Alexander Morris, lead singer of Motown group the 4 Tops, is suing a Michigan hospital for racial discrimination, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional misery on Monday.
Within the lawsuit, the artist accused the Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital of placing him in a restraining jacket, eradicating oxygen, and ordering a psychological analysis after they didn’t imagine he was a member of the 4 Tops.
The incident happened on April seventh, 2023 when Morris, who joined the group in 2018, was taken by ambulance to the hospital’s emergency room with chest ache and problem respiratory. In line with the criticism, the employees “wrongfully assumed he was mentally ailing when he revealed his id as a star determine” and shared safety issues about stalkers and followers.
After being instructed to place Morris in restraints, a safety guard (who’s white) allegedly instructed the singer to “sit his Black ass down” (through The New York Instances). The lawsuit additional claims that “not one of the nursing employees intervened to cease the racial discrimination and mistreatment” and likewise took him off oxygen to pursue the psych analysis.
Morris, 53, has a historical past of coronary heart issues. In line with the lawsuit, he was solely in a position to persuade the hospital he was not “delusional” by exhibiting a nurse a video of him acting at a latest Grammys charity occasion. Solely then did the employees cancel the psychiatric analysis, take away the restraints (after 90 minutes), and place him again on oxygen.
As an extra insult, Morris says he was supplied a $25 reward card, which he declined. The go well with accuses the hospital and two staffers — a nurse and safety guard — of negligence, racial discrimination, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional misery.
Ascension, the nonprofit well being system that oversees the hospital, has shared the next assertion: “We stay dedicated to honoring human dignity and performing with integrity and compassion for all individuals and the group. We don’t condone racial discrimination of any variety. We won’t touch upon pending litigation.”
