Attorney Ben Crump Talks Death Threats and Push for Equal Justice

When Ben Crump receives death threats for defending Black clients in civil rights cases, he shows up to work the next day anyway.

“I report them to the FBI, I take them seriously. And then you show up and you go do your job, because you can never let them see that they intimidate you. We have to show them that we’re willing to die for what we believe in,” Crump recalled telling the late actor Chadwick Boseman.

Crump has worked on nearly 300 civil rights cases since beginning his career in 1996, including those of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, ...