MINNEAPOLIS – A judge has ordered Minneapolis to come to the table and attempt to settle a lawsuit filed by eight business owners in the south Minneapolis neighborhood where police killed George Floyd in 2020.
The business owners sued the city for $49 million in damages over its handling of the neighborhood in the aftermath of Floyd’s murder. They allege their businesses were damaged when they say police stopped responding to the area and let activists, gangs and crime take over.
The city filed a motion to have the case dismissed, but Hennepin County District Judge Laura M. Thomas last week granted the business owners’ request for mediation…