Posted on 06/11/2020 3:11:17 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A man who worked at the same club with George Floyd and Derek Chauvin – and previously told CBS News the two had "bumped heads" – changed his story Wednesday, saying he had mistaken Floyd for another unnamed African-American employee.
David Pinney told CBS News he worked at the same club where Chauvin and Floyd were employed to provide part-time security. Chauvin is the former police officer who is charged in Floyd's death.
In an interview with CBS News, parts of which aired Tuesday, Pinney had described a tense relationship between Chauvin and a man who he said was Floyd, and said that the two knew each other "pretty well."
On Wednesday, Pinney told CBS News in an email he had confused Floyd with someone else: "There has been a mix up between George and another fellow co-worker," he wrote.
The club's former owner, Maya Santamaria, had connected Pinney with CBS News. "She specifically said she was unable to give detail information about George because she did not have a close relationship with him as I did," Pinney said in the email. He said that led to his mistake.
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Paid, threatened, both?
Is he saying that blacks all look alike?/s
That’s what I was thinking...
Can’t deflect from the narrative
Told ya’ll these people said at first they didn’t know squat about these two and whether they actually even met at the club.
People sell stories to the thirsty media.
The story that the two of them had problems was circulating well before this guy started blabbing.
The nightclub owner changed her story too. Perhaps nothing more than looking for that 15 minutes of fame.
Somebody got to him, said he better ‘get his mind right’ if he knows what’s good for him.
“Nice X you got there. Be a shame it something was to happen to it!”
“I don’t - I never knew no godfather. I got my own family, Senator.”
Most likely speculation by the press once they found out they both worked at the same place. They like to make up things, throw things out there, see what sticks. It doesn't have to be true, but it sets a narrative that fits the media's need to create rumor and innuendo, and watch it grow. They stand back and watch to see how far it goes, and how long it lasts. They're as good as Goebbel's Propaganda machine.
Right this MUST be about race.
My first thought (without the /s).
The look on Chauvin’s face the entire time the video was taken, something stinks about this entire story. If you are doing something you know is wrong, and someone is taping you and you know you are being taped, wouldn’t you stop, Chauvin said nothing, his body language never changed, his facial expressions never changed, just a blank stare..something always stank about this story
What an article. It starts off saying he retracted the story without saying why beyond something about his manager asking him to comment. Then it spends the rest of the article restating his original statement - the one he just retracted - said.
Floyd was his boss, but he mistook him for someone else? Oh, it’s a kill the story that Floyd was the type to ‘butt heads’ and just go with Chauvin was ‘extremely aggressive’. ‘k? We can’t be messing with the Saint Floyd the Gentle Giant narrative, now.
got it.
Good point about the boss part. I would know the person who supervised me versus someone who kind of looked like him and worked at the nightclub but not on my team.
So were there any other supervisors there who looked like Floyd and worked during the time period when Pinney worked there?
I think “they” want to kill the story that Chauvin knew Floyd and killed him not because he was black but because he had some personal beef with him, because he was ordered to by his handlers, or because Floyd had some damaging information on him.
Too many coincidences abound. The police precinct, nightclub, and the factory that makes realistic human-looking dummies for re-enactments and movies all conveniently burn down.
One thing just now occurred to me. How much of a racist was Chauvin? I mean, he worked at that nightclub for years. That nightclub was not exactly a KKK hangout.
The owners and managers are really going to let him work there for years if non-whites complained about his treatment of them????
I predict an unfortunate accident in Pinney’s and Maya’s futures. Maybe they are getting really depressed thinking about it.
from what I recall, George Floyd worked at the club for 5 years, Chauvin for 17 years (one inside, one outside). however, security arrives, gets together, co-ordinates, etc.
therefore they must have more than bumped heads.
club owner originally said she had something like 20 security guards, for what later was said to be a small club with 34 tables, plus some VIP tables or whatever.
something’s fishy.
I doubt this suggestion but on the other hand, I've never believed there was a shred of racism involved in Floyd's death.... or at least there has been no evidence produced to support it. Police brutality... yes. But racism? The guy under Chauvin's knee could have been any colour including purple with green polka dots. Given that Chauvin was prepared to put his knee on somebody's neck, it was just a statistical probability that the person was black. There have been whites killed the same way and that too is just a statistical probability.
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