Can anyone tell me why George Floyd was stopped by the Cops in the first place? thanks
I found it, he tried to pass a $20.forgery for some cigarettes.
Because a clerk, in Mahmoud Abumayyaleh's store called the police. It's a requirement/policy in the state.
Owner of Minneapolis store that called police on George Floyd says he won't do it in the future
The owner of the Minneapolis store that called the police on George Floyd for a suspected counterfeit bill said he will not call authorities for such matters in the future.
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He said he was not present at the time a store clerk contacted police to report a man who allegedly tried using a forged $20 bill to purchase cigarettes.
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Abumayyleh said he will no longer abide by a state policy requiring stores to contact the police for suspected counterfeit currency in an effort to prevent similar incidents from escalating. As a check-cashing business, the store is required to call the police for suspected forgeries so the fake bill can potentially be traced to its origin, he said.
He tried to pass a fake Twenty. Someone in the store caught it and refused to take it.
Talk about Karma? (I don’t believe in Karma), He then CAME BACK to the same store and successfully passed the twenty, but the owner saw him leaving and realized he had just gotten away with passing it, so he called the cops. The rest is history.
He should have just gone home. Maybe he would have OD’d on the way home and we all could have been spared this tragedy.