Killer Mike has sued the safety firm accountable for his arrest at the 2024 Grammy Awards, Rolling Stone stories. The citizen’s arrest by an S & S Labor Drive 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 staff’s confusion about the place to go after gathering awards. A misdemeanor battery reserving adopted, however the rapper finally confronted no criminal charges.
Now, the Atlanta rapper accuses S & S Labor Drive 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 stories.
The lawsuit goes on to say the safety guard precipitated him “to be falsely arrested and had him positioned in jail through the the rest of the Grammy Awards Ceremony,” depriving him of the possibility 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 pressure to restrain him.
Altogether, the lawsuit alleges false arrest and imprisonment, assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional misery, and negligence. S & S known as the lawsuit “unfounded” in an electronic mail to Rolling Stone. On the time, in signing the citizen’s arrest warrant, the guard, who’s a girl, 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.