Sean "Diddy" Combs was cleared on July 2 of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have put him behind bars for life but found guilty of lesser prostitution-related offences, in a blow to prosecutors who said the music mogul used "violence and fear" to abuse women.
00:42You saw that the Southern District of New York prosecutors came at him with all that they had.
00:48They're not stopping, but one thing stands between all of us and a prison,
00:55and that is a jury of 12 citizens.
00:58And we had a wonderful jury, they listened to every word, and they got the situation right, or certainly right enough.
01:08They acquitted him of the sex trafficking, which he was absolutely innocent of, they acquitted him of the racketeering conspiracy that he was absolutely innocent of, and all of the components to it.
01:21I also have been saying this since the beginning of this case, Sean Combs has not sexually assaulted anybody.
01:29I've been saying this for months.
01:31We've said it with each lawsuit that came out, and today that was proven true.
01:35The media got it wrong about Sean Combs every single day for nearly two years.
01:42I thought they got it off the street!
01:46I thought they got it off the street!
01:50How is Sean, how is he feeling?
01:52Obviously, excited, kind of maybe.
01:55Listen, we're all happy.
01:58I mean, you know, we're all happy.
01:59We beat, I mean, what I told, I'll tell you exactly what I told him.
02:03I said, I said, racketeering sex trafficking cases are like fire-breathing dragons.
02:07And he slayed the dragon.
02:09And that's what happened.
02:11He slayed the dragon.
02:12No one wins these cases, but he did.
02:17I think it was overall a fair verdict.
02:19I think he could have easily been convicted of the fourth charge as well.
02:23But he definitely should do some time, in my opinion, just given the severity of everything,
02:27the victims, including Cassie, which was the main victim, among several others.
02:31So I definitely think it was a fair verdict.
02:33I think the jury definitely had a lot to deliberate on.
02:36So they had a very short amount of time.
02:38So they probably could have convicted them if it was.
02:42I'm a tour guide.
02:43I run a tour guide business, basically of Europeans visiting New York.
02:46And I wrote a couple of city guides about New York.
02:49And this today is part of the tour, part of the experience, because this is totally different.
02:54We're not used in Europe, this kind or type of trials.
02:59And so this I included in the experience.
03:01I'm a little bit shocked.
03:03I get a little bit of goosebumps on my arm because I thought he was guilty.
03:06But, of course, I'm not a juror.
03:09I didn't follow the whole case.
03:10But I'm a little bit shocked, yeah.
03:12Why?
03:14Because my gut feeling was that he was really guilty.
03:17And that I thought that he was really going to be punished on all numbers and counts.
03:23And so I'm a little bit shocked that he's cleared on most of the part.
