Owner Of Cup Foods, Where Police First Encountered George Floyd, Calls For Justice

[geardaddy]

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/05/28/owner-of-cup-foods-where-police-first-encountered-george-floyd-calls-for-justice/

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The owner of the south Minneapolis convenient store where police first made contact with George Floyd is speaking out.

He says officers were called because of a counterfeit 20 dollar bill Floyd used to buy a pack of cigarettes.

Owner Mahmod Abumayaleh says he is with community in wanting justice for the Floyd family.

For 31 years, Cup Foods has been a part of this South Minneapolis community.

“We don’t just work in the community that is our community we know the community it’s a vibe that is unmatched to any other community it’s the best thing to happen to our family,” said Abumayyaleh.

The family owned business has come under fire, after a phone call to police about the passing of a counterfeit 20 dollar bill led to 46 year-old African-American man George Floyd begging a Minneapolis police officer for his life.

“I was no there. The staff that called police followed protocol when he identified the bill was fake. The patron was out of the establishment when the police arrived, he was outside of the establishment which normally never takes place why he was still there were not sure,” Abumayyaleh said.

https://cbsloc.al/3cbg3UW

[jmg257]

1. Is the business even there now? Hit pretty hard by looting.

[geardaddy]

4. That was probably Cub Foods. That's a regional chain.

Cup Foods is an independent small grocery on 38th and Chicago.

[jmg257]

5. Ah thanks! Appreciate the info.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

15. I thought that was a misspelling, myself.

I'm quite familiar with Cub Foods, although it seems that HyVee stores have popped up in the Twin Cities in the past few years like tribbles and there seems to be quite a competition going on.

It's weird seeing my childhood grocery store (Sioux Falls) now in the Twin Cities.

[sop]

2. He was still out front because he probably had no idea he'd passed a counterfeit $20 bill.

[Budi]

3. Great article. Thanks, so there isn't even proof of an intentional crime nor resisting arrest

None of which warrented the brutal death.

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"Owner Mahmoud Abumayyaleh says what happened on the street outside his establishment should never have ended with a man dying.

“Most of the times when patrons give us a counterfeit bill they don’t even know its fake so when the police are called there is no crime being committed just wat to know where it came from and that’s usually what takes place this was a very circumstantial event that ended in a tragedy and unfortunately we are taking a lot of animosity,” he said.

SNIP

Cup Food owners say video from the store, which they have been asked not to release, shows Floyd was not resisting officers.

They have offered to pay for Floyd’s funeral expenses.

[geardaddy]

6. Thanks

George Floyd was targeted by MPD plain and simple.

[Budi]

9. Which one stayed to do follow-up on the $20 bill? Or did they just omit that part in their report.

Let's take this from the beginning & walk through the steps necessary, from the initial call.
Bet they didn't do a damned thing. Just out for a kill.

Where's the fake $20 bill?
🤬

[geardaddy]

10. Bingo.

[Budi]

13. The look on Chauvin's face looked just like Don jr holding his safari kill

Anyone do photoshop?

[LizBeth]

7. Maybe he was still there because he did not know it was fake. That would be the obvious. This is the

inherent racism. Any one of us could have gasped at it being fake and gotten empathy having lost out on 20. They ASSUME big time he purposely passed a fake bill. That alone calls out the bullshit. Then further for him to still be out there pretty much seals the deal. But here is the thing, it would be ASSUMED I did not know it was fake.

[geardaddy]

8. I think that is the most plausible explanation.

He didn't know it was counterfeit. Did the store employees even tell him it was counterfeit?

[mercuryblues]

11. That is what I have thought from the beginning

If, it it was fake he probably didn't know it.

[LisaL]

17. According to 911 call, he appeared to be highly intoxicated.

Which is presumably why he was still there.

"Caller: Um 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. 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, and he's sitting on his car cause he is awfully drunk and he's not in control of himself."

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-full-transcript-of-george-floyd-police-call-released-20200529-spsyfhzezzcptfndp2ml26lhze-story.html

[LizBeth]

18. Ya well. First a forged check. Then a counterfeit 20. And now extremely intoxicated.

I do not believe a damn thing being said. Of course they have to make him intoxicated by something because where would be the excuse to abuse him. the cashier thought he intoxicated on something. Who knows if he was. I will wait on that one.

[Cha]

12. Thank you!💔

[NickB79]

14. I've gotten a few counterfeits in my life at restaurants

Without my marker, I'd have never known at first glance.

I'm virtually certain Floyd didn't even know he had a fake bill.

[Blue_true]

16. It is not totally failsafe, but when I need walking around cash, I always get it from a bank.

I also don't carry large bills like fifties or hundreds either. And I never go for exchanges with people on the street, where they give me five twenties for a hundred (if I somehow had a hundred).

If a bank gives me a fake bill, I always keep the transaction record.

[LizBeth]

19. I have never in a lifetime looked to see if I have counterfeit and do not pay attention where

I get my cash to make sure I do not get counterfeit. Not even in my head for consideration.

Good for you. I am just not that good.

[Blue_true]

20. None of us think that the money that we are using for a transaction may

be counterfeit. Honestly, if I passed a counterfeit note, I wouldn't know how to explain that.

The most counterfeited note is the $20 bill, which was at the center of the situation that we are talking about. It seems to me that the proper way for the police to handle the situation would have been to handcuff the guy and put him in the back of a cruiser while they investigated. There were four cops around, I don't see why one of them could not have done that. But the information coming out on the Minneapolis police force is not comforting, to say the least, apparently it has a lot of roguish cops in it's ranks.

[LizBeth]

21. Nah. With counterfeit unless they had a reason to believe he was passing it on, not even handcuffs.

a conversation where he thinks he got the 20. But only because black they would assume done purposely. I can tell you, it would be a short conversation and sorry you lost 20, if it was me. There would be NO handcuffs and I would not be put int eh car. Black man, that is the least we can expect, handcuffed and back of car. Not the way it goes for the rest of us.

[Blue_true]

22. You make good points in relation to the optimal actions.

But we in other parts of the country are finding out that the MPD is a majorly troubled department as far as color-blind justice is concerned.

[LizBeth]

23. +1. All the reporters out there in the middle of a race riot, they arrest the black journalist.

Ya. They have a problem.