Police release 911 call to arrest George Floyd which claims he 'was awfully drunk and not in control

daily mail UK ^ | may 29, 2020 | leah simpson

[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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[mel]

Floyd was on ground cuffed

[caww]

George Floyd wasn’t innocent...at 46 yr’s old he was still engaged with criminal activity and abuse of substances. Also having a decade of other criminal activity.

Tired of people painting pictures of habitual criminals proclaiming by family members they’re some sort of nice-guy upstanding citizen turning their life around!!

Yes... the police have to account for their actions in this arrest but this guy was no saint!

[DCBryan1]

MSM: "...but...but....but this is all Trumps fault and his supporters!

US Senator(s) from MN: BOTH DEMOCRAT

US 3rd Dist. Congress"man" from Hennipen Co, MN: DEMOCRAT

US 4th Dist. Congresswoman from St, Paul MN: DEMOCRAT

US 5th Dist. Congressmullah from riot-central MN: DEMOCRAT

Governor of MN: DEMOCRAT

Mayors of Minneapolis/Saint Paul, MN: : DFL/DEMOCRAT

City Council of Minneapolis, MN: : 12 DEMOCRATS, 1 Green Party

City Council of Saint Paul, MN: : ALL DEMOCRATS

MPLS Police Chief: DEMOCRAT

St Paul, MN Police Chief: DEMOCRAT

Hennepin Co (MPLS) Sheriff (first gay Midwest sheriff): DEMOCRAT

[caww]

Well with the crowd recording these days as they do there’s always Drama played out by those caught in criminal activity. The “I can’t breath” is standard or “You’re hurting me”....because they know it works in court.

[mel]

He quit moving and talking and cop kept knee there even after he was told blood coming from nose

[New Jersey Realist]

I try hard to discount conspiracy theories but a lot of people are claiming that this is all a hoax and was staged. I refuse to believe that because it makes no sense to me but if this guy gets a closed coffin funeral I will reconsider.

[bigdaddy45]

The second most disturbing thing in this picture (WAY less relevant than the most disturbing thing) is the chicken arms on this cop. Aren’t there some basic physical fitness requirements for Minneapolis cops?

[heartwood]

“If you can talk, you can breathe.”

____________

When people are experiencing shortness of breath or respiratory distress, they can often still talk. They use two or three words to tell you that. And what they say is “I can’t breathe.” Using short sentences is a diagnostic characteristic of respiratory distress.

If George Floyd were saying “I can’t breathe because you have your knee on my neck you cracker mofo,” you could say he was still breathing pretty well. If he said “I am experiencing some degree of respiratory distress and it seems to be getting worse,” ditto.

When he says, “I can’t breathe,” that is” what people in true respiratory distress say. As do people having panic attacks (except they tend to use lots of words) or people trying to rattle cops.

When he becomes silent, limp, unresponsive and incontinent, well, it looks like he was both truthful and correct.

No more BS about if you can talk, you can breathe. I have seen too many patients go south after telling me they can’t breathe.

“Can’t. Breathe.” “Hard to breathe.” “Hurts.” If anyone ever talks like that to you, please call them an ambulance and help them into a position of comfort. Don’t tell them they are breathing just fine.

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

Here is video prior to the cop taking a knee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUhatOhtnPI

Doesn't look like he's resisting at all.

I don't have much sympathy for George Floyd. If you choose to live a life of drug and alcohol abuse and criminality, bad things are going to happen. It may even cost your life. He chose poorly in the game of life. I have no sympathy for the cop. If you're entrusted with the authority we collectively grant police officers you'd better be worthy of that trust. If you don't live up to that bad things will happen. It may even cost your life. He chose poorly as well.

[Responsibility2nd]

Bad policing?

You blame the death of Floyd and the subsequent rioting on bad policing?

I blame the citizens of Minneapolistan. They elected democrats. They deserve the government they elected and all the after effects that naturally result from such stupidity.

Catch and Release. This liberal policy not only applied to career thug Floyd, but to career thug Chauvin. The cop who had 18 previous complaints against him.

[skinndogNN]

Nobody likes to be arrested and handcuffed and nobody likes to be manhandled.

[Pollster1]

We also don’t know what precipitated 3 cops holding him down. Conveniently our watchdog media has not found any video showing WHY the 3 officers pinned him to the ground.

That bothers me a lot. I have looked for video covering the period between the security video of Floyd sitting against a wall and the cell phone video of Floyd on the ground. I assume that video exists but is intentionally not being made public. Whether the police have it and are embarrassed or leftists have it and it refutes the narrative is something we don't know, but that time gap is important.

My personal inclinations? I shoot with a number of good cops - people I like and trust. I have encountered bad cops - thugs who are corrupt and frighten me because they carry a badge. There is good and bad in most groups, including police (who are mostly good). I don't know enough to judge this situation, and I assume the necessary information is being intentionally withheld.

[VanDeKoik]

“You blame the death of Floyd and the subsequent rioting on bad policing?”

Sometimes I wonder if people on FR have the reading comprehension similar to leftists on Reddit.

[Moonman62]

to our white-guilt, cop-hating Freepers who dont wait until more evidence comes out after a racial incident :)

...

Lynchings don’t require evidence, fairness, or patience, but justice does.

[Hugh the Scot]

Can you explain why
“how he ended up on the ground in cuffs”
has anything to do with
“having a knee in his neck until he lost consciousness” afterward?

[snarkytart]

really? you don’t need the full story huh?

here is something you don’t wanna know...why aren’t there charges?

WHY he died matters, no?? You just assuming it’s because of the knee?? Okay Quincey didn’t know you had your ME license.

[Almondjoy]

There is nothing cop hating about recognizing that a knee on a neck for 8 minutes with several officers is completely un-necessary. We do need to wait for the autopsy to determine what the damage is from that particular action.

[EBH]

He appears pretty cooperative until they walk him all the way across the street to the distant police car. Almost like the police knew they were on camera and didn’t want what transpired next to be recorded.

[caww]

Would like to see the other side of Floyd's vehicle as he went down twice to the pavement before they even got him to the sidewalk......was he resisting or just falling down drunk? or both?

While he sat there he's banging his head against his knee. Would be nice to know what verbal exchange was going on. Clearly he was not happy about being arrested.

Additionally there are two other people who got out of the vehicle. So now you already have three people in this arrest scene.

I don't see anything there the cops are doing wrong....but the guys not happy he's being arrested and clearly making a fuss....

This is the police video of the officers trying to help or get him out of his vehicle....apparently he's intoxicated....he dropped down twice before they even got him to the sidewalk....that's the rest of the video I would like to see. was he resisting or drunk and both???

At the side walk he's still clearly upset he's been arrested, knocks his head against his knee....

[EBH]

No, they strutted him across the street to a different police car. He wasn’t next to or anywhere near the security camera from the store when this happened. Why?