George Floyd’s household contemplating lawsuit towards Kanye West after fentanyl declare

USA Prime Time
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Kanye West’s newest controversial remarks might land him in a authorized battle.

The artist and entrepreneur, who has modified his identify to Ye, spoke on a recent episode of the podcast “Drink Champs,” the place he mentioned the loss of life of George Floyd and several other different subjects.

“I watched the George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens put out. One of the issues that his two roommates stated was they need a tall man like me, and the day that he died, he stated a prayer for eight minutes,” West stated. “They hit him with the fentanyl. If you look, the man’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.”

Former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck, in accordance with Chauvin trial testimony by the health worker who carried out Floyd’s post-mortem and stood by his preliminary discovering that his loss of life was the results of “cardiopulmonary arrest” that occurred throughout “legislation enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”

Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker stated throughout his testimony that Floyd’s coronary heart illness and use of fentanyl have been contributing components to his loss of life, however not the direct trigger.

Civil rights lawyer Lee Merritt, who has represented the Floyd household, tweeted Sunday that they’re contemplating authorized motion towards West.

“While one can’t defame the useless, the household of #GeorgeFloyd is contemplating go well with for Kanye’s false statements concerning the method of his loss of life,” Merritt tweeted. “Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd household’s combat.”

Merritt informed USA Prime Time he was alerted to West’s feedback by Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, who informed him he wished to pursue a defamation go well with towards the celeb.

While that’s not legally potential as a result of George Floyd is deceased, Merritt stated, there are different authorized avenues to pursue, together with the Floyd household presumably suing for intentional infliction of emotional misery.

“I’ve put collectively a working group to analyze [West’s] statements and to analyze the supply of these statements,” Merritt stated.

USA Prime Time has reached out to a consultant of West for added remark.

West’s remarks about Floyd come amid backlash for latest social media posts by West that have been criticized as anti-Semetic and his choice to decorate himself and several other fashions “White Lives Matter” shirts at a latest style present.

Video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for greater than eight minutes sparked protests and requires justice around the globe.

Chauvin was convicted in April 2021 on prices of second-degree unintentional homicide, third-degree homicide and second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 22 and half years in jail.