George Floyd’s Family Considering Legal Action Against Kanye West Over Claims George Died Of Fentanyl Overdose

“While 1 cannot defame the dead, the household of [George Floyd] is considering suit for Kanye [West]‘s false statements astir the mode of his death,” tweeted Lee Merritt, a civilian rights lawyer and lawyer for the Floyd family, connected Oct. 16, pursuing Ye’s quality connected the Drink Champs podcast. During the interview, Ye, 45, made more antisemitic comments and said that George Floyd died from a cause overdose and not from having Minneapolis Police Department Officer Derek Chauvin kneel connected his cervix for 9 minutes. “Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl [and] not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd family’s fight,” added lawyer Merritt.

While 1 cannot defame the dead, the household of #GeorgeFloyd is considering suit for Kanye’s mendacious statements astir the mode of his death.

Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd family’s fight.

— Lee Merritt (@MerrittForTexas) October 16, 2022

Ye made his claims on Drink Champs after bringing up The Greatest Lie Ever Sold, the new documentary from Candace Owens (the arguable blimpish commentator who was by Ye’s broadside during his “White Lives Matter” manner show.) “I watched the George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens enactment out,” said West. “One of the things that his 2 roommates said was, ‘they privation a gangly feline similar me, they privation a gangly feline similar me,’ and the time erstwhile helium died, helium said a supplication for 8 minutes. He said a supplication for 8 minutes. They deed him with the fentanyl. If you look, the guy’s genu wasn’t adjacent connected his cervix similar that.”

Kanye West says George Floyd passed distant due to the fact that of fentanyl and that the cop’s genu “wasn’t adjacent connected his cervix similar that” pic.twitter.com/sVKy3VK35O

— Kurrco (@Kurrco) October 16, 2022

George Floyd died from “asphyxiation from sustained pressure” erstwhile his cervix and backmost were compressed by Chauvin, according to the experts hired by George Floyd’s household and the Hennepin County Medical Examiner successful 2022. The aesculapian examiner said Floyd’s authoritative origin of death was “cardiopulmonary apprehension complicating instrumentality enforcement subdual, restraint, and cervix compression.”

; Reverend Al Sharpton and Attorney Ben Crump clasp a supplication with members of George Floyd’s household extracurricular of the Hennepin County Government Center for the sentencing of erstwhile constabulary serviceman Derek Chauvin (Shutterstock)

The aesculapian examiner said that fentanyl and methamphetamine usage were among “significant conditions,” but the study didn’t authorities however overmuch of either cause was successful his strategy oregon however that whitethorn person contributed to his decease astatine the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department. Derek Chauvin was yet convicted of execution and sentenced to 22.5 years successful prison. In Dec. 2021, helium pled blameworthy to violating Floyd’s civilian rights and was sentenced to 21 further years successful prison. Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lanes, the different officers progressive successful the Floyd killing, were besides convicted of violating Floyd’s civilian rights.

A time aft Drink Champs (Oct. 17), Ye announced that helium agreed successful rule to bargain the blimpish societal media level Parler. The determination comes aft his suspension from Twitter and Instagram for making antisemitic comments. “Ye is making a groundbreaking determination into the escaped code media abstraction and volition ne'er person to fearfulness being removed from societal media again,” George Farmer, Parlement Technologies CEO and hubby of Candace Owens, said successful a statement, per CNBC.