FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A union representing Broward sheriff’s deputies has filed a bar complaint against Ben Crump, the nationally known civil-rights lawyer, accusing him of bringing up a racial issue where they say none existed in a case involving the rough arrest of a Black teen.
Thursday's complaint came a day after IUPA Local 6020 filed a similar complaint against Crump’s legal partner, Sue-Ann Robinson, involving their representation of Delucca Rolle, who was 15 when he was forcefully detained by sheriff’s deputies in 2019.
The union called Crump’s remarks reckless — in which Crump had referred to the encounter as “outrageous brutality on an unarmed Black child.” On Thursday, Crump told the South Florida Sentinel that it’s a First Amendment issue.
