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This Is Not a Victory
Diddy may have escaped serious consequences, but his trial should haunt him forever.
The kingdom Diddy built is, to people thrilled with the jury returning not-guilty verdicts on everything but prostitution charges, more important than anything we heard in the eight weeks of testimony alleging grave acts of violence in the Sean Combs trial. In an era of political and social recrimination against women’s rights movements, a saber-rattling postscript to Me Too in many ways, it’s a common reflex to frame victims as co-conspirators in their own mistreatment and abusers as targets of clandestine plots to separate great men from their callings. Employees knew something was off; stylist Deonte Nash testified about an incident where he and an assistant attempted to physically intervene and defend Cassie only to be thrown off the feral mogul, who told them, “Look what y’all made me do.” The prosecution struggled toget the racketeering and sex-trafficking charges to stick with the jury, just as in cases against Young Thug and Boosie.
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