| Rapper 2 Chainz Is Sued in
SDNY For Guard Beating Down Photog Capak Amid
Corona Talk
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 8 – The rapper
Tauheed Epps, a/k/a 2 Chainz,
was heading into 30
Rockefeller Plaza to the Jimmy
Fallon show when photographer
Richard Capak approached, to
shoot video.
According
to Capak, until he was
"attacked, assaulted and
battered" by the rapper's body
guard, Rory Dorall Smith.
He sued,
and it was it removed to
Federal court.
On
September 8 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Katharine H.
Parker held a proceeding.
Inner City Press covered it.
Reference
was made to a party's mother
having Coronavirus, and a loss
of focus on the case.
Judge
Parker set a settlement
conference for November 4,
which will require the
presence of "the person with
decision making authority to
settle the matter."
The case is Capak
v. Epps et al, 18-cv-4325
(Abrams / Parker)
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