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		</div><p>George Floyd’s family has filed a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and the four police officers charged in his death.</p>
<p>They allege the officers violated Mr Floyd’s rights when they restrained him and that the city allowed a culture of excessive force, racism and impunity to flourish in its police force.</p>
<p>The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in Minnesota, was announced by Ben Crump and other lawyers representing Mr Floyd’s family members.</p>
<p>“This complaint shows what we have said all along, that Mr Floyd died because the weight of the entire Minneapolis Police Department was on his neck,” Mr Crump said in a statement.</p>
<p>“The city of Minneapolis has a history of policies, procedures and deliberate indifference that violates the rights of arrestees, particularly black men, and highlights the need for officer training and discipline.”</p>
<p>Mr Crump said the action seeks to set a precedent “that makes it financially prohibitive for police to wrongfully kill marginalised people – especially black people – in the future.”</p>
<p>Mr Floyd died on May 25 after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee against his neck for nearly eight minutes as Mr Floyd said he could not breathe.</p>
<p>Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.</p>
<p>Three other officers at the scene – Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J Kueng – are charged with aiding and abetting both second-degree murder and manslaughter.</p>
<p>All four officers were fired the day after Mr Floyd’s death, which set off protests that spread around the world.</p>
<p>His death also sparked calls to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a new public safety department.</p>
<p>A majority of city council members support the move, saying the department has a long history and culture of brutality that has resisted change.</p>
<p>A public hearing is planned later on Wednesday on the proposal, which requires a change in the city’s charter that could go to voters in November.</p>
<p>The lawsuit comes on the same day that a court allowed public viewing by appointment of video from the body cameras of Lane and Kueng.</p>
<p>A coalition of news organisations and lawyers for Lane and Kueng have been advocating to make the videos public, saying they would provide a more complete picture of what happened when Mr Floyd was taken into custody.</p>
<p>The judge has not said why he is not allowing the video to be disseminated more widely.</p>
<p>According to documents in state probate court, Mr Floyd is survived by 11 known heirs, including five children and six siblings.</p>
<p>They live in Texas, North Carolina, Florida and New York.</p>
<p>All but one of Floyd’s children are adults.</p>
<p>He has no living parents or grandparents.</p>
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