The U.S. Department of Treasury advises that, if you received counterfeit currency bills, contact your local police department or your local US secret service office.
Here are their guidelines, taken from their website:
For your personal safety. . . PLEASE:
Do not put yourself in danger.
Do not return the bill to the passer.
Delay the passer with some excuse, if possible.
Observe the passer’s description - and their companions’ descriptions - and write down their vehicle license plate numbers if you can.
Contact your local police department OR call your local U.S. Secret Service Office.
Write your initials and date in the white border area of the suspected counterfeit note.
DO NOT handle the counterfeit note. Place it inside a protective cover, a plastic bag, or envelope to protect it until you place it in the hands of an IDENTIFIED Secret Service Agent.
Surrender the note or coin ONLY to a properly identified police officer or a Secret Service Special Agent, or mail it to your nearest U.S. Secret Service field office.
Of course, if one of your employees detects and confirms the counterfeit after the transaction, use video surveillance or any contact information given to give a profile to the police.
It might seem like overkill to contact the local authorities over a counterfeit $20 bill, but if you’re the employee, you put your job at risk for missing on fake bills. If you’re a business owner, you’re taking a loss and potentially putting your business’ reputation on the line if you give a counterfeit bill back from the register.
At your discretion, you can also choose to just not accept the counterfeit bill and end the transaction there to avoid any escalation. But whatever you decide, stay firm in your decision and don’t let emotions take over.
Thanks for those details.
And here’s a great article on FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3853179/posts
New York and California Freed Thousands of Criminals and the Riots Began
Free the criminals. Organize riots. Watch cities burn. Repeat.
Daniel Greenfield
New York City released over 2,650 criminals from prison to protect them from the pandemic. But they didn’t stay home or wash their hands. They went back to their old jobs and 100 of them accounted for 190 arrests for crimes like burglary and robbery. A rapist was released and he went back to raping.
One of the freed criminals was responsible for 18 burglaries at closed eateries. And when he was arrested, the end of bail meant that he was set loose. This looting was going on long before the riots.
Now as the rioters and looters rule the streets of Manhattan, when the police manage to arrest them, they have to quickly let them go.
“When it comes to a burglary, a commercial store, which is looting, they’re back out,” Chief Terrence Monahan said. “Because of bail reform, you’re back out on the street the next day. You cannot be held on any sort of bail.”
Of the 650 thugs arrested, almost all will be released back on the street to riot and loot again.
Los Angeles County released about 5,000 criminals accounting for around a third of imprisoned criminals. And with no bail, arrested criminals were set loose and then arrested again. In the first 30 days of the experiment, 213 criminals were rearrested again after being put back on the street.
Sacramento County’s jail population fell 30%, Orange County’s prison numbers dropped by 45%, Detroit’s jail population dropped by 40%, Philadelphia’s by 17%, and Denver’s by 41%. Massachusetts freed 1,000 criminals while Illinois freed around 4,000. Dallas released 1,000 criminals and Hennepin County, the home of the riots that went on to sweep major cities, reduced its prison population by 44%.
What impact did the hundreds of released criminals have on kickstarting the riots?
[More on FR link]
I didn’t see the interview...only read the NBC article.
the store owner was interviewed. He wasn’t even at the store that day.
The article says: “Roughly 10 minutes later, Floyd came back in the store and used a suspicious $20 bill, according to the owner.”
All hearsay? why didn’t they talk with the employee?
#FakeNews CNN Transcript: Store Owner Explains Why Police Were Called On George Floyd
MAHMOUD ABUMAYYALEH, CO-OWNER, CUP FOODS: After one of our staff identified the $20 bill was fake, Floyd was actually out of the establishment and outside. My staff called the police, doing practice protocol, and the police arrived. Floyd was still outside, and that’s when they approached him.
LEMON: Yes. So, just — I want to make sure we get all of this correct. A family member later witnessed a police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck, tried to intervene. Tell us about what he saw.
ABUMAYYALEH: He approached one of the officers, asking him to take his knee off his neck because he could not breathe. He pushed him over the curve and pushed him, again, past the curve as it shows on the video.
LEMON: So, Mike, new video is out today that appears to show Floyd didn’t resist, at least the video that we have seen. We’re awaiting now the body cam video. It has been released. We — CNN is reviewing it now.
But the video that we saw, this surveillance video, didn’t resist arrest as the police described. You said that you’ve been asked by investigators not to release your surveillance video publicly. But have you been able to look at this surveillance video?
ABUMAYYALEH: I did view it on Tuesday after the — after the death of Floyd.
LEMON: And?
ABUMAYYALEH: And what I seen was devastating. It was very heartbreaking. And our condolences go to the family and friends of George Floyd.
LEMON: Did you see resistance?
ABUMAYYALEH: No.
LEMON: On the video tape that you have, your surveillance video, you see no resistance from George Floyd?
ABUMAYYALEH: Our camera angle shows exactly what was recorded as the outside bystander. What I seen is exactly what you’re seeing.
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“After one of our staff identified the $20 bill was fake, Floyd was actually out of the establishment and outside. My staff called the police, doing practice protocol, and the police arrived. Floyd was still outside, and that’s when they approached him.”
— oh really ... so while we’ve been trying to figure out what required so much time to pass in these regards, we now have to add more time into the picture? According to his other interview, the clerk did not know he had accepted a counterfeit $20 from Floyd, whom the owner knew well, but somehow realized he had later, didn’t call his boss, but then did follow “practice protocol” to call the police? All the while knowing that Floyd was in the car outside with another car parked behind it taking video? Seriously?
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LEMON: Yes. So, just — I want to make sure we get all of this correct. A family member later witnessed a police officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck, tried to intervene. Tell us about what he saw.
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I’d forgotten about this - the gal in the car was his sister? The other guy who’s with her is still unknown? But the clerk never bothered to tell the police that the guy they weren’t paying attention to was the one they’d actually caught trying to pass a counterfeit bill?
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ABUMAYYALEH: He approached one of the officers, asking him to take his knee off his neck because he could not breathe. He pushed him over the curve and pushed him, again, past the curve as it shows on the video.
The store owner wasn’t there! How does he know that? and in such detail?
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ABUMAYYALEH: Our camera angle shows exactly what was recorded as the outside bystander. What I seen is exactly what you’re seeing.
Which “angle” is that? We now know that angle doesn’t seemingly exist and it would make sense that a “surveillance camera” in the store ON THE OTHER BLOCK would be exactly what is recorded right in front of the store with no people ON THE OTHER BLOCK.
“Q”: “Bigger than you can possibly imagine.”
ME: Indeed!
WWG1WGA :)
Any idea what a “practice protocol” is?