Kanye West continues to create outrage.
The outspoken rapper contended in a brand new interview that George Floyd died of the drug fentanyl, and never from the actions of the Minnesota police officer who was convicted of his homicide.
“They hit him with the fentanyl. When you look, the man’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that,” West claimed on Sunday’s episode of the Revolt TV present “Drink Champs.”
West, 45, made the declare after saying he lately attended the premiere of “Biggest Lie Ever Offered: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM,” a documentary by conservative commentator Candace Owens.
Floyd died in Might 2020 after officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for about 9 minutes. Chauvin was sentenced to 22½ years behind bars final 12 months on homicide and manslaughter expenses in Minnesota, and 21 years in July after a federal trial.
West’s feedback may immediate authorized motion, civil rights lawyer Lee Merritt mentioned Sunday.
“Whereas one can't defame the useless, the household of #GeorgeFloyd is contemplating swimsuit for Kanye’s false statements concerning the method of his dying,” Merritt tweeted. “Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines & diminishes the Floyd household’s struggle.”
West was additionally essential throughout the interview of comic Pete Davidson, who dated the rapper’s ex, Kim Kardashian, after she filed for divorce final 12 months. He referenced Kardashian lately saying on the Hulu sequence “The Kardashians” that her grandmother as soon as raved about having intercourse in entrance of a fireside.
“Kim is a Christian,” West, who has 4 children with Kardashian, mentioned on “Drink Champs.”
“On TMZ, I simply noticed yesterday, they mentioned, ‘Pete Davidson and Kim have intercourse by the hearth to honor their grandmother.’ It’s Jewish Zionists that’s about that life, that’s telling this Christian lady that has 4 Black kids to place that out as a message within the media.”
West’s look on the present follows a string of controversial conduct by the rapper, whose Instagram account was restricted earlier this month after he allegedly made anti-Semitic feedback.
The American Jewish Committee accused West of “Anti-Jewish posts,” pointing to a display shot of a textual content message dialog with rapper Diddy wherein West allegedly wrote, “Ima use you for example to point out the Jewish those who instructed you to name me that nobody can threaten or affect me.”
In the meantime, a tweet wherein West mentioned he would go “dying con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” was taken down from that platform.