By Nathan' Jolly' Green. June 08, 2020

George
Floyd was no innocent when it came to crime; he was from an early
age, becoming a career criminal.

Unable
to find work in Texas as an ex-prison convict, he moved to
Minneapolis in 2014 for a fresh start after release from prison in
Houston, having served time for aggravated robbery with a firearm

On the day of George Floyd's death, Floyd was arrested by police officer Derek Chauvin, at whose forcible detention he met his death. An end that most decent people would declare unlawful and a disgrace, regardless of what we now know about Floyd's past, and perhaps latest alleged behaviour.

Following
a complaint from a store clerk, Floyd was approached and spoken to by
two police officers outside the store while sitting behind the wheel
of his car. Floyd was then pulled from the vehicle and handcuffed by
the two police officers.

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The
police officer Derek Chauvin had knelt on his neck, after trying to
get him into the back of a police car, which Floyd refused to enter.
Floyd was arrested for allegedly paying for cigarettes with a fake
$20 bill.

Some
newspaper stories state that "None of the officers could have
been aware of Floyd's more than a decade-old criminal history at the
time of the arrest.

But
George Floyd and officer Derek Chauvin had worked at the same club,
the El Nuevo night club in Minneapolis. Derek Chauvin as a security
officer, and Floyd as a bouncer.

There is
a distinct possibility that George Floyd and officer Derek Chauvin
were acquainted, and the officer may have even known Floyd's criminal
background and that he was dealing with a man capable of violence.

The
owner of El Nuevo Rodeo confirmed it was likely Derek Chauvin had
"crossed paths" with George Floyd during their time working
at the club.

It turns
out that Floyd, a former bouncer at Minneapolis bar El Nuevo Rodeo,
was a long-time co-worker of Officer Chauvin — who knelt on Floyd's
neck for nine minutes until he died.

Local
politician Andrea Jenkins, who sits on Minneapolis' City Council told
NBC affiliate WRAL-TV "He knew George,". "They were
co-workers." Jenkins went on to say to MSNBC that Chauvin and
Floyd both worked at the same bar for years as well.

Chauvin
and the three other officers involved in Floyd's arrest have been
dismissed from the force, a spokesperson for the Minneapolis Police
Department confirmed. The case has now been turned over to Minnesota
Attorney General, Keith Ellison, Minnesota's governor, announced over
the weekend. Chauvin has been transferred to a maximum-security
facility.

The
Floyd family believed that 46-year-old Lloyd had left behind his past
in Houston after being released from prison stemming from a 2007
robbery, in which he plead guilty to entering a woman's home,
pointing a gun at her stomach and searching the house for drugs and
money.

The
financial cost of demonstrations, peaceful but angry, is acceptable
whatever they should be. But the cost of billions of dollars in the
looting and burning of property and vehicles is not. Neither is the
violence, the murders, setting police 0fficers on fire, looting,
arson, and destruction, unacceptable under any circumstances, and
cannot be excused.

It was
not only George Floyd who had a violent background, Police officer
Chauvin, who joined the force in 2001, had been involved in several
other violent incidents.

But
perhaps most police officers in Minneapolis are subject to being
involved in the inherent violence in the communities in which they
work.

In 2006,
according to a database by Minneapolis' Communities United Against
Police Brutality, Chauvin was involved in the fatal shooting of a man
who stabbed two people before reportedly turning a gun on police.

In 2008,
Chauvin shot a man who allegedly reached for an officer's gun during
a domestic-violence call. (The man survived the shot.)

In 2011,
he was one of five officers placed on a standard three-day leave
after the non-fatal shooting of a Native American man. The officers
returned to work after the force determined that they had acted
"appropriately." (Another officer, not Chauvin, fired the
shot.)

Communities
United Against Police Brutality also faulted Chauvin indirectly for
the deaths of three people that Chauvin and another officer were
chasing after a crime in 2005, were struck by a car.

Minneapolis'
Office of Police Conduct complaint database shows seven complaints
against him, although all are listed as "closed,"
"non-public," and resulting in "no discipline."

The
city's Civilian Review Authority, which lists complaints before
September 2012, reveals five more complaints, which are also closed
and resulted in no discipline.

A
prisoner at a Minnesota prison sued Chauvin and seven other officers
for "alleged violations of his federal constitutional rights"
in 2006, although the case was dismissed.

Since
the death of George Floyd, a GoFundMe for Floyd's family has raised
more than $7 million.

Black
Lives Matter, so do all lives, some politicians in the Caribbean have
treated the citizens as if the only lives that matter is their own,
and those of their family. People have been processed, metaphorically
speaking, as if they had a knee on their neck and the whole country
is choking to death. With black police beating black people, worse
than any white policeman behaves in America. The politicians allow it
to happen and condone it by saying nothing.