re: Diddy bought the beating tape from Hotel for $50k. Hotel should be investigated as well

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Hotel: "We don't have a team of 475 people watching every camera at all times, we store it all on a VMS. If a crime was reported and law enforcement asked us for the video records, we would have gladly, and within our policy, handed it over. This never occurred. We move for the case to be dismissed."

Judge: "Case dismissed"

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Plaintiff lawyer: Hi. So you say you can’t and don’t review all security footage on your properties, correct?

Hotel: Yes. That’s correct

Plaintiff lawyer: well let me ask you this. Say I’m staying at your hotel and I walk up to the front desk and say that I want to purchase security footage from your camera. Do you and your people simply take my money and give me the tape without reviewing it?

Let’s say you do review it before you sell it to me and there is a crime clearly evident occurring on the footage, what do you do then?

A step further, you believe that you have no duty to report any crime that you happen to see on your surveillance video at any point?

Hotel: if a crime is not reported then, correct we have no duty.

Plaintiff lawyer: ok you are going to go with that defense at trial?

Hote: yes

Plaintiff lawyer: see you in court.