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Witness At A$AP Rocky Trial Now Says She Never Saw Rapper Hit Man with Bottle
2019-08-04
[BREITBART] A witness in the A$AP Rocky assault case revised her story from initial police reports, testifying in a Swedish court Friday that she didn’t actually see the American rapper hitting a man with a bottle.

The young woman and her friend, testifying anonymously, were questioned via video link at Stockholm District Court.

Witness testimonies were the highlight of the third day of the trial where the 30-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, and two other suspects are accused by prosecutors of beating 19-year-old Mustafa Jafari on June 30. The rapper’s bodyguard, identified as Timothy Leon Williams, also testified Friday.

Whether or not Jafari, who got into an argument with Mayers’ entourage in Stockholm, was hit with parts or a whole bottle has become one of the key issues at the trial.

Both women who testified Friday maintained their previous statements to police that they saw Mayers and his partners beating and kicking Jafari.

But one of the women recanted what she witnessed with the bottle. She said she heard the bottle being crushed, though she couldn’t say whether Mayers’ entourage threw the bottle to the ground or hit Jafari with it.

She said she didn’t see Mayers holding a bottle during the scuffle. Her friend testified that she didn’t see anyone hitting Jafari with a bottle.

"Everything happened very quickly. We were scared for our lives," the first woman told the court in Swedish. "He (Jafari) was bleeding. He showed his injuries on his hand. He also said he had a sore back."

Posted by:Fred

#4  What was the young woman's name? Possibly a relative of Jafari?

Those surveillance cams are a bitch, no?
Posted by: Regular joe   2019-08-04 15:22  

#3  And those damnable metal straws.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-08-04 10:56  

#2  Outlaw bottles and stainless steel thermoses.
Posted by: Alaska Paul    2019-08-04 10:36  

#1  So. A rapper allegedly hit a man with a bottle? A rapper / hit man had a bottle? Ima confused...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-08-04 09:45  

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