Diamond Reynolds Sues Minnesota Mayor For Tweeting She’ll Spend Her Settlement Money On Crack

Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of Philando Castile who filmed a police officer shooting and killing her boyfriend received an $800,000 settlement in the case.

After the settlement, Tom McBroom, a Rice County Sheriff deputy and a city council member in Elysian tweeted, "She needs to come off County and State Aid now that she has some cash. It'll be gone in 6 months on crack cocaine," McBroom is now Mayor of Elysian and Reynolds is suing him.

The suit alleges that his tweet was defamatory, false and racially motivated.

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