I don’t know why the cops were called. If the cashier thought the bill was a phony, just don’t accept the bill.
It was a single $20 bill, not hundreds of dollar of $20s.
probably because it was an attempted crime- or ‘possible attempted crime’ (Person with the bill might not have known it was fake- though i suspect floyd did know- but that’s just a personal opinion of mine based on the fact that he was a career criminal- and all around bad actor- hopped up on drugs- driving around high- didn’t seem like he was ‘trying to turn his life around’ as some claim to me)
I don’t know if clerks are required to call it in no matter the size of hte bill or not- might be required to
So, Floyd had a counterfeit $20. How many of us could be given such a bill? “Here George, here’s the money I owe you!” George: “Thanks Frank, maybe I’ll more Vikings shirts for you next month.”
When the store clerk realized it was counterfeit, was there a refusal to accept it? Did George run out of he store with his cigarettes? All this could have ended if George said, “Buy George, that must have been a bad $20 I was given. Here, I’ll trade it for a good $20. I have a friend who I need some answers.”
Excuse my typos and missing words in my reply.