A day after Homeland Security Investigations officials descended on Sean Combs’ Miami and Los Angeles residences, his lawyers are calling it an “unprecedented ambush.”
Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs said Homeland Security Investigation officials used excessive force in an “unprecedented ambush” as the agency swept through Los Angeles and Miami properties linked to the rapper on Monday, collecting evidence in an ongoing investigation.
“Yesterday, there was a gross overuse of military-level force as search warrants were executed at Mr. Combs’ residences,” Combs’ attorney Aaron Dryer said in an emailed statement on Tuesday. “There is no excuse for the excessive show of force and hostility exhibited by authorities or the way his children and employees were treated.”
Video footage captured by Fox 11 in Los Angeles, showed that two people were temporarily handcuffed outside of the mansion that has been cited as Combs’ residence in legal documents. The two people were later identified as the hip-hop mogul’s sons, Justin and Christian “King” Combs, according to Fox 11.
Dryer also addressed an exchange between Combs and officials at an airport in the Miami area on Monday afternoon.
