George Floyd and accused officer knew each other, city council member says
Minneapolis City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins said George Floyd and fired police officer Derek Chauvin knew each other because they worked security jobs at the same night club.
Both men worked at El Nuevo Rodeo on Lake Street before their last encounter, which left Floyd dead and a city in turmoil. Chauvin has been identified as the officer who held down Floyd by kneeling on his neck.
“They were both bouncers at that restaurant,” Jenkins told CNN. “So, Officer Chauvin, he knew George. They were co-workers for a really long time.”
Jenkins’s statement confirms assertions by the club’s former owner, Maya Santamaria, that the two men worked security for her club through 2019. She told KSTP that she was not sure whether they knew each other because a few dozen security guards often worked at once.
“Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open,” Santamaria told the station. “They were working together at the same time. It’s just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside.”
Santamaria added that she did not initially recognize Floyd when a friend showed her the viral video of his arrest and identified him as a former employee of the night club.
“And then they did the close-up, and that’s when I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s him,’” she told KSTP. “I didn’t recognize George as one of our security guys because he looked really different lying there like that.”
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