Yesterday the full 15 minute video was shown to the jury in Diddy's RICO and human trafficking trial...
From The Daily Mail
The unedited surveillance videos have been submitted as evidence at the trial and show various angles of the brutal attack as Diddy drags the R&B singer from an elevator and menacingly paces down the hallway in a towel.
Combs shook his head slowly from side to side and the packed courtroom fell silent as jurors were shown the 2016 hotel security camera video for the first time.
The video did not have sound.
Jurors watched intently on video monitors at their seats in the jury box, but there were no discernible, visible reactions.
First, prosecutors showed it all the way through. Then, they played it as the hotel’s assistant security director at the time, Israel Florez, described how the situation unfolded.
'I don't want to lose anything and I can lose it all,' Florez described Diddy as saying.
The video shows clear footage of Cassie walking down the hall at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City and at one point, Combs clearly drags her across the floor, mid-tantrum.
As she tried to get into an elevator, he grabbed her by the back of the head and slammed her on to the ground.
He then kicked her as she lay on the ground motionless.
Diddy stood over her, kicked her again, and then dragged her back to their room by the hoodie.
Late in the clip, you see what appears to be a security guard walk into the fray.
Florez, the security guard in question, testified in court Tuesday and submitted an email showing his report of the incident that includes stunning photos of the aftermath in the hotel room.
Now a Los Angeles Police Department officer, Florez wrote back in 2016 that at one point after diffusing the situation, Combs attempted to offer him a bribe, allegedly saying: 'You take care of this, I got you, let's go to my room.'
The security guard responds by telling Combs he knows who the mogul is before shaking his hand.
'[I] said all I ask is for respect for the guest and myself, so do me the favor and lets return you to your room,' he wrote.
At one point, Florez claims Diddy saw Ventura coming down the hall and 'raised his voice' toward her.
'I then told him that if he didn't respect the guest, then he would be escorted out of property,' Florez said.
They arrive at the room, where Combs allegedly pulled out a band of about $100 in cash and said: 'You take care of this and I take care of you.'
'I declined the money and told Mr. Combs that all we needed was for him to stay in his room until check out, which is today,' Florez said, before leaving the scene.
As he and an associate started to take photos, Diddy looked ready to yell at them, when Florez said he told him they 'were not there to make it bigger than it already was.'
Combs at one point tries to grab the associate's phone, assuming he's there to record him before he was told he wasn't being filmed.
Florez clamed that Diddy calmed down and said: 'It's just that I don't want to lose anything and I can lose it all.'
He reassures the rapper that they just want him to calm down and avoid further scenes before leaving.
The trial's first witness, Florez, testified about responding to a report of a woman in distress and witnessing Combs tell Cassie: 'You're not going to leave.'
Florez said he recognized Diddy immediately after getting called up to his room and only later understood it was Ventura with him.
According to Florez, Diddy was ‘on the chair slouched down and was in a blank stare’
He said: ‘As soon as I walked out…it was a devilish stare, looking at me. When I got out of the elevator I’m looking at him, he’s looking at me with no movement. He was wearing just a towel and socks.'
Florez told the court that Ventura looked ‘scared.'
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