Kodak Black’s mother hires attorney following abuse claims
She’s hired Benjamin Crump, who represented Trayvon Martin’s family.
A week after Kodak Black claimed that prison guards were “strategically” conspiring against him, his mother Marcelene Simmons has hired an attorney and plans to sue the Bureau of Prisons for allegedly violating the rapper’s civil rights.
According to a report published by Miami 7 News on Wednesday (Jan. 22), Simmons hired attorney Benjamin Crump, who represented Trayvon Martin’s family in the murder case against George Zimmerman.
“I want to make sure my son is OK,” she told the outlet. “I want to make sure they don’t kill my son. If they kill my son, if my son dies, I’m going to kill myself too. My son, after God, my son is life to me. My son is everything for me.”
Kodak previously detailed his safety fears in an Instagram post.
“Lieutenant F. Arroyo has been very vindictive towards me and I have a strong feeling it has something to do with me being set up, laced, bruised and brutally beaten two weeks before my court date,” he wrote on Jan. 16. “There is a big conspiracy going on in this building on Me. Santiago Torres is using her position wrongfully in Miami FDC and is abusing her authority. She has been writing falsified incident reports on me, to take phone privileges that I get once a week while in solitary. Also, doing anything to take my gain time so that I come home literally when I am supposed to.”
Kodak further claimed that his girlfriend was removed form his visitation list, he was denied a visit from his mother, his mail has been tampered with and that he was given an empty tray for New Year’s breakfast.
“They are strategically killing me slowly in here,” the post continued. “I have been humiliated over and over again. I am highly disappointed in the way they have treated not only me, but all the other inmates in this facility. With their self serving agenda they will always side with their fellow officers whether right or wrong.”
Simmons and Crump scheduled a welfare check on the rapper for Wednesday (Jan. 22) morning. However, they were surprised to find out that hours before their meeting, he’d been put on a bus to transfer to a prison in Kentucky.
“We believe they intentionally moved him, so he couldn’t meet with his attorneys,” Crump told Miami 7. “[Simmons] wants to make sure that while he’s in their custody, that he doesn’t end up dead, so she is very concerned as well as all of her family that these allegations are to be taken seriously.”
“These allegations are to be taken seriously, so we’re here trying to get to the truth of what happened to Kodak Black,” he continued. “We know something happened in that prison.”