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Minneapolis agrees to pay George Floyd’s family US $27 million

Posted: Friday, March 12, 2021. 6:51 pm CST.

By Rubén Morales Iglesias: Five days into jury selection for the trial of the officer accused of killing George Floyd, the Minneapolis City Council has agreed to pay his family US $27 million in compensation.

As the US $27 million settlement was being announced in a press conference called by the Floyd family attorney, Ben Crump, the jury was being selected in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the policeman accused of causing Floyd’s death.

The family of Floyd had sued the City of Minneapolis, Chauvin and three other policemen involved in Floyd’s death. Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin choked him to death by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes while Floyd kept crying out “I can’t breathe.”

The video of the incident went viral worldwide.

International media reports said that the Minneapolis City Council went into a closed session today to determine the agreement which includes $500,000 for the community where Floyd was arrested.

Crump said US $27 million was the largest pretrial civil rights settlement ever in a case of wrongful death in the United States, and “sends a powerful message that Black lives do matter and police brutality against people of color must end,” the Associated Press reported.

Crump said Floyd had been tortured like nobody else.

“When George Floyd was horrifically killed on May 25, 2020, it was a watershed moment for America. It was one of the most egregious and shocking documentations of an American citizen being tortured to death by a police officer,” Crump said.

Several days of protests followed throughout the United States and people around the world joined in support of the ‘Black lives matter’ movement.

“I do want to, 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.

Prior to today’s settlement, the biggest settlement in Minneapolis was in 2019 when the City agreed to pay $20 million in 2019 to the family of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, an unarmed woman killed by a policeman after she called to report a crime behind her home.

 

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