The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay a record $27 million to settle the wrongful death lawsuit brought by George Floyd’s family after the Black man’s death in police custody last year.
Lawyers for the family called the deal a record in the U.S. for a civil rights wrongful death case.
“That the largest pre-trial settlement in a wrongful death case ever would be for the life of a Black man sends a powerful message that Black lives do matter and police brutality against people of color must end,” attorney Ben Crump said.
The Minneapolis City Council announced the settlement after a closed-door session.
“On behalf of the entire City Council, offer my deepest condolences to the family of George Floyd, his friends and all of our community who are mourning his loss,” Council President Lisa Bender said.
Floyd, a father of five, died May 25 after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for about nine minutes while the unarmed Black man was handcuffed and face down on a street.
Chauvin is now on trial for second-degree murder and other charges in Minneapolis. Three other officers involved in the fatal arrest are due to be tried later this year.
“On behalf of all of my family members, I am pleased that this part of our tragic journey to justice for my brother George is resolved,” sister Bridgett Floyd said in a statement.
“Our family suffered an irreplaceable loss May 25 when George’s life was senselessly taken by a Minneapolis police officer. While we will never get our beloved George back, we will continue to work tirelessly to make this world a better, and safer, place for all,” she said.
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“Suicide by Cop ” now the best way to enrich your family, just get one of your sons hooked on drugs to the point where life becomes so miserable, painful and untennable they desperately seek to destroy themselves with one big overdose, but are persuaded by family members and the media to do “Suicide by Cop” to fulfill the purpose for which , they were raised,,,,, i.e. enrich the family in collusion with the LIberal media to cash in big and “Never let the Crisis of a Liberally wasted life,,,go to waste”
Enter George Floyd, followed by a guilt induced, media duped, manipulated public, whose pockets get more media emptied by the minute to reward as much American individual personal failure as possible.
WHEN Are the pay outs BY THE RIOTERS gonna occur to the businesses that got looted/burned down??
the payment should be contingent on no more violent protests
IF i was a business, that got burned out/looted/destroyed by vandals, I’d be SUING THAT FAMILY SINCE i still remember the ‘so-called father’, telling folks “BURN THIS PLACE DOWN”..
” that Black lives do matter and police brutality against people of color must end,” attorney Ben Crump said”. Yep, Crump, black lives matter so much, that there were more blacks murdered by other blacks in Chicago, than there were blacks killed by police officers in the whole United States. So counselor, you obviously do not have a mathematics brain, do you, Crump? Secondly, 99.9 % of the blacks shot by police officers were committing crimes and / or not following a police officers orders and attempting to assault the police officers, that shot them. Again, Crump, you are a failure in mathematics and had I been a math teacher, you obviously would have failed my math class.
And the fools running Minneapolis think $27 mil will buy them peace when the officer is acquitted? They also will probably lose a big chunk to taxes, even on the part the attorney gets.
Hopefully ,his victims in Texas get a lawyer and make a claim for their share. After what he did in Texas ,I hope his victims claim every penny of that money
The same with all the businesses that SUFFERED during those long months of riots.
O course Ben Crump would be happy, don’t lawyers get about 30% of the money which would give him about 8 million. Nice!!!
This outcome prejudices the Derek Chauvin trial, which should now be declared a mistrial and moved to a different venue.
IMO it should be ended.. AS THERE IS NOW NO WAY you can find an impartial jury.
35% of Minneapolis’s population is either under age 18 or over the age of 65, which makes them most likely out of the work force and not paying taxes. So if all adults between the ages of 18-65 are actual working, tax paying individuals (not! we know better), that would make a max of 153,650 people to pay the $27 Million. Considering the number of businesses destroyed, good luck with that.
The insanity in Minneapolis continues, If I lived there I would have moved
way before now but suggest the tax payers beat feet, let the city council
pay the money from their bank accounts. This is so absurd, George dies
from a drug overdose being restrained due to his actions fighting the
police who were waiting for and ambulance. His family should not receive
two cents.
The family will be broke by years end….. what a waste of tax payer money.
The saddest part of this is the young working man that he beat up and the retired Policeman that got killed did not receive one cent.
NOR did any of the other victims he left in his wake…
floyd’s family should be paying $27 million. It would only cover a days worth damage caused blm and antifa terrorists rioting in the thug’s name.