The household of George Floyd is exploring the potential for suing Kanye West for suggesting that Floyd died from fentanyl, and never the knee restraint utilized by former Minneapolis police officer and convicted assassin Derek Chauvin.
Whereas talking Sunday about conservative pundit Candace Owens’ new documentary on Floyd on the “Drink Champs” podcast, Mr. West stated that “They hit him with the fentanyl. When you look, [Chauvin‘s] knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.”
The looks caught the eye of Lee Merritt, the Floyd household’s lawyer, who stated the household is trying into authorized recourse for the rapper’s feedback.
Whereas one can not defame the lifeless, the household of #GeorgeFloyd is contemplating swimsuit for Kanye’s false statements concerning the method of his dying.
Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd household’s struggle.
— Lee Merritt (@MerrittForTexas) October 16, 2022
The lawsuit menace comes on the heels of a Connecticut jury awarding almost $1 billion to oldsters of Sandy Hook Elementary taking pictures victims of their libel lawsuit in opposition to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for saying the 2012 faculty bloodbath was faked.
George Floyd was utilizing the lethal drug fentanyl when he died however Chauvin was convicted of murdering him in the midst of an unnecessarily brutal arrest.
Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker testified throughout Chauvin‘s trial final 12 months that Floyd died from cardiac arrest because of the former cop’s arrest ways, particularly “neck compression.”
Dr. Baker testified that Floyd‘s coronary heart illness and fentanyl use contributed to his dying however weren’t the reason for it.
Throughout his post-mortem, nevertheless, Dr. Baker stated that Floyd had a “deadly degree of fentanyl” in his system underneath regular circumstances, in keeping with courtroom paperwork.
A state jury discovered Chauvin responsible of homicide and manslaughter for the Might 2020 killing of Floyd when Chauvin used his knee to pin Floyd‘s neck to the bottom for almost 9 minutes.
The incident was captured on video and set off a summer time of protests and riots that triggered greater than $2 billion in property injury, in keeping with Axios.
