Posted on 05/29/2020 3:52:36 AM PDT by max americana
Floyd which claims he 'was awfully drunk and not in control of himself when he tried to pay with a counterfeit $20bill'
DAILY MAIL UK MAY 29, 2020
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The store clerk who called 911 on George Floyd complained to an operator about an 'awfully drunk' man who was 'not in control of himself'.
A call transcript released by the Minnesota Police Department on Thursday reveals that the caller reported a customer for using a counterfeit bill to buy cigarettes.
The caller said staff only realized the money could be fake once he left the Cup Foods store in Minneapolis. Someone followed him out and demanded he turn in his phone and the cigarettes before he was allowed to leave, however he refused.
'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,' the caller explained to the operator on Monday around 8.30pm.
Floyd was accompanied by two people at the scene however their identities are unknown.
'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,' the clerk continued.
'And he's sitting on his car cause he is awfully drunk and he's not in control of himself.'
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yea you’re right they walked him away to kill him.
JFC all the cop haters here, are you a fan of BLM? You happy one of their supporters killed 7 cops in Dallas in ONE day?
Sickening. Jim needs to clean some of these accounts up.
What will you say if they found he was so inebriated/drugged he couldn’t stand up at times, that he fell to the pavement twice before they even got him away from his vehicle....that he actually vomited while the officer had him pinned down? That he was incoherent and resisted being put into the police vehicle?
Get a grip there snarkytart.
Citizens are allowed to ask questions of their government. If the perp is struggling...why frog march him across 4 lanes of traffic out of security camera 2 view? Then have a cop car pull up to block the camera view across the street so...
no one can see what really was happening over there?
Exactly right, and even with this new information I'm betting there's more that will come out still.
The old saying "a lie gets half-way around the world before the truth gets its pants on" applies here.
This is going to be a long, slow, drip, drip, drip of information coming out.
Can you cite that? I can understand a knee in the back even when the suspect is handcuffed and on the ground. He may thrash about injuring himself.
I would say that he was cuffed and there was no reason he had to keep his knee on his neck. The man could of died from a drug overdoes, he still doesn’t excuse the fact that they could of had him sit up with his back to a police car.
Uh oh, I thought he was out trying to buy food for his hungry family?
exactly
Security camera 2 shows he cooperated all the way across the street. If they had placed him in the vehicle closest to the arrest would the outcome have been different?
That security camera had a clear view until the other police car pulled around blocking the ability to record the incident.
It just seems awfully coincidental that happened that way. And even if body cameras show some struggle at the other police car...we’re still missing a piece of the puzzle.
I refuse to join the media in adding a motive or racial bias to this event. I also want to see all the facts before weaponizing what happened. I refuse to call this riot a protest. The THUGS don’t deserve that respect. As I have said often, I’d like to see local police departments disbanded leaving folks to police themselves. That works for me, and frankly I wouldn’t give a damn at what would happen in blue cities.
I think we’ll find Floyd was very much intoxicated/drugged and this contributed to his death.....possibly even caused it.
He did vomit, seen before and after they lifted him on to the Emt cart.....and he lost control of his urine as well.
Opioid overdose can lead to decreased respiratory effort and possibly death......there is an excessive effect on the portion of the brain regulating respiratory rate, resulting in respiratory depression and eventually death.
Problem with illicit drugs made in the clandestine laboratories is that many can’t even be detected with the normal toxicological screens because the levels are so low or varied.
My real life incident: I was in biker bar some years back and some guy jumped me from behind and we went down due to momentum. A waitress walking by went down with us. Being the closet to her, she put me in a genuine chock hold. As my friends were pulling the Cholo off me, I could barely turn my head to her and managed to sputter out, "Stacy, it's me". She recognized me and let go.
I could barely breathe when I managed those few words. A couple more seconds and I probably would have passed out. So yes, you can have very restricted airflow and still manage a few words. The above all happened in seconds, unlike the officer's knee on Floyd for minutes.
From the video and photos, I believe the knee was cutting off the carotid artery to the brain along with some pressure on the trachea (windpipe). With an honest Medical Examiner, we'll find out the cause of death in this incident. Until then, the mobs (rioters) will loot and burn down their own towns.
The police obviously determine the best and safest way to transport criminals. I won’t buy into your idea they were avoiding camera’s.
Does that relieve the officer of his responsibility in this. Probably not...however the guy was having difficulty standing, sitting and walking without assistance from the get go.
I think we're going to find he was likely intoxicated/drugged , belligerent and incoherent. As for the officer's conduct....that remains a question if or not he went too far in securing the guy. But he certainly wasn't there to deliberately murder anyone.
I used to work in Law Enforcement. Nobody is happy about being arrested.
Thank you. I often have to bite my tongue, and step away from posters that can’t make that simple distinction. Pet peeve of mine...
So your answer then, is “no”.
Attack what you think I meant all you want to.
You can’t come up with a “whole story” that ends with kneeling on a handcuffed man’s neck for eight minutes as an appropriate action for a police officer.
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