#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.
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CONTINUED FROM THREAD ABOVE:
Transcript of the Floyd 911 call
https://www.newsweek.com/george-floyd-911-transcript-1507317
Operator: 911 what’s the address of the emergency?
Caller: This is ah 3759 Chicago AV.
Operator: How can I help you?
Caller: Um someone comes our store and give us fake bills and we realize it before he left the store, and we ran back outside, they was sitting on their car. We tell them to give us their phone, put their (inaudible) thing back and everything and he was also drunk and everything and return to give us our cigarettes back and so he can, so he can go home but he doesn’t want to do that, and he’s sitting on his car cause he is awfully drunk and he’s not in control of himself.
Operator: Okay, what type of vehicle does he have?
Caller: And... um he’s got a vehicle that is ah...ah he got a vehicle that is ah one second let me see if I can see the license. The driver license is BRJ026.
Operator: Okay, what color is it?
Caller: It’s a blue color. It’s a blue van.
Operator: Blue van?
Caller: Yes, van.
Operator: Alright blue van, gotcha. Is it out front or is it on 38th ST?
Caller: Ah it’s on 38th ST.
Operator: On 38th ST. So, this guy gave a counterfeit bill, has your cigarettes, and he’s under the influence of something?
Caller: Something like that, yes. He is not acting right.
Operator: What’s he look like, what race?
Caller: Um, he’s a tall guy. He’s like tall and bald, about like 6...6 1/2, and she’s not acting right so and she started to go, drive the car.
Operator: Okay so, female or a male?
Caller: Um...
Operator: Is it a girl or a boy?
Caller: (Talking to somebody else)—he’s asking (inaudible) one second. Hello?
Operator: Is it a girl or a boy that did this?
Caller: It is a man.
Operator: Okay. Is he white, black, Native, Hispanic, Asian?
Caller: Something like that.
Operator: Which one? White, black, Native, Hispanic, Asian?
Caller: No, he’s a black guy.
Operator: Alright (sigh).
Caller: How is your day going?
Operator: Not too bad.
Caller: Had a long day, huh?
Operator: What’s your name?
Caller: My name is REDACTED
Operator: Alright, a phone number for you?
Caller: REDACTED
Operator: Alright, I’ve got help on the way. If that vehicle or that person leaves before we get there, just give us a call back, otherwise we’ll have squads out there shortly, okay?
Caller: No problem.
Operator: Thank you.
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Earlier this week, police claimed in a statement that Floyd “physically resisted officers” during the arrest, but surveillance video from the Dragon Wok, a restaurant near Cup Foods, was reported to have contradicted this claim.
Mahmoud Abumayyaleh, the co-owner of Cup Foods, told CNN: “After one of our staff identified the $20 bill was fake, Floyd was actually out of the establishment and outside [of the store]. My staff called the police, doing a practice protocol. And when the police arrived, Floyd was still outside and that’s when they [police] approached him.”
A family member of Floyd “approached one of the officers asking him [the officer] to take his knee off his neck because he [Floyd] could not breathe. But he [the officer] pushed him over the curb and pushed him again past the curb, as it shows on the [surveillance] video,” Abumayyaleh said.
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OK ... “someone [OBVIOUSLY NOT GEORGE FLOYD WHO IS KNOWN TO OWNER AND REGULAR AT THE STORE] comes our store and give us fake bills and we realize it before he left the store [WHICH IS WHAT THE STORE OWNER SAID - THEY “CAUGHT” THE *OTHER* GUY], and we ran back outside, they was [NOW?] sitting on their car. We tell them to give us their phone, put their (inaudible) thing back and everything and he was also drunk and everything and return to give us our cigarettes back and so he can, so he can go home but he doesn’t want to do that, and he’s sitting on his car cause he is awfully drunk and he’s not in control of himself.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER GUY GETTING CAUGHT LEAVING AND 10 MINUTES LATER FLOYD CAME IN?
Operator: So, this guy gave a counterfeit bill, has your cigarettes, and he’s under the influence of something?
Caller: Something like that, yes. He is not acting right.
SOMETHING LIKE THAT? “HE”
Operator: What’s he look like, what race?
Caller: Um, he’s a tall guy. He’s like tall and bald, about like 6...6 1/2, and she’s not acting right so and she started to go, drive the car.
FLOYD IS 6’6” - and a half? this “witness” is really, really good! In his porn video, “Floyd the Landlord” says he’s 6’6”
Operator: Okay so, female or a male?
Caller: Um...
Operator: Is it a girl or a boy?
Caller: (Talking to somebody else)—he’s asking (inaudible) one second. Hello?
Operator: Is it a girl or a boy that did this?
Caller: It is a man.
WELL .. THE WITNESS IS NOT SO GOOD. Doesn’t know if it’s a girl or a boy that did this. Has to ask someone else (the person in the car behind the van taking the video?)
Operator: Okay. Is he white, black, Native, Hispanic, Asian?
Caller: Something like that.
Operator: Which one? White, black, Native, Hispanic, Asian?
Caller: No, he’s a black guy.
Operator: Alright (sigh).
AND NOTHING like a little small talk with the 911 operator:
Caller: How is your day going?
Operator: Not too bad.
Caller: Had a long day, huh?
THESE PEOPLE ARE STUPID!
Any questions?
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* No 'compare and contrast' between the murders of Seth Rich (Hillary campaign 2016) and Donald Young (Soetoro campaign 2007/2008).
* No intellectual curiosity on the personal linkages between the Minneapolis Mayor, the owner of the club where Chauvin and Floyd worked, relationship between Chauvin and Floyd prior to the incident, and anything about Chauvin's wife.
* No intellectual curiosity in Hillary's travel plans, meetings, and flights prior to her head injury in December 2012.
George Floyd’s Body Has Arrived In Houston
All of the local networks are showing coverage of the funeral cortege as it makes its way through the city, gathering mourners as it goes. /s