The inaction from law enforcement and their failure to seek medical care in response to stroke symptoms resulted in Bimpong’s death, according to the lawsuit. (Photo courtesy of city of Eagan)
A lawsuit filed by Minneapolis-based law firm Robins Kaplan LLP Thursday alleged several local and county officers ignored critical medical symptoms that led to a man’s death in November 2024.
Filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of the family of the late Kingsley Fifi Bimpong, the law firm sued three Eagan police officers, seven Dakota County correctional officers and Dakota County for the death of the 50-year-old Cottage Grove resident. The lawsuit alleges the officers acted with “deliberate indifference” over the course of about five-and-a-half hours while Bimpong grew gravely ill in custody…