A Disney production assistant working on '' is suing the Los Angeles Police Department for $20million, claiming that he was racially profiled and arrested at gunpoint without any probable cause in front of the show's cast and crew simply because he was 'a Black man in the wrong neighborhood.' Ernest Simon Jr, 31, filed the federal lawsuit in the US District Court of the Central District of on Thursday, alleging a dozen violations of his constitutional rights, including unreasonable search and seizure; assault; arrest without probable cause; racial profiling; excessive force; negligence; false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The lawsuit, which names as defendants the LAPD, the City of Los Angeles, Police Chief Michel Moore and 20 officers, claims that in March 2021, Simon was driving through a mostly white suburb after dropping off 'Grey's Anatomy' actors on set when he was targeted by cops, who somehow mistook his rented Ford van for a stolen BMW sedan.
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