Mayor Adams on Wednesday evening stunningly confessed his “heart goes out” to music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s in federal custody on intercourse trafficking prices.
In an interview with Steven A. Smith on his YouTube present, Adams was sympathetic concerning the fallen star’s authorized woes.
“Listen, my heart goes out to him as he goes through his legal struggles,” the mayor stated — triggering a query from a seemingly befuddled Smith, who interjected: “If he’s innocent?”
“Exactly,” Adams replied. “There by the grace of god goes I. We’re all going through something, so my heart goes out to him.”
Adams additionally defended giving Diddy the Key to the Metropolis.
“People looked at his contribution, what he has done and others that we honored, we knew that we should give him that award,” the mayor defined, including later the choice to take again Diddy’s key was made by a “committee.”
“They made the determination,” Adams stated earlier than including: “His team, they were cool, they said, ‘Listen, we understand what’s going, we respect that.’ They didn’t give any pushback. This is the big boys, big girls club, we all know that you have to deal with the issues that are in front of us.”
The Unhealthy Boy Information founder has been charged with intercourse trafficking and racketeering in Manhattan Federal Court docket. He’s being held at a jail in Brooklyn forward of his trial scheduled to begin in Could.
Within the 14-page indictment, Combs is accused of transporting male intercourse employees and ladies throughout state strains to take part within the hedonistic events he and his colleagues dubbed “Freak Offs.”
