Cardi B jury reaches verdict in $24 million civil assault trial

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00:00All-Star Game on the same day of the incident.

00:03What was the error there is that the All-Star Game was on February 18th of 2018.

00:11And the court said that we didn't have credible evidence at that time about it,

00:16so that's why the judicial noted.

00:19And she did that job.

00:22And when this incident happened in 2018, that was cut off.

00:26She lost her future in security work, in something further,

00:34whether it's FBI, police, attorney, whatever she wanted to do.

00:39The defendant, when she came to the building,

00:44instead of listening to the plaintiff, listening to her commands,

00:50you know, you've got to do this, you've got to do that, please leave the building,

00:53different commands were given to her, which none were followed.

00:58They were all ignored.

01:06Instead, the defendant thought that, well, Miss Ellis was on her phone.

01:14She was telling people that I'm here.

01:16These were the thoughts that were going through her head at the time,

01:20and she's testified to those.

01:23However, that's not the case.

01:26Miss Ellis testified that she's never had a fight before.

01:31She's never done anything to harm anybody.

01:35She's never had any fight with anybody.

01:37And her mother and her grandmother also testified.

01:41She's a model citizen.

01:43She's a hardworking person.

01:45And she simply, her whole goal of doing this,

01:50to be here and sit here and go through this,

01:53is so she could move on with her life.

01:57It's not there in the beginning, but we know from her testimony

02:00that she was near the door and immediately ran out when she heard yelling.

02:04Now, we have a visual rendering based on plaintiff's own photograph

02:08of the hallway outside the doctor's office

02:11and based on the testimony and Cardi of Miss Malcolm.

02:14This shows Cardi's pregnant early in her pregnancy,

02:18and this person comes up to her in black boots and starts yelling at her.

02:22Cardi was concerned about her, and scared, frankly,

02:27about what she might do to her unborn baby.

02:31She also, Cardi also testified she was confused.

02:34Why is this going on?

02:36Why is a security guard doing this?

02:38Why is she filming me?

02:39Why is she following me?

02:42She also, Cardi also told plaintiff specifically

02:44that plaintiff was invading her privacy.

02:47But when Cardi told plaintiff to leave her alone,

02:50plaintiff went berserk.

02:52She yelled, it was plaintiff's phone.

02:54Plaintiff said, that's my phone.

02:56This is my building.

02:57You can't tell me what to do.

03:00That's what Cardi testified,

03:03and it's consistent with what Malcolm,

03:06Thierre Malcolm and Dr. Finke testified.

03:09But plaintiff advanced on Cardi.

03:12He's screaming and yelling and forcing Cardi backwards

03:15down to the hall to a corner,

03:17coming chest to chest with Cardi,

03:19yelling at Cardi about how, you know,

03:23this is her building.

03:24She can do whatever she wants.

03:27Now, hearing the yelling,

03:28the doctor's receptionist, Thierre Malcolm,

03:30and then the doctor intervened

03:32and tried to get plaintiff to stop and leave.

03:34We'll talk about that in a few minutes.

03:37In the meantime, Cardi testified

03:39that she and plaintiff yelled and used curse words,

03:42but neither struck the other.

03:45Cardi did not strike plaintiff.

03:47The plaintiff tried but did not strike Cardi.

03:50Can I just add one thing?

03:52Sure.

03:52I've been sitting here throughout the whole trial.

03:55The plaintiff has never looked this way,

03:57so I don't know what she's talking about.

03:58Second, Cardi,

04:00plaintiff is halfway between Cardi

04:02and the jury box and the witness.

04:04I have never seen Cardi do anything else

04:07other than watch.

04:08Sometimes she,

04:09in response to a witness,

04:11may wonder, like, what?

04:12But I have not seen anything

04:15that plaintiff's counsel has claimed.

04:18The plaintiff and Monty Ellis

04:19prove all of the following elements of battery.

04:22One,

04:23defendant Bocallis Marlenes Almanzar,

04:26Ms. Almanzar,

04:27touched Ms. Ellis

04:28in the intent to harm or offend Ms. Ellis.

04:32Number two,

04:33Ms. Ellis did not consent to being touched.

04:36Number three,

04:37Ms. Ellis was harmed or offended

04:39by Ms. Almanzar's conduct.

04:41And four,

04:42a reasonable person

04:44in Ms. Ellis' situation

04:45would have been offended

04:47by the touching.

04:48Answer,

04:49no.

04:50Question two,

04:52did Ms. Ellis prove

04:53all of the following elements of assaults?

04:56Number one,

04:57Ms. Almanzar's acted

04:58with the intent to cause harmful

05:01or offensive contact with Ms. Ellis.

05:03Number two,

05:04Ms. Ellis reasonably believed

05:06that she was about to be touched

05:08in a harmful

05:09or an offensive manner.

05:12Number three,

05:13Ms. Ellis did not consent

05:15to Ms. Almanzar's conduct.

05:17Number four,

05:18Ms. Ellis was harmed.

05:20And number five,

05:21Ms. Almanzar's conduct

05:22was a substantial factor

05:24in causing Ms. Ellis' harm.

05:26Answer,

05:27no.

05:28Question two,

05:29no.

05:30Question two,

05:31no.

05:32Question two,

05:33no.

05:34Question two,

05:35no.

05:36Question two,

05:37no.

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