George Floyd Arrest Video
Store Owner: Alright, right here, this is a fake bill from a gentleman.
Police: Is the driver in there?
Store Owner: Which one?
Police: That blue one over there.
Store Owner: Which one?
Police: Step out and face away.
George Floyd: Please don’t shoot me, Mr. Officer, please. Don’t shoot me, man.
Police: Step out and face away.
George Floyd: Can you not shoot me, man? I’m not shooting you.
Police: Step out and face away. Okay, okay, okay.
Please, please, please, please, man. Please, please, I didn’t know, man.
Police: Get out of the car.
I didn’t know, Mr. Officer. I didn’t know, man.
Police: You can go to your home. Hey, come back. Stay in the car.
I’m sorry, sir.
Stop resisting that. I’m not. Yes, you are.
I’m sorry, sir. Well, you got it down, man. Let him breathe, at least, man.
Look at that. I hope you got it. I’m about to just die, you see.
I don’t know why. I can’t breathe, my face. Just get up.
I have decided to do this video. It has been weighing very heavily on my heart. I want to come out and say that I do not support George Floyd and the media depiction of him as a martyr for black America.
I’m going to explain why, and I hope that some of you guys will understand where I’m coming from. I want to be clear. This is not a defense for Derek Chauvin.
I hope Derek Chauvin gets the justice that he deserves to be implemented upon him and that the family of George Floyd deserves justice. Okay, interview take two. It was just gut instinct, you know? It just felt like we were being told, look over here, look over here.
And I guess part of my personality is when I feel that way and somebody’s going, focus only here, only here, only here, I want to know, okay, but what about over there? And it wasn’t personal, at least not in the beginning. It wasn’t personal. I would say it certainly wasn’t personal until.
This video was just, it was just so disgusting. But I think it’s important to understand how easily people can be corrupted into saying this type of disgusting nonsense. Candace Owens, that rotten bitch.
If anybody is going to pretend to get their feelings hurt about what we say about Candace Owens, I will laugh and laugh and laugh. I don’t care what this did. I don’t care if it personally kicked Candace Owens in her stinky pussy.
I don’t know if it stinks, but I imagine it does. And then at that moment, it became personal. And I thought, not only am I going to say the truth, I am going to scream the truth louder than you can scream the lies.
I’ve never been so hurt inside. This was the second time he exhibited that behavior. 23 out of 24 hours in his cell.
I have been a police officer for almost four decades. Until the very breath was squeezed out of him. That was the very last time I seen Floyd.
You sentenced my son, you will also be sentenced. And we did. And we did.
Justin is George Floyd. I’ve never seen a human being as awful as my mother’s love. You guys knew him best.
So, who was George Floyd? Outside this grocery store is now home for a memorial. We protest peacefully. We’re kind of just helping each other out and rallying together as a community.
We need to stand together with each other. We’re here to serve justice for injustice. Say his name.
George Floyd. Say his name. George Floyd..
Breaking news in South Minneapolis. The situation has become dangerous. Individuals breaching the gate at the church precinct.
Getting close to Boston Center. Is anyone copying this? We all want our lives back. Are you people going to die? Power! Third Precinct has been compromised.
We’re about to breach the back gate. It’s taking heavy rocks. Third Precinct is up in flames.
Minneapolis is waking up to a lot of its buildings on fire. We saw chaos erupt. Fires are still burning.
We are seeing looting throughout the city. Griefs are being thrown at police officers. We are seeing increasing violence amongst protesters throughout the country.
Cities are erupting into chaos and violence. How long can you be peaceful when your people are dying? We’re out here trying to show them that we’re angry. This is not just about George Floyd.
It’s about everything that’s happening in our world. For whatever reason, it has become fashionable over the last five or six years for us to turn criminals into heroes overnight. And it is something that I find to be despicable and it is something that I refuse to stand by any longer and I am not going to play a part in it no matter how much pressure comes from Black liberals and Black conservatives as some token of people wanting you to believe that this is the only way you can be Black, that you have to say this was wrong, and that this person was amazing.
I won’t do that. Why are we pretending that this criminal should be upheld as a citizen, as a martyr in Black America? A martyr for a fake narrative, by the way. People were shocked, right? They had all thrown themselves in emotionally based on the media narrative and they just sort of thought, how could the media not have told us this? So right now I am researching Alvin and Teresa Scott.
They were George Floyd‘s last known roommates and we basically just had producers reach out and say, we’re working on a documentary pertaining to George Floyd. That was kind of the only information that we gave them in the hopes that saying my name would not scare them away. At least from what I’m doing, a cursory search, there does not seem to be too much coverage on the roommates.
Some pieces pertaining to how they were feeling during the trial, some international coverage, but I definitely don’t remember these people being at the forefront and he lived with them for over three years. So it’ll be really interesting to see what they have to say if they speak to me and don’t slam a door in my face. Fingers crossed.
Hello, I’m Alvin Monego and I’m George Floyd‘s previous roommate prior to his death. This is our house and I’ll give you a little walkthrough and tell you a little bit about our relationship, me and Floyd. We still keep his name on the mailbox.
It still gets mail in case. Yeah, and this is us on the 4th of July 2017 and these are our co-workers. We both worked together at the Conga Lounge in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
And this is Floyd right here. They never forget him because he was a people person. He socialised and the kids was always looking up like, wow, that guy’s pretty tough.
Floyd was about 6’7″. So we can head upstairs and I’ll show you where George Floyd‘s room was. Eventually we were roommates but when I first moved here it was just me and Floyd and Teresa later on moved in with us.
And this was his room, much bigger, the biggest room in the house and he was a big guy. He always enjoyed it. The difference was he had a desk right here and the only thing he always kept right there was either his Bible and he always smoked cigarettes.
That was the only thing you seen on his desk. We had some good moments here. We lived together, I guess, about four and a half years, almost five years.
Him and Teresa often read the Bible together. All of these is what he did. He got Proverbs, Mark, right here.
He used to read this all the time. Let me see, what else did he read? He read Matthews right here. And so he used to be in his room and our room was next door and I used to hear him out loud reading his Bible all the time and I used to be listening to him.
I’m like, wow, he really do be reading that Bible, you know. The last day I seen Floyd. We stood up here on the top of the stairs and this time we prayed longer than we ever did.
I think we prayed for like about five or eight minutes. Usually we’ll do a prayer and it’s like quick and everything, but this day we prayed longer than we ever prayed. And I said, Floyd, I’ll see you when you get back, okay? He said, T, I’ll be back.
I said, promise me you’ll come back. He said, I promise I’ll be back. And that was the last time I seen him.
That was the very last time I seen Floyd, that day when we prayed upstairs and I didn’t see him no more after that. Hello, how are you? Hi, very nice to meet you, Alvin. Hey, Teresa, how are you? So you guys, in many ways, were some of the people that were the closest to him.
And I don’t remember seeing your faces on the news or anybody talking to you, so I guess let’s just start with that. When was the first time you met George? Well, I first met him in 2017. We ended up knowing each other.
He was in the treatment center and I actually was there too, you know, but I was there for the alcohol. You know, he was having problems with the pain pills. So when we met, we was unaware that this was, you know, we both was in the same situation.
So you guys met and you figured out that you were going to the same treatment center, and I think did that probably establish an instant connection between you two? Yeah, because, you know, during that time, you know, you talk about a lot of things that led you to where you were and you get an idea of who the persons that are around you, you know, more one-on-one. And he was real open about, you know, things he was going through and what he wanted to be. And his old dream was to get his life together, you know, and have a good job and be able to take care of his daughter as well as his family.
He wants a fresh start and he wants to do better, and he happens to run into you and this is a beautiful home. The George Floyd that I knew in this house was a good person. And if he did do something bad, he hit it from us.
You know, he didn’t do it around us. If he did it out there, he did it out there. That’s his business.
It’s not mine. Addiction is hard. It’s full stop hard.
Right. But, you know, family is different. It’s a different part of them, and so the struggles that they’re maybe facing out on the street is just not something that they ever want to bring to their doormat, you know? And that was Floyd.
I mean, if he did have addiction out there, he left it in the street. He never brought it home. You know, sometimes the urge to get something stronger to kill the pain, you know, took over, but he always fought against that.
He was talking to me. He said, T. He said, I do whatever the police tells me to do. He said, because they looking to kill a big brother like me.
Yeah. He said that out of his own words. He said, because a big ear like me, he said, they looking to kill a big brother like me.
And sure enough, that’s what happened. It was kind of eerie when that happened. I remember that was one of his fears.
Yep, that was one of his fears. That’s interesting, though, because what you’re saying is that, so that night he just did whatever he was supposed to, you know, whatever they told him to do, because he knew. He knew that they were intimidated by him because he was so big.
And I’m sure that officer probably know who he is that ran his lies. You know, that is in the computer. But what about, do you think that if he had complied, because I’m sure you guys have seen the full tape by now, right? And it just, you must be thinking, woulda, coulda, shoulda.
If he had had that mentality going into it, let me just do what they’re saying, you know, because it’s just such an escalation when you see the full tape of, you know, yeah, he’s not, and maybe because he’s not feeling too good, but yeah, and then he’s like, put me on the ground when he says put me on the ground. I’m on the ground! I’m on the ground! Do you ever look at it and go, man, I wish that time he had just taken his own advice and just been like, okay, guys, take me wherever you want to take me. Do you think that a lot of people maybe came out of the woodwork because there was an opportunity, you know, to grandstand, to be on stage, to, you know, a lot of money got thrown around, which is part of what I’m exploring in this documentary.
I mean, Black Lives Matter Global Network came out and said, we raised $90 million-plus, and they did this with his face. Just his face or saying you had some association with him could have gotten, you know, garnered a lot of people money. Do you think that people took advantage of him? It’s like they use it as, what you say, a way of funding whatever their motivation was.
And then, like, sometimes when I went to the George Floyd Memorial, it was different individuals going around there saying donations for this, for Floyd, for this. Yeah. You didn’t know where they was coming from.
You got a little metal box, and I don’t know who you are, where is this going? You know, to meet with the president and the vice president and for them to show their concern to our family and for them to actually give an ear to our concerns and how we feel on the situation. And now I have police, because that’s what he wanted me to do. I ain’t never met a sister, I ain’t never met a brother.
None of them ever came here to George Floyd been living in this house. We’ve been in this house going on six years, am I right? Yeah, but for the four years, no. They never wanted his stuff? I mean, I would think that if my son, daughter… They didn’t even come and look and see where the man lived at.
They never came to see where George Floyd lived. They never came to get none of his stuff, nothing. That was my oldest brother.
I love him. I’m never going to get my brother back. I would like to just, like I say, one day just meet his daughter, because it’s like that’s an extension of him.
And I’d just be proud to just see one time. Well, not his daughter now. We found out he got more.
Well, they found out that that wasn’t true. So you mean three kids came that ain’t his? Just one. I think they did a DNA check, and the boy is not his and the other girl.
Are you serious? Rumors, I don’t know. We got to leave that to Maury. I don’t do that.
I don’t do paternity. Is that him? Do you know that’s Maury? That’s Maury’s kids. That’s not what we do here.
That was a good one. That was a good one. You guys, thank you so much.
What a pleasure to sit here and talk to you guys. It was just absolutely amazing. You imagine how absolutely traumatized that child was, and then you think to yourself, just a few years later, and you will have children that are wearing his shirt, referring to him as a hero, as some sort of savior, right? That’s wrong.
It’s not right at all. And it was this case that I couldn’t stay quiet on, and I had to make that video. In 1998, he spent ten months in prison for theft with a firearm.
In 2002, he spent eight months in prison for a cocaine offense. In 2004, just two years later, he spent another ten months in prison for a cocaine offense. By the way, I am not saying that if you have a record, you don’t deserve a second chance.
I do draw the line when it comes to second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth chances. Two things can be true at once. You can both say that George Floyd didn’t deserve to die, no matter how you believe he died.
Nobody deserves to die, in my opinion. And you can also say that, objectively, this person that did die was not a saint. This person was not an angel.
Okay, so my producer just sent me a link and a minute mark for George Floyd‘s 2019 arrest, which I haven’t seen, so I’m about to watch it for the first time. That’s where y’all appear, boss. Okay, now slowly come on out.
What’s up, man? What’s up, man? Give me a hug, bro. What y’all doing? Like this here? Give me a hug. I’m telling my mama, man.
Give me a hug, man. I’m telling my mama, man. Come on, man.
Come on, man. Okay, this is super interesting because he’s saying mama again, and obviously I know that throughout the trial, his girlfriend testified that he calls her mama, and the media made such a big deal saying that when he died, he cried out for his mama, and they clearly misinterpreted that because this is a 2019 arrest. He’s once again saying, I want mama.
So that seems pretty clear that he’s talking about his girlfriend, and he’s not crying out for his mother, which was a nice victim narrative. You and Floyd, Mr. Floyd, excuse me, I’m assuming like most couples had pet names for each other? Yeah. And what were you saved in his phone as? Mama.
What’s crazy in the retrospect is to realize that everybody reacted. Nobody knew who George Floyd was, but also nobody knew who Derek Chauvin was. Literally nothing, like.
I mean, my heart breaks for her, obviously, like hearing, like she’s obviously just devastated, but she’s being told by his lawyer to say absolutely nothing. So she’s not gonna come on camera. She’s not gonna participate.
He’s not gonna come on camera or participate because they have a pending appeal. And my frustration and what I expressed to her is I’m just like, so your strategy for the appeal is the same thing that your strategy was during the entire trial, silence. Allow the media to tell the story.
I said to her, I literally said, I said, this might be the only opportunity that you guys have, right? You’ve already lost in the court of public opinion. So how is it going to hurt you? He’s lost, right? How is it going to hurt you to allow his voice to be heard and to tell the story from his side? Nothing, like the lawyer is running the show and to be honest, I think it’s the worst strategy. There’s just no way he’s gonna win in the court of public opinion by saying nothing, you know? Like, super frustrating, but that’s a dead end, so.
I can’t imagine raising up a child and loving a child and knowing who he is and watching the media in virtually minutes be able to strip that person of their identity and to create a new identity for them. I felt her pain, I did. I just, I felt her pain and I felt that the only thing we could offer to do was to expand on who Derek Chauvin actually was.
People were taking a picture, not even a picture, a still from a video and saying, Satan, this is your Satan. People were taking a storyline that was given to them from the media and saying, here it is, George Floyd, he’s your hero. That’s it, that’s the story, the end.
It’s insane. You know Derek Chauvin. I do, I was a Minneapolis police officer for 31 years.
Is it the same Derek Chauvin that the media has introduced the world to? Not at all. Derek is quiet, somewhat quirky, not a big guy, very dependable, shows up to work every day. Derek is the kind of guy that you want to show up on your calls with you.
He’s very level-headed. Derek, when I first supervised Derek, I was a sergeant and I was running a unit for Homeland Security. Derek got assigned onto my unit and at the time he was living with his mom, which I thought was admirable that he wanted to help take care of his mom.
Derek is a quiet, thoughtful, honorable, and selfless man. He has a big heart and he always has put other people and others before his own. He was kind of a guy that was a little more of a loner.
You know, some probably would have considered him socially awkward. You described him as quirky and somebody else kind of described him in that same way. What do you mean by that? Kind of quiet, introverted.
Sometimes he wears his uniform pants a little high on his boots, just that way. Maybe not the quarterback of the football team. Not the quarterback of the football team.
Did he ever have any issues with other police officers? Was there ever any signs that he was particularly violent or had issues with people because of their skin color? No, never. No, that is not the Derek I knew. And I don’t believe what people are saying.
It’s made up. It’s not true. When you sentence my son, you will also be sentencing me.
Plus the fact that when he is released, his father and I most likely will not be here. Where is Derek today? Derek is at Oak Park Heights Prison. He sits in a cell for 23 out of 24 hours a day.
He does not have any reading materials, no TV, no computer, no nothing. He just sits in the cell. And that’s it.
You sit and look at the four walls in your cell every single day. What was your initial reaction when you saw that video in terms of looking up and seeing, hey, that’s Derek Chauvin, I know that guy. He’s somebody that would be hard to read for most people, but a nice guy.
So when you looked up at his face, you didn’t see a monster. You just saw Derek looking as Derek has always looked and the media perhaps reading into it. They read into something that was not there.
That is not the Derek that I knew. All of our department was painted with that same brush, which is unfair. And it’s a lot of false narratives because we have a good department.
And we heard earlier that he is spending 23 hours a day in solitary confinement. Do you ever think about his mental state? Every day. Every day.
You don’t wish that on anybody. There’s an incredible amount of stress in the job alone. More or less, if somebody dies in your custody, that’s about the worst thing that you can go through as a person and a police officer.
George Floyd was a semi-regular customer. He’d come around not so often, but he was someone we’d recognize. And he’d come here maybe to pay his phone bill or get phone services.
So anytime a customer brings a counterfeit bill, you see we have plenty of them. We tell them, hey, this is counterfeit. If the customer insists, then we call the police and then the police has to ask them where they got it from.
And that really hasn’t ever happened. In my experience here, whenever we tell a customer that the bill is counterfeit, they immediately leave because they don’t want to be involved with it. How can you tell? Just from our experience, there’s some good ones, but a lot of times we know right away that they’re fake just because of the way they have the color disfiguration or the way they feel, the way they look.
So usually we don’t call the police on counterfeit money because when we tell the customer that it’s fake, they accept the fact and just leave. When he came in the store, he was with a friend of his. The friend of his was paying for some electronics repair and all of the money he had was counterfeit.
Because we knew the person, we told him, hey, we’re not gonna call the police, take this money back and don’t bring it back here again. And then a few minutes later, George Floyd made a purchase in the tobacco shop with a counterfeit bill. And the employee then called the police.
They arrived about 45 minutes later and found George Floyd in his car. And that’s when they approached him. Hey, man.
Stay in the car. Let me see your other hand. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.
Dr. Ron Martinelli, forensic criminologist and certified medical investigator and police practices expert. Let me just preface this. I have no dog in the fight here, all right? We classically get a lot of officer-involved shootings and in-custody deaths, but we take them from all sides.
So my advocacy is for facts and evidence, not for people or entities. So if the officers are doing what they’re supposed to be doing as they were trained to do it, I’m gonna tell you. If they’re not, I’m also gonna tell you that.
What was your assessment of the police behavior in seeing the full video and seeing how things played out? They make contact with Mr. Floyd and that is totally appropriate because they’re investigating a third person’s report of criminality. Not moving. No, I’m not doing nothing.
Put your hands behind your back then. I’m not gonna do nothing. Stop resisting, man.
I’m not. Stand up. Please leave, man.
Goddamn, man. Stand up. Why are you doing me like this? Stand up.
Goddamn, man. Come on. We’re trying to get out of the street here so you don’t get hit by a car.
So for the officers, what they have to do is they have to begin an investigation to ask him probative questions seeking more evidence to determine whether a crime has occurred. All right, what’s your name? George. We’re here because it sounds like you gave a fake bill to the individuals in there.
Yeah. So once they put the handcuffs on Mr. Floyd, Mr. Floyd should have known, albeit he’s under the influence of drugs. Ouchie, man.
Are you on something right now? No, nothing. Because you acting real erratic. That he must obey the officer’s directions, orders, and commands.
He cannot resist arrest. I hear you, but you are gonna face the storm right now. Listen up, stop.
I will leave, man. Please leave, man. Please don’t do this.
Take a seat. I’m going in, Mr. Owens. I’m going in.
No, you’re not.
