Israel Florez testified about his security response to the 2016 InterContinental Hotel incident, the records and surveillance video associated with it, and the limits of the hotel's video system. Cross-examination tested omissions in his incident report and gaps in the footage; redirect addressed the scope of the report and his account of the video.
Witness
Israel Florez
Los Angeles police officer and former assistant director of security at the InterContinental hotel in Century City.
Appeared2025 Federal Trial
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About
Israel Florez, a former InterContinental Hotel security official, testified on Day 5 about responding to a March 5, 2016 report of a woman in distress on the hotel's sixth floor. He said he encountered Combs and Cassie, heard Cassie repeatedly ask for her phone, bag, and to leave, and kept the hotel-room door open while she gathered her belongings. He later observed a purple eye, offered to call police, and said he declined cash that he understood as an effort to keep others from finding out.
Florez authenticated a same-day incident report, hotel photographs, and five video exhibits. He described limits in the hotel's surveillance system, including its lack of audio and typical pixelation and jumps, and said he recorded two portions of the footage with his cellphone because he lacked the password and know-how to download it. He later found the hotel-system footage unavailable.
Defense counsel questioned Florez about details absent from the incident report, his acknowledgment that law enforcement was not called, and his account that Combs was cooperative during the security response. Florez said omitted details either were not significant to the report or had been communicated to hotel management. On redirect, he said reports did not ordinarily include every detail, stated that Combs did not appear drunk or high, and identified footage showing Combs dragging Cassie toward the room. On recross, he agreed that gaps in the motion-sensored footage could have several explanations, including no significant movement, a glitch, or a system problem.
Key Points
Florez described responding to a sixth-floor report of a woman in distress, where he encountered Combs and Cassie and kept the room door open while she collected her belongings. [1]
He authenticated a same-day incident report, hotel photographs, and five surveillance-video exhibits, while explaining that the hotel footage later became unavailable and that he had made two cellphone recordings. [1]
Florez agreed that no law enforcement was called at the time and that his report did not include several details he later described. [1]
On redirect, Florez said Combs appeared neither drunk nor high and identified footage showing Combs dragging Cassie toward the room. [1]
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