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The Four Tops singer suing hospital for putting him in straitjacket after telling them he was in legendary Motown quartet

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The Four Tops has sued a hospital for alleged racial discrimination and false imprisonment.Morris has filed the lawsuit against a Michigan hospital, who he claims put him in a restraining jacket when Morris told them he was in the legendary Motown group.

The Four Tops singer went to the emergency room at Ascension Macomb Oakland Hospital on April 7, 2023, as he was apparently suffering from chest pains and had difficulty breathing whilst singing and touring with The Temptations.However, upon telling the hospital about his profession, Morris alleges white hospital staff “wrongfully assumed he was mentally ill” and placed him in “a restraining jacket and/or a four-point restraint mechanism.” He went on to accuse staff of removing his oxygen, and ordering him to wait for a compulsory psychological evaluation.The lawsuit also claims staff refused to confirm his identity, his “significant” history of cardiac disease, or even see his identification card.

According to Morris, upon offering to show his card, a white male security guard told him to “sit his Black ass down”: “None of the nursing staff intervened to stop the racial discrimination and mistreatment,” the lawsuit also reads.Morris was said to have been released from his straitjacket upon convincing a nurse to watch a video of him performing at the Grammys (Morris has been part of the group since 2019).

The nurse apparently then “realised” he was a member of the Four Tops and told other hospital staff; only then was the psychological evaluation said to have been cancelled and Morris released from his restraints and treated.

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