Did the victim George Floyd and the executioner Derek Chauvin know each other before the deadly arrest on May 25? This is an intimate question that raises many questions as the world cries, and revolts, after the death of this 46-year-old African-American, killed on May 25 in Minneapolis by a white police officer and buried in Houston this Tuesday 9 June.
The former owner of the Maya Santamaria night club had previously explained to CBS that George Floyd and Derek Chauvin had worked for her at El Nuevo, a nightclub in Minneapolis. Both were part of the institution’s security team around the same time – George Floyd as a security guard “last year“and Derek Chauvin in his patrol car”for 17 years“she specifies.
If they both worked in the same place and at the same hours on Tuesday evenings, while a very popular dance competition was organized by the nightclub, the manager did not know if they knew each other personally. A former colleague of the two men, David Pinney, questioned on Tuesday by the television channel CBS News, dispel the doubt, affirming that not only “they knew each other pretty well“but above all that they”had already had problems” in the past.
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George Floyd and Derek Chauvin “had quarreled“David Pinney told CBS News without specifying a date.”It had to do with the fact that Derek was extremely aggressive in the club with some of the customers, which was a problem“, he explains.
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Testimony accrediting the family version of George Floyd, arguing that what happened on May 25 is partly a personal matter. Their lawyer wants Derek Chauvin to be charged with first degree murder “because we thought he knew who George Floyd was“.
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As for the question of racism of Derek Chauvin posed by the CBS chain to the former manager of the nightclub, the boss of El Nuevo answers: “I think he was scared and intimidated by black people“.
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