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Sat Mar 13, 2021, 03:21 PM Mar 2021

Minneapolis To Pay George Floyd's Family $27 Million In Wrongful Death Suit Settlement

The city of Minneapolis will pay $27 million to the family of George Floyd, a Black man killed by police there last May, as part of a settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Officials on the Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved the settlement on Friday, in the federal suit filed by Floyd’s family last July against the city and the four officers involved in Floyd’s death.

This is the largest pretrial settlement in a civil rights wrongful death suit in the nation’s history, according to Floyd family attorney Ben Crump. Half a million dollars will be directed to community improvement efforts around the location where Floyd was killed at 38th St. and Chicago Ave.

“George Floyd’s horrific death, witnessed by millions of people around the world, unleashed a deep longing and undeniable demand for justice and change,” Crump said in a statement, adding that the settlement “sends a powerful message that Black lives do matter and police brutality against people of color must end.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/george-floyd-settlement-lawsuit-minneapolis-201219396.html

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