Former Michigan State football staff member Curtis Blackwell has filed a federal lawsuit against football coach Mark Dantonio and four others claiming he was wrongfully blamed for allegedly covering up for Spartan student-athletes who were accused of sexual assault in January 2017, according to Matt Mencarini of the Detroit Free Press.
The lawsuit claims he was unlawfully arrested and his constitutional rights were infringed upon after the university and athletic department began "feeling the heat from the Larry Nassar cover-up."
"With no evidence, none, that (Blackwell) covered up for the athletes, the MSU Police Department, in stormtrooper fashion cuffed (Blackwell); seized his personal and MSU cell phones and hauled him off to the MSU Police station," the suit reads.