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Jay-Z’s Team Roc Sues Kansas Police For ‘Abuse and Misconduct’ Records

Jay-Z's social justice division Team ROC is suing Kansas City Kansas Police for "unjustified failure" to hand over alleged misconduct records

Team ROC claims police and city officials have used “improper and unsubstantiated boilerplate objections” to fight the process and that they also “gouged” plaintiffs by charging more than $2,200 for allegedly non-responsive documents including field manuals and training materials. Some have been framed for crimes they did not commit; some have been coerced into providing false testimony; some have been sexually assaulted; some have endured brutal beatings; and some have even been killed,” the 37-page complaint reads. The new lawsuit – filed by lawyers Rachael Trummel, Loreal Rock, and Kristen Dupard of Jenner & Block LLP and Lindsey Runnels of Morgan Pilate LLC – comes just weeks before disgraced former KCKPD detective Roger Golubski’s begins a December trial on federal charges he used his badge to kidnap and rape vulnerable Black women during his decades-long career.

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