Businesses where George Floyd was killed sue Minneapolis, saying police are not protecting the area

Associated Press via Yahoo ^ | November 29, 2023

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Several stores at the location where George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in 2020 have sued the city, accusing it of neglecting the area and hurting business.

The lawsuit, filed in mid-November in state court, also names Mayor Jacob Frey and other officials and accuses the city of not properly policing the area since Floyd’s death. It also accuses the city of blocking the intersection that is now known as George Floyd Square with concrete barriers for more than a year after Floyd's death, keeping customers from entering.

The combination has turned the area into a hub for violent crime, the lawsuit says.

“The mayor, the city, the city council, and the Minneapolis Police Department collectively agreed to severely limit police response in the barricaded area surrounding plaintiffs’ businesses,” with police responding to only the most serious calls and otherwise actively avoiding the area, according to the lawsuit.

“Criminals know the area lacks police protection, and they have now made the area so dangerous that it has become known as the ‘No Go Zone,’” the lawsuit says.

[chuckb87]

Another one of St. Floyd’s gifts to the stupid.

[TigersEye]

The last cop that tried to arrest a criminal down there was recently stabbed in prison.

[Beowulf9]

oh that’s too bad.

[Chani]

cue me when to cry, coz I’m just not feelin’ it.

[lightman]

That’s “St. George of Fentanyl”, thank you very much.

FReegards!

[lightman]

Minneapolis on the Mogadishu.

Kyrie eleison.

[BradyLS]

It’s even funnier if you can imagine Norm Macdonald saying it on Weekend Update.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Minneapolis on the Mogadishu.

Mogadishu on the Mississippi I think is what they call it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...have these freaking idiots no self-awareness? Who championed and screamed “DEFUND DEFUND DEFUND DEFUND” after Floyd committed suicide and they immorally pinned it on Chauvin?

[Skybird]

Good luck with that lawsuit that’s going to get tossed out.
Police have no legal obligation to protect private property or persons…

[Still Thinking]

Headline starts out like one of those “Things David Bowie doesn’t want you to do” memes.

[j.havenfarm]

Of course I agree with the other posters, but in addition, in CA at least, this lawsuit would be barred by the Tort Claims Act, that is, sovereign immunity

[kiryandil]

It is to laugh.

[lightman]

Whichever.

It fits.

FReegards!

[sport]

They Probably don't want to be Chauvined. I don't blame them. Hell with them. They got what they prayed for. Let them ask George Floyd's disciples to protect them. Again, Hell with them.

[No name given]

Indeed.

[No name given]

Yep, go woke and you go broke.

[No name given]

Exactly!

[MinorityRepublican]

Chauvin should get out of prison now because they can’t protect him. But let’s be real. He was a dumb@ss.