Royal Caribbean Cruise
Drunk Passenger Died Like ‘George Floyd’
… Household Legal professional Claims
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The Royal Caribbean Cruise passenger whose household not too long ago filed a wrongful dying lawsuit was served a staggering quantity of booze earlier than he was asphyxiated by safety guards … identical to George Floyd, the household’s lawyer tells TMZ.
Bear in mind, we broke the story … Michael Virgil’s household filed a lawsuit Monday in opposition to the cruise line following his dying final December after consuming a ton of alcoholic drinks.
Legal professional Kevin Haynes now tells TMZ … Virgil was allegedly served a combination of beer and onerous alcohol — consuming as many as 33 drinks over seven hours earlier than he stumbled away fully wasted to search for his household of their cabin. Regardless that Virgil had a vast drink package deal, Haynes nonetheless says there’s gotta be limits!
In line with the lawsuit, Michael’s drunken seek for his household was fruitless … which made him so agitated he ripped off his shirt and broke down doorways.
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Haynes tells us … safety guards had been summoned and put their full physique weight on Virgil, “asphyxiating” him for roughly 3 minutes. That, coupled with all of the booze in his system together with sedatives, triggered Virgil’s dying, in line with Haynes and the L.A. County Medical Examiner’s report. Haynes underscored that Virgil’s dying “had echoes of George Floyd.”
The swimsuit goes on to say Virgil fell sufferer to “the excessive force and fatal actions taken by crew members,” who “administered an injection of a sedative medication, Haloperidol, and used multiple cans of pepper spray.”
What’s extra, Haynes says Royal Caribbean refused to show over surveillance video to see who served Virgil all of the alcohol.
The FBI launched an investigation, Haynes says, however the present standing of the probe is unclear. We have reached out to Royal Caribbean and the FBI for remark … to this point, no phrase again.
