The Minneapolis City Council has agreed to give the family of George Floyd $27 million in the largest settlement in the city’s history. The massive civil settlement comes on the heels of congress passing a massive city and state bailout bill under the auspices of COVID. [Statement from Ben Crump HERE]
It is not a stretch to see a situation where Minneapolis is paying out this $27 million settlement because they now have an influx of federal cash to support or replace it.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over the Black man’s death in police custody, even as jury selection continued in a former officer’s murder trial.
The Minneapolis City Council emerged from closed session to announce the record settlement, which includes $500,000 for the neighborhood where Floyd was arrested. Floyd family attorney Ben Crump called a news conference for 1 p.m. that was to include family members.
Crump, in a prepared statement, said it was the largest pretrial civil rights settlement ever, and “sends a powerful message that Black lives do matter and police brutality against people of color must end.” (read more)
GEORGE was a CRIMINAL and fentanyl taking CRIMINAL
He was a thug who overdosed.
I’m sure someone will say he always wanted to be an astronaut: queue the honorary Astro Physics PhD posthumously awarded along with the honorary NASA astronaut status with a Special “Dr. Floyd Mission to the Moon” patch.
Well Clockboy got into MIT.
Perfect first comment!
They also received upwards of $15 million on go fund me….. so were looking at ~$42 million in payout for being a drug addict.
Will this payment be made with real dollars? Or counterfeit dollars like he was caught passing before he overdosed ?
Don’t forget, Crump gets his 35 to 50% contingency fee.
And I’m sure as part of the deal…1/2 of his take gets delivered to the DNC.
guess whom pays?
(hint, his life, and u.s. taxpayers…again
(as Mnpls business’s / insurance / people have to re-build what was
destroyed, looted, etc.
even though the article says that Mnpls pays, while other legal proceedings are pending))
What drove Floyd to his pre-arrest conditions?
Is any of that being repaired – for the sake of others conditions? (money does not do it…)
Love thy neighbors
?♂️
the settlement is incentive for more of this BS
Not like they need any incentive, but I agree.
A Covington Kid like smirk in the direction of a BLM member ought to be worth a mil.
$42 big ones ($42,000,000) with the Go fund me added to settlement.
Why are people not yet wise to the GO Fund Me scams?
It is also an incentive for any sane person living in Minneapolis to get the hell out.
Add in Omar and Klobbie and Ellison.
Ellison covers our entire state as attorney general, so Minnesota is screwed with him in “charge.”
And the person running against him, Doug Wardlow, professes to be a hard driven conservative, professes to be a Christian, but he is such a RINO that it sickens me.
Both men are evil, just in different ways, and I will never again choose between the “lesser of two evils.”
No doubt from the stimulus bill that was signed yesterday. What a coincidence.
Everyone who did their part will get paid off, that’s how the Dems/Libs roll.
It was part of the Stimulus funding, I saw it verified on a local Minneapolis news channel. I think Obama had a part in the payout (gifted from us Taxpayers.)
Do we know the allocation by state / city from the $1.9T?
For example, do blue states get more per capita than red states?
Do Florida and SD get zero because they’re open and booming?
Hey, it’s not like its the City Council’s money. It’s my money.
10% to the Big Guy?
Big Guy doesn’t deal in merely 8 figures
A junkie and a thug who—under a best-case scenario—would have ended up a Public Charge…
$27 million… The Left is unaccountable, it’s insane!
Payday! Yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jobama put y’all in chains.
Alternative headline: adult film actor and felon wins ghetto lottery.
They are robbing the MN taxpayers blind. I would be furious if I lived there!
It’s not just the dollars of MN taxpayers–it’s yours and mine since it came from FED dollars.
No, they are robbing the American taxpayer of federal funds given to blue cities that can’t manage squat, let alone a proper budget. I am furious and I don’t live there!
$9 million for Ben Crump?
Maybe “only” $8.1 mil.
Alright face time for Ben Crump. Missed him.
Ghetto lottery. I hope it’s paid in a lump sum so we can read about them being broke in a year.
BRAVO
And damn near guaranteed.
Awe, don’t forget the Family Fueds. Knock down, drag down, hair pulling begins.
Danegeld. It’ll work about as well as it did for England.
And we have Aetheraed Unraed reincarnated as our pResident, too. How nice.
The family will likely be broke in less than five years.
I hope so. Ill gotten gains.
Substantiates the reason what it is Communist/Democrats have no place in anything having to do with Government.
They’re OK as long as it is some else’s money.
Who says crime doesn’t pay?
Not the Floyd autonomous zone – the “neighborhood” will be getting $500K in the settlement also.
over 700 buildings damaged, 28 of them totally destroyed. Yeah 500,000 seems like a slap in the face. Oh well not my clowns, not my circus. Minneapolis used to be a really nice city.
That’s a very important point to contemplate.
Now, I’ve never been to Minneapolis, but going back twenty years or so, I think it was regularly among those cities that made the “Most Livable City” lists.
Those many years ago, Dems had begun disengenuously advocating for non-partisan mayoral races under the assumption that city living was too essential and too precious to be politized. Of course, it was a ruse.
By disallowing political affiliations, they merely kept Republicans away from the races, and, as things now stand, since Dems own the cities through and through, I believe (though not sure) that political affiliations in mayoral races are no longer so immoral, presuming you’re a Dem , of course!
The U.S.A. and the rest of the West is in a rapid decline. Politicians in all Western countries are no longer care about the electorate. ( if the ever did)
The quicker the cities crumble the better we all will be.
I am unaware of any that are not run by Communist / Facist regimes. ( always under the guise of something else)
wasteful spending on bike lanes, Green energy, safe injection sites etc. and diversity ?
Our beautiful City Vancouver now has a defund the Police movement too. Safe injection sites all over the place, Pot stores too.
Yet a decent bungalow on the Westside will go for $2.5 to 3 Million
I wonder what will give?
God bless PDJT
So how much does Crump get for this? 10 M?
At legal Insurrection someone said this could effect the Chauvin Trial and justify a mistrial or change of venue.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/chauvin-pre-trial-day-4-defense-burns-two-more-peremptory-strikes/
Jackpot. I bet his family had a party the day he died knowing they’d be millionaires.
maybe someone(s) have been ‘partying’ for a long, long time?
(and they found a way, to make others pay? )
hmmm…
It does not seem like there would be a normal,
moral to that story.
(i.e. for some, its about ‘money’, (getting, and spending, others money)
not
morality, equality, virtues…)
p.s.
Someone suggested a while back, that that does not belong in ‘my fathers house’.
Maybe we should lawfully, peacefully circle back… and learn something, during Lent?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/07/the-third-sunday-of-lent-2/
The rest of the developing story unfolds during Lent, Easter etc.
imho
Crump is getting very rich. I wonder what his cut is.
Crump has a cut hisWond ?
Fight for the Right for your kid to be in the first graduating class of George Floyd High School.
Crump, in a prepared statement, said it was the largest pretrial civil rights settlement ever, and “sends a powerful message that Black lives do matter and police brutality against people of color must end.”
Yes, Mr Crump, Black Lives Matter, because a LOT of money can be made when they die by creepy lawyers like you.
I’m sure Mr Crump’s haul was at least half of the 27 mil… a cool 13.5 million. $$$$$$$$$$$
The family lawyers will get their 40 percent!!
Does anyone anyone else have the sense of having been given a punch in the gut? UGHHHHH! This so much just reeks of evil.
Lately I’ve been getting that feeling on a daily basis like every time I read the news.
That town is run by a bunch of idiots. That thug couldn’t count to 27. The cops did nothing wrong- if they had left him alone he would have died from his dope cocktail of meth and fentanyl.. Maybe Al shakedown Sharpton can pay his tax liens now? litigation lottery.
Maybe they should have left him alone.
No, he shouldn’t have been counterfeiting money and resisting arrest
Minneapolis is run by a bunch of idiots.
It’s interesting that the pay-out took place before any testimony was heard and the trial was completed. Results in this case may be similar to all the other ‘black grievance’ cases where the ‘innocent young man’ was maliciously murdered by ‘white’ racists, and Floyd’s death will be found to be caused by his actions.
But why pay the family for “wrong doing” before one word of testimony is heard?
To try and hold-off the barbarians from doing what barbarians do.
Ain’t gonna work.
Also, the kind of pretrial publicity the prosecutors would love to have buzzing in the background.
Indeed! Nice timing on the settlement, eh?
Yep. Stupid jurors will think it must have been criminal for the city to pay out like this. Total jury manipulation.
It’s the City Council who made this pre-trial determination (there has to be a trial to have jurors; this was before any trial happened).
Ef’n PATHETIC !
$$$$ Job well done, George… job well done. $$$$
An odd epitaph. What job did Trayvon ever hold, let alone do well?
He made Sybrina and Tracy quite famous and wealthy… so there’s that, huh?
Almost all the highly publicized cases of ‘black suicide by white cop’ are reminiscent of radical Islamic martyrs and suicide bombers whose families are paid large sums for their children’s sacrifice for the sake of the cause.
When the death of a black man at that hands of a white cop can topple governments and shift the entire balance of world power, you can bet that such events ‘will be made to happen,’ by hook or crook, and that there are individuals who are tasked with doing just that! One critical collaborator must be the FBI. Without them, none of this would ever be possible.
And to keep the Trayvon lie going, the family put an elementary age photo of him on his headstone.
Another thug casted as a martyr.
Speechless…
SMDH
My guess is the Floyd family will not be happy with the settlement it’s never enough! Next up reparations!
gee … ya think that might taint the jury pool ?
Ya think it might be on purpose? Anybody with half a brain will never be a juror in that trial. This jury will end up being a big box with 12 rocks and be easier to convince because they have no evidence to support the charges.
Spin the ‘Commit a Crime/Risk your life wheel’ and you or your family can be the grand prize winner(Whites need not apply).
The media created the “hands up don”t shoot” lie and people still believe that. In this case, when evidence shows Chauvin had no racist or murderous motivations but was simply using the wrong method to control an out of control drug addled criminal, there will be no believing any actual truth that may be presented.
And why is the media reporting that Minneapolis police are not allowed in the George Floyd autonomous zone? Who says they are not allowed? Antifa, BLM, the MSM media? This is an example of media being totally irreversibly ignorant! The police not only are allowed, but are required to go into that zone and stop the lawlessness, and yet they don’t. Minneapolis can just go to hell for all I care.
Discrimination against whites must end and WE must stop paying for garbage like this.
Whites are the victim group, not all these minority groups who constantly grievance monger and demand cash for every little thing.
I am expecting the time to come when civil war will be the only answer to end this left-wing lunacy.
But if you or I get run over and killed by a city garbage truck, good luck. Your family will have to sue and chase the city for the damn medical and funeral bills. And your kids’ college dreams? They will be on their own. Privilege. Hmph!
In the words of the Steve McQueen Thomas Crown — tap tap “enjoy my money.”
How much did Crump get?
The standard agreement is 1/3 if you go to trial and 1/4 if you settle before trial.
Nice payday for Crump. 40% would be $10.8 million. And he got it without even the effort of a trial.
There are going to be a lot of angry taxpayers after they hear the trial evidence.
Still more Black Privilege.
Quoting LUKE from the linked Wash Times article.
This is a perfect example of Einstein’s Theory of Political Relativity, “one out of every three democrats is just as stupid as the other two.”
Why he died of a drug overdose?
We may be coming to a time when the question; Can Libtards and Conservatives co-exist? The only solution may be to divide the Country in to Countries each with their own form of government.
This would eliminate; anguish, hassle, expense and waste of time trying to co-exist with the brainless. Wouldn’t everyone be so much better off not having to compromise with the Libtard cockamamie?
We can not co-exist because the liberal will not allow it, as they have & continue to demonstrate daily. Short of an all out elimination of one of the 2 groups, I do believe we are already there. They wouldn’t last long as a country; they are totally dependent on us for their sustenance & their ‘leaders’ are so corrupt.
I wouldn’t had said this a year ago, but this years experience tells me it is impossible to co-exist with Communist Libtards. They are an immoral lawless people.
There is no logic to them. They lack commonsense and everything is strictly emotion. It seems underlying everything is misery. Endeavor for them is making everything joyless for you, instead of making everything joyful for themselves.
Just more wealth redistribution by any means possible.
Wow! $27 million?
Get my counterfeit $20 bills and a lethal dose of fentanyl. I have an urge to buy menthol cigarettes in Minneapolis.
How much did the progressive (lazy communist) give that family for dragging his coffin around the country ?
If we are Neanderthals, then they are coffin draggers.
This family gets NOTHING for the government DESTROYING their home:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2021/03/04/former-mckinney-resident-suing-city-for-damages-after-her-home-was-destroyed-in-a-swat-raid/
and george floyd ‘s family gets $27 million for him killing himself
IRRATIONAL INSANITY is the new normal !
And then throw in this little tid bit
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/democrat-oregon-state-senators-introduce-bill-pay-black-people-123000-reparations/