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Minnesota | George Floyd and officer Derek Chauvin 'worked together at nightclub'

Derek Chauvin, left, and George Floyd
Now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, used his knee to pin down George Floyd, 46, for about eight minutes during an arrest outside a corner shop

George Floyd and the officer who knelt on his neck worked together at the same nightclub just months before his death in police custody.

Owner Maya Santamaria said she employed Mr Floyd, 46, and now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, until late last year.

Both worked as security guards at the El Nuevo Rodeo club in the US city, she told a local TV news station.

Ms Santamaria, who recently sold the venue after nearly two decades in business, revealed that Mr Floyd and Chauvin worked at her club at the same time, but it was unclear whether they knew each other.

She told KSTP-TV: "Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open.

"They were working together at the same time, it's just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside."

She was not sure if they knew each other.

Ms Santamaria said she watched footage of Mr Floyd being pinned down by Chauvin and other officers, but she didn't immediately recognise them.

She added: "My friend sent me (the video) and said, 'this is your guy who used to work for you' and I said, 'it's not him'.

"And then they did the closeup and that's when I said, 'Oh my God, that's him'. I didn't recognise George as one of our security guys because he looked really different lying there like that."

Video captured by a witness showed Chauvin, a white officer, kneeling on the back of black man's neck for about eight minutes during the arrest outside a corner shop on Monday night.

Mr Floyd, who was unarmed, begged the officers to get off him and repeatedly told them "I can't breathe" before he lost consciousness.

He was later pronounced dead in hospital.

Chauvin and three other officers from Minneapolis Police Department have been fired amid an ongoing FBI investigation that is being overseen by the US Department of Justice.

Mr Floyd was arrested after he allegedly used a fake $20 bill to buy cigarettes at the Cup Foods corner shop.

New charges have been announced against all of the sacked police officers present at the death of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The charge against Derek Chauvin has been elevated to second-degree murder, court documents show.

The other three officers, previously uncharged, face counts of aiding and abetting murder.

Source: mirror.co.uk, Chris Kitching, May 29, 2020


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