A 50-year-old U.S. postal worker originally from Ghana, Kingsley Fifi Bimpong, has become the centre of a national outcry after his family filed a £94 million ($120 million) federal lawsuit accusing law enforcement and correctional officers in Minnesota of allowing him to die from a stroke they mistook for a drug overdose.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court by Robins Kaplan LLP, names the City of Eagan, Dakota County, three police officers, and seven correctional officers. It alleges deliberate indifference, negligence, and violations of Bimpong's constitutional rights, claiming that officials ignored repeated signs of medical distress, muted body cameras, and left him lying on a jail cell floor for hours as his condition deteriorated.
