If you live in New York City there’s a good chance you’ve seen Dominic Carter on television. He’s a portly, jovial black anchor on NY1, the area’s 24 hour local news channel. He’s also an alleged wife beater with an alleged secret family. He may have also assaulted some of his colleagues. Yes, Dominic Carter might just be an asshole.

Yesterday the New York Post detailed numerous police reports on domestic disputes between Carter, currently on trial for assaulting his wife last year, and his wife Marilyn. However, in typical battered wife fashion, Carter’s wife is defending him, claiming that the beating she reported receiving from her husband last year actually came from a Mexican day laborer pissed off about not being paid more money for a job after she picked him up on the side of the road, but her 911 call to police tells a different story:

Yesterday, at Dominic’s trial, prosecutors introduced Marilyn’s 911 call from that stormy night — a call in which violent anonymous day laborers are notably absent.

“I have a domestic violence incident here,” the wife tells the dispatcher.

Asked who was “the other person involved,” she replies, “Dominic Carter,” adding:

But when she took the stand yesterday — by order of a prosecution subpoena — Marilyn told a different tale to Judge Arnold Etelson, who will decide her husband’s fate.

Marilyn said that earlier that day, she and Dominic had an argument when she told him of a neurologist’s report about their son, Dominic Jr., who suffers from epilepsy. She testified her husband then stormed out.

Prosecutors also revealed a written statement Marilyn gave cops after that incident. She claimed Dominic told her that day, “You’re dumb, you’re stupid, you’re retarded . . . you’re a dumb project bitch, and I have no respect for you” before hitting her.

Today’s Post story on the trial says that Carter has a secret family on the side with his high school sweetheart, with whom he has two children. The Post also notes that Carter has been suspended from work twice recently for getting into “altercations” with colleagues.

I may be going out on a limb here, but I’m guessing that Dominic Carter’s career at NY1 may be over regardless of whether or not the judge in the case rules against him.

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