A judge has trashed Lil Boosie Badazz’s federal civil case against Dillards over claims its security squeezed him up in a racially inclined encounter.
The case was dismissed by the judge for gross negligence, failure to properly train, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and more. Also, because the judge said Lil Boosie had abandoned pursuing it, the court order states.
Lil Boosie sued Dillards in 2017, and according to him, he went to one of the department stores in Biloxi, Miss. with his entourage to buy clothes after performing there the night before. In the court papers, Boosie said that a plainclothes security guard, who was moonlighting from his job on the local police, approached him and told him to leave the store. He revealed that the guard maced him and his group and screamed the n-word at them.
Distressed, Boosie Badazz said one of his co-plaintiffs was 27 weeks pregnant with twins, and the fracas made her give birth prematurely. The babies, who are equally listed as co-plaintiffs, meanwhile, now suffer from a host of ailments arising from the alleged assault, his complaint states.
Moreover, Dillards and its contract security company, Weiser, denied Boosie’s allegations, as the case made its way to the court. However, in 2019, Dillards’ codefendants Jim Wilson & Associates, LLC, Weiser Security Services, Inc., and the city of Biloxi, Mississippi eventually settled with Boosie out of court, but the case against Dillards remained in court.
It was due to the fact that the lawyers of the outspoken rapper abruptly quit last year because of a conflict of interest. The judge hence, gave Lil Boosie several months to get a new lawyer to proceed with the case, but he never responded. Thus, last month, the judge dismissed the case for lack of prosecution.
