The lead singer of a legendary Motown group has filed a federal lawsuit against a Michigan hospital after he says he was deemed “mentally ill” and restrained against his will by emergency room staff who didn’t believe he was a celebrity.
Alexander Morris of the Four Tops was rushed to the Ascension Oakland-Macomb Hospital in April 2023 with difficulty breathing, chest pain, and a well-documented history of cardiac disease. But after he told a nurse and a security guard that he had security concerns due to his status as a member of the Four Tops, his lawsuit notes, things took a nightmarish turn.
A doctor immediately ordered a psychiatric evaluation and “made the decision to remove him from oxygen… despite his clear symptoms of cardiac distress and significant medical history,” the lawsuit states. Filed Monday in a Michigan federal court…
In the lawsuit, he alleges that no attempts were made to verify his identity, and when he “asked if he could prove his identity by showing his identification card… the White male security guard ordered him to ‘sit his Black ass down.’”
Alexander Morris of the Four Tops was rushed to the Ascension Oakland-Macomb Hospital in April 2023 with difficulty breathing, chest pain, and a well-documented history of cardiac disease. But after he told a nurse and a security guard that he had security concerns due to his status as a member of the Four Tops, his lawsuit notes, things took a nightmarish turn.
A doctor immediately ordered a psychiatric evaluation and “made the decision to remove him from oxygen… despite his clear symptoms of cardiac distress and significant medical history,” the lawsuit states. Filed Monday in a Michigan federal court…
In the lawsuit, he alleges that no attempts were made to verify his identity, and when he “asked if he could prove his identity by showing his identification card… the White male security guard ordered him to ‘sit his Black ass down.’”
What a country
