The singer, Alexander Morris, filed a lawsuit accusing Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital of racial discrimination and two employees of negligence for an incident in April 2023, when he was taken there by ambulance with chest pain and difficulty breathing.
When Mr. Morris, 53, told hospital staff that he was a member of the Four Tops which helped define the Motown Sound in the 1960s the staff wrongfully assumed he was mentally ill and a security guard was instructed to put him in restraints.
None of the nursing staff intervened to stop the racial discrimination and mistreatment, said the lawsuit, which accused the staff of taking Mr. Morris, who had a history of heart problems, off oxygen while they pursued a psychiatric evaluation.
The nonprofit health system that oversees the hospital, Ascension, released a statement in which it declined to comment on the pending litigation but said, We do not condone racial discrimination of any kind.
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