{"id":1701968,"date":"2022-10-19T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701968"},"modified":"2022-10-19T07:18:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T11:18:28","slug":"george-floyd-family-threatens-to-sue-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-floyd-family-threatens-to-sue-kanye-west\/","title":{"rendered":"George Floyd Family Threatens to Sue Kanye West"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-floyd-family-threatens-to-sue-kanye-west%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1701968&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> The Floyd family is preparing to sue <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-kanye-west-to-buy-parler-social-media-platform\">Kanye West<\/a> for a quarter-billion dollars after recent comments from the rapper regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/george-floyd-relentless-struggle\">George<\/a>\u00a0Floyd&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Roxie Washington, mother to Floyd&#8217;s daughter Gianna, announced on Tuesday that she has hired a team of lawyers to go after West and his business partners for harassment, misappropriation, defamation, and infliction of emotional distress. They&#8217;re seeking $250 million in damage<\/p>\n<p>The family&#8217;s attorneys have sent a cease and desist letter, obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/10\/18\/kanye-west-ye-george-floyd-daughter-250-million-lawsuit-sue\/\">TMZ<\/a>, to West over his comments about Floyd&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Floyd\u2019s cause of death is well-settled through evidence presented in courts of law during the criminal and civil trials that were the result of his untimely and horrific death. Nevertheless, you have maliciously made statements that are inaccurate and unfounded, causing damage to Mr. Floyd\u2019s estate and his family,&#8221; the letter reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>West was on the receiving end of backlash after he said on an episode of the Drink Champs podcast that Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you look, the guy\u2019s knee wasn\u2019t even on his neck like that,&#8221; said Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The interests of the child are priority,&#8221; said Nuru Witherspoon of the Witherspoon Law Group, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/george-floyd-family-lawsuit-kanye-west-1234613589\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>. &#8220;George Floyd\u2019s daughter is being retraumatized by Kanye West\u2019s comments and he\u2019s creating an unsafe and unhealthy environment for her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>West and the Floyd family have some history.\u00a0In 2020, the rapper made a $2 million donation to the families of Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. &#8220;The donation includes funding for legal fees for Arbery and Taylor\u2019s families, along with black-owned businesses in crisis in his native Chicago and other cities,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/04\/entertainment\/kanye-west-two-million-dollar-donation\/index.html\">CNN reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Floyds&#8217; decision to sue comes just one week after <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-alex-jones-ordered-to-pay-965-million-to-sandy-hook-families\">Alex Jones of InfoWars<\/a> was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion for defaming families of the victims of Sandy Hook.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story and will be updated.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Floyd family is preparing to sue Kanye West for a quarter-billion dollars after recent comments from the rapper regarding George\u00a0Floyd&#8217;s death. 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