behavior, the harassment charge stems from Majors lifting Jabbari up to put her back into the vehicle they had been traveling in. Two other charges didn't stick, third degree assault with intent to cause physical injury and second degree aggravated harassment.

The charges stem from an incident that took place almost wholly on camera in a vehicle in New York City.

That night, Majors and his then girlfriend Jabbari were in a private car headed to Majors' apartment in Chelsea, coming from a party in Brooklyn.

The irrefutable facts are that Majors and Jabbari were in a car. She saw a text on his phone he'd received from another woman. The mystery woman's text indicated her desire to kiss Majors.
Jabbari, vexed, then sn**ched Majors' private property, his phone, out of his hands.
That seems important to me, but doesn't seem important to any other writers I've seen covering the case.
The dictionary defines "sn**ch" as "to quickly seize something in a rude or eager way". What is the "proper" response when someone sn**ches your phone out of your hands? Likely, Majors tried to grab his phone back from Jabbari. Likely, she didn't want to give it back. Likely, he had to struggle to get his phone back. More likely, she held on tightly to his phone so much so that he had to struggle to get it out of her hands.
Have you ever held on tightly to something someone was struggling to take out of your hands? Sometimes, your pulling and holding, combined with their pulling and prying, causes your hands to rebound back at you once the item has been successfully pried from your hands. It's possible if you've got a tight enough grip and they're pulling hard enough, your hands might rebound hard enough to cause you to bruise yourself.
Also, if you're holding tightly enough, (reminder: holding something that doesn't belong to you), and the other person wants their property back bad enough, they might be forced to pry your tightly gripping hands off their property, possibly causing some damage to your fingers. The fingers, that moments before, had sn**ched your property out of your hands. This is a point I haven't heard a single person consider, haven't seen a single word uttered about in all the press surrounding this case. Jabbari sn**ched Majors phone out of his hands.

Do we collectively think that's okay?

Here's what happened after the phone sn**ching:
There's Majors on video exiting the vehicle, there's Jabbari exiting right behind him. There's Majors turning around, picking Jabbari up and placing her back inside the vehicle. There's Jabbari in Majors' face, presumably not wanting to let him leave. There's Majors walking away from the vehicle, followed closely by Jabbari, who appears to be trying to hold his hand. There's Jabbari apparently trying to hug or hold Majors, and there's Majors pulling his arm away from Jabbari and taking off, with Jabbari following closely behind. All this is on video. She did not want to leave Majors. The video makes this clear. And yet, Majors had allegedly moments before “recklessly assaulted” her causing damage to her finger.

Hm.

Here's where the facts become murky. During the car struggle, Majors' girlfriend claims to have suffered an injury. A "fractured finger", (notice the quotes. Quotes make you question the truth of what's inside them), as a result presumably, of her unwillingness to let go of Majors' private property, his phone, which she'd just sn**ched out of his hands.
What happened inside the vehicle is a mystery but what happened in the aftermath isn't, because it's on camera.
Again:
There's Majors picking up his ex girlfriend and placing her back inside the vehicle they were in. I specifically chose to use the word "placing" because this word carries a certain implication very different in meaning than "shoving", “pushing”, or “throwing”, which are words other media outlets have used to describe Majors actions. Watch the video. See it for yourself. While watching, keep in mind that Jabbari has just ripped Majors' phone out of his hands. Keep in mind also that the jury and Jabbari's lawyers want you to believe that moments before, Majors had assaulted Jabbari inside the vehicle. Majors clearly wants to get as far away from Jabbari as he can, but Jabbari won't leave him alone, she won't let him be.

She's just been assaulted by him but she also wants to continue to be near him.
Hm.
Weird.

There's Majors taking off running down several almost desolate New York City streets, while his "victim" chases after him. Do victims usually chase their assailants? For blocks and blocks? At night? In New York City? Here's a woman who has just been "attacked", "assaulted" , "injured", chasing her alleged assailant who obviously wants nothing to do with her.
Why is she chasing him? Did she want or expect him to apologize? In the video, Jabbari wants to catch up with Majors so badly that she runs out into traffic. All while she's supposedly got a "fractured finger".
Not once does she stop to examine her finger. In fact, while she's running, she doesn't appear to be injured at all. She's giving chase, not being chased. She's running her ass off trying to catch Majors. Why? Didn't this guy just assault you? Isn't your finger fractured? Didn't he do something bad to you that you didn't like?
Why are you chasing him?

Something's off.

Can you in your wildest dreams imagine a video of a black man, or any man for that matter, chasing after a woman down dark streets, and the woman being found guilty of, well, anything at all?
Picture the scenario.

A man sn**ches his girlfriend's phone from her hands. They struggle. His finger is fractured in the struggle. She attempts to get away from him, for whatever reason. He chases her for blocks. Then he goes to a club, meets strangers, dances and drinks with said strangers.
Then he alleges assault. His girlfriend is found guilty.

In what multiverse?

Hm.

Later that same night, after the phone sn**ching, after the “assault”, after the finger fracturing, after the chase, Jabbari did indeed go clubbing. There's video of that also. There's Jabbari on the sidewalk speaking with a group of strangers while gesturing with her hands, using her phone with her hands, holding her coat and switching it from one hand to the other, dexterously, skillfully, easily, effortlessly tying back her hair, all with her supposedly “fractured” finger. There's Jabbari inside the club drinking, dancing, digging in her purse, checking her phone, and playing with her hair, again effortlessly, all with her fractured finger, with strangers. It's on video.

Hm.

Much has been said about an audio recording the prosecution introduced, of Majors discussing Jabbari's drunken behavior as evidence of psychological abuse. In the recording, Majors is heard saying he'd like his partner to support him more like Coretta Scott King or Michelle Obama. He's also heard saying that he's a great man doing great things. Jabbari is heard crying, whimpering, and stuttering. Not once in the recording, did Majors insult, curse at, raise his voice to, or otherwise belittle or say anything even remotely malicious to Jabbari. Listen to the recording. It sounds like a person who has boundaries and standards telling his partner that she's fallen short of those standards, and that he expects better. And yet somehow, this recording was introduced as evidence as psychological abuse. Why was Jabbari recording the conversation in the first place?
And since when is it abusive to have standards for oneself and one's relationship? Following the release of this recording, many people rushed to social media to say they found Majors' point of view in the recording to be abusive, demeaning, and “dysfunctional”. Folks, mostly of a certain specific demographic, said he was “talking down to her”, and the like.
She was drunk, he didn't like it, and he told her so, again, without yelling, screaming, insulting, blaming, or anything even close. Listen to the recording.

Two of the strangers who Jabbari ended up clubbing with testified for the prosecution. They had met her on the street, they got drunk and went dancing with her, yet they provided some kind of character witness for her, and against Majors. Since when can an adult tell his partner that he doesn't like her behavior and that it isn't befitting of their relationship? First there was Me Too, now what, Us Too? Them Too? Y'all Too?

After the incident, after a night out dancing and drinking with strangers, after having been allegedly assaulted and injured, Jabbari then returns to her alleged assailant's apartment, let's herself in, gulps down some sleeping pills, and falls asleep in his walk in closet half naked. Majors spends the night in a hotel, and at some point during the night texts Jabbari that he no longer wants to be in a relationship with her.
The next morning, Majors returns to his place in Chelsea, discovers Jabbari unconscious in his closet, and phones 911, calmly describing the scenario he's discovered.
Just the facts man, please.

There's nary an incriminating word in Majors' phone call, but prosecution uses the audio of the phone call as evidence against Majors. During the call, Majors tells the officer that he sees a cut behind Jabbari's ear. Alcohol, sleeping pills, and a cut behind the ear. Alcohol, sleeping pills, passing out on the floor of a closet, a fractured finger, and a cut behind the ear. Could she possibly have sustained her injuries from passing out?

Hm.
Listen to the audio, it's online also.

Another piece of 'evidence' submitted by the prosecution shows the officers at the scene speaking with a clearly disheveled Jabbari, as she lay on the floor of Majors' neatly arranged closet. Jabbari can be seen reaching for her right ear several times during the video. Curiously, the video was ordered to be shown in court without sound.

Why?
Hm.

Judging by Jabbari's facial reactions to questions by the police, she isn't sure what happened or how she ended up on Majors' floor.
Bizarre.

Keep in mind this is the morning after Jabbari had sn**ched Majors' phone out of his hands, chased Majors down several streets, met some strangers, went dancing and drinking, taken sleeping pills, and let herself into Majors apartment, then passed out. All after receiving texts from Majors wherein he'd told her he no longer wanted to be in a relationship with her.

Jealous rage much?

Also keep in mind that Majors had filed his own allegations against Jabbari, stating that she had been the aggressor in the car dispute, but those charges were dropped by the DA in New York less than a day after having been filed.

Why?
The judge said his allegations had “no merit”.
Oh but HERS? All the merit in the world folks. Merit merit and more merit. Meritorious, in fact.
Hm.

Another piece of 'evidence' presented by the prosecution was a picture taken by Jabbari, get this, of some stuff on the floor of a Los Angeles residence they'd shared together. Jabbari claimed that Majors had “thrown a candle” at her, and the picture was supposed to have shown that candle, and a few other items on the floor, that came as a result of Majors “rage and aggression”.

A picture of stuff on the floor. No blood, no stains, not even a band aid. Just some stuff on the floor. Do you have any stuff on your floor? Careful man. Better clean that stuff up before someone takes a picture of it and claims you threw it at them in a fit of rage and aggression.

There were also texts between Jabbari and Majors, whose meaning are at best unclear because the texts weren't allowed in full. Jabbari mentions bumping her head, Majors asks for love and affection. Jabbari mentions Majors' daughter. Majors talks about his 'miserable existence'. Jabbari says she needs stronger sleeping pills.

And voila, Majors is guilty of third degree assault and second degree harassment.
And now his career is in a tailspin.
It wouldn't be a stretch to say that Majors' Hollywood ascent had him poised to be the next Denzel. His cerebral yet kinetic screen presence is electrifying and singular. He could have been one of the greats.
But now, his career is essentially non-existent, and to make matters worse, he's facing potential jail time. We haven't seen as startling, quick, and total a fall from grace, no pun intended, well, maybe a little pun intended, since, well, I don't know when.

Couple days ago, Majors went on TV and said he couldn't understand how he was found guilty based on the prosecution's 'evidence'. Now, the same press that skewed their reporting and wanted you to think Majors was a criminal is wanting you to believe he shouldn't have gone on TV to present his side of the story. They're saying it might reflect badly on his upcoming sentencing next month. They want you to believe that not only did he commit some heinous crime, but now, in trying to present his side, he's committing another heinous crime. Just be quiet, they're saying, you're already guilty, didn't we tell you that before you were actually found guilty?

I presented most, if not all, of the prosecution's evidence to you in the preceding paragraphs. Can you see how he might not actually be guilty? I mean, sure, he might be guilty of something, but anything illegal? If so, of what, exactly?

Let me present it to you again, succinctly:

Woman sees a text on a man's phone in a car.
Woman sn**ches man's phone and won't give it back.
Man sn**ches his phone back and tries to get away.
Woman chases man.
Woman then goes to a bar with people she just met on the street, dances, gets drunk, plays with her hair and uses her hands a lot. On video.
Man texts woman and tells her he is no longer interested in a relationship with her.
Woman goes to man's apartment, let's herself into man's apartment, takes sleeping pills, renders herself unconscious, and passes out on man's neatly put together closet floor.
Man returns the next morning to find woman unconscious on his neatly put together closet floor, calls 911.
Woman cannot remember how she ended up on man's closet floor, nor how she got cuts on her ear or fractured her finger.
Woman files charges against man for cuts on her ear and fractured finger.
Man is found guilty.
Man's career is over.
The End.

Moral of the story?
I don't know.
Don't sn**ch your phone back from people after they've sn**ched your phone?
Don't run away from people after they've sn**ched your phone?
Don't give certain people keys to your apartment?
Don't date anyone, at all, ever, for any reason?
Don't become a movie star?
Don't date white women?
Don't have a phone?
Don't expect justice?
All of the above?
None?

I don't know.
If Majors had been found not guilty, there'd be nothing to see, nothing sensational, and we American's love sensational stuff, don't we? Move along ma'am, nothing to see here.
Truth and justice be damned, it must be sensational.
I just don't know.
What I do know, is that Johnathan Majors was poised for international fame, but now, he'll likely have to settle for international infamy, which is a completely different thing.

Sucks.
TDH

wrote this about the
Johnathan Majors
debacle

something about it just doesn't sit right
with me

five minute read
promise

tell me your thoughts
or don't

Majors And Misdemeanors
By Trevor David Houchen

There's something fishy about the Jonathan Majors verdict and subsequent “situation”. That situation is that Majors has been fired by Marvel Studios, along with a plethora of other opportunities, organizations, and engagements having either disassociated themselves with Majors, or abandoned him outright, including his own PR firm and management team. By all accounts, it seems dude's career is possibly dead in the water. He's been thrown under the bus and the bus has run him over, reversed, and run him over again.
And for what?
A fractured finger, essentially.

Johnathan Majors was on the brink of superstardom. He was considered the centerpiece of the next iteration of Marvel movies, starred opposite Michael B. Jordan in “Creed III”, and was the lead in HBO's “Lovecraft Country”. Disney was set to release “Magazine Dreams”, another Majors film which received great reviews when it premiered at Sundance, but they've since removed it from their roster of releases.. He also starred in “Devotion', a film inspired by the true story of Jesse Brown, the first black aviator in the US Navy. Majors was also in “The Harder They Fall” alongside Lakeith Stanfield and Idris Elba. After being noticed by Hollywood in his indie debut “The Last Black Man In San Francisco”, (in which he doesn't play the lead role), Majors' notoriety took off and hadn't stopped. His career was on fire, like a comet streaking through the Hollywood sky, and then, something bad happened.
The comet crashed into a white woman.

Now before you start thinking this is another “black celebrity gets involved with a white woman and finds his career in ruins as a result” story, it isn't. Or maybe it is. I'm not sure.

And that's the point.

Unless you've been buried under a rock for the past few months, which isn't such a bad idea actually, you know Majors was convicted of third degree assault recklessly causing physical injury, and second degree harassment of his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. The assault charge results from a fractured finger Jabbari claims she sustained as a result of Majors' reckless behavior, the harassment charge stems from Majors lifting Jabbari up to put her back into the vehicle they had been traveling in. Two other charges didn't stick, third degree assault with intent to cause physical injury and second degree aggravated harassment.

The charges stem from an incident that took place almost wholly on camera in a vehicle in New York City.

That night, Majors and his then girlfriend Jabbari were in a private car headed to Majors' apartment in Chelsea, coming from a party in Brooklyn.

The irrefutable facts are that Majors and Jabbari were in a car. She saw a text on his phone he'd received from another woman. The mystery woman's text indicated her desire to kiss Majors.
Jabbari, vexed, then sn**ched Majors' private property, his phone, out of his hands.
That seems important to me, but doesn't seem important to any other writers I've seen covering the case.
The dictionary defines "sn**ch" as "to quickly seize something in a rude or eager way". What is the "proper" response when someone sn**ches your phone out of your hands? Likely, Majors tried to grab his phone back from Jabbari. Likely, she didn't want to give it back. Likely, he had to struggle to get his phone back. More likely, she held on tightly to his phone so much so that he had to struggle to get it out of her hands.
Have you ever held on tightly to something someone was struggling to take out of your hands? Sometimes, your pulling and holding, combined with their pulling and prying, causes your hands to rebound back at you once the item has been successfully pried from your hands. It's possible if you've got a tight enough grip and they're pulling hard enough, your hands might rebound hard enough to cause you to bruise yourself.
Also, if you're holding tightly enough, (reminder: holding something that doesn't belong to you), and the other person wants their property back bad enough, they might be forced to pry your tightly gripping hands off their property, possibly causing some damage to your fingers. The fingers, that moments before, had sn**ched your property out of your hands. This is a point I haven't heard a single person consider, haven't seen a single word uttered about in all the press surrounding this case. Jabbari sn**ched Majors phone out of his hands.

Do we collectively think that's okay?

Here's what happened after the phone sn**ching:
There's Majors on video exiting the vehicle, there's Jabbari exiting right behind him. There's Majors turning around, picking Jabbari up and placing her back inside the vehicle. There's Jabbari in Majors' face, presumably not wanting to let him leave. There's Majors walking away from the vehicle, followed closely by Jabbari, who appears to be trying to hold his hand. There's Jabbari apparently trying to hug or hold Majors, and there's Majors pulling his arm away from Jabbari and taking off, with Jabbari following closely behind. All this is on video. She did not want to leave Majors. The video makes this clear. And yet, Majors had allegedly moments before “recklessly assaulted” her causing damage to her finger.

Hm.

Here's where the facts become murky. During the car struggle, Majors' girlfriend claims to have suffered an injury. A "fractured finger", (notice the quotes. Quotes make you question the truth of what's inside them), as a result presumably, of her unwillingness to let go of Majors' private property, his phone, which she'd just sn**ched out of his hands.
What happened inside the vehicle is a mystery but what happened in the aftermath isn't, because it's on camera.
Again:
There's Majors picking up his ex girlfriend and placing her back inside the vehicle they were in. I specifically chose to use the word "placing" because this word carries a certain implication very different in meaning than "shoving", “pushing”, or “throwing”, which are words other media outlets have used to describe Majors actions. Watch the video. See it for yourself. While watching, keep in mind that Jabbari has just ripped Majors' phone out of his hands. Keep in mind also that the jury and Jabbari's lawyers want you to believe that moments before, Majors had assaulted Jabbari inside the vehicle. Majors clearly wants to get as far away from Jabbari as he can, but Jabbari won't leave him alone, she won't let him be.

She's just been assaulted by him but she also wants to continue to be near him.
Hm.
Weird.

There's Majors taking off running down several almost desolate New York City streets, while his "victim" chases after him. Do victims usually chase their assailants? For blocks and blocks? At night? In New York City? Here's a woman who has just been "attacked", "assaulted" , "injured", chasing her alleged assailant who obviously wants nothing to do with her.
Why is she chasing him? Did she want or expect him to apologize? In the video, Jabbari wants to catch up with Majors so badly that she runs out into traffic. All while she's supposedly got a "fractured finger".
Not once does she stop to examine her finger. In fact, while she's running, she doesn't appear to be injured at all. She's giving chase, not being chased. She's running her ass off trying to catch Majors. Why? Didn't this guy just assault you? Isn't your finger fractured? Didn't he do something bad to you that you didn't like?
Why are you chasing him?

Something's off.

Can you in your wildest dreams imagine a video of a black man, or any man for that matter, chasing after a woman down dark streets, and the woman being found guilty of, well, anything at all?
Picture the scenario.

A man sn**ches his girlfriend's phone from her hands. They struggle. His finger is fractured in the struggle. She attempts to get away from him, for whatever reason. He chases her for blocks. Then he goes to a club, meets strangers, dances and drinks with said strangers.
Then he alleges assault. His girlfriend is found guilty.

In what multiverse?

Hm.

Later that same night, after the phone sn**ching, after the “assault”, after the finger fracturing, after the chase, Jabbari did indeed go clubbing. There's video of that also. There's Jabbari on the sidewalk speaking with a group of strangers while gesturing with her hands, using her phone with her hands, holding her coat and switching it from one hand to the other, dexterously, skillfully, easily, effortlessly tying back her hair, all with her supposedly “fractured” finger. There's Jabbari inside the club drinking, dancing, digging in her purse, checking her phone, and playing with her hair, again effortlessly, all with her fractured finger, with strangers. It's on video.

Hm.

Much has been said about an audio recording the prosecution introduced, of Majors discussing Jabbari's drunken behavior as evidence of psychological abuse. In the recording, Majors is heard saying he'd like his partner to support him more like Coretta Scott King or Michelle Obama. He's also heard saying that he's a great man doing great things. Jabbari is heard crying, whimpering, and stuttering. Not once in the recording, did Majors insult, curse at, raise his voice to, or otherwise belittle or say anything even remotely malicious to Jabbari. Listen to the recording. It sounds like a person who has boundaries and standards telling his partner that she's fallen short of those standards, and that he expects better. And yet somehow, this recording was introduced as evidence as psychological abuse. Why was Jabbari recording the conversation in the first place?
And since when is it abusive to have standards for oneself and one's relationship? Following the release of this recording, many people rushed to social media to say they found Majors' point of view in the recording to be abusive, demeaning, and “dysfunctional”. Folks, mostly of a certain specific demographic, said he was “talking down to her”, and the like.
She was drunk, he didn't like it, and he told her so, again, without yelling, screaming, insulting, blaming, or anything even close. Listen to the recording.

Two of the strangers who Jabbari ended up clubbing with testified for the prosecution. They had met her on the street, they got drunk and went dancing with her, yet they provided some kind of character witness for her, and against Majors. Since when can an adult tell his partner that he doesn't like her behavior and that it isn't befitting of their relationship? First there was Me Too, now what, Us Too? Them Too? Y'all Too?

After the incident, after a night out dancing and drinking with strangers, after having been allegedly assaulted and injured, Jabbari then returns to her alleged assailant's apartment, let's herself in, gulps down some sleeping pills, and falls asleep in his walk in closet half naked. Majors spends the night in a hotel, and at some point during the night texts Jabbari that he no longer wants to be in a relationship with her.
The next morning, Majors returns to his place in Chelsea, discovers Jabbari unconscious in his closet, and phones 911, calmly describing the scenario he's discovered.
Just the facts man, please.

There's nary an incriminating word in Majors' phone call, but prosecution uses the audio of the phone call as evidence against Majors. During the call, Majors tells the officer that he sees a cut behind Jabbari's ear. Alcohol, sleeping pills, and a cut behind the ear. Alcohol, sleeping pills, passing out on the floor of a closet, a fractured finger, and a cut behind the ear. Could she possibly have sustained her injuries from passing out?

Hm.
Listen to the audio, it's online also.

Another piece of 'evidence' submitted by the prosecution shows the officers at the scene speaking with a clearly disheveled Jabbari, as she lay on the floor of Majors' neatly arranged closet. Jabbari can be seen reaching for her right ear several times during the video. Curiously, the video was ordered to be shown in court without sound.

Why?
Hm.

Judging by Jabbari's facial reactions to questions by the police, she isn't sure what happened or how she ended up on Majors' floor.
Bizarre.

Keep in mind this is the morning after Jabbari had sn**ched Majors' phone out of his hands, chased Majors down several streets, met some strangers, went dancing and drinking, taken sleeping pills, and let herself into Majors apartment, then passed out. All after receiving texts from Majors wherein he'd told her he no longer wanted to be in a relationship with her.

Jealous rage much?

Also keep in mind that Majors had filed his own allegations against Jabbari, stating that she had been the aggressor in the car dispute, but those charges were dropped by the DA in New York less than a day after having been filed.

Why?
The judge said his allegations had “no merit”.
Oh but HERS? All the merit in the world folks. Merit merit and more merit. Meritorious, in fact.
Hm.

Another piece of 'evidence' presented by the prosecution was a picture taken by Jabbari, get this, of some stuff on the floor of a Los Angeles residence they'd shared together. Jabbari claimed that Majors had “thrown a candle” at her, and the picture was supposed to have shown that candle, and a few other items on the floor, that came as a result of Majors “rage and aggression”.

A picture of stuff on the floor. No blood, no stains, not even a band aid. Just some stuff on the floor. Do you have any stuff on your floor? Careful man. Better clean that stuff up before someone takes a picture of it and claims you threw it at them in a fit of rage and aggression.

There were also texts between Jabbari and Majors, whose meaning are at best unclear because the texts weren't allowed in full. Jabbari mentions bumping her head, Majors asks for love and affection. Jabbari mentions Majors' daughter. Majors talks about his 'miserable existence'. Jabbari says she needs stronger sleeping pills.

And voila, Majors is guilty of third degree assault and second degree harassment.
And now his career is in a tailspin.
It wouldn't be a stretch to say that Majors' Hollywood ascent had him poised to be the next Denzel. His cerebral yet kinetic screen presence is electrifying and singular. He could have been one of the greats.
But now, his career is essentially non-existent, and to make matters worse, he's facing potential jail time. We haven't seen as startling, quick, and total a fall from grace, no pun intended, well, maybe a little pun intended, since, well, I don't know when.

Couple days ago, Majors went on TV and said he couldn't understand how he was found guilty based on the prosecution's 'evidence'. Now, the same press that skewed their reporting and wanted you to think Majors was a criminal is wanting you to believe he shouldn't have gone on TV to present his side of the story. They're saying it might reflect badly on his upcoming sentencing next month. They want you to believe that not only did he commit some heinous crime, but now, in trying to present his side, he's committing another heinous crime. Just be quiet, they're saying, you're already guilty, didn't we tell you that before you were actually found guilty?

I presented most, if not all, of the prosecution's evidence to you in the preceding paragraphs. Can you see how he might be guilty? I mean, sure, he might be guilty of something, but anything illegal? If so, of what, exactly?

Let me present it to you again, succinctly:

Woman sees a text on a man's phone in a car.
Woman sn**ches man's phone and won't give it back.
Man sn**ches his phone back and tries to get away.
Woman chases man.
Woman then goes to a bar with people she just met on the street, dances, gets drunk, plays with her hair and uses her hands a lot. On video.
Man texts woman and tells her he is no longer interested in a relationship with her.
Woman goes to man's apartment, let's herself into man's apartment, takes sleeping pills, renders herself unconscious, and passes out on man's neatly put together closet floor.
Man returns the next morning to find woman unconscious on his neatly put together closet floor, calls 911.
Woman cannot remember how she ended up on man's closet floor, nor how she got cuts on her ear or fractured her finger.
Woman files charges against man for cuts on her ear and fractured finger.
Man is found guilty.
Man's career is over.
The End.

Couple days ago, Majors went on TV and said he couldn't understand how he was found guilty based on the prosecution's 'evidence'. I presented most, if not all, of the prosecution's evidence to you in the preceding paragraphs. Can you see how he might actually not be guilty? I mean, sure, he might be guilty of something, but anything illegal? If so, of what, exactly?

Moral of the story?
I don't know.
Don't sn**ch your phone back from people after they've sn**ched your phone?
Don't run away from people after they've sn**ched your phone?
Don't give certain people keys to your apartment?
Don't date anyone, at all, ever, for any reason?
Don't become a movie star?
Don't date white women?
Don't have a phone?
Don't expect justice?
All of the above?
None?

I don't know.
If Majors had been found not guilty, there'd be nothing to see, nothing sensational, and we American's love sensational stuff, don't we? Move along ma'am, nothing to see here.
Truth and justice be damned, it must be sensational.
I just don't know.
What I do know, is that Johnathan Majors was poised for international fame, but now, he'll likely have to settle for international infamy, which is a completely different thing.

Sucks.
TDH