Kanye West: Legal professionals for George Floyd's daughter draft cease-and-desist letter to artist

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Roxie Washington, appearing on behalf of her daughter with the late George Floyd, has retained attorneys after Kanye West made a declare about fentanyl and Floyd’s dying.

The artist, designer and entrepreneur, who has modified his title to Ye, spoke about Floyd’s dying throughout a latest episode of the podcast “Drink Champs.”

“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. Should you look, the man’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.”

The Witherspoon Regulation Group and Dixon & Dixon Attorneys, of their position as representatives of Washington and her daughter Gianna Floyd, drafted a cease-and-desist letter to West dated Tuesday.

The letter, offered to Muricas News, states “our purchasers are very distressed and damage by the allegations you made.”

“Mr. Floyd’s reason behind dying is well-settled via proof offered in courts of legislation through the legal and civil trials that have been the results of his premature and horrific dying,” the letter reads. “Nonetheless, you've maliciously made statements which might be inaccurate and unfounded, inflicting harm to Mr. Floyd’s property and his household.”

Former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck.

In keeping with Chauvin trial testimony, the health worker who carried out Floyd’s post-mortem stood by his preliminary discovering that his dying 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 have been contributing elements to his dying, however not the direct trigger.

The letter from the attorneys calls for that West “take away the “Drink Champs” interview and all related statements relating to George Floyd from each podcast, web site, commercial, and social media web site, regardless of the platform or medium” and “chorus from publishing or inflicting to be printed every other audio, video, assertion, put up, and so on. relating to George Floyd, his property, his household, and the circumstances surrounding his dying, together with however not restricted to his method of dying.”

Muricas News has reached out to a consultant for West for remark.

As of Tuesday, the episode of “Drink Champs” appeared to have been eliminated.

Civil rights legal professional Lee Merritt, who has represented the Floyd household, informed Muricas News on Monday that Floyd’s brother contacted him to pursue a defamation swimsuit towards the star.

Whereas that’s not legally potential as a result of George Floyd is deceased, Merritt mentioned, 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 staff to analyze [West’s] statements and to analyze the supply of these statements,” Merritt mentioned.

Muricas News has reached out to Merritt for touch upon the cease-and-desist letter.