1. In 2020, Benjamin Crump became the attorney for the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake.
37 Facts About Benjamin Crump
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Benjamin Lloyd Crump was born in Lumberton, North Carolina, near Fort Bragg.
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The oldest of nine siblings and step-siblings, Benjamin Crump grew up in an extended family and was raised by his grandmother.
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Benjamin Crump's mother sent him to attend South Plantation High School in Plantation, Florida, where he lived with her second husband, a math teacher, whom Crump regards as his father.
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Benjamin Crump attended Florida State University and received his bachelor's degree in criminal justice in 1992 and his Juris Doctor in 1995.
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Benjamin Crump is a life member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
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In 2002, Benjamin Crump represented the family of Genie McMeans Jr.
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In 2007, Benjamin Crump represented the family of Martin Lee Anderson, a teenager who died after a beating in 2006 by guards in a Florida youth detention center.
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In 2012, Benjamin Crump began representing the family of Trayvon Martin, who was killed by George Zimmerman on February 26,2012.
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Benjamin Crump represented the family of Alesia Thomas, a 35-year-old African-American woman who died while in police custody in August 2012.
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Also in 2014, Benjamin Crump was initially hired to represented the family of Tamir Rice, an African-American youth who was killed by police in Cleveland, Ohio, while holding a toy gun.
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One reason was that she felt it was questionable whether Benjamin Crump knew the laws in the state of Ohio.
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In 2015, Benjamin Crump represented the family of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who was killed by three policemen in Pasco, Washington.
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In late 2015, Benjamin Crump began representing the family of Corey Jones, who was killed by a plainclothes officer while waiting for a tow truck in South Florida.
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In 2016, Benjamin Crump began representing the family of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man shot and killed by a Tulsa police officer.
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In 2017, Benjamin Crump announced the opening of a new law firm, Ben Benjamin Crump Law, PLLC.
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In 2018, Benjamin Crump represented the family of Zeke Upshaw in a wrongful death suit after Upshaw, an NBA G League player, collapsed mid-game and was delayed assistance by the NBA's paramedics.
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In early 2020, Benjamin Crump began working with the family of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African-American man murdered by two White civilians.
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In June 2020, Benjamin Crump testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee about the George Floyd case and the discriminatory treatment of African Americans by the US justice system.
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In early 2021, Benjamin Crump began representing the family of nineteen-year-old Christian Hall, who was shot and killed by Pennsylvania State Troopers in Monroe County.
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Attorneys for the family, including Benjamin Crump, stated that a video circulating online shows a different story.
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On October 3,2022, nearly 18 months after the April 11,2021 police-involved fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Demetrius Wright in Minneapolis, the Wright family and the office of Benjamin Crump were served a lawsuit by Chyna Whitaker, Wright's son's mother.
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In May 2022, Benjamin Crump was retained by the families of Andre Mackneil, Geraldine Talley, and Ruth Whitfield, three victims of the 2022 Buffalo shooting on May 14.
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That same month, Benjamin Crump took on the case of Rwandan politician Paul Rusesabagina, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Rwandan government.
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In October 2022, Benjamin Crump was retained by the family of Erik Cantu.
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In December 2022, Benjamin Crump was hired by Emily Proulx, a passenger of Cantu's during the shooting.
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In November 2024, Benjamin Crump filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the family of Malcolm X, a preeminent black civil rights leader in the 20th century, who was assassinated in 1965.
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Benjamin Crump has been vocal about issues of racial equality, police brutality, and police reform, among others.
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Benjamin Crump testified before Congress regarding policing practices and police accountability, advocating for mandatory police body cameras, the outlaw of chokehold and stranglehold, and for changes to the qualified immunity standard.
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Benjamin Crump is accompanied by Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, the parents of Trayvon Martin, who appear as the parents of the 14yr old Mississippi boy Thurgood Marshall is there to represent.
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In 2018, Benjamin Crump hosted a documentary television series on TV One called Evidence of Innocence.
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On January 30,2023, Benjamin Crump appeared on the late-night talk show The Daily Show to discuss the Tyre Nichols murder case.
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Benjamin Crump was included on the Time 100, Times annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2021.
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In 2023, Benjamin Crump was awarded the Social Impact Award at the NAACP Image Awards.
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In 2024, Benjamin Crump was included in Forbes' inaugural list of America's Top 200 Lawyers.
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Benjamin Crump is one of the seven black lawyers included on the list.
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Benjamin Crump authored Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People in 2019.