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Kanye West’s newest controversial remarks may land him in a authorized battle.
The artist and entrepreneur, who has modified his identify to Ye, spoke on a recent episode of the podcast “Drink Champs,” the place he mentioned the demise of George Floyd and a number of other different subjects.
“I watched the George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens put out. One of the things that his two roommates said was they want a tall guy like me, and the day that he died, he said a prayer for eight minutes,” West stated. “They hit him with the fentanyl. If you look, the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that.”
Former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck, in keeping with Chauvin trial testimony by the medical examiner who performed Floyd’s autopsy and stood by his preliminary discovering that his demise was the results of “cardiopulmonary arrest” that occurred throughout “law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”
Hennepin County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker stated throughout his testimony that Floyd’s coronary heart illness and use of fentanyl have been contributing elements to his demise, however not the direct trigger.
Civil rights lawyer Lee Merritt, who has represented the Floyd family, tweeted Sunday that they’re considering authorized motion against West.
“While one cannot defame the dead, the family of #GeorgeFloyd is considering suit for Kanye’s false statements about the manner of his death,” Merritt tweeted. “Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd family’s fight.”
Merritt informed Newz9 he was alerted to West’s feedback by Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, who informed him he needed to pursue a defamation swimsuit against the superstar.
While that’s not legally attainable as a result of George Floyd is deceased, Merritt stated, there are different authorized avenues to pursue, together with the Floyd family presumably suing for intentional infliction of emotional misery.
“I have put together a working team to investigate [West’s] statements and to investigate the source of those statements,” Merritt stated.
Newz9 has reached out to a consultant of West for extra remark.
West’s remarks about Floyd come amid backlash for latest social media posts by West that have been criticized as anti-Semetic and his resolution to decorate himself and a number of other fashions “White Lives Matter” shirts at a latest style present.
Video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for greater than eight minutes sparked protests and requires justice world wide.
Chauvin was convicted in April 2021 on fees of second-degree unintentional homicide, third-degree homicide and second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 22 and half years in prison.