It was a $20.00 bill !!!!

[mysteryowl]

Think about it, it was a $20.00 bill that may or may not have been counterfeit. So fucking what!!!

$20.00 bucks!!!

[roamer65]

1. I would have pulled $20 out of my wallet to solve it.

[brush]

10. The business owner was interviewed and said his clerk refused the bill so Floyd...

when out to his car and got another $20 from his friend and came back and it was accepted. Makes no sense at all for someone trying to pass a fake bill to go back to the same place to try again. Obviously he didn't know it was counterfeit.

And of course there's no death sentence for passing a counterfeit bill.

[PatSeg]

33. Seriously?

And four or more cops show up for 20 friggin' dollars? And a man lost his life?

[SergeStorms]

38. Just goes to show...

how much right-wing cops value a black man's life. They probably would have done the same thing for $1. With Chauvin's previous record of violating suspect's rights they should lock him up and throw away the key.

[PatSeg]

42. Last night the City Council VP

was on MSNBC and it would appear there is a lot more to this story. Apparently Floyd and Chauvin both worked as bouncers at the same restaurant for 17 years. It would seem that George Floyd was not just a random black man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were co-workers. Also the new video shows the other three cops very close to Chauvin as he pushed on Floyd's neck for minutes, while telling him to get in the car. Were these four cops out to get Floyd in particular for some reason?

[BComplex]

39. And were these 4 cops so totally ignorant that they thought he was going to his car to print some

new ones?

[ecstatic]

14. And had the cops approached George like he was a human being,

deserving of kindness and respect, I'm sure it could have been resolved.

Unfortunately, the kkkops were angry and violent from the beginning.

George Floyd probably died with no information about why he had been detained.

[mysteryowl]

17. Indeed!

I know people that live in the area and they know some of those cops.
They said they are known for being gangster.

[mysteryowl]

2. The outrage of police over-reaction because he was a big black guy!

[brewens]

13. He may have even failed to call him officer. That's all it takes many times. n/t

[Budi]

3. Where's the 20 dollar bill now? I hope they got proof for his arrest.

20 damned dollars

[mysteryowl]

5. Good point.

20 bucks!!!

It took 4 cops to look into a call from a merchant clerk about a possible counterfeit bill!
ANY of us could pass-off a counterfeit bill and not know it!!!

[Budi]

8. Yup. Exactly. "ANY of us could pass-off a counterfeit bill and not know it!!!"

I want to ask Don Lemon this question.

[mysteryowl]

12. It needs to be talked about more. It needs to come up on Don's show Sunday.

Don is doing a special at 8pm about black men being targeted.

[ecstatic]

24. Exactly. My sister was given a fake 10 dollar bill at Walgreens. nt

[PatSeg]

35. I know

I worked in retail for many years and it isn't unusual for someone to have a counterfeit bill and not realize it.

[JHB]

4. Was it a bill or was it a check?

Did something else come out? I admit to being a bit behind on the details.

[mysteryowl]

6. I heard an interview with the business owner talk about it.

The owner was not present, but said it was $20.00 bucks cash.

[Ms. Toad]

7. For any one else not glued to the "right" media sources, for whom the OP is a non-sequitur

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8365493/Minneapolis-Mayor-says-George-Floyd-alive-white.html

At least according to the Daily Mail (a right wing source), a store employee called the police alleging that Floyd tried to pay with a fake $20

No idea whether it is true or not - but at least I figured out what the OP was talking about.

[mysteryowl]

11. What? I have no idea what you are getting at.

Are you accusing me of right wing media? Wrong!

[Ms. Toad]

41. No. I had no idea what your OP was about, since you provided no context at all -

and I had not heard of a $20 bill being involved in the murders.

I did manage to figure it out - but the only place I found it was in the Daily Mail. I posted the article for anyone else who was similarly stymied by your no-context OP. Unfortunately, since the source was the Daily Mail which I don't use,l without a disclaimer (since a lot of US folks don't recognize it is a RW tabloid).

I have no idea where you got your information - there may well be other sources for the information. I was not making a comment ou your information, merely making sure anyone thinking about following my link to figutre out what the heck you were talking about knew where it would lead

[uponit7771]

9. K&R, ... and 9 out of 10 people can't tell a counterfeit 20 from a real one these days unless they

... have the tools with them.

[CentralMass]

15. Just for the conversation passing counterfeit bills is a federal crime,

punishable by up to 20 years or a 250,000 fine.

[mysteryowl]

16. ANY of us could have a counterfeit bill and not know it.

I use cash all the time and I do not fear that I will be arrested for it, unwittingly.

[CentralMass]

20. I agree. I hardly ever touch cash. I also don't know the validity of the claim that he tried passing

a fake bill.
I just wanted to note that it is a federal crime.

[mysteryowl]

22. Understood. Thank you for your contribution to the thread!

[Hoyt]

18. I bet no one has ever been imprisoned for even 1 year for ONE $20 bill, unless they

printed up a bunch of them.

We don’t know all the details, but it ain’t a capital offense and he wasn’t resisting arrest, at least what’s known now.

[greenjar_01]

19. Coulda been a $1.00 bill.The police are structurally white supremacist. They kill black and brown

folks for ANYTHING.

[Wellstone ruled]

21. Just so folks know,

20 dollar bill is the most counterfeited followed by the Hundred. That is the main reason for the change in both bills. When the night Cash Auditor found one of these bills,she would just bury the sucker in inside a bundle and let the Bank worry about it . As for the Hundreds,when in doubt ask for a second opinion from a Manager. Bogus twenties are so common.

[mysteryowl]

23. I was bank teller many years ago.

In the two years I worked there, I don't remember any of us noticing a counterfeit bill. We pulled out money that was ragged so it could be mulched.

[Wellstone ruled]

25. Here in the south west

we would have at least one go around with this crap every year. Usually starts outside LA and follows the 15 northward. Our Vegas stores would send out a e blast to every Store in the District as soon as one showed up. Last year they busted a ring working out of a Casino Hotel Room in Mesquite Nevada. They did a pretty good population run until they tried to pass a few at the Casino cage.

[betsuni]

27. Well that explains it..

Last time I visited the States I exchanged money at the bank. When I used twenty dollar bills cashiers always checked them and I wondered why -- was cash money somehow suspicious? Especially at one restaurant. Cashier called over the manager, manager called over someone else. It was embarrassing, felt like a criminal! Got a debit card after that.

In that case I knew it came from the bank and was okay, but what if you get a fake one by accident. I wonder how you could prove you didn't know.

[bamagal62]

26. I was at CVS not too long ago and

The woman in front of me tried to pass a counterfeit $100. The manager politely told her to go back to the bank and tell them. (She said she got it from the ATM.) I made a comment to the manager about how well he handled that and he said it was the 3rd counterfeit $100 that day. He just didn’t accept it and life went on. There was no reason for this to happen. This is just awful.

[mysteryowl]

28. Wow! What a contrast to what happened to a large black man!

Racism!!!
Gangster police department.

[Demovictory9]

29. the police would not have gotten involved but for the CUP store employee calling cops

i bet racism had something to do with that call

[mysteryowl]

32. Indeed. Here is the multilayered infection/cancer in America.

I have watched some British cop shows during the shut down and there process is very different from the US.
America MUST learn from other countries!

[greenjar_01]

34. Make sure to defend the police, though

Fucking hell.

[Demovictory9]

36. i'm DEFINITELY not defending the 4 murderers of George Floyd

[LizBeth]

31. That is what we did in the two businesses I dealt with money.

[LizBeth]

30. And any one of us could hand over a fake $20. I know I do not look at any of my bills and

wouldn't know what I was looking for anyway.

[czarjak]

37. Chris Jannsing thought it was a big enough deal.

[no_hypocrisy]

40. Just b/c I'd pay with a counterfeit $20.00 doesn't mean I *intended* to commit a crime.

How many of us examine our money? How would you be certain you were carrying fake currency?

I work as a cashier and have to hold up $50 and $100 bills to see a hologram. I don't know if police would be involved if there were no hologram, e.g., the bill would be confiscated, and the customer asked to pay in another form.