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(12 Mar 2021) The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd's family over the Black man's death in police custody.
The settlement was announced Friday as jury selection continued in the trial of Derek Chauvin, a white former officer charged with murder and manslaughter in Floyd's death.
Floyd family attorneys Ben Crump, Chris Stewart and Antonio Romanucci held a news conference Friday with the Floyd family and Minneapolis officials, including Mayor Jacob Frey.
Floyd was declared dead May 25 after Chauvin pressed his knee against his neck for about nine minutes.
Floyd's family filed the federal civil rights lawsuit in July against the city, Chauvin and three other fired officers charged in his death.
It isn't clear how the settlement might affect the trial or the jury now being seated to hear it. Crump said the settlement is a way "to help shape what justice looks like" rather than waiting for a result from a legal system that many Blacks distrust.
"The one thing we know as Black people ... is there is no guarantee that a police officer will be convicted for killing a Black person unjustly in our country," Crump said. "That's what history has taught us."
Stewart said the civil case "doesn't have anything to do with" the trial.
"Justice doesn't really wait," he said. "It happens when it happens and it happened today."

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