Jay-Z’s Team Roc sues Kansas City Police over abuse allegation records

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Jay-Z‘s Team Roc has filed a lawsuit against the Kansas City Police Department over their alleged failing in producing records relating to police corruption and abuse.Per Rolling Stone, Team Roc – a social justice organisation overseen by the rapper’s company Roc Nation – filed the lawsuit on Tuesday (November 19) with the non-profit organisation Midwest Innocence Project (MIP) against both Kansas City and its police department.It relates to a request both parties filed in November 2023 to view documents from both the police department and public records from local government over allegations of a “longstanding” and “alarming” pattern of corruption and misconduct committed by its policemen.Both Team Roc and the MIP allege that police and government officials have failed to comply with the request. “Defendants have stonewalled plaintiffs for almost a year,” the lawsuit reads, per documents obtained by Rolling Stone.