Key Takeaways:

• Cardi B threw a marker at a reporter, calling out the disrespect and gendered double requirements.
• She later posted a message on X that appeared to deal with the matter.
• The incident occurred earlier than Cardi was cleared of all prices in a $24 million civil assault and battery lawsuit.

Cardi B discovered herself on the middle of a tense alternate outdoors a Los Angeles courthouse on Tuesday (Sept. 2) after a photographer shouted a query about her private life that she deemed “disrespectful.”

The Bronx-born star, on a break from her ongoing civil assault trial, was leaving the Alhambra courthouse when an unidentified man known as out a question tying her ex-husband, Offset, to rumors of a fourth being pregnant. The photographer additionally invoked her present boyfriend, New England Patriots huge receiver Stefon Diggs.

Visibly pissed off, the Grammy winner snatched a marker she had simply used to signal an autograph and hurled it on the man. “Stop disrespecting me,” Cardi B fired again. “Don’t disrespect me.”

The confrontation escalated because the photographer continued to shout at her. Cardi responded by difficult the gendered line of questioning. “Do you see women asking those type of questions to me?” she requested. “Why do you feel, as a man, you get to ask me those type of questions? Act like you have some manners. Your momma taught you, respect women.”

Moments later, Cardi climbed right into a ready automobile however rolled down the window to deal with the gang one final time. “Y’all are not going to see me after that, and you can thank him,” she mentioned, vowing to chop again on interactions with reporters.

Not lengthy after, she took to social media with a fiery submit seemingly referencing the incident. “I missed my kids’ first day of school today for this,” she wrote. “If you think I’m here to play with you, GODD**N IT, I’M NOT!”

The heated second got here simply hours earlier than the jury delivered its verdict within the rapper’s civil trial. As Rap-Up reported, Cardi was cleared of all assault and battery allegations in a $24 million lawsuit filed by former safety guard Emani Ellis. The case stemmed from a 2018 incident in Beverly Hills, the place Ellis alleged the then-pregnant star bodily attacked her. Cardi maintained it was solely a verbal dispute, not a bodily altercation.