The family of George Floyd, who died on May 25, 2020, during his arrest, will receive $ 27 million in damages following an agreement with the city of Minneapolis.
Lawyers of the Floyd family managed to conclude an agreement with the city of Minneapolis. The latter will indeed pay $ 27 million.
This agreement thus ends the civil proceedings brought in July 2020 against the municipality. The sum is unprecedented in the matter according to lawyers.
Aged 46, George Floyd died on May 25 in a disadvantaged district of Minneapolis after being handcuffed and immobilized on the ground on his stomach, suffocating for long minutes under the knee of a white policeman, Derek Chauvin.
The scene, filmed by a passerby and broadcast live on social networks, has caused an unprecedented anger movement since the 1960s in the United States and in the world, against racism and police violence.
