Celtics’ Bird arraigned
Boston Celtics guard Jabari Bird choked his girlfriend multiple times, kicked her and prevented her from leaving his apartment before he collapsed in distress, prosecutors said at his arraignment Thursday.
The 24-year-old Cal alum was held on $50,000 bail after not-guilty pleas to domesticviolence-related charges were entered on his behalf. After the arraignment, Bird apologized in a statement for creating an “unnecessary distraction,” and said he was taking a break from the team to deal with “legal and medical issues.”
Police spoke with Bird’s girlfriend, a student at a local college, at a city hospital after his arrest last Friday, prosecutor Khyati Short said during the hearing. Bird choked the woman unconscious, threw her against the wall and dragged her by the ankles when she tried to leave his apartment in the Brighton neighborhood, police said.
The ordeal, sparked by what the woman called “trust issues,” went on for several hours, she said, until Bird experienced “seizure-like” symptoms and fell. That’s when the woman left.
Bird spent several days in a hospital. The woman was released from the hospital without serious injury, according to a spokesman for prosecutors.
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