Minneapolis has agreed to a record $27 million settlement with George Floyd’s family to resolve the lawsuit filed against the city and four cops involved in his death.
In announcing the outcome, the Floyd family lawyers called it the largest pre-trial wrongful death settlement in US history.
A portion of the funds, $500,000, will be returned to the neighborhood where Floyd was arrested — and where bystander video showed ex-cop Derek Chauvin pinning him by the neck to the pavement.
Jury selection in Chauvin’s murder trial is ongoing in a Minneapolis courtroom; so far six jurors of the 14 needed have been selected.
“George Floyd’s horrific death, witnessed by millions of people around the world, unleashed a deep longing and undeniable demand for justice and change,” said one of the Floyd family lawyers, civil rights attorney Ben Crump.Minneapolis agrees on settling with George Floyd family for 27mn USD. (NYPost)