Jonathan Majors wipes away tears as he says he was ‘shocked and afraid’ at assault conviction

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arrested on March 25 after he and Jabbari got into a domestic dispute while taking a taxi home from a bar in Brooklyn.The altercation began when Jabbari saw Majors getting a text from another woman, saying, “I wish I was kissing you,” she testified in court.Jabbari, a 31-year-old dancer from England, accused Majors of slapping her, fracturing her finger, twisting her arm, and striking her right ear, causing her to bleed, while she held onto the cellphone.The disgraced actor conceded mistakes in his relationship with Jabbari, including not ending it sooner when it was clear it was not working.However, he maintained that he did not beat her, saying he “wished to God” he knew how she got her injuries.“I was reckless with her heart.

Not with her body,” he told “GMA.”“I was not the best boyfriend all the time — but never hit a woman. My hands have never struck a woman,” he maintained.“I’m an athlete.

I’m a sportsman, I know my body. I know how it moves. I know my strength or lack thereof, you know?“None of that was employed on her.”Still, he told ABC News’ Linsey Davis that picking Jabbari up that night was “one of the biggest mistakes of my life” — while blaming his legal woes on racism.“From my experience, from my point of view, a young black man in any situation with anyone honestly, if the authorities get involved in any way, there’s going to be conversation, conflict, trauma,” he said.“If you watch those videos and you reverse that, and you saw a black man chasing a young white girl down the street, screaming and crying, that man is gonna be shot and killed in the streets of New York City.“That black man will feel that.”But in court, prosecutors claimed Majors inflicted a “manipulative pattern of psychological abuse” and.