Trey Songz, who’s suing the Kansas City Police Department and others over a 2021 incident at Arrowhead Stadium. Photo Credit: Mikey Hennessy
Just shy of five years after reportedly being taken into police custody during a Chiefs-Bills playoff game, Trey Songz has fired off a wrongful arrest lawsuit alleging excessive force and more.
Songz (real name Tremaine Neverson) recently submitted the straightforward negligence suit to Missouri’s Jackson County Circuit Court. Spanning five pages, the action centers on an alleged January 2021 “physical altercation” during which the artist was allegedly “assaulted by” the defendants’ employees.
Turning back the clock half a decade, some may recall videos of the alleged altercation, which seemingly saw police (and to a lesser extent security guards) take Songz into custody while he was attending the AFC Championship showdown.
The way the Virginia-born plaintiff tells the story, however, he was invited to the playoff game and, once there, faced heckling from “attendees seated in his proximity because of his notoriety.”
Said heckling then resulted in security and police “being summoned” to the appropriate seating section, where they allegedly failed to “exercise any professional duty to take reasonable care to protect” Songz “from the actions of the unruly, aggressive, and intoxicated attendees,” per the legal text.
Instead, the three-time Grammy nominee was allegedly “physically assaulted, wrongfully arrested, handcuffed,” and jailed. “All charges,” for trespassing, resisting arrest, and assaulting an officer, were ultimately dismissed, according to the suit…