Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump advertises his firm on patches worn by US Open tennis players
Prominent civil rights lawyer Ben Crump is advertising on players’ outfits at the U.S. Open Grand Slam tennis tournament this week by placing his firm’s name on sponsor patches worn during matches
NEW YORK (AP) — Prominent civil rights lawyer Ben Crump is advertising on players' outfits at the U.S. Open Grand Slam tennis tournament this week, placing his firm's name on sponsor patches worn during matches.
“Ben Crump Law” appeared on the left sleeve of the blue shirt worn by the Czech Republic's Tomas Machac on Thursday while he was eliminating 16th-seeded American Sebastian Korda in the second round. Serbia's Dusan Lajovic wore the same type of patch mentioning Crump's law practice during a loss to 2021 U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev on Tuesday.
Crump is a Florida-based attorney who has been the voice for the families of George Floyd, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor and Michael Brown — Black people whose deaths at the hands of police and vigilantes sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.
His role in some of the most consequential cases of police brutality over the past decade and a half prompted the Rev. Al Sharpton to call Crump “Black America’s attorney general.”
