Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs claims feds edited Cassie video to keep him in jail

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ineligible squad is accusing the feds of editing the now-infamous video of him beating up ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura up of the euphony mogul’s latest bail proceeding Friday.

Lawyers for the embattled hip-hop star, 55, allege national prosecutors person attempted to marque the 2016 edifice surveillance footage look much harrowing than it is, according to documents filed successful Manhattan national tribunal connected Thursday.

His attorneys assertion the feds person mischaracterized captious facts successful an effort to guarantee Combs’ bail petition is denied. The Harlem-born rapper has been behind bars astatine Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center since September, awaiting his proceedings connected federal enactment trafficking and racketeering charges.

CNN published surveillance video successful May of the brutal one-sided brawl, successful which Diddy appears to grab, footwear and resistance Ventura successful a hallway of the InterContinental Hotel successful Los Angeles.

Combs’ ineligible squad claims the authorities has a much implicit mentation of that footage, but alternatively presented the tribunal with an edited series of events successful effort to connection much “powerful grounds of information and obstruction,” reported TMZ.

For weeks, Combs’ lawyers person denied the video successful immoderate mode proves that Ventura, present 38, was the unfortunate of enactment trafficking. Instead, they’ve said it’s a “minutes-long glimpse into a analyzable but decade-long consensual relationship.”

They allege the footage offers nary grounds of a coerced “freak-off,” but alternatively depicts a “domestic quality successful which helium ran down the hallway of the edifice to retrieve his apparel and cellphone.” His attorneys besides contradict helium dragged Ventura down the hallway oregon threw a vase astatine her, arsenic it appears successful the video.

The latest tribunal filings travel amid Diddy’s 3rd effort to beryllium granted bail. He’s twice been denied, with judges ruling some times that helium poses a information to the nationalist and a imaginable for witnesser tampering.

Late past week, prosecutors accused Combs of “repeatedly” attempting to scope retired to prospective witnesses and imaginable victims portion down bars. They said they tin infer from his behaviour that Combs “goal is to blackmail victims and witnesses either into soundlessness oregon providing grounds adjuvant to his defense.”

His ineligible squad has denied those accusations.