For the murderer Mike, his arrest in the 2024 Grammy Awards has become more than lyrical inspiration. The incident became demand material this week.
Grammy's winning rapper, half of the Hip-Hop duo directed the jewels, sued a private security firm and its employees for alleged false arrests and imprisonment, assault, aggression, negligence and other positions derived from the 2024 incident in Crypto .com Arena. Legal representatives of the murderer Mike (real name Michael Render) filed a complaint amended on Tuesday at the Los Angeles County Court.
During the 66 Grammy Awards on February 4, 2024, Render collected three Grammy during the ceremony press, including one for its launch of 2023 “Michael”. Later that afternoon, a police officer handcuffed and arrested the musician and activist based in Atlanta. The images of the Arrest of Render, shared by Chris Gardner of The Hollywood Reporter, showed the rapper walking with their hand on his back when multiple officers accompanied him by the place.
Render, 49, was hired in the battery of the minor crime and launched hours after he was arrested. The lawyer of the city of Los Angeles confirmed to The Times in July that he had decided not to press the charges against the rapper.
Exactly one year after the incident, it represents in its demand that the S&S workforce (doing business as private security JRM) and numerous unidentified accused who work with the security firm “used their authority positions to degrade, embarrass and hurt physically [him] In full public opinion, subjecting him to emotional anguish and public humiliation. “
A spokesman for S&S's workforce told Times on Thursday that Render accusations “are not only unfounded but also say the facts surrounding the incident in question.” The representative stressed the “company's commitment to ethical practices and the safety of our employees, clients and guests” and said he was investigating the source of the accusations of Render.
The spokesman also confirmed to the Times that the S&S workforce had guards working on the Grammys 2024. The person did not share additional details about the roles of the guards in Grammy's security and said that “S&S had zero participation” in the incident of the incident of the incident of the last year.
Render representatives and Grammy did not immediately respond on Thursday to requests for comments from the Times.
Render alleges in his complaint that despite having the required credentials, “he was prevented, approached and made him stop his progress” when he and his team tried to move from the media center of the ceremony to the red carpet. Render clarified his identity and explained his need to access the red carpet to security several times, but the guards refused to let him pass, according to the demand.
Render alleged that security “physically attacked him and hit him” when he tried to leave the insured area. The rapper “Legend It” and “Ego Maniacs” says in the lawsuit that he was later surrounded by multiple security guards and unfairly detained.
He continues in the lawsuit that the private security company “made an alleged arrest of citizens under false pretensions” and says he was later arrested by the officers of the Los Angeles Police Department and left the Arena de Crypto.com.
At the time of Render arrest, a source close to the investigation told The Times that an altercation exploded after a security guard supposedly tried to prevent the artist and his entourage from going through a particular area in the place. Render supposedly hit a security guard to the ground. The guard wounded his hand in autumn and requested the arrest of a citizen. The police were called to the scene.
A day after the incident, the Los Angeles Police Commission contemplated whether the rapper's breed, which is black, played a role in his arrest.
Despite avoiding criminal charges for the incident, Render alleges in his demand that the “illegal arrest, assault, aggression, restriction and seizure of the security team caused” unnecessary public shame, anguish and professional damage. “Render also accuses the accused of intentional inflicence of emotional anguish and negligent hiring, retention and supervision.
Render, who channeled the arrest in his 2024 “Humble Me” single, seeks legal fees and an unpleasant amount of damage, to determine in the trial.
