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> Santamaria was later required to come up with security plans outlining the number of officers needed per night. The officers insisted on getting paid cash, sh
by thedaly 3y ago
> Santamaria was later required to come up with security plans outlining the number of officers needed per night. The officers insisted on getting paid cash, she said. She feared if she didn’t oblige, she’d lose her license.
> Eventually, another officer helped schedule off-duty work: Derek Chauvin. He worked security at her club for 17 years.
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> She sold the club in 2019. When Santamaria saw Chauvin pinning George Floyd on the pavement in the video that shocked the world, she recognized both, because Floyd worked as a bouncer inside the club in 2019.
That is an interesting connection. I didn't know that they worked together.
- rjbwork 3y ago>I didn't know that they worked together. Surprising. It came out fairly shortly after the incident that they were at least known to one another on some level through that security job.
- senderista 3y agoWhen I learned that I was suspicious that Chauvin was settling some personal score (and that explained why Floyd seemed to believe that Chauvin was going to kill him), but I don't know if any evidence for that came to light. Possibly an under-investigated angle, I'm not sure.
- slim 3y agoif you recognize someone from a previous job, even if he committed a crime, would you kill him if he did not represent any danger ?
- phatskat 3y agoThat’s a difficult hypothetical considering most of us don’t work in a capacity where we’re allowed to kill people.
- senderista 3y agoIf you hated him enough and thought you could kill him with impunity? Certainly some would.
- School-Cotton 3y ago> and that explained why Floyd seemed to believe that Chauvin was going to kill him This is more simply explained by the fact that Chauvin was in fact killing him.
- senderista 3y agoI'm referring to what happened before Chauvin had him on the ground.
- hedora 3y agoI wonder what combination of "they get shot with a gun lifted from an evidence locker" and "the IRS descends upon the local police department for widespread tax evasion" would have happened if the victims of the shakedown rackets simply reported the cash payments like any other wages.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 3y agoOne theory I read is that Floyd and Chauvin were part of the same counterfeiting ring operating out of that club, and Chauvin murdered Floyd in order to keep him quiet. (Recall that Floyd was originally arrested for suspected use of a counterfeit $20 bill.) I think maybe part of the idea was that nightclubs are interesting to counterfeiters because they deal with so much cash. (Racism still plays a big part in the Floyd story even if this is true -- Chauvin presumably thought he could get away with it, and his fellow officers mostly didn't try to stop him.)
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- nilespotter 3y ago> Racism still plays a big part in the Floyd story even if this is true What makes you think that?
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- Aeolun 3y agoJust a general tendency of all excessive violence always(ish, I can think of one exception) happening to be against colored people?
- mcpackieh 3y agoIf you can only think of a single example of the police being excessively violent against a white person, then you are woefully under-informed. I'm not surprised though, I blame the media.
- shiroiuma 3y agoYou can probably draw some broad, population-level conclusions from statistical data that shows more police violence against minorities, though some can be explained by other socioeconomic factors as well. In general, I'd say that American police are simply violent to everyone.