by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
Daystar Peterson, known to the world as Tory Lanez, has filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections after being violently stabbed by another inmate last year, leaving him hospitalized.
The lawsuit accuses inmate Santino Casio of using a “shank” to attack Lanez when he stabbed him in the back, torso, head, and face in an “unprovoked life-threatening attack.” Lanez suffered a collapsed lung in the assault and had to be airlifted to a hospital.
“The choice to house Casio with Peterson was known or should have been a known danger,” according to the lawsuit. It alleges that the response from correctional officers was slow, and they took no special measures, such as flash grenades or smoke bombs, to stop Casio. The paperwork suggests that the institution should not have housed the men together because of the rapper’s “high-profile celebrity status,” which made him a target.
Lanez has since been transferred to another prison, the California Men’s Colony, in San Luis Obispo County. The lawsuit also says the prison system unlawfully seized his songbooks containing unpublished lyrics of great future commercial value and has refused to return them.
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Source: Black Enterprise
