George Floyd's household contemplating lawsuit in opposition to Kanye West after fentanyl declare

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Kanye West’s newest controversial remarks may land him in a authorized battle.

The artist and entrepreneur, who has modified his title to Ye, spoke on a current episode of the podcast “Drink Champs,” the place he mentioned the demise of George Floyd and several other different matters.

“I watched the George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens put out. One of many issues that his two roommates mentioned was they need a tall man like me, and the day that he died, he mentioned a prayer for eight minutes,” West mentioned. “They hit him with the fentanyl. In case 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 keeping with Chauvin trial testimony by the medical expert who carried out Floyd’s post-mortem and stood by his preliminary discovering that his demise was the results of “cardiopulmonary arrest” that occurred throughout “legislation enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”

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

Civil rights lawyer Lee Merritt, who has represented the Floyd household, tweeted Sunday that they're contemplating authorized motion in opposition to West.

“Whereas 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 demise,” Merritt tweeted. “Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd household’s combat.”

Muricas News has reached out to Merritt and a consultant of West for added remark.

West’s remarks about Floyd come amid backlash for current social media posts by West that had been criticized as anti-Semetic and his choice to decorate himself and several other fashions “White Lives Matter” shirts at a current trend 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 fees of second-degree unintentional homicide, third-degree homicide and second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 22 and half years in jail.