The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a record $27 million settlement with the family of George Floyd, whose homicide last summer prompted national protests and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement around the world, NBC News reports.

Floyd died after officers restrained him on the ground after being called to a store for a possible counterfeit $20 bill.  One of the officers who responded, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s back and neck while Floyd repeatedly said “I can’t breathe.” Floyd later died of “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression.”

Chauvin will stand trial starting next week in the case, in which he faces second and third degree murder and manslaughter charges, as well as other counts relating to the death of the 46-year-old Floyd.

Conservative media have tried to cast doubt on Floyd’s cause of death, even though it was independently verified by two medical examiners.  Conservative pundits claim that, because the autopsy found fentanyl and methamphetamine, he died of heart stoppage due to a drug overdose.

Video of the incident, which was broadcast worldwide, showed Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck and upper back as Floyd repeated said “I can’t breathe.”  Chauvin stayed in that position for more than eight minutes, even after Floyd became motionless.  People in some videos of the incident can be heard telling Chauvin and other officers that Floyd was unconscious.  In one, a martial arts expert yells at the police that the pressure they’re putting on Floyd will kill him.

The civil settlement with the city is believed to be the largest single settlement for the death of an individual in a civil wrongful death case.