Police raids on two properties owned by rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs were an “unprecedented ambush” and a “gross use of military-level force”, his lawyer has said.

Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and Miami were searched by Homeland Security Investigations agents on Monday.

The searches were connected to a sex trafficking investigation by federal authorities in New York, US news outlets reported yesterday.

In the first statement released on behalf of the rapper and music mogul since…