This is a very interesting question. And one area where the defense might have an advantage. Chauvin must have known and had some interaction with Floyd. But right now Chauvin knows all of the details and the prosecution only knows what it could glean from interviewing other employees.
If you go back six years ago...way before Floyd’s death...the club they both worked at...had this reputation as a money-laundering operation. What was said in 2015, on some bust of the club...Mexican drug-cartel members were active and this was their operation.
I think if you asked the question, where did this counterfeit $20-bill come from that triggered the call from the grocery that morning, it’d open up a lot more discussions about the club connection. I don’t think Chauvin wants to open that discussion.
My humble guess is that when Chauvin got the call to go over to the grocery about a counterfeit $20 situation...then came to face Floyd, this was a totally messed-up situation. This was all going to come back to the El Nuevo Ranch Club, and it’s ‘owners’.
One other thing to bring up. Floyd had only worked at the club for roughly a year. He’d been brought in as a bouncer for ‘black-events’, and stayed on. Chauvin? He’d been there for 17 years. Even after the money-laundering business in 2015...he never left.