Benjamin Lloyd Crump ( born October 10 , 1969 ) is an American civil rights attorney and founder of the Tallahassee , Florida-based law firm Ben Crump Law . He is known for his association with the 2012/2013 George Zimmerman case , and for representing the family of Michael Brown , a 17-year-old African-American boy 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 step-siblings , Crump grew up in an extended family and was 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 South Plantation High school in Plantation , Florida where he lived with her second husband , a math teacher , whom Crump identifies as his father
2012/2013 George Zimmerman case
Shooting of Trayvon Martin
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