According to George Floyd’s family lawyer, George Clooney is paying attention to the developments in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, former police officer in Minneapolis.
Chauvin, 45, is facing charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter in Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020.
Lawyer Benjamin Crump, who is the lawyer for the Floyd family, virtually appeared on ‘The View’ on Thursday and was co-presented with Joy Behar as co-presenter that Clooney (59) is so entrenched in societal issues that the Oscar-winning actor often emails Crump with ideas on how to drive social change.
Clooney, who shares three-year-old twins Alexander and Ella with wife Amal Clooney, just wants his children to ‘live in a better world’, Crump said.
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He added that Clooney also emailed him about how he should respond to Chauvin’s lawyers’ suggestion that an overdose of drugs cause Floyd’s death and not Chauvin’s knee, which he said on Floyd’s neck for almost ten minutes. held.
The lawyer remembers the email he received from the “Money Monster” star.
” Attorney Crump, you should tell them if Derek Chauvin feels so confident that he has to volunteer during his case, to get on the floor in the courtroom, and allow someone to come to their knee for 9 minutes on his neck to sit and 29 seconds and can see if he can survive, ‘reads the email.
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A rep for Clooney confirmed to Entertainment Tonight on Thursday that the actor had sent the email to Crump. A rep for Clooney did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
During his interview on ‘The View’, Crump said that ‘the experts in this case would think that the average person can go from 30 seconds to 90 seconds without oxygen – where George Floyd was more than 429 seconds without oxygen. , and therefore it was intentional what this officer did. ‘
“And I believe in my heart, Joy Behar, that he will be held criminally liable and that this will hopefully set a new precedent in America,” Crump added.
George Clooney, who shares three-year-old twins Alexander and Ella with his wife Amal Clooney, is gone, and simply wants his children to ‘live in a better world’, Benjamin Crump, a family lawyer for George Floyd, told Thursday Said ‘The View’.
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Meanwhile, in December, the ‘Midnight Sky’ artist regrets the ‘pretty rotten year’ 2020 was ‘completely’ in a conversation with Yahoo! Entertainment.
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“Start with the death of Kobe Bryant. It was one catastrophe after another,” Clooney said at the time. “And all the racial unrest with the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. We had all these things that just felt oppressive to us. I see a lot of light at the end of these tunnels.”