Posted on 06/11/2020 6:51:21 AM PDT by kevcol
A Minneapolis man is changing his story about the relationship between George Floyd and now-former police officer Derek Chauvin.
After telling CBS Evening News that the two men "bumped heads" while working together at Maya Santamaria's club as security guards, their former colleague David Pinney walked back his claim on Wednesday. Pinney said he had misidentified Floyd and that the man he believed was Floyd was actually a different black man who worked at the bar.
"There has been a mix up between George and another fellow co-worker," he wrote in an email sent to CBS News, a stunning reversal just a day after saying he knew Floyd "pretty well."
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Witness intimidation?
Then someone asked him to sign an affidavit
He hopes his phone will stop ringing now. :-)
>>”There has been a mix up between George and another fellow co-worker,”
I assume the other co-worker is still alive.
Does he agree that he bumped heads with Derek Chauvin? Context?
Might be a legitimate retraction, would otherwise have expected to see Big Media reporting that he’s been receiving death threats. :-)
Who knows? Frankly I don’t think that what happened was Chauvin settling a personal score. You’d have to be a complete idiot to do that in a public setting with witnesses and video cameras recording.
Unless the answer is he’s a complete idiot.
Didn’t want to testify
Lemme guess...they all look alike?
Totally political.
And all 6’5”?
Since there was no rough treatment until he was brought to the car (in broad daylight) it doesn’t seem as if there was any recognition between either of them or backstory on the handling.
And racism goes out the window because the other 2 occupants of the car did not receive such harsh treatment.
But I’d think that at least once when they both were working that a bouncer and a hired police officer would encounter one another as a patron was evicted and handed over to the officer to finish the eviction.
A patron throws a punch against the bouncer and the law doesn’t care. A patron throws a punch against a uniformed officer (working guard duty) and the law adds special charges to that assault.
Now the death threats will stop.
It’s a good thing for the prosecution that this claim did not come unglued in front of the jury.
The prosecution needs to create a clean storyline and stick to it. In amping up the charges they are already at odds with the original prosecution team.
The one thing the prosecution does not want is for jurors to have doubt - reasonable doubt - about which witness for the government they can believe.
The cops got to him. What is he saying...”they all look alike”? BS...in a small operation like that, everyone knows each other too well to make a mistaken ID.
Plain brown bag containing undisclosed amount of cash found on doorstep...??
Yep , smells like AL Sharpasapinhead again
Sounds like this guy ‘bumped heads’ with the Left after that interview came out.
The narrative has to remain one of racism. The white police officer killed the black guy because of racism and racism only. If it was just a personal beef between two coworkers, that hurts the systemic racism narrative. Keith Ellison wants the motive to be racism. Not a personal beef between two co-workers.
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