George Floyd's Family Sues City of Minneapolis

        

George Floyd's family has sued the City of Minneapolis for the death of  George Floyd. Ben Crump representing George Floyd's family is arguing that the City of Minneapolis is culpable by allowing the police officers to restrain people in the neck. 

The family has already sued the 4 police officers but can not be able to get enough financial damages from them thus they have joined the city of Minneapolis.

Crump in the lawsuit stated that the city trained the officers to use the neck restraint claiming that they were authorized form of non-deadly force. The neck restraint technique has been in use since 2012 nationwide, and out of 428 it was used on 14 percent were unconscious.

The suit also claims that the city did not even when there were 17 citizen complaints against Derek Chauvin and the Internal Affairs Department of the PD is yet to investigate all of them. 

     

The legal paper also claims that the two police officers on probation Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng were not allowed to question their supervisor.