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Ariana Grande & More Protest Over George Floyd's Death
George Floyd's household is not impressed with Kanye West's latest comments.
On Oct. 15, the rapper appeared connected the hip-hop podcast Drink Champs, wherever he seemed to suggest the origin of Floyd's death was owed to fentanyl usage and not by Derek Chavin, the erstwhile Minneapolis constabulary connection who was convicted of murder.
Now, lawyers for the Floyd household and his girl Gianna Floyd, 7, say they are readying to sue West for $250 cardinal successful damages.
"The interests of the kid are priority," lawyer Nuru Witherspoon said successful a connection to E! News. "George Floyd's girl is being retraumatized by Kanye West's comments and he's creating an unsafe and unhealthy situation for her."
Attorney Kay Harper Williams added, "Free code rights bash not see harassment, lies, misrepresentation and the misappropriate of George Floyd's legacy. Some words person consequences and Mr. West volition beryllium made to recognize that."
According to a cease-and-desist request obtained by E! News, some Williams and Witherspoon said their clients "are precise distressed and wounded by the allegations" made by West. The missive besides stated, "You person maliciously made statements that are inaccurate and unfounded, causing harm to Mr. Floyd's property and his family."
Attorney Alex Spiro, who the cease-and-desist missive is addressed to, told E! News helium is not representing West successful this matter. E! News has besides reached retired to West's rep for remark and has not heard back.
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Drink Champs, which is hosted by N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN, has since taken down the podcast episode.
"Integrity is precise important and we don't privation to beforehand mendacious narratives connected our platform. Our extremity is to observe the culture," a rep for Drink Champs said successful a connection to The Hollywood Reporter connected Oct. 18. "Therefore, we had nary prime but to region the occurrence from distribution. We apologize to the household of Mr. Floyd and anyone other wounded by this episode."
In June 2021, Chauvin was sentenced to much than 22 years aft a 12-member assemblage recovered him blameworthy of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree execution and second-degree manslaughter.
According to prosecutors, Chauvin kneeled connected the backmost of Floyd's cervix for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, adjacent arsenic Floyd, who was successful handcuffs, said helium was struggling to breathe.
During West's three-hour quality connected the podcast, the manner decorator questioned Floyd's origin of decease and said Chavin's genu "wasn't adjacent connected his cervix similar that."
A aesculapian examiner, who ruled Floyd's decease a homicide, antecedently testified during the proceedings that Floyd's bosom illness and cause usage contributed to his death, but that constabulary officers' restraint of his assemblage and compression of his cervix were the superior causes.
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