Killer Mike has sued the safety firm accountable for his arrest at the 2024 Grammy Awards, Rolling Stone studies. The citizen’s arrest by an S & S Labor Pressure safety guard on the gala led Mike to be escorted from the venue in handcuffs. On the time, Killer Mike blamed “an over-zealous safety guard” and his crew’s confusion about the place to go after accumulating awards. A misdemeanor battery reserving adopted, however the rapper finally confronted no criminal charges.
Now, the Atlanta rapper accuses S & S Labor Pressure of overstepping its safety duties in an effort to “degrade, embarrass and bodily harm” him, inflicting “pointless public embarrassment, misery {and professional} hurt,” Rolling Stone studies.
The lawsuit goes on to say the safety guard induced him “to be falsely arrested and had him positioned in jail in the course of the the rest of the Grammy Awards Ceremony,” depriving him of the prospect to “seem on primetime tv in entrance of an enormous worldwide viewers.” It additional alleges that the guard “bodily assaulted and battered him to forestall him from leaving by grabbing his arm,” utilizing pointless power to restrain him.
Altogether, the lawsuit alleges false arrest and imprisonment, assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery, and negligence. S & S referred to as the lawsuit “unfounded” in an e mail to Rolling Stone. On the time, in signing the citizen’s arrest warrant, the guard, who’s a lady, alleged that Killer Mike retaliated by pushing her.
Killer Mike received three awards on the 2024 Grammys: Best Rap Song, Best Rap Performance, and Best Rap Album.
