Ernest Simon Jr., a driver for GreysAnatomy, is suing the LAPD claiming he was racially profiled when he was held at gunpoint for no good reason.
While the suit notes that the LAPD has been investigating the conduct of the officers involved for the past year, it argues the police department has “failed to take any meaningful action” to hold them accountable.
“The LAPD’s wrongful and illegal actions caused Mr. Simon to fear that he was about to be shot at his workplace in front of his co-workers for simply being a Black man in the wrong neighborhood,” Simon’s lawyers said in a statement. “This lawsuit seeks to right those severe wrongs inflicted upon our client. But it also addresses a larger issue — accountability for the persistent and systematic mistreatment of Black people at the hands of police in Los Angeles and across the country.
As the LAPD has said, the automated license plate reader in the officers’ squad car alerted them that the van Simon was driving had a license plate that matched a BMW sedan that had been reported stolen. But not only does the suit claim that the officers made no effort to verify the reading, they ostensibly did not take into account that Simon wasn’t driving a BMW sedan, but a Ford Transit van.
The cops also allegedly searched the van Simon was driving, but despite finding nothing picked him off the ground, double handcuffed him, and held him for about 10 more minutes. It was only after one of Simon’s white coworkers told the cops that he was an authorized employee that Simon was finally released.“The only conceivable reason that Doe Officer Defendants had to draw their firearms was based on their racial profiling of Mr. Simon,” the suit reads. “Given that Mr.
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