The mom of George Floyd’s daughter Gianna is suing Kanye West over latest feedback concerning the Minnesota man’s 2020 homicide, with the rapper falsely stating that fentanyl had prompted his dying.
On Tuesday, attorneys representing Roxie Washington accused the rapper, who now legally goes by Ye, of spreading “malicious falsehoods” in an effort to advertise himself and generate income for his companies.
Together with the $250 million swimsuit, Floyd’s household has additionally issued a cease-and-desist letter asking that Ye cease spreading his lies.
The litigation comes after Ye’s weekend look on the “Drink Champs” podcast, the place the rapper stated he believed fentanyl prompted the person’s dying — a standard right-wing conspiracy concept.
In actuality, Floyd died as a result of actions of now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who restrained the 46-year-old Black man by pinning his neck to the bottom together with his knee for greater than 9 minutes.
“When you look, the man’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that,” Ye stated on the podcast, regardless of a jury discovering Chauvin responsible of that very act.
Whereas Floyd’s post-mortem did detect fentanyl in his system, an impartial post-mortem and Hennepin County’s chief medical expert, Dr. Andrew Baker, eachconcurred that the drug didn't trigger Floyd’s dying.
Throughout his three-hour “Drink Champs” look, Ye additionally dabbled in antisemitic conspiracies and revisited his place that the phrase “‘white lives matter’ doesn’t imply that Black lives don’t matter.”
A consultant for the podcast informed The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday that “Drink Champs” has since taken down the episode, although clips are nonetheless circulating on social media.
“Drink Champs prides itself on its means to permit a free movement of concepts inside the hip hop group. That being stated, sadly, the latest interview with Kanye West contained false and hurtful data relating to the circumstances surrounding the homicide of George Floyd,” the podcast stated in an announcement.
“Subsequently, we had no alternative however to take away the episode from distribution. We apologize to the household of Mr. Floyd and anybody else damage by this episode.”
Ye’s declare appeared to originate from a latest documentary produced by the controversial extreme-right pundit Candace Owens. The rapper and Owens have not too long ago appeared in public collectively, together with on the movie’s launch in Tennessee final week.
Legal professionals for Washington didn't instantly reply to a request for remark from HuffPost.
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