A Connecticut town had to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit after a teacher showed a Kendrick Lamar music video in the class. One of the students who was the son of a police officer allegedly suffered mental and emotional distress due to the shockingly violent scenes in the video of the song “Alright”. Parents of the student claimed that they had to transfer the child to another school after the incident and pay tuition costs.
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The incident happened in February 2020 at the Vernon Center Middle School, as per CT Insider . The teacher showed his class a documentary titled, “Hip Hop: Songs that Shook America” featuring the song “Alright” by multiple Grammy-winning rapper, Kendrick Lamar.
At the end of the full version of the music video, a man playing the role of a police officer is shown. The character makes a finger gun motion and fires at Lamar, who is standing on top of a light pole. In the black-and-white scene, blood splashes as the rapper falls from the pole.
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