George Floyd’s family ‘considering lawsuit’ against Kanye West after ‘false statements’ about death

Kanye West mentioned he believed George Floyd’s dying was drug-related, not the results of police brutality (Image: Revolt)

The 45-year-old rapper is in a storm of backlash after making a sequence of controversial statements in current weeks, together with branding Black Lives Matter a ‘rip-off’, being accused of bullying a Vogue contributing editor on social media and having his accounts on Instagram and Twitter locked over alleged anti-semitic feedback. 

Over the weekend, West appeared on the podcast Drink Champs the place he made additional eyebrow-raising remarks and mentioned the homicide of Floyd, a Black man who died in 2020 when Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into Floyd‘sneck regardless of pleas that he was struggling to breathe. 

Following a highly-publicised and televised trial final 12 months, Chauvin was discovered responsible of second-degree unintentional homicide, third-degree homicide and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s dying. 

In his newest interview, West shared his ideas on the horrific incident after watching documentary The Biggest Lie Ever Offered: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM, which was made by his good friend and outspoken political pundit Candace Owens. 

West informed hosts N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN: ‘They hit [Floyd] with the fentanyl. For those who look, the man’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that. 

Floyd was murdered by a police officer who pressed his knee into his neck throughout an arrest

Derek Chauvin was convicted of Floyd’s homicide after being filmed subduing the person in Minnesota in 2020 (Image: Minnesota Division of Corrections through AP)

‘They mentioned he screamed for his mama; mama was his girlfriend. It’s within the documentary.’ 

Nonetheless, the medical expert decided that Floyd died from ‘cardiopulmonary arrest’ difficult by ‘restraint and neck compression’ whereas being pinned down by a number of officers together with Chauvin. 

Floyd’s household additionally commissioned an unbiased post-mortem, which discovered that his dying was brought on by ‘asphyxiation from sustained strain’. 

Now, a lawyer who represented Floyd’s household all through the authorized proceedings has spoken out about West’s feedback. 

West is dealing with mounting backlash for his feedback which have outraged supporters of Black Lives Matter and the Jewish group (Image: Getty Photographs)

Lee Merritt tweeted: ‘Whereas one can't defame the lifeless, the household of #GeorgeFloyd is contemplating swimsuit for Kanye’s false statements in regards to the method of his dying.

‘Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd household’s struggle.’ 

West has been on the centre of controversy in current weeks, sparked when he appeared at his Yeezy trend present in Paris carrying a White Lives Matter shirt. 

After being locked out of mainstream platforms, the Grammy-winning rapper has since introduced that he's within the technique of shopping for right-wing social media app Parler to guard freedom of speech. 

Metro.co.uk has reached out to a consultant of Kanye West for remark.

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