{"id":176463,"date":"2020-06-10T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/10\/first-degree-murder-should-be-on-the-table\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T00:04:00","slug":"first-degree-murder-should-be-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/10\/first-degree-murder-should-be-on-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"First Degree Murder Should Be on the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"
It looks like Derek Chauvin knew George Floyd, and had a dispute with him over the former Minneapolis Policeman’s racism at the club where they both served as security<\/a>.<\/div>\n

This makes the entire incident look like a deliberate decision to kill him as a matter of personal animus:<\/p>\n

As mourners in Houston honor the life of George Floyd<\/a> in Minneapolis, CBS News is learning new details from a nightclub coworker about alleged history between Floyd and Derek Chauvin, the former officer who is charged in Floyd’s death. According to a former coworker, not only did they know each other, but they had a history of friction.<\/p>\n

Floyd and Chauvin both worked security at a nightclub<\/a> at the same time. Coworker David Pinney said the two men had a history.<\/p>\n

“They bumped heads,” Pinney said.<\/p>\n

“How?” CBS News asked.<\/p>\n

“It has a lot to do with Derek being extremely aggressive within the club with some of the patrons, which was an issue,” Pinney explained.<\/p>\n

The Floyd family says they believe what happened on May 25 was in part personal. Their lawyer has called for Chauvin to be charged with first-degree murder<\/a>, “because we believe he knew who George Floyd was.”<\/p>\n

“Is there any doubt in your mind that Derek Chauvin knew George Floyd?” CBS News asked Pinney.<\/p>\n

“No. He knew him,” the coworker said.<\/p>\n

“How well did he know him?” CBS News asked.<\/p>\n

“I would say pretty well,” Pinney replied.<\/p>\n

Maya Santamaria, the owner of the now protest-torched club, described how Chauvin treated black patrons when she talked to CBS News for the upcoming special “Justice for All<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Santamaria said she had been paying Chauvin, when he was off-duty, to sit in his squad car outside El Nuevo Rodeo for 17 years. She said Floyd worked as a security guard inside the club frequently in the last year. In particular, they both worked on Tuesday nights, when the club had a popular weekly dance competition.<\/p>\n

“Do you think Derek had a problem with black people?” CBS News asked.<\/p>\n

“I think he was afraid and intimidated,” Santamaria said.<\/p>\n

“By black folks?” CBS News clarified.<\/p>\n

“Yeah,” Santamaria confirmed.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is just one report, and the information has not been vetted, but Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has an obligation to fully investigate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It looks like Derek Chauvin knew George Floyd, and had a dispute with him over the former Minneapolis Policeman’s racism at the club where they both served as security. This makes the entire incident look like a deliberate decision to kill him as a matter of personal animus: As mourners in Houston honor the life …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,435,526,398],"class_list":["post-176463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-crimes","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}