West’s comments refute medical examiners’ evidence, and cause emotional distress to theloyd family
Lawyers for theloyd family issued a cease-and-desist letter to West, calling the recent statements “a reprehensible attempt to belittle Georgeloyd’s life and profit from his inhumane death.”
Here is everything you need to know about it.
What did Kanye West say about Georgeloyd?
Floyd, a black man, died in 2020 after police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nine minutes in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The video of the incident went viral on the internet and sparked global protests, most notably revitalizing the Black Lives Matter movement and drawing people from all over the world to speak out against racial injustice.
Chauvin was convicted of manslaughter and manslaughter and sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison in 2021. But with West recently appearing on the American podcast Drink Champs, the rapper claimedloyd died of a fentanyl overdose, despite the medical examiner’s evidence to the contrary.
He said: They hit him with fentanyl. If you look, the man’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.”
Fentanyl is a strong synthetic opioid used to treat pain. entanyl is also used for sedation with other drugs, and it can also be taken illicitly as a recreational drug, sometimes combined with heroin or cocaine.
“During the podcast interview, Kanye West told malicious lies about Georgeloyd to take advantage of Mr.loyd’s horrific death and the trauma of his family,” a joint statement with the Palestinian Authority News Agency read.
Attorney Pat Dixon III added: “Kanye’s comments are an abhorrent attempt to belittle the life of Georgeloyd and take advantage of his inhuman death. We will hold West accountable for his blatant statements against the legacy of Mr.loyd.”
What is theloyd family looking for?
Roxy Washington, mother of Georgeloyd’s daughter, intends to file a multi-million dollar lawsuit based on “harassment, embezzlement, defamation and emotional distress,” according to a statement.
“The best interests of the child are the priority,” Attorney Norro Witherspoon, partner at The Witherspoon Law Group, said in the statement.
“Georgeloyd’s daughter is being shocked by Kanye West’s comments as he creates an unsafe and unhealthy environment for her.”
Lee Merritt, a Texas civil rights attorney who has previously represented theloyd family in a wrongful death case, He expressed his anger on Twitter.
He said: “While one cannot denigrate the dead, the family of Georgeloyd is considering suing over Kanye’s false statements about the manner of his death.
“The claim thatloyd died of fentanyl and not of the brutality that has been both criminally and civilly proven undermines and downplays theloyd family’s fight.”
Besides Merritt, activist Lance Cooper saidloyd’s family should sue Ye Sandy Hook’s families have filed a lawsuit against Alex Jones £869m, over his allegations that the school shooting was a hoax, while Martin Luther King’s youngest daughter said she had been praying for the family in the wake of the ‘horrible insensitive comments’, The New York Post reported.
