Attorneys for George Floyd’s household are set to announce a civil lawsuit Wednesday in opposition to town of Minneapolis and the law enforcement officials concerned in his dying.
Lawyer Ben Crump deliberate a late-morning information convention in Minneapolis to element the lawsuit.
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Floyd, a Black man who was handcuffed, died Might 25 after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee in opposition to Floyd’s neck for practically eight minutes as Floyd mentioned he couldn’t breathe. Chauvin is charged with second-degree homicide, third-degree homicide and manslaughter.
Three different officers on the scene — Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Kueng — are charged with aiding and abetting each second-degree homicide and manslaughter.
All 4 officers had been fired the day after Floyd’s dying, which set off protests that unfold world wide and changed into a nationwide depending on race in America.
Floyd’s dying additionally sparked calls to abolish the Minneapolis Police Division and exchange it with a brand new public security division. A majority of Metropolis Council members help the transfer, saying the division has an extended historical past and tradition of brutality that has resisted change.
A public listening to was deliberate later Wednesday on the proposal, which requires a change within the metropolis’s constitution that would go to voters in November.
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