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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas anyone ever examined the $20 bill
that George Floyd used and they said was allegedly counterfeit? I know legally it makes no difference legally in the trial at this point, I'm just wondering if the guy in the store had a legit reason to call the cops, or was Floyd merely guilty of shopping while black.
Aristus
(68,067 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,990 posts)Ocelot II
(120,001 posts)in that neighborhood because just about everybody is black. Cup Foods' clientele is mostly black or brown.
LakeArenal
(29,721 posts)Ocelot II
(120,001 posts)the store clerk said he'd tried to pay for something with a counterfeit $20. I never heard whether the bill was or wasn't counterfeit, not that it matters.
Mr.Bill
(24,716 posts)but it underlined the police were taking some extremely violent measures for someone merely accused of a non-violent crime.
ProfessorGAC
(69,459 posts)It's not like he was buying a car with a suitcase full of fake Grants.
It was twenty freakin' bucks.
And, wouldn't it be quite unlikely that a guy who actually was counterfeiting, hung around until the cops showed up?
Even if the bill was fake, Floyd was a likely victim of counterfeiting and not a perpetrator.
Mr.Bill
(24,716 posts)Ocelot II
(120,001 posts)so the $20 wasn't the only complaint. But nothing Floyd did - even if he was drunk or under the influence of drugs and did resist arrest, as the cops claimed - justified them placing him in an extreme and dangerous restraint for an extended period of time. The fact that bystanders and EMTs saw that Floyd couldn't breathe and were actually prevented by the cops from helping him makes it so much worse.
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