Benjamin Lloyd Crump (born October 10, 1969) is an American civil rights lawyer and founder of Tallahassee, Florida law firm, Ben Crump Law. He is known for his relationship with George Zimmerman's case 2012/2013, and to represent the family of Michael Brown, a 17-year-old African American man who was shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Early life and education
Benjamin Lloyd Crump was born in Lumberton, North Carolina, near Fort Bragg, where his real father served in the United States Army. The eldest of nine siblings and half-siblings, Crump grew up in a large family and was raised by his grandmother, Mittie. His mother, Helen, works as a hotel maid and in the local Converse shoe factory. His mother sent him to attend high school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he lived with his second husband, a mathematics teacher, who identified Crump as his father.
He studied at Florida State University and received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice in 1992. Crump received his Juris Doctor from Florida State University in 1995. Crump's classmate at Florida State University College of Law is a journalist Shannon Bream.
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Careers
Crump is known for taking cases that garner wide media attention and civil rights implications. An example is the shooting of Trayvon Martin, who on February 26, 2012 was killed by George Zimmerman. Crump represents the Martin family.
Crump also represents the family of Alesia Thomas, a 35-year-old African American mother who died while in police custody in August 2012. Journalist Chuck Philips reported that during the arrest by female officer Mary O'Callaghan, Thomas "was thrown to the ground, cuffed behind his back, kicked in the groin, tied the pig and put in the back seat of the patrol car, where he died. "Crump demanded that the dashboard video of the incident be released, threaten legal action and encourage Attorney General Eric Holder to launch a federal investigation. In October 2013, one of the officers arrested was charged with the crime of Thomas, pleading not guilty. Judge Shelly Torrealba signed a request by the district attorney's office to simply release the video to prosecutors and defense lawyers. This is to prevent the possibility of a jury of prosecutors prosecutor Robert Attorney O'Callaghan.
On August 11, 2014, the family of Michael Brown announced that they would recruit Crump to represent their case, especially since the deaths had been much in comparison to the Trayvon Martin case.
Other clients include the family of Martin Lee Anderson, an African-American teenager who died after being beaten in 2006 by a guard at a Florida youth detention center; the family of Genie McMeans, Jr., an African-American driver who died after being shot by a white country Trooper; the family of Ronald Weekley Jr., a 20-year-old African American skateboarder beaten by police in Venice, California; the family of Tamir Rice, an African-American youth murdered by police in Cleveland, Ohio holding a wind rifle (a real-life replica of a weapon); and the family of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, an illegal Mexican immigrant murdered by three policemen in Pasco, Washington while throwing rocks. He previously represented the Kendrick Johnson family, an African American high school student found dead at his school in Valdosta, Georgia under mysterious circumstances, but withdrew from their legal team by the end of 2015. Crump represented Corey Jones, who was killed by plainclothes officers while waiting for a tow truck in South Florida. Recently took a job representing the Terrence Crutcher family, an unarmed black man shot and killed by a Tulsa Police officer.
Crump appeared as a lawyer on the American prime time reality show Youy Jury , canceled after two episodes.
In July 2017, Ben Crump announced the launch of Ben Crump Law, a national company that is a joint venture with Morgan & Morgan. The company has offices in Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; and Tallahassee. Areas of practice include civil rights, worker compensation, mesothelioma, personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death.
In 2018, Crump will host a TV documentary series on TV One called Proof of Innocence . The show centers on people who are wrongly guilty of crime.
Bibliography
- Crump, Benjamin (April 20, 2015). "Will America now be challenging a standard police narrative?". United States of America. Crime. Time (South Pacific ed.). 185 (14): 22.
References
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