Benjamin Lloyd Crump (born October 10, 1969) is an American attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases such as wrongful death lawsuits.

His practice has focused on cases such as those of Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Keenan Anderson, Randy Cox, Sonya Massey and Tyre Nichols, people affected by the Flint water crisis, the estate of Henrietta Lacks, the estate of Malcolm X and the plaintiffs behind the 2019 Johnson & Johnson baby powder lawsuit alleging the company's talcum powder product led to ovarian cancer diagnoses.

[15] Crump attended Florida State University and received his bachelor's degree in criminal justice in 1992 and his Juris Doctor in 1995.

[16] In 2002, Crump represented the family of Genie McMeans Jr., an African American driver who died after being shot by a White state trooper.

[17] In 2007, Crump represented the family of Martin Lee Anderson, a teenager who died after a beating in 2006 by guards in a Florida youth detention center.

"[22] Crump demanded that dashboard video of the incident be released, threatening legal action and encouraging Attorney General Eric Holder to launch a federal probe.

[26][27][28] Also in 2014, Crump was initially hired to represented the family of Tamir Rice, an African-American youth who was killed by police in Cleveland, Ohio, while holding a toy gun.

[31] Also in 2015, he represented the family of Kendrick Johnson, an African-American high-school student who was found dead at his school in Valdosta, Georgia, under mysterious circumstances, but stepped down from their legal team in late 2015.

[32][33] In late 2015, Crump began representing the family of Corey Jones, who was killed by a plainclothes officer while waiting for a tow truck in South Florida.

[34][35] In 2016, Crump began representing the family of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man shot and killed by a Tulsa police officer.

[3] In early 2020, Crump began working with the family of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African-American man murdered by two White civilians.

In June 2020, Crump testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee about the George Floyd case and the discriminatory treatment of African Americans by the U.S. justice system.

In a two-day span in late August 2020, Crump was among counsel retained to represent the families of Trayford Pellerin, a 31-year-old African American man killed by police in Lafayette, Louisiana,[44] and Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old African-American man shot at seven times (hit four times in the back) by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, while his children watched from the car.

[46] In October 2020, Crump and Attorney Robert Cox won a historic $411 million jury verdict in a catastrophic trucking accident case.

[47] In early 2021, Crump began representing the family of nineteen-year-old Christian Hall, who was shot and killed by Pennsylvania State Troopers in Monroe County.

Hall was shot and killed in December 2020 on the overpass to Interstate 80 in Hamilton Township after reports of a suicidal man with a gun on the bridge.

[48] In April 2021, Crump began representing the family of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old African American shot and killed by a Brooklyn Center Police Department officer.

"[52] Following the Astroworld Festival crowd crush, Crump is representing a concertgoer, Noah Gutierrez, in a lawsuit against Travis Scott.

"[58] The five officers were caught on police body camera mocking Cox after he hit his head and proceeded to drag him out of the vehicle, and place him in a holding cell.

[94] In November 2024, Crump filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the family of Malcolm X, a preeminent black civil rights leader in the 20th century, who was assassinated in 1965.

[95] The 100 Million Dollar lawsuit accuses the FBI, CIA and New York Police Department of conspiring and failing to intervene in his assassination plot.

[95] During a press conference on November 15, Crump said that he hoped that law enforcement would "learn all the dastardly deeds that were done by their predecessors and try to right these historic wrongs.

[106] The court awarded $1.5 million (adjusted for inflation) to the five women, and the verdict included an injunction against all Klan activities in the city of Chattanooga.