A$AP Rocky testified that he did everything possible to avoid a confrontation with two men that were following his entourage.
ASAP Rocky speaks onstage at Featured Session: Using Design"Differently" to Make a Difference during the 2019 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Austin Convention Center on March 11, 2019 in Austin, Texas.testified Thursday at his assault trial in Sweden that he did everything possible to avoid a confrontation with two men he said were persistently following his entourage in Stockholm, but one of those men picked a fight with one of his bodyguards.
He said the situation became tense after Jafari got into an argument with one of Mayers’ bodyguards near a fast-food restaurant where the rapper’s entourage had stopped to download an app to use electric scooters, which are widely available in Stockholm. “I assumed that these guys were under the influence of some kind of drug,” Mayers told the court. A full-scale brawl ensued shortly afterward at a nearby side street and prosecutors allege that Mayers and the two other suspects beat and kicked Jafari while he was on the ground. They said Jafari was hit with parts of or a whole bottle.
Mayers’ defense lawyer, Slobodan Jovicic, asked Jafari whether he thought the rapper’s entourage acted the way it did out due to fear of Jafari. “Four or five people afraid of me, who’s not even half of their body size?” Jafari replied. Despite being asked several times, it was not clear why Jafari wanted to contact Mayers’ entourage in the first place.
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