LOS ANGELES — A Black member of a television production crew has sued the city of Los Angeles and members of its Police Department over a 2021 traffic stop in which he alleges he was racially profiled and held at gunpoint without cause.
Ernest Simon Jr., who worked as a shuttle driver for the hit show "Grey's Anatomy," says in the lawsuit that after the traffic stop LAPD officers told him an automated license plate reader had linked the plates of the vehicle he was driving to a stolen BMW sedan. Simon was driving a Ford van rented by Walt Disney Co.
Capt. Stacy Spell, a LAPD spokesman, declined to comment on the case because of the pending litigation.
