Division of Justice
We’re now seeing the whole unedited 15-minute-long video of Sean “Diddy” Combs assaulting Cassie in a lodge hallway in 2016, and it reveals the whole story — higher than the CNN mannequin confirmed — of what went down between them that morning.
The video was launched Tuesday night time time after the second day of testimony in Diddy’s federal intercourse trafficking trial in NYC — security video from the InterContinental Lodge in L.A.’s Century Metropolis on March 5, 2016, displaying Diddy following Cassie out into the hallway, pushing her to the underside and kicking her.
The extended video reveals fully completely different angles from what we have now beforehand seen … first, a hooded decide emerges into the physique in a hallway on the sixth floor — it’s Cassie — then we see Diddy wrapped in a towel comply along with her, and a second later he’s purchased a bag in a single hand, and with the other he’s dragging Cassie by her hooded sweatshirt. We see only a few completely different angles from fully completely different cameras, a number of of which we have now beforehand seen.
As Cassie spoke on the house phone, Diddy — nonetheless in his towel and socks — comes once more to the world and appears to grab her cellular telephone … then he sits down on a chair throughout the house and angrily throws one factor, knocking over a vase on a desk, breaking it.
On this extended decrease, we see Cassie attain for a lodge residence phone throughout the elevator house and converse for a second … shortly thereafter, a tall security official in a gray go effectively with comes out of one in every of many elevators carrying a walkie-talkie. That’s the LAPD officer who labored security on the lodge on the time — Israel Florez — whom we heard testimony from Monday.
Florez referenced the broken vase in Monday’s testimony … and he testified Diddy later tried to bribe him for his silence, which Florez refused.
The entire video reveals Florez talking to Diddy and Cassie throughout the elevator house, and he elements to the broken vase. He makes a reputation on the house phone, and appears to chuckle and smile as he’s talking to Diddy, who’s nonetheless sitting throughout the chair.
Diddy goes once more into his room, the guard stays, then Cassie comes into the physique from the other side of the hall … the guard appears to adjust to Diddy into the room, adopted by Cassie. A custodian then comes into the hallway with a cart, and follows the trio into the an identical room. Then Cassie comes out with every her baggage and walks once more into the elevator house.
Moments later, the guard does the an identical. The guard walks forwards and backwards throughout the house, then Diddy comes out of his room as soon as extra, nonetheless in his towel and socks, walks in the direction of the elevator, and makes a reputation on his cellular telephone. Lastly, two custodians emerge from his room, the place he had returned to, one with a trash bag. The distinctive custodian goes to the elevator house and appears to measurement up the broken vase, and talks on his walkie-talkie.
The video has been a key ingredient of Diddy’s federal case … the safety has disputed the CNN video confirmed in March remaining yr, calling it deceptively manipulated. There have been as many as three fully completely different edits anticipated to be confirmed by the trial.
