Jonathan Majors trial: New video released

OVER BY WESTCHESTER AVENUE, AND WE HAVE POLICE ACTIVITY AFFECTING THE END TRAINS HEADING NORTHBOUND DOWN INTO SHAWNEE. BACK TO YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, INEZ. MORE EVIDENCE HAS SURFACED IN THE ASSAULT TRIAL OF ACTOR JONATHAN MAJORS. BRIELLA TOMASETTI HAS MORE FROM THE COURTHOUSE IN LOWER MANHATTAN. GOOD MORNING. BRIELLA . YEAH. DANA TAJANI ACTUALLY, CLOSING ARGUMENTS ARE SET TO BEGIN THIS MORNING IN THAT TRIAL . AFTER THAT, THE SIX MEMBER JURY WILL BEGIN DELIBERATING AND DEPENDING ON HOW LONG IT TAKES THEM TO REACH A VERDICT, THIS TRIAL COULD VERY WELL WRAP UP BY THE END

OF THIS OR NEXT WEEK. PROSECUTORS HAVE RELEASED NEW VIDEO FROM JONATHAN MAJORS DOMESTIC ASSAULT TRIAL, WHICH APPEARS TO SHOW THE ACTOR PUSHING BRITISH CHOREOGRAPHER GRACE JABARI BACK INTO A BLACK CADILLAC ESCALADE AFTER IT PULLED OVER IN CHINATOWN. THE MANHATTAN DA’S OFFICE SLOWED DOWN THIS CLIP TO SHOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING. AFTERWARDS, THE TWO GET OUT OF THE SUV AND WALK TO THE INTERSECTION OF CENTER AND CANAL STREETS, WHERE MAJORS SHOVES JABARI AWAY FROM HIM BEFORE RUNNING OFF. JABAR ARI CAN BE SEEN CHASING HIM DOWN THE STREET. THE THREE STAR IS ON TRIAL FOR ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTING JABARI,

HIS FORMER GIRLFRIEND, IN NEW YORK CITY, LAST MARCH. JABARI MET MAJORS ON THE SET OF MARVEL’S ANT-MAN AND THE WASP PLAYED VILLAIN KANG THE CONQUEROR. PROSECUTORS SAY THE ACTOR SLAMMED GRACE JABARI

ON THE SIDE OF HER HEAD AND TWISTED HER ARM, LEAVING A GASH ON HER EAR AND FRACTURING HER FINGER AFTER SHE READ A ROMANTIC TEXT MESSAGE SENT TO HIM BY ANOTHER WOMAN. MAJORS HAS PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO MISDEMEANOR ASSAULT AND HARASSMENT CHARGES, WITH HIS LAWYERS ARGUING HE IS THE REAL VICTIM. THEY CLAIM IT WAS JABARI WHO ATTACKED MAJORS IN NEW YORK BLOODIED AND THEN

SPENDING THE REST OF THE NIGHT CLUBBING, CALLING THE ACCUSATIONS A REVENGE PLOT TO RUIN MAJORS ACTING CAREER. ACCORDING TO DECIDED NOT TO TESTIFY, EVEN THOUGH THE CHARGES HAVE HALTED HIS CAREER AND DAMAGED HIS REPUTATION. THE DEFENSE CALLED JUST THREE WITNESSES TO THE STAND YESTERDAY AN NYPD DETECTIVE, A CONNECTICUT DOCTOR AND A MAJORS AGENT. DEFENSE ATTORNEYS RESTED THEIR CASE LATER THAT AFTERNOON. YEAH, THIS IS QUITE MESSY. MAJORS FILED HIS OWN COMPLAINT AGAINST JABARI. SHE WAS ARRESTED LAST MONTH AND CHARGED WITH MISDEMEANOR ASSAULT AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF. THE DA’S OFFICE, THOUGH, DECLINED TO PURSUE THE CASE, SAYING IT

LACKED, QUOTE, PROSECUTORIAL MERIT. FOR NOW, THOUGH, WE’RE LIVE HERE IN LOWER MANHATTAN. DAN AND TISHANI, BACK TO YOU.