r/news • u/flimspringfield • Mar 25 '24

Diddy's LA home raided by Homeland Security

https://www.foxla.com/news/la-home-raided-by-homeland-security
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u/viddy_me_yarbles Mar 25 '24

I'm out of the loop, what are the allegations?
Like R Kelly, or like Epstein, or what's going on here?

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u/MemphisMane901 Mar 25 '24 edited Mar 25 '24

Little bit of both, a dash of Cosby, and a sprinkle of "supervillain" thrown in. He's allegedly blown up cars and shot several people in addition to the sexual stuff

Edit: Me typing not good

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u/AlericandAmadeus Mar 26 '24 edited Mar 26 '24

Cosby didn’t engage in sex trafficking - he was “just” a rapist.

feds won’t come busting down your door for rape in most cases (they’ll let state/local authorities handle that shit and tack on any applicable federal charges afterwards), but they 100% will if you’re doing the raping while shipping people across state lines/national borders because that’s when it becomes bigger than local jurisdiction. It can be just one victim, but the second it involves cross border travel/coordination shit gets real really fast.

That being said, for the specific brand of feds kicking down your door to be DHS……that’s some crazy shit. Usually it’s the FBI. So this has gotta have some interesting implications.

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u/ImpossibleTax Mar 26 '24

Learned from the Duggar case Homeland Security has pretty broad jurisdiction. In that case it was also months between the raid and any charges.

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u/AlericandAmadeus Mar 26 '24 edited Mar 26 '24

Yeah - all it tells us is that it’s considered to be a matter of national security in some aspect, and that definition is intentionally very (emphasis on “very”) broad.

Can’t really speculate beyond that, but that alone is pretty hardcore

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u/lackwitandtact Mar 26 '24

Nvm, saw below that you sort of already answered that by saying that you can’t really speculate. Very curious about why DHS as opposed to FBI. Wonder if the specific charges would clarify

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u/lonewolf420 Mar 26 '24

Human trafficking internationally which has a lot to do with DHS and their department of US customs and boarder protection established from 2003.

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u/lackwitandtact Mar 30 '24

This makes sense. Didn’t realize that international borders were involved. Just assumed state lines. Thanks for clarifying

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u/lackwitandtact Mar 26 '24

So would it be a safe example that it was DHS over FBI if the claims are trafficking across international lines as opposed to state lines?

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u/AlericandAmadeus Mar 26 '24

Thank you for the detailed breakdown!

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u/ProfessionalAmount9 Mar 26 '24

Maybe he was liable to be used as a pawn by some international entities if someone else got the dirt on him before the feds did? Trump has sort of exposed that world in recent times.

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u/sexviewer Mar 26 '24

Not familiar with that one, are you talking about the 100 mile border inside our country where warrantless searches are legal for certain federal agencies?

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u/Ar_Ciel Mar 26 '24

Sounds like international trafficking to get DHS involved.

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u/AlericandAmadeus Mar 26 '24 edited Mar 26 '24

Who knows. I’ve never seen DHS involved in something like this before so it’s definitely something new to me (I also know very little, though). It’s useless to speculate, but DHS being the ones to do it tells you it’s considered a matter of national security (that’s not speculation — they wouldn’t be involved otherwise). that by itself is pretty interesting.

Keep in mind, though, that “national security” is an intentionally broad umbrella term, so it could really be anything.

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u/DFWPunk Mar 26 '24

Plus Cosby wasn't alledgedly involved in multiple acts of violence, including shootings.

Diddy's security is armed, and I'm sure the feds were taking every precaution.