On 25 May 2020, a man died after a “medical incident during police interaction” in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The man was suspected of forgery and “believed to be in his 40s”. He “physically resisted officers” and, after being handcuffed, “appeared to be suffering medical distress”. He was taken to the hospital “where he died a short time later”. It is not difficult to imagine a version of reality where this, the first police account of George.
‘I allowed myself to feel guilty for a very long time’: the teenage cashier who took George Floyd’s $20 bill Oliver Laughlandand Amudalat Ajasa in Minneapolis
Christopher Martin lived above a bricked grocery store in south Minneapolis, with a maroon awning and bold red signage that reads Cup Foods. So when a cashier’s position came up last year, he took it without thinking.
He quickly learned the regulars’ orders by heart, their specific tobacco preferences, their favored snacks. The job was more than just a paycheck. “A family, community base,” he remembered. “A lot of jokes and laughs.”
But on 25 May last year, he served a customer he had never met before, igniting a chain of events that rippled around the world and irreversibly changed Martin’s life.
On Tuesday afternoon, a jury confirmed what many of us have known to be true for the better part of a year: the former Minneapolis police department officer Derek Chauvin was guilty of murdering George Floyd. On Wednesday morning, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a justice department pattern-or-practice probe to determine if the Minneapolis police department’s general operating norms are unlawful and unconstitutional, in violation.
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