Killer Mike has announced that he’s suing the private security companies who worked the 2024 Grammy Awards after he was arrested during the show. Variety reports that the Grammy award-winning emcee is taking his grievances up with S&S Labor Force, Inc. and JRM Private Security, suing them for a litany of accusations, including false arrest, assault, battery, and more, asserting that the companies “had no authority in law.” The 49-year-old’s legal filing also claimed that the security firms “had no reason” to suspect him of wrongdoing or committing any criminal activity.
“Despite Plaintiff’s multiple attempts to clarify his identity and purpose for being in that secured area and his direct need to access the red carpet area for scheduled public statements and to take photographs, Defendants refused Plaintiff any forward movement,” Mike’s legal filing reads. “When Plaintiff sought to leave the area, Defendants physically assaulted and battered him to prevent him from leaving by grabbing his arm and telling him to remain there.”
“Defendants knew, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known, that there was no justification in law to detain or use excessive force against Plaintiff at a Grammy Awards ceremony meant to celebrate his work,” the lawsuit adds, per Rolling Stone. “Notwithstanding that knowledge, Defendants caused the false arrest and wrongful imprisonment of Plaintiff… [Police] then surrounded the plaintiff with multiple security guards and wrongfully detained the plaintiff, and confined his movements through physical force. Defendants used their position of authority to degrade, embarrass, and physically hurt the plaintiff in public view, subjecting him to emotional distress and public humiliation.”
Killer Mike, né Michael Santiago Render, completed a three-Grammy award sweep at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards. However, Render was detained and arrested as he attempted to make his way to the red carpet after the event. The Michael rapper was eventually released from custody just hours after the arrest.
At the time of the incident, the Los Angeles Police Department issued a statement on X/Twitter confirming that the Run the Jewels artist was in custody, typing, “The suspect has been identified as 48-year-old Michael Render and booked for Misdemeanor Battery 243(A) PC, and is in the process of being released.”
Mike’s suit makes it clear that the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office “declined to prosecute or charge” the rapper after the dispute, thus “recognizing [Mike] had not committed any criminal act.”
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