The case for sexual violence against rapper be combs, ‘Diddy’, which concluded on Wednesday with a Mixed verdictit is the last example of a movement, the #MeToo, which began strongly but seems to have been relegated by the so -called ‘Cultural War’ of the United States.
Diddy on the cyclist exonerated of the most serious positions -sexual and organized crime – And declared guilty of transport to exercise pimperism, a result seen as a victory for him, after a trial focused on his sexual marathons, the dynamics of power and sexual consent.
The process took place thanks to the #MeToo movement, emerged from the wave of complaints for sexual abuse in 2017 against film producer Harvey Weinstein, who He received a sentence in 2020 that became a symbol and gave rise to laws to facilitate that victims seek justice even in prescribed crimes.
An ex -partner of Diddy, the singer Cassie Venturathese rules were hosted precisely to denounce the artist in November 2023, and although he resolved it in one day, paying 20 million dollars, then complaints of abuses from other people who alerted the prosecution arrived.
Ventura has been the main witness of the trial and has described crudely how Diddy allegedly forced her to have sex with prostitutesa story that was almost drowned among the screams of celebration of the rapper defenders because his idol prevents perpetuity and is exposed to a penalty of ‘only’ twenty years in jail.
Reverse after reverse
On the same dates on which a video that showed A Diddy to Ventura beatingin April 2024, a Court of Appeals revoked Weinstein’s conviction in New York that cemented the #MeToo movement and opened the door to the repetition of the trial.
He was not the only high profile defendant in ‘overlapping’ to #Metoo: in 2021, Bill Cosby was released after his sentence was invalidated by sexual assault, and in 2022 the actor Johnny Depp won a defamation trial against his ex -wife, Amber Heard, who accused him of macho violence.
In 2023, the current US president, Donald Trump, was declared guilty of sexual abuse against the writer E. Jean Carroll Forced to compensate for calling her a liar, but the tycoon had no qualms about continuing to defame her and accumulating fines she still does not pay. The feeling of impunity, unthinkable five years ago, now plans on the environment.
Trump himself, paladin of the cultural war against the Progressive ideas (‘woke’) And of a conservative wave that has the rights of women in the center, especially reproductive, he stated that he considered to give Clemencia to Diddy if he was convicted.
After the repetition of Harvey Weinstein’s trial in New York this 2025, where women had to repeat their stories, which were minimized by La Defensethe jury issued a partial verdict and the process was annulled.
If in the first trial against Weinstein there were celebrities giving support to victimsprotests at the gates of the court and ranks in every cold morning to attend as a public, in the repetition of the process that interest was not reproduced, a clear symptom that the movement lost bellows.
#Metoo fatigue?
“Unfortunately, I think people have become slightly insensitive to the #Metoo Movement,” the lawyer Sarena Towsend, representative of a complainant not included in that case, told EFE in statements to EFE during the trial, in statements not included in that case, Ambra Gutierrezand that alluded to a certain “fatigue.”
“As in many movements with true victims and excellent intentionsthere were people who saw an opportunity and took advantage (of #Metoo), co -opting and expanding it to something that never pretended to be. I think that has lowered the message and scared support, “he said.
After the trial against Diddy, the leader of the National Center for the Law of Women (NWLC), Fatima Goss Graves, He applauded the “Survivors who chose to tell their stories, make accounts to their abuser and seek justice”, and considered that “a jury cannot take that away.”
The executive, who also directs the fund Time’s Up, To defend cases of abuse in Hollywood, he said that Diddy’s case is part of a “pattern” of behavior related to power dynamics that use violence and “maintain a culture of silence and shame.”
“A long time after Sean comb stories are erased from public memory, It will depend on all of us to support the survivors And demand that they have justice and repair, “he said.
The founder of the #Metoo, Tarana burkehe claimed in an interview with CNN that the important thing is not “how many people we can put in jail, but to overcome the US justice system”, pointing out how difficult it is to get to a trial and regret that “the ratio of sentences for sexual violence in this country is very low, very low.”
“I think the #Metoo has been bogged down by this narrative that Treat people to hunt peopleand we have forgotten the thread that most survivors want to protect other survivors, “Burke said.
