The courtroom action in the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking trial took a bizarre turn when a woman went on a fiery tirade.
“These motherf—ers are laughing at you,” People magazine reported the woman said to Combs on Tuesday, June 3, in Manhattan federal court.
“You’re laughing at a Black man’s legacy,” the woman yelled.
She then directed her anger at the armed U.S. Marshals.
“Pull your gun out ninja, I dare you,” she said.
Diddy reportedly sat in his chair and watched the woman rant before Judge Arun Subramanian ordered her removed from the courtroom.
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TMZ also reported on the incident. The outlet said the woman stood from her seat and screamed: “It’s not a f–king game.” Then she said to Diddy, “They’re coming after you!”
The outlet published a sketch of the woman being “ejected” from court. She looked heavyset and elderly, and seemed to still be speaking as she was escorted out of the courtroom.
According to online reports, the woman is known as “MTA lady” for wearing a jacket to court with “MTA” written on it. Some outlets described her as a Diddy supporter and said she had previously been disruptive in the overflow room for attendees who could not get into the main courtroom.
Once order was restored, Eddy Garcia, a former security guard at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles testified about the day Combs was recorded attacking his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura at the hotel in 2016.
Garcia, 33, said the mogul bribed him to make sure the surveillance footage was never handed over to law enforcement or released publicly.
The security guard said his supervisor downloaded the video from a server for Combs and the mogul’s chief-of-staff, Kristina Khorram scheduled a meeting between Combs and Garcia away from the hotel.
“He stated that I sounded like a good guy,” Garcia testified, according to the Associated Press. He added that Combs said “something like this could ruin him.”
Garcia told the court the mogul handed him $100,000 cash in a brown paper bag in exchange for a USB drive, which they both thought contained the only copy of the surveillance footage of the March 2016 assault.
The mogul had Garcia sign a non-disclosure agreement that said he would have to pay $1 million if he ever leaked word of the deal, even though the security guard was making $10.50 an hour at the hotel.
Combs, 55, is charged with five felony counts, including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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