Minneapolis City Council agrees to pay $27 million to family of George Floyd

By Thomas Lifson, AM THINKER

In what is claimed to be “the largest pretrial settlement in a civil rights wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. history,” the far left Minneapolis City Council has voted 13-to-0 to pay $27 million to the family of George Floyd. This happened as a jury is being seated in the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin, accused of third-degree murder, second-degree unintentional murder and second-degree manslaughter.  Floyd died of a drug overdose, according to the coroner, after Chauvin subdued him using a knee on his neck, as he was trained to do, when Floyd resisted arrest for passing a counterfeit $20 bill.

It is hard to see this massive payout to the family of a career criminal who resisted arrest and died of a drug overdose as anything other than an attempt by the progressives on the council to influence to the jury to convict Chauvin.

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March 13, 2021 | 2 Comments »

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  1. @ liz44:
    The council is eirher VERY progressive, mainly black, or crazy. Also the pint made by the artcle to influence a Jury not yet more than half selected. It wll take another week at least to make the full jury, plus two alternates. I think they’ll need MORE than two, should have been at least 5.

    It race comes inot it–how can it not- it wll widen the gap already there by BLM and ANTIFA etc.

  2. The most stupid act of 2021 so far! I can’t think of anything more ridiculous, rewarding the families of career criminals so the world gets the message that crime really does pay, especially for the families of anyone killed while committing it. It’s like the horrendous way they pay families of suicide bombers. What on earth is wrong with Minneapolis?????