Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial newest: Footage of alleged assault on ex-girlfriend performed to jurors | Ents & Arts Information

The primary witness within the case to offer proof is Israel Florez, a Los Angeles police officer.

The courtroom hears he has been a police officer for seven years, however in March 2016 labored in safety for the InterContinental Resort in Century Metropolis, Los Angeles.

He was on shift from 6am to 2pm on 5 March 2016, the day Sean Combs was filmed on CCTV on the resort allegedly attacking his then girlfriend, Cassie Ventura.

Mr Florez says he obtained a name about an incident on the sixth flooring at about 11am. When he received there, he says he noticed Combs in only a towel and socks, and tells the courtroom he recognised the rapper.

He says Cassie was in a nook, protecting her face, however he didn’t recognise her.

“She was scared,” Mr Florez testifies. “She was within the nook, hood on, lined up. I could not see her face, she was just about within the nook.”

There was a destroyed flower vase on the ground, he tells the courtroom. Combs was slouched on a chair, he continues, trying with what he describes as a “devilish” stare.

Mr Florez says Combs instructed him that they had been arguing and that he seen Ms Ventura attempting to stroll away and get her telephone, however the rapper instructed her she couldn’t go away.

He tells the courtroom they then went to their room, the place a person was on the mattress. After standing there for a couple of minutes, he says Ms Ventura left.

“I began to go away and [Combs] known as for me,” Mr Florez tells the courtroom. “He had a sack of cash and he threw it at me and stated: ‘Do not inform anybody.'”

When requested what he considered this, the witness tells the courtroom he believed it was a bribe, and he instructed the rapper he didn’t need it.

When he caught up with Cassie, he says her eye was purple. Mr Florez tells the jurors that he supplied to name the police, however she instructed him she simply needed to go away.

Florez additionally tells the courtroom that Combs tried to take the telephones of resort safety guards.

“He got here to the door, closed the door behind him, he grabbed the telephone my colleague was holding as a result of he thought he was being recorded, he finally gave the telephone again,” he testifies.

“We stated we’re not recording you and de-escalated the state of affairs,” he provides.