Posted on 03/31/2024 10:30:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The City of Minneapolis has reached a tentative settlement with a man who filed a lawsuit after witnessing George Floyd's murder.
Court documents obtained by WCCO show the city attorney's plans to present the agreement to the City Council on April 25.
If the council approves, Mayor Jacob Frey then has seven days to approve or veto the settlement.
The agreement is with Donald Williams. He can be seen on Tou Thao's body cam video asking the now-former officers to intervene.
In the lawsuit, Williams said Thao and Derek Chauvin taunted Floyd, Williams and other bystanders who expressed concern and that Thao placed his hand on Williams' chest. Williams took those actions as threats and, the lawsuit says, he was fearful for his safety and the safety of the other witnesses.
williams-testifies.jpg Donald Williams II testified that he watched police restraining George Floyd and called 911. "I believe I witnessed a murder," he said in court. WCCO/POOL While Chauvin kneeled on Floyd's neck, he threatened Williams and other bystanders with a can of mace, shaking it at them after Williams expressed concern for Floyd, according to the lawsuit.
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Williams claims he has suffered emotional distress, pain, suffering, humiliation, embarrassment and medical expenses. He's seeking damages in excess of $50,000.
Williams, a former wrestler and a mixed martial arts fighter who also worked security, testified during Chauvin's trial. He said Chauvin appeared to increase the pressure on Floyd's neck with a shimmying motion and in response, he had yelled at Chauvin that he was cutting off Floyd's blood supply.
Williams was asked during the trial if he grew angrier as the arrest continued, and he agreed that he did. He also didn't disagree when a lawyer for Chauvin said Williams also called Chauvin names multiple times including "tough guy" and a "bum."
good will be considered evil and evil, good.
This is evidently not a George Floyd thing, but a cop vs. witness thing.
You can’t have a witness standing right next to a cop during an altercation. And you can’t have an aggressive cop push a witness further back than he needs to go.
The Supreme Court needs to issue some guidance on this. Some folks say ten feet should be the standard. That seems way too close to me. But if it’s too far back, a witness might not be able to record audio. And a witness has that right.
If George Floyd was white, we never would have heard the name.
It's WAY out of hand, now, and intentionally being done as an "in-your-face" scheme via OWNED media, Prosecutors, and Judges, to enforce the "New World Order".
Politicians will do ANYTHING (with other people's money) to buy votes of targeted constituencies.
Search for the documentary The Fall of Minneapolis and you’ll learn the true story of the George Floyd scam.
This was used to enact the chaos and mayhem
"I want my check!"
He didn’t have to stand there.
Everyone and their cousin gets a check. Where’s mine?
Yep. The man witnessed something that never happened. Saint George died of a drug overdose.
George Floyd was not murdered.
Total farce. We live in an age of lies.
Donald Williams, 35, pleaded not guilty to domestic assault after being accused of strangling and striking his ex-girlfriend during an incident outside the Minnesota State Fair in 2022.
Court records show prosecuting attorneys dropped the charges in late August this year after an agreement that saw Williams plead guilty to a domestic abuse no-contact order violation involving the same victim. . .
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