The family of George Floyd are considering legal action against Kanye West after learning he made false claims pertaining to Floyd’s death.
West claims the murdered man died from fentanyl overdose and the truth was swept under the rug.
George’s sister LaTonya Floyd said, “My family is so mad right now. Their reaction was explosive when they found out.”
West made the claims about Floyd’s death on a podcast, despite the fact that Floyd’s May 2020 death was ruled a homicide by the county medical examiner and an independent examiner hired by the Floyd family.
In 2021, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who pinned his knee to Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes while Floyd yelled, “I can’t breathe,” was convicted of murder.
At his trial, numerous experts testified that even though he had fentanyl in his system, Floyd’s death was a homicide.
“The judge took the gavel in his hands and slammed it on the table, and his death was ruled as murder, which we all know it was,” LaTonya Floyd said. “We have been through a lot. We have suffered a whole lot, and we are still suffering. The marches and the fights for justice are never gonna stop. For us to hear someone of color say something like that, it’s a really painful place.”
Floyd’s family attorney Lee Merritt said, “I was contacted by Philonise Floyd, George’s brother, Sunday morning. Merritt’s Philadelphia-based law firm is exploring possible legal recourse. There’s certainly potential for a lawsuit. I think the injury is real.”
Merritt tweeted: “Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civily undermies & diminishes the Floyd family’s fight.”
One potential precedent, Merritt says, may be the highly publicized lawsuit against right wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was ordered by a Connecticut court last week to pay the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims nearly $1 billion after making false statements that the 2012 shooting was a hoax.
Merritt says he hopes West will make things right with the Floyd family.
“These families wake up every day feeling the sting and the loss of their loved ones, and they continue to fight,” Merritt says. “They built their lives now around fighting to reform our legal systems, reform police use of force, to bring accountability. And to have someone who in the past has been seen as an ally, now repeatedly and consistently undermine their efforts and diminish the legacy of their loved ones, it’s bad behavior. It’s disappointing, for the families. It’s very frustrating. And I will do what I can to help them get some peace.”
These savages should crawl under the nearest rock, when will this country stop listening to a felons family. George Floyd was a felon, a parasite, as to his dirty pig family.
Floyd was a loser, a druggie and Minneapolis got torn up all over one stupid idiot druggie. There is always someone wanting to point the blame finger. They need to look in the mirror when pointing.
That black individual has indeed had an amount of fenthanil in his system which assumed that that one used to do drugs, even if the police officer contributed to his death, he was still under drugs control, which it claims his unlawful behavior and a potential danger for society, not to say to be in some future a potential inmate due to his uncontrollable deal with the drugs. Don’t make his death as some sort of the hero of the society because he wasn’t. Unfortunately, he got killed by that police officer and now his family is the one of the richest from their community. Good deal!