[jeffersondem]

“Not bein obtuse, but wondering what he actually did.”

Part of the answer to your questions can be found here:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-16-vw-101-story.html#:~:text=Abernathy%20writes%20that%20King%20spent%20part%20of%20his,who%20was%20jealous%2C%20%E2%80%9Cknocked%20her%20across%20the%20bed.%E2%80%9D

Abernathy writes that King spent part of his last night with two women and that in the course of an argument with a third woman who was jealous, “knocked her across the bed.”

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I can easily believe that, since he had a reputation as a womanizer