“Overly Hostile and Extraordinarily Dangerous” LAPD Stop Sparks $20M Suit From ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Production Employee

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“Overly Hostile and Extraordinarily Dangerous” LAPD Stop Sparks $20M Suit From ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Production Employee
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GreysAnatomy creator shondarhimes tells THR this is 'another example of a broken system that puts valuable lives in danger and damages spirits'

A Black production employee for Disney who claims that he was racially profiled and assaulted while working at a shoot forThe lawsuit filed Thursday in California federal court by Ernest Simon Jr.

alleges officers initiated a racially-motivated traffic stop and arrested him without cause despite multiple crew members telling them he was an employee of the production. Simon says the officers forced him “to lie prone on an asphalt lot at gunpoint for over 20 minutes, using an overwhelming and unjustified show of force” that caused him to “legitimately fear that he was going to be shot at his workplace in front of his co-workers for simply being a Black man in the wrong neighborhood.

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