{"id":310408,"date":"2026-10-20T08:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310408\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:26:07","slug":"attorney-ben-crump-leads-wrongful-death-lawsuit-against-upenn-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310408\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney Ben Crump leads wrongful death lawsuit against UPenn \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/tag\/university-of-pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">University of Pennsylvania<\/a> claiming that a police officer fired a Taser at 52-year-old Ronald Harmon and caused the injury that killed him. <\/p>\n<p>According to Crump, Harmon died from a head injury he sustained while getting hit with a Taser on Nov. 5, 2024. The attorney also said that the Taser was wrongfully deployed in the encounter. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that Ronald Harmon was not a threat to police at the time, he was running away,&#8221; Crump said at a press conference on Monday. &#8220;They violated their own policies when they Tased him from behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to NBC10, the University of Pennsylvania Division of Public Safety said: &#8220;We extend our sincere condolences to the Harmon family for their tragic loss. We\u00a0have recently become aware of the lawsuit and we do not have further comment on pending litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crump filed the case in federal court and listed the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania Police Department personnel as defendants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the University of Pennsylvania claiming that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,4347],"class_list":["post-310408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-university-of-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}