Jay-Z's Roc Nation files lawsuit against police in KC

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Roc Nation, the amusement institution founded by rapper Jay-Z, has filed a lawsuit against the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department (KCKPD) implicit alleged misconduct wrong the department.

The lawsuit, which was filed connected Monday greeting successful Wyandotte County District Court, claims the section refused to supply documents to "Team Roc," a philanthropic division of Roc Nation.

Team Roc had requested KCKPD handover documents related to complaints filed against the Investigative Division of the department, complaints oregon interior investigations concerning members of the section who person a documented past of engaging successful the abuses and documents related to policies and procedures relating to the supervision oversight of detectives.

The suit accuses the section of failing "to supply accountability for serviceman misconduct" and says the documents requested volition assistance "identify the scope of the problem, immoderate imaginable grounds of a cover-up, and besides the imaginable basal causes of the problem." It besides lists the lawsuit of erstwhile KCKPD constabulary serviceman Nicholas Schafer, who was charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a kid younger than 14 successful 2020, among different instances.

On Aug. 15, Team Roc filed nationalist records petition done the Kansas Open Records Act with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas. However, connected Aug. 27, the metropolis refused to nutrient 3 of those requests, agreed to nutrient 4 others and said it had nary records of 2 different requests. Team Roc hopes to get the records it didn't person successful the petition done the lawsuit.

In a statement, KCKPD said, successful part, "(The Kansas Open Records Act) does not necessitate the disclosure of unit records and transgression probe records, for example, without circumstantial circumstances. However, erstwhile the petition has been thoroughly reviewed, the Unified Government volition follow-up by filing a response."

"We are pleased that Jay-Z and Team Roc are delving into the agelong and troubling past of the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department," Lamonte and Rose McIntyre said successful a connection done their attorneys. "Their suit seeking nationalist records and accusation is successful the public's involvement and should assistance bring much-needed transparency and accountability."

The McIntyres person sued KCKPD, alleging erstwhile detective Capt. Roger Golubski targeted Lamonte successful a double-murder lawsuit aft Rose rebuffed his intersexual advances.

Golubski was the taxable of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation probe related to the McIntyre lawsuit successful 2017, and legislators called for further investigation successful 2020.

Olin "Pete" Coones was exonerated and released from situation successful 2020 aft Wyandotte County prosecutors allege KCKPD botched the investigation.

This communicative was primitively published by David Medina connected Scripps presumption KSHB successful Kansas City, Missouri.