Four Tops Singer: 'Racist' Hospital Put Me in a Straitjacket

The lead singer of an iconic Motown music group has accused a Detroit-area hospital for racial discrimination after he revealed his celebrity status to employees—and they responded by putting him in a straitjacket.

Rather than taking the Four Tops’ Alexander Morris’ identity seriously, hospital workers allegedly restrained the musician and told him to “sit his Black ass down.”

“They thought I was delusional,” Morris, who is Black, told Fox 2 Detroit. “I believe that it was initiated by racism.”

According to local outlet ABC 7 Detroit, Morris took an ambulance to Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital after experiencing chest pains on April 7. Due to safety issues he’d had in the past, Morris attempted to explain who he was to hospital staff, The Detroit News reported, but he said they did not believe anything he had to say and refused to see his proof of identity.

Morris had been performing as the lead singer of the Four Tops since 2019. The R&B group formed in the 1950s and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/four-tops-singer-alexander-morris-racist-detroit-hospital-put-me-in-straightjacket

When someone comes in complaining of chest pain, you treat that FIRST and ask questions later. Stupid hospital staff.