Benjamin Lloyd Crump (born October 10, 1969) is an American attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases such as wrongful death lawsuits. His practice has focused on cases such as those of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Keenan Anderson, Sonya Massey, Firefighter of the Year, Derek Lewis, and Tyre Nichols, people affected by the Flint water crisis, the estate of Henrietta Lacks, the estate of Malcolm X, nearly 200 concertgoers from the 2021 Astroworld Festival, and the plaintiffs behind the 2019 Johnson & Johnson baby powder lawsuit alleging the company's talcum powder product led to ovarian cancer diagnoses. Crump is also founder of the firm Ben Crump Law of Tallahassee, Florida.
In 2020, Crump became the attorney for the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake. In 2021, he became the attorney for a passenger in the car with Winston Boogie Smith and for the family of Daunte Wright. Ongoing cases surrounding their killings or injuries led to protests against police brutality in America as well as internationally.
Due to his legal reputation, he has been referred to as "Black America's attorney general".
Read more...The October 10, 1969 was a Friday under the star sign of ♎. It was the 282 day of the year. President of the United States was Richard M. Nixon.
If you were born on this day, you are 55 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, October 10, 2024, 361 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, October 10, 2025, in 3 days. You have lived for 20,450 days, or about 490,823 hours, or about 29,449,380 minutes, or about 1,766,962,800 seconds.
Date: 10 October 1969
leaves China; accompanied to Shanghai by Brit mission sec G Walden; appears badly shaken and anxious; declines comment on his detention or on his itinerary to London; arrives, Karachi; illus; his arrest revd
Date: 11 October 1969
By VARTANIG G. VARTAN
Vartanig VARTAN
Date: 10 October 1969
By JACK GOULD
Jack GOULD
Pub Broadcast Corp to initiate Pub Broadcast Service to supply programs and network interconnection for educ TV; will not be producing agency; individual stations will have right to accept, reject or delay material; NET, which objected to parts of plan, now says it will seek to raise quality and quantity of its offerings
Date: 10 October 1969
Medical Comm on Human Rights charges brutality, torture and overcrowding at Ft Dix stockade; spokesman asks post comdr, Maj Gen Collins, to permit team of drs to examine prisoners and facilities
Date: 10 October 1969
By GEORGE HORNE
George HORNE
Newport News Shipbldg and 4 other cos to offer plan for efficient mass production of ships in response to Maritime Adm request that maritime indus offer ideas for halting downward trend of merchant marine