The family of George Floyd filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Minneapolis and the four police officers charged in his death in May, saying…
The family of George Floyd filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Minneapolis and the four police officers charged in his death in May, saying that they violated his rights when he was restrained.
“This complaint shows what we have said all along, that Mr. Floyd died because the weight of the entire Minneapolis Police Department was on his neck,” Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump said in a statement.
Crump alleged that Minneapolis failed to train police officers properly.
“The City of Minneapolis has a history of policies, procedures and deliberate indifference that violates the rights of arrestees, particularly Black men, and highlights the need for officer training and discipline,” he said, adding, “This is an unprecedented case, and with this lawsuit we seek to set a precedent that makes it financially prohibitive for police to wrongfully kill marginalized people—especially Black people—in the future.
