George Floyd civil settlement - Daylight savings time proposal - Anti-Beijing alliance

[Ben Crump, the civil rights lawyer who is among those representing Mr. Floyd’s family] said on Friday that the settlement was the largest ever reached before trial in a civil rights wrongful death lawsuit involving the police. As the settlement was announced, [the officer who killed Floyd, Derek Chauvin] sat in a courtroom less than a mile away, where jurors were being selected for his trial.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called the agreement a milestone for Minneapolis’s future. But legal experts said the agreement might make it even harder to seat an impartial jury in the case against Mr. Chauvin, which was already a challenge because of the attention given to Mr. Floyd’s death and the intense demonstrations that followed.
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Minneapolis pays its settlements out of a fund for legal payouts and workers’ compensation claims, and residents have expressed concern that their taxes are subsidizing payments for the misconduct of the police while failing to hold officers accountable. Activists have pushed for legislation that would require officers to carry their own liability insurance, with premiums that could rise after cases of misconduct.