JAY-Z’s Team ROC has filed a legal amicus brief to challenge the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against the government of Kansas City, Kansas. Five women brought forward the original civil rights lawsuit, alleging they were victims of assault and extortion by late KCKPD police officer Roger Golubski and multiple other law enforcement defendants.
“In 2023, these women filed a lawsuit against the KCKPD and KCK government for creating an environment that enabled police officers like Golubski to stalk, assault, beat, rape, harass, frame, and threaten Black citizens,” Team ROC wrote in a statement caught by Complex.
In dismissing the lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Toby Crouse argued that the two-year statute of limitations had passed. In the amicus brief, Team ROC claimed that the woman waited until Golubski’s passing out of fear of retribution…