Think id be alive and so it was really weird turning 18 and having plans to go to college and just all of the things that i get to do now at one point, i didnt know of lucy was going to live or die. And now i know lucy is going to do whatever she wants to do in this world. Every single one of these kids gives us all hope today that no matter how hard your life is, things can get better. One day at a time be sure to tune in tomorrow at 9 00 p. M. Eastern time for the champions for change, onehour special right here on cnn and thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now well, by now, im sure that youve seen it. The video that cnn and obtain showing diddy assaulting his band girlfriend, Cassie Ventura and 26 in this video to me is horrifying. It is truly shaken myths and my core and how dare anyone treat another human being like this . I have been thinking about this video all day and its really taken me back to my days as they did mastic violence, prosecutor, watching women and men brutalized by their lovers abused manipulated, debased now in a moment, cassius friend tiffany readily my guest on this very difficult night difficult because the nature of the video that we are about to show you now, its hotel Surveillance Video, so it doesnt have any audio the context is that according to cast, these civil lawsuit did he had become extremely intoxicated and punched casi in the face according to the lawsuit, thats why she decided to try and leave the Intercontinental Hotel room and century city, los angeles the video it shows cassie walking down the hallway with her purse. She doesnt have any shoes on she gets in front of the elevator. She puts her bag down. She starts trying to put her shoes on and then she hits the button to call the elevator then diddy, he comes running down in a bath towel and does this he throws it to the ground. He then kicks her. Then Still Holding his towel. You see him grab her bags, and then he kicks her one more time . Hes not done. Watch because he then starts dragging her back into the hallway. Now, theres more that happens, but were not going to show it at one point. He lunges her in the Elevator Bank and throw some sort of object adder. Frankly, the cruelty well never cease to amaze me. This isnt some hollywood depiction. Its not even fiction. And sadly, it is representative of what so many people face on a daily, if not hourly basis in their own homes so some people right now, maybe watching gulf and down that realization. Im speaking, maybe walking on eggshells and their own homes waiting to see what kind of mood their partner is in. To determine who they need to be to stay safe what you have to do, or say to protect yourself or the Vulnerable People around you and im asking you what did you see well, let me tell you what i saw today. While i watched this video i saw someone who tried to wait until an opportune time to flee. Someone who had to make a splitsecond decision to run weighing the consequences. If she were caught i see a woman trying to survive fleeing with no shoes on to the nearest exit. And i see a violent barbaric attack by a man more selfconscious about his towel, flying open, and the dignity of a person who he thought head no wright was not entitled to agency over her own body or even to safety i see a human being being kicked repeatedly in ways we would consider inhumane even for non humans. I see torment, i see pain, i see abuse of power, throwing objects at a person who is already in danger. You know what i dont see . Any provocation and i see a woman enduring it alone. I see an act of violence that also includes snatching her belongings, her purse, which could mean or identification, maybe even her wallet, likely her telephone and i see her continue to try to find a lifeline through a hotel phone now, cnn reached out to diddys team for comment, but we have not heard back. But remember when cassie sued him alleging this abuse and even rape . Did he denied those allegations and settle the lawsuit . Now, this reminds me, we are seeing this at all because its not a private home. Its Surveillance Footage from a hotel at some point someone must have seen this video someone knew that it existed. Someone saw that she was trying to get away. Now, even if it wasnt seen in real time, there was likely some visible damage to the property from where the objects were thrown maybe someone baby was curious enough to roll the tapes. So if that happened, what, if anything, was done about it . We dont sitting here today. No. Cnn did reach out to the Intercontinental Hotel group who told us in a statement this hotel is no longer under Ihg Management and we do not have any access to prior incidents, records, or footage we live in a world where there needs to be signs to remind people that if they see something, they should Say Something well, a lot of people see abuse and what they say about it. Well should have never been thought, let alone said so let me talk to you directly if youre someone out there seeing this kind of violence, seeing any violence and you are blaming the victim of that violence for that violence or explaining away the violence by your perception of that victims choices, no matter how illusory or youre asking some judgmental, Rhetorical Question about why they didnt just leave well, why dont you do us all a favor . Save your breath. We dont need you drowning out those of us trying to speak up. And maybe save a life now i want. To bring in grammy awardwinning songwriter and one of caseous close friends, tiffany read shirt, a public letter to diddy in December Of 2023 called sean combs, traumatized me in order to corroborate the Claims Cassie made in her lawsuit against Diddy Tiffany thank you for joining us. It is so difficult. So horrific to watch this and wonder what life must have been and may have been like can you take us back to that time, tiffany, and tell us what did he was like from your personal observations . What their relationship was like. Is there a context you can give . I mean, i can definitely provide context around like this incident cassie confided in me about this incident when i was working with her around this time around 2016, we were working on her Sophomore Album and she told me about this situation there relationship was volatile for sure and he like you could tell that she was afraid of him, you know, and that there was a lot of control and yeah, i dont just sorry. Its witnessing like, what do you what do you feeling well, i mean, the thing is is like this is something that cassie confided in me about back then. And like the one thing specifically that always stuck out to me about the story was him throwing the vase at her and to see it like to see like i remember her saying, you know i remember it being at the intercontinental. I remember that that whole the whole situation, but two know a story is one thing, but to see it as something different. And then also to see it somebody that you care about about like you know, its that a video of my friend getting violently assaulted is All Over The World and no one was there to help her and it just makes me really sad. I mean, tiffany excuse my voice, but to hear any year description of it i mean a lot of this is detailed in her lawsuit he is denying, by the way, excuse my voice. He is denying all the allegations against him from met suit but now were watching this video and real in real time now is this a, indication for cassie, do you think or am i can only imagine the trauma of having the world now, having seen what she endured yeah. I mean, i definitely think that it is it validates what was in the lawsuit at a validates what she said happened. And so i definitely think for anyone who was oh, people are just making up stories, it was a money grab. It was all these things. You try and take people down in the culture, all this crap. I think like it as somebody who loves her is hard to watch you know, and it makes me sad that it takes people having to see this clearly for them to believe it and you know, from that perspective, i think that yeah i think that now its like see, you know, were not being dramatic. No ones lying like its this this is real tiffany, when you mentioned the idea of that she was trying to take down the culture. I mean, i heard that stupidity. I heard i remember when this news, so knowing the client, what i mean annoying is one way to put it. It was just so im settling as a woman, as a human being, as a hear people describe her as an opportunist to try to in some ways revictimized her and suggests that they knew what she was thinking feeling, doing her motivation what the context was, all of it, as much as people talk about the Presumption Of Innocence for somebody who might be defendant there is none given to somebody who might be a victim. Theres ever a presumption of truth in those and she actually alleged more than a decade of abuse. She was only 19 years old when they first met he i think was 37. And so often, you know, and this idea of Power Dynamics and people are blamed for not leaving what do you say to those who, who seemed to have that thought about your friend, who you love i mean, i think that most people think that they can understand what its like to be abused by a billionaire, but they dont, you know, i think a lot of people think that they get it that are not in the lifestyle of entertainment and the lifestyle of money and power and you can clearly see in that video, shes trying to leave and he didnt allow her to leave, leaving is not that simple. And you would think that with this common as Domestic Violence is in america you would think that because its so common, because its going on and so many peoples households that they would understand that breaking the cycle of abuse is not that simple, let alone your abuser being the most one of the most powerful people in the music business. Someone who has massive influence in the culture, who has political ties, who has you know a lot of resources and so for all of the people that are like, why didnt she leave . I say to them, why didnt you leave . Why dont you leave the abusive your whatever your crappy situation is, whatever whoever your abuser is like its not that simple. If it was everybody he would leave, but thats not the case are very judgmental. Tiffany and they and they think they know it went one thing i tell you i mean, what they would do yeah. I didnt know what they would do. Your winning. Its like you dont know what you would do, know there are so many people that said, when i first came out, like talking to me, saying like you know, what kind of friend were you why didnt you do something then it just is like, do you see now what was i supposed to do . What were we supposed to do . Outside of just try to stick by her side and hope that thats not what happens, but what were we supposed to do it interesting to think about all the finger pointing to everyone besides that. An accused, the abuse that made me i remember as a prosecutor, i can it exactly. There were so many i have done so many prosecutions and investigations of Domestic Violence. One of the themes im always saw and always emerged was it every Single Person who would find themselves meeting me as somebody who had been victimized by a partner they never thought they would be in that situation. They themselves never thought that it would be them. They thought and there was a great deal of shame and justifiably so in my mind, theyre them to feel that way, but thats how they felt shame. They thought embarrassment. They felt fear overwhelmingly, and its such a terrifying circumstance to be. I do want to just point. You said you have said that you felt threatened by diddy when you were around him and cassian that you say you still suffer from a kind of ptsd. You said in your Rolling Stone piece, i continue to work through the Ptsd Paranoia an anxiety from these events. Are you worried about having spoken out today amine at this point . I just i feel like its the right thing to do, like i mean, is it is it scary doing stuff . Its doing Something Like this absolutely but i cant sit and watch a video of my friend getting kicked in the face and not come sit with you and talk about this because its not acceptable period and, you know, from my mouth to his ears im saying puff, its not acceptable and so yeah, this is scary. But so tiffany rad. Thank you so much for joining me. I appreciate hearing your perspective in particular. Thank you. Thank you for having me i want to bring in nima ramani. Hes the president of west Coast Trial Lawyers also for federal prosecutor. I mean, edema, you and i have spoken in the past about cases and we know that cassie has settled her lawsuit with daddy, but he does have multiple other civil suits against him. Also, a federal investigation being carried out by the department of Homeland Security team that handles Human Trafficking crimes. I wonder, does this video now and its introduction into the general public, does that contribute to additional troubles ram oh i think so. Laura and the statute limitations may have run on the Domestic Violence and assaults. I live on away from central city where this is all happening. Threeyear statute, but you can use types of violent offenses as Rico Predator could act. We may still recall indictment or prior bad acts evidence a pattern of physical and sexual abuse that look ultimately didnt his lawyers denied it. But, you know, what doesnt lie. Video doesnt lie. And i think this is going to put pressure on prosecutors to finally return an indictment now, the hotel with a Surveillance Video is from says that they are under different management from the time the alleged assault occurred, cassius lawsuit against city alleges that he paid 50,000 to buy the video. Could the previous owners, the hotel space, some sort of legal repercussions given attach limitations on the actual alleged, abuse may have run unfortunately, as we know, paying to keep a steroid quiet is not by itself illegal. Donald trumps dealing with that issue right now. But i wouldnt be surprised given the severity of the other allegations were talking about rape. Were talking about sexual abuse of minors and we know this may not be the only video laura, when Law Enforcement went into diddys homes in miami and they were looking for video according to cast to do what record sex apps and they were cameras in his home so any physical or sexual abuse occurred. Their Law Enforcement has it and its not a matter of if but when his charge i think this is going to be the straw that broke the camels back back, and were going to see it very soon we will see how all this unfolds, even if this does not lead to a criminal prosecution, which i know someone has and ought to have a Presumption Of Innocence. I can tell you it is stomach turning to see this video and to just think of what task he must be feeling tonight. I understand shes a mother she has a family of her own and how her loved ones must be feeling on her behalf as well. Mimo ramani. Thank you so much. Thanks, Laura Heartbreaking you. Like if you or someone you know, is a victim of Domestic Violence and need help, you can call the Domestic Violence hotline. Here is the number. Its 800 safe 800 9972 up next President Biden is getting ready to speak at Morehouse College. And the schools president is issue going a the entire Graduation Ceremony could be stopped on the spot. 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