A member of the pioneering hip-hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was apprehended in Los Angeles on Monday, immediately after attending the 2023 BET Awards.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department disclosed that he was charged with felony domestic violence. The artist, known as Melvin Glover, was released after posting a $50,000 bond.
In a Facebook video examined by Rolling Stone, Jori Jordon, the woman accusing Glover of domestic violence, asserted that the rapper struck her in the left eye. Additionally, she mentioned that her eye had been “injured” a month prior when a car door hit her, requiring surgical intervention.
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Jordon further alleged that she went up to Glover’s hotel room in L.A. after he called her. According to her, they had drinks, and when she suggested becoming intimate and began looking through music, he suddenly hit her.
“I’m just sitting there, chillin’,” she stated in the video. “Next thing you know, this man just goes ‘whack’ with four rings on his finger and hits me in my eye.”
She added, “He popped one of my stitches, so there’s a hole in my eye.”
Following the incident, Glover spoke to Rolling Stone and stated that he has known Jordon for over 20 years and, at one point, they lived together. He also claimed that she contacts him whenever he is in Los Angeles.
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Glover explained that after the 2023 BET Awards, he and Jordon attended an after-party. Later, he went back to his hotel, and Jordon asked to meet him there, to which he agreed.
According to Glover, when he asked Jordon to leave, she refused. As he tried to escort her out, she held her eye and requested him to accompany her to the hospital. He declined and instead encouraged her to call the police, hoping they would assist in getting her to leave.
Upon the police’s arrival, Glover alleges that Jordon accused him of assaulting her. Consequently, he was arrested and sent to Los Angeles County Jail.
Glover denies striking Jordon but acknowledges that an argument occurred. He asserts that if he had accompanied her to the hospital when she asked, everything would have been “fine.”
“It’s very simple,” he explained. “She said I punched her in the eye. She also said she had eye surgery a month ago. If I had punched her in the eye, especially with rings on, she would have had a cut eye. It would have been way worse. Something did happen to her eye, but I did not punch her. While struggling with her and attempting to remove her from the room, something happened.”
