Video footage emerged on Friday of the moment that Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested by federal law enforcement officials this week as part of a sex trafficking and racketeering case.

TMZ obtained the video, taken at the Park Hyatt New York hotel in midtown Manhattan, that showed the moment that federal agents surrounded Combs on Monday night and took him away from his posse.

Agents appeared to take Diddy to a different part of the hotel for a short time before escorting him out through the lobby in handcuffs.

#TMZ has obtained #exclusive video of #Diddy‘s Monday night arrest in #NYC. pic.twitter.com/gJPKQEiw66

— TMZ (@TMZ) September 20, 2024

The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed charges against Combs on Tuesday that alleged he “abused, threatened, and coerced women and others around him to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct.”

Prosecutors said that Combs carried out this scheme by relying “on the employees, resources, and influence of the multi-faceted business empire that he led and controlled—creating a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and attempted to engage in, among other crimes, sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.”

Prosecutors say that in all times relevant to the indictment, Combs “engaged in a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals. This abuse was, at times, verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual.”

The indictment made reference to a video that surfaced earlier this year of Combs beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a hotel back in 2016 — an incident that he admitted happened.

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“On numerous occasions from at least in or about 2009 and continuing for years, COMBS assaulted women by, among other things, striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at, and kicking them,” the indictment said.

Prosecutors said that Diddy engaged in lengthy sex parties referred to as “Freak Offs” that could last days in which he or his associates lured women in under the guise of interest in a romantic relationship.

Combs then used “force, threats of force, and coercion, to cause victims to engage in extended sex acts with male commercial sex workers” during the events, prosecutors said. “In arranging these Freak Offs, COMBS, with the assistance of members and associates of the Combs Enterprise, transported, and caused to be transported, commercial sex workers across state lines and internationally.”

There was heavy drug use at the “Freak Offs,” which Combs allegedly recorded, sometimes without the women knowing.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said this week that the explosive testimony of a former top U.S. border official showed that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election this fall, more terrorists will sneak through the southern border.

Cruz made the remarks during his “Verdict” podcast with host co-host Ben Ferguson while discussing retired San Diego Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Aaron Heitke’s testimony to the Homeland Security Committee.

“In San Diego, we had an exponential increase in significant interest aliens,” Heitke said. “These are aliens with significant ties to terrorism. Prior to this administration, the San Diego sector averaged 10 to 15 SIA arrests per year. Once word was out the border was far easier to cross, San Diego went to over 100 SIAs in 2022, well over that in 2023, and even more than that registered this year. These are only the ones we caught.”

“At the time, I was told I could not release any information on this increase in SIAs or mention any of the arrests,” he continued. “The [Biden-Harris] administration was trying to convince the public there was no threat at the border.”

Cruz called the surge in illegal alien terrorist suspects crossing the border “massive.”

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“This is what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have done, and you look at each of the facts, you look at suspected terrorists,” Cruz said. “And this is just in one sector, in the San Diego sector, that it went from about 10 to over 100 a year. That is massive. That is massive. That means hundreds and hundreds of suspected terrorists coming in just one sector, and those are the ones they caught. It doesn’t count the ones they didn’t catch. He wasn’t allowed to say that publicly.”

Cruz said that with Democrats, “it’s all politics all the time.”

“Look, I get why the Biden White House didn’t want people to know it, but we now have this testimony in the House of Representatives,” he said. “How is it that it’s not on the front page of the Houston Chronicle tomorrow?”

“If the press is not going to do its job, use your voice, because the only way to stop this, if Kamala Harris is president in January, God help us, this will continue. More terrorists will enter the country,” he added. “If Kamala Harris is president, more terror, more murders, more rapists, more child molesters, more Americans will die if Kamala Harris is president.”

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— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 20, 2024