Benjamin Crump

Benjamin Lloyd Crump is an American attorney at the Tallahassee, Florida based law firm Parks amp Crump, LLC known for his association with the 20122013 George Zimmerman case. He is representing the family of Michael Brown, a 17yearold AfricanAmerican man shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri.

Benjamin Lloyd Crump was born in Lumberton, North Carolina, near Fort Bragg where his biological father served in the United States Army. The oldest of nine siblings and stepsiblings, Crump grew up in an extended family and was helped raised by his grandmother Mittie. His mother Helen, worked as a hotel maid and in a local Converse shoe factory. His mother sent him to attend high school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he lived with her second husband, a math teacher, whom Crump identifies as his father.

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