Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.
Someone on Jonathan Majors’ team doesn’t like him very much.
That’s the only explanation I can come up with for why they have repeatedly allowed him to make himself look guilty and look like a fool for the last nine-and-a-half months as he has been arrested, charged, tried and convicted of assaulting his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari.
I don’t think we have ever witnessed a “grand opening; grand closing” moment happen as swiftly as it did for Majors when news of his arrest for the incident hit the news in March of last year. He went from being the timeline’s most wanted to the timeline’s most hated so quickly, I’m sure even his head spun.
As the story goes, Majors and Jabbari were riding in a car together when he received a text message from another woman that read “Wish I was kissing you right now.” According to court documents, Jabbari grabbed the phone from Majors in an attempt to see who sent him the text. Prosecutors say Majors grabbed Jabbari’s right side of her body and pried her right finger off the phone, which resulted in injuries to her finger. He is also said to have twisted her right arm and struck her ear.
After taking his phone from Jabbari, Majors got out of the vehicle they were riding in, and when she attempted to follow him, Majors picked her up and “threw” her back inside the car.
Jabbari’s injuries that night included a “fractured finger, bruising about her body, a laceration behind her right ear, and a bump on her head.”
Everything that has come from him and his camp since that night has been a complete and total mess. Let’s examine some of the ways Jonathan Majors has screwed the pooch on this one and really shown himself to be a narcissist and an unlikeable human being.
DARVO is not the flex you think it is.
Since day one,…
Read the full article here
