The family of George Floyd, an African American who died during his arrest in May 2020, will receive $ 27 million in damages after reaching an agreement with the city of Minneapolis, lawyers for the family said Friday (March 12). .
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This amicable agreement is the most important in the history of the United States in a procedure concerning fundamental rights brought for a death attributable to a fault,
" they explain in a statement. George Floyd's family filed a civil complaint in June 2020 against the municipality and the four police officers involved in his death. The criminal trial of one of them opened Tuesday in Minneapolis.