Did The Civil Rights Lawyers In The Floyd Case Leave Money On The Table

H. Michael Harvey, JD
5 min readApr 3, 2021

Is $27 million enough to set an example for other police departments?

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Two months after a stunned, pandemic world watched the killing of George Floyd at the corner of 8th Street East and Chicago Avenue, a battery of civil rights attorneys filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the three cops who…

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H. Michael Harvey, JD

Harvey is Living Now Book Awards 2020 Bronze Medalist for his memoir Freaknik Lawyer: A Memoir on the Craft of Resistance. Available at haroldmichaelharvey.com