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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Mike Bedigan

A postal worker died from a massive stroke while police and jail staff ignored him for hours. Now they face a federal lawsuit

Kingsley Fifi Bimpong was stopped by police on November 16 after driving the wrong way down a road and striking a curb with his vehicle - (Eagan Police Department)

The family of a U.S. postal worker who died from a massive stroke after his symptoms were ignored by police and jail staff for over five hours have filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota authorities.

Officers reportedly watched as Kingsley Fifi Bimpong writhed around in a pool of his own urine on the floor of a jail cell until he was “cold to the touch and foaming at the mouth,” the suit, obtained by The Independent, claims.

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