{"id":34536,"date":"2021-05-29T23:07:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T23:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34536"},"modified":"2021-05-29T23:07:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T23:07:38","slug":"how-ben-crump-became-americas-go-to-civil-rights-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34536","title":{"rendered":"How Ben Crump became America&#8217;s go-to civil rights lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>While a criminal conviction eluded the Martin family, Crump helped them reach a seven-figure settlement with Zimmerman&#8217;s homeowners association. That case had all the Crump hallmarks &#8211; dramatic press conferences, media scrums, marches, protests and powerful rhetoric. &#8220;Ben did a masterful job of keeping that in the public view,&#8221; Mark O&#8217;Mara, who represented Zimmerman, told USA Today last year. &#8220;I was fighting for a client. Ben was fighting for a cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-57038162\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While a criminal conviction eluded the Martin family, Crump helped them reach a seven-figure settlement with Zimmerman&#8217;s homeowners association. That case had all the Crump hallmarks &#8211; dramatic press conferences, media scrums, marches, protests and powerful rhetoric. &#8220;Ben did a masterful job of keeping that in the public view,&#8221; Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/118428754_gettyimages-1309766935-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}