"It's not AF *** Games!"

A woman burst into the middle of the courtroom and indicates Shawn "DD" CombsHip-hop mogul is batmircharch in the center of extensive sex trafficking and camouflage cases on eight weeks.

"DD, this Motherf *** is laughing at you!" The woman shouted before the court martial forcibly took her out. "Pull your gun, ninja. I dare you!"

At the moment, I was suddenly forced to pop out to check her. It was kept on my 15th day of covering DD trialAnd I was not unfamiliar to chat every recurring face present in the court. I met this woman, known as "MTA Lady" - journalists and court martials on the first day of the jury election are a nickname. In the first weeks, he showed the same uniform every day - Navy Cardigan, Bergundi Tie and his signature MTA Cap - a cartoon character that never changed.

But outside, I went into some more chaotic storms. Two influential orally sparring, tiening on a fistfight line, while the sea of ​​the media junkies was equipped with their phone and camera.

"F *** Who is the Clock Chageer?" A black cowboy hat and sluchi agE shouted in a woman in a green utility pants. When the man attached his phone to a prolonged selfie stick, he laughed and said "Oh, I see! The clock!

He shot behind, "you back to push." (It is noteworthy that this same influencer was later dedu in the baby's oil after reading the verdict.)

Meanwhile, a DD trial "Regular" starts pasing behind behind. He raised his hand in the air and declared, "This is the beginning of the war!"

At this point, what happened outside the court became more attractive than the testimony published on the stand.

I have returned to the elevator with the male influencer in the bug, still rumor about fighting. And in a satirical twist, the woman she was dominant sitting directly in front of me. I cannot help by peer the form of civic complaint in his lap. He was to make up the case against J-Z, Biones, Seizure And Russell Wilson And, for the reasons I still do not fully understand, the National Football League.

I am always fascinated by the character. We all have their own jokes - and those anxieties are one of the great pleasures of becoming human beings together and coexist in the wild.

DD's alleged "quiris"-its strange, baby-oil-dependent duration-now more than good-to-door. Journalists of dozens of media outlets, a barrage of self-determined content creators and public information, were on the ground under trial in the lower manhattan.

However, what most journalists were not very interested was that the people around the day participated in the test. Random Wednesday afternoon at 2pm What did any random person inspired to sit at the Federal Court?

To many inherited journalists, these people were riot (and, to be fair, many were). But as I proceeded on the way to justice, I could see myself more interested in holding myself with his hall in the cast of Bernales. Different types of characters - and bizarre inspirations that connect them - my favorite blocked story begins to turn into the story.

The Marshalls of the Witty Court, most retired police and elders, increased the surveillance as the chaos went inward. No words are allowed while in the court session, but the reactions are always with the show.

Defense Grilled Psychologist Don Hughes how he coordinated with the government, a prosecutor wanted a sidebar - and the overflow room burst.

"Ooooooh!" Jobs flew. "They've got his well!" "It's a red flag!" "I'm talking about this in Podcast today."

I wrote in my notes, "The characters are clapping" "I thought I was living through seatcom.

When I studied abroad in London, my friend Joe empty notebooks handed over to the helpless people who had communicated in communication in class in our daily ride. He will tell them that if they fill each page they will get a crisp £ 20 notes. The maximum notebook lost, while others spoke badly, but some returned some interesting elements.

In the same vein, I have given a survey to dozens of government patrons who participated in the trial. I didn't have a budget to pay $ 20 like Joe, so it is written on the top of the survey to encourage them: "You are currently witnessing one of the most important tests of the century. Help me draw the picture."

I asked them about their case, the environment of the courtroom and how their own experiences with their own lenses form their lenses.

The person I first spoke to the claim that he was DD's college roommate. He reminded the big house parties that he would use to throw and how they invited around the campus. Others who were allegedly related to DD were wearing their honor badge.

Students of the law exploiting the obsolete techniques of attornees on both sides never stopped to surprise me. In his survey, a mother traveled from Las Vegas wrote, "My son is a criminal judge at Michigan State University and I wanted him to experience justice in the court room!"

A former sex worker who described himself as a "victim of the elite of Hollywood" came in search of closure. He writes, "My sister was killed by her husband who was a brock version of DD."

A woman who worked on anti -trafficing initiatives with the White House was present in four days Cassy VenturaIts testimony, 8 -month -old pregnant star witness who dated DD for 11 years. Calm, confident and composed, he told me that he was there to support people who survived sexual abuse there. And as we continued to chat, he opened for 15+ years he was trapped in a sex trafficking ring.

86 86 -year -old Arty says he has observed more than 200 trials since his retirement. Have you read his character in DD? "He is such a bad guy because he should never get out of jail."

During the closing argument, a teacher led a single-file line of middle schools in the back pws of the overflow house. I lost the count of how many parents showed them with their children. However, those strawlers made me the most confused.

A couple of LA, who both worked for Disney, joined the 8 -month -old baby who started crying in the court room at one point. The couple describes this trial as a certainly viewing event like the attractions of other tourists proposed by New York.

The husband told me "I guess we're here to get out of the rain." "We're here Times Square, The Statue of Liberty and - of course - DD Trial. It's something that we will be able to tell our daughter when we grow up."

So, beyond the fascination of fame, what exactly is the compulsory visitors to see this trial personally published from every corner of the country? Was it moral satisfaction to endure the painful testimony that most foreigners could not stomach? The work of practicing their first amendment rights can be shouted in the public squares of their truth? Or maybe something simple: pain people need to have a voice.

The evolutionary desire to be part of intercourse, or something greater than yourself is the driving force here. In one or other way, all of us who have taken this test have fulfilled some motives.

This idea of ​​money is something to lose DD-and that can further enhance his drug and gender-induced dopamine craze.

On his 45th birthday, one of his nearest auxiliars gave him a scrapbook gift that catalyzed the articles of the 90s magazine. "Mia," the pseudonym he testified under him explained that the gift was to re -spark the feeling of Wonder DD's little soul when he quickly climbed on the ladder of the music industry.

In the early 2000s, DD was everything: Grammy Joy, Platinum Records, a Fashion Empire, its own vodka deal and hip-hop mogul like the king. However, in 2014 his 45th birthday, the spark went away.

"I used to see the way I looked at the world," DD mourned Mia, "but now everything I have done, life does not mean the same meaning."

For the hateful behavior that was empty on the witness stand, the nearest people of DD described by his charisma and the ability to unite people. And, inadvertently, a ragtag of his trial came together for the testimony of his trial, which will eventually be judged by history, which will be considered as his extraordinary decline from the grace of the public.