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George Floyd was out of work during coronavirus before he was killed
By Tamar LapinMay 28, 2020 | 6:02pm | Updated

George Floyd had moved to Minneapolis to turn his life around.

The 46-year-old father — who died Monday after a cop kneeled on his neck for several minutes during an arrest — left his Texas hometown in 2014.

“He was looking to start over fresh, a new beginning,” said Christopher Harris, Floyd’s lifelong friend. “He was happy with the change he was making.”


''In 2007, Floyd was charged with armed robbery in a home invasion in Houston, in which another man posed as a water department worker in an attempt to gain access to a woman’s residence, according to court documents.''


When the woman realized he wasn’t actually a water department worker, she tried to close the door. That’s when five other men got out of a car that had just pulled up and forced their way inside.

According to charging documents, the largest man in the group, whom the victim identified as Floyd, “forced his way inside the residence, placed a pistol against the complainant’s abdomen, and forced her into the living room area of the residence.”

Floyd in 2009 was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea deal in the case.

Shortly after getting out, he made the move to Minneapolis in hopes of a better life, and landed a gig working security at a Salvation Army store.

He later started working two jobs, one driving trucks and another as a bouncer at the restaurant Conga Latin Bistro, where he was known as “Big Floyd.”

Floyd was laid off amid Minnesota’s coronavirus stay-at-home order, which shuttered bars and restaurants.

“He was doing whatever it takes to maintain going forward with his life,” Harris said.


''''On Monday night, an employee at a Minneapolis grocery store called cops after Floyd allegedly tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill.''''


But Harris said he couldn’t believe that his old friend would resort to forgery, saying, “I’ve never known him to do anything like that.”
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I agree i don't think a bruva like floyd would try and pass a counterfeit $20 bill , yeah he'd do an armed home invasion - but he was too good a man to try fool around with funny money .
Musician/rapper & a father too .
Who was he driving ''trucks'' for? - maybe Schneiders or another big trucking company . They're always looking for good people .

The court system killed Floyd.

He should have still been in prison for doing a home invasion and threatening a woman with a gun.

Instead they sent him back out into society for the police to have to deal with.

End result,..Minneapolis burns.

He was also a heart attack waiting to happen.

He gone

Sounds like a model citizen. Most likely a democrat.

Floyd was a good man and dinindonuffin ! Racist cops just wanted to murder poor innocent Floyd in the middle of the street in broad daylight while being filmed by a hostile crowd.

The racist police officers murdered this poor gentle christian gentleman who was in great physical shape and led a good clean patriotic christian lifestyle.

Ask 700H on here.

Old habit's are hard to break.............The thought of easy money was to big of a lure.

Don't y'all understand that he was turning his life around?

I was paid once by a Dr, two of the hundreds were counterfeit didn't find out till I was depositing it and the bank told me. The doc made it good, he got them from a patient who paid cash. It's not unusual for somebody to end with a fake bill unknowingly.

If you were black it would have been ok for three cops to sit on your back and neck while you lay cuffed, face down, in the street until you expired of unknown causes. Hell, maybe even longer as, in your case, it was for two supposedly counterfeit $100 bills.

The alphabet news are begging for more riots. Po po bad, orange man bad etc.

Lifes choices have real consequences ................

White cop sounds like a stand up guy too, past complaints and all.

You ain't guessin', are ya?

Lol.

Complaints against a cop who works in Mogadishu west ? Show me one who doesn’t have complaints and you’re pointing out a new hire right out of the academy.

More than 12 in 19 years? Ya a great guy.

hypocrisy is alive and well on the fire.

a handful of people on social media are saying Chauvin and Floyd worked security together at a bar a few years back

He wasn't in that position because he tried to pass a counterfeit bill, he was there because of what transpired after he attempted to pass the bill.....