July 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\nWWE didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request to provide a statement in response to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n
As of Thursday evening, the current version of the July 6 Raw on Netflix doesn\u2019t include the interaction between Crawford and Lucas. The video appears to go to a break early in the Street Profits\u2019 entrance. But the clip of the moment that\u2019s central to the case is easy to find online.<\/p>\n
Lucas says Crawford danced toward him without warning and without his consent. The video got hundreds of thousands of views, Lucas says, including on WWE and Crawford\u2019s own social media accounts. As a result of the attention the clip got, the plaintiff says, he became publicly recognizable. The next day, when he reported to work at his full-time job working at a courthouse, he alleges that \u201cmembers of the public recognized him from the videos of the encounter that had circulated on social media and mocked him, thrusting their hips in his direction, imitating the sexual movements\u201d that Crawford had performed on Raw the previous night.<\/p>\n
Lucas adds that his children have also been \u201cmocked and ridiculed\u201d at school because of the video.<\/p>\n
Because of that, Lucas\u2019s lawsuit says he\u2019s \u201csuffered humiliation, embarrassment, and emotional distress,\u201d and that he continues to suffer because the video has been widely shared and remains publicly available online. Lucas\u2019s face is readily visible in the clip, so he also complains that WWE and Crawford used his image for commercial purposes, which he alleges violates the Illinois Right of Publicity Act.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike so many law enforcement officers, Mr. Lucas works a second job in order to better provide for his children,\u201d Whitney Barr, an attorney for Lucas, said in a press release provided to POST Wrestling.<\/p>\n
In addition to his job for the Cook County Sheriff\u2019s Department, Lucas also supervises a team of security guards for the private security firm Monterrey Security, which is how he ended up working security at Raw. According to the legal complaint, Lucas was instructed by a WWE employee to take his position near ringside. His suit describes the moment Crawford approached him during the live Netflix broadcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefendant Crawford then began performing a sexually provocative dance immediately in front of and over Plaintiff [Lucas], repeatedly thrusting and gyrating his hips and pelvis towards Plaintiff, performing a sexualized \u2018lap dance.’\u201d<\/p>\n
The filing says Crawford \u201cmoved his body increasingly closer to [Lucas]; continued the lap dance.\u201d The suit adds that Crawford\u2019s \u201cleft inner thigh repeatedly rubbed against Plaintiff\u2019s leg.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucas is asking the court to award him unspecified monetary damages, punitive damages, his legal costs, and to order that WWE and Crawford can\u2019t use his identity.<\/p>\n
A case management hearing is set for December 10.<\/p>\n
Lucas is represented by Barr and Alexis Martin of Caffarelli & Martin Ltd.<\/p>\n
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