Cop Sues WWE Over Montez Ford’s ‘Unwanted’ Lap Dance at Raw — Did He Go Too Far?

I was watching TMZ Live and I had to stop what I was doing — because is this really where we are? A police officer is SUING WWE superstar Montez Ford over a lap dance. Yes, you read that right. A lap dance.

Here’s what happened. Back on July 6, Monday Night Raw was at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins — the Street Profits — made their entrance through the crowd the way they always do, music blasting, Montez with his signature red cup in hand, dancing and turning the whole arena into a party. On the way to the ring, Montez stopped in front of a security guard and gave him the full Street Profits treatment — hips going, right there in his face — and the crowd LOVED it. The clip went viral that night. (That same night, the Street Profits went on to lose the World Tag Team Titles to Bron Breakker and Austin Theory.)

The guard is Noel Lucas, a Cook County sheriff’s deputy who was working security off-duty that night. And Lucas did not think it was funny. He has filed a lawsuit in Cook County against Montez Ford (real name Kenneth Crawford), WWE, and WWE’s Event Services company — 14 counts, including assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Lucas says Montez came at him “without warning and without his consent” and performed what the lawsuit calls a sexually provocative, sexualized “lap dance,” thrusting and gyrating right in front of him while he was just trying to do his job. He says because his face is all over the viral clip, people recognized him — and that he and his children have been mocked and ridiculed ever since. He also says WWE used his image to promote Raw on Netflix without his permission, and he’s asking for damages and for WWE to stop using his likeness. As of the latest reports, WWE had not responded to the lawsuit.

Now watch the moment for yourself — here’s TMZ’s clip of what went down:

FreddyO’s take: Now y’all know I have questions. Can you really sue somebody over a lap dance?? Did Montez go too far — or was this just a wrestler doing his entrance and a cop who ended up in the wrong seat at the right time? Because I keep thinking about this: could you imagine this man at a Jamaican dancehall?? The whining, the daggering, the girls climbing everything in sight — sir, you would need a whole legal TEAM. Montez kept it PG compared to a dancehall on a Friday night!

But let me be fair, because there’s another side: the man was at WORK. He didn’t buy a ticket, he didn’t ask to be part of the show, and now his kids are getting teased over a video the whole world saw. That’s the part I feel. Getting laughed at is one thing — your children catching it is another.

So I want to hear from y’all: did Montez Ford go too far, or is this lawsuit doing too much? Drop it in the comments.

And here’s the full viral clip of the entrance moment:

Story via TMZ and published reports.