The usual procedure when a person passes a counterfeit bill is to detain the person who passed the bill (if possible) for the purpose of learning where he or she got the bill and tracing it back from there. Normally that person would not be subject to arrest on the spot; he or she would only be the starting point for the investigation. In the Floyd case, the allegedly fake $20 bill was nothing but a pretext for the police to detain him and murder him.

Regardless of having a fake $20 bill, George Floyd was murder!!!!!

#Evidence #Murder #Police

If he did try to pass a fake $20 bill
If he did do drugs
If he did have a criminal record
If he did resist arrest

All those ifs still dose not add up to a death sentence without trial.

The testimony and the evidence was clear- Floyd was murdered

Whether the bill was bogus or not , or whether George knew it, is now a moot point.
Even if he had been passing counterfeit money all over town - NO ONE deserves to DIE for that !!!!

I understand that George Floyd's murder is the real issue here. My post simply asks the question of the "so called" bogus bill because Floyd seemed totally unaware of it. At this point no one is really sure where it went, and the only way to really check a bogus bill is with a machine made for that purpose. Why were the police involved in the first place? It is not the job of police to check for a bogus bill and there is no evidence that they did so in this case. In order to rightly be involved the police would have to check a bill some way to justify even approaching George Floyd. What we have here is an outright murder because of something a store clerk and his manager said or alleged. Why?

I don't think it really matters. The fact he was treated differently because of his skin color. That's what matters if I a white person had a fake 20 I'd be given a chance to explain myself. He a black man was not that's what matters here.

I was more focused on the surveillance video that showed Floyd did not resist the police as they claimed he did.

The clerk who questioned the authenticity of the bill and called the cops testified he regrets calling the cops.
So, there is that. From the video I've seen at no time does Floyd appear to be a threat.
What is clear from the video is an abuse of power, poor training and callus disregard. He murdered a man in his custody and a jury found him guilty. That is what was on trial.
Of course the defense will bring up Floyd's crime(s) it is what the defense lawyers do.

Whether there was a bogus bill or not in no way would justify keeping a knee on Floyd until he dies.

Irrelevant question. On the subject though, it’s time for cashless economics.

That $20 something or other is no longer the issue. You don't kill a man for that. The issue, the only issue, is the knee on the neck while murdering this man in cold blood. Was this Chauvin's wise guy response to taking the knee at sport events to protest the murdering of other blacks by cops. Was this his answer to Black Lives Matter? Was this a hate crime? It certainly was far beyond that $20. Nobody cares about that $20 anymore.

I am sure police are trained in how to identify Fake Bills, I believe the Navy trained me on identifying fake bills too.

you are focused on the wrong issues
what happened to investigations first
counterfeiters would not hang out waiting for cops
and moat of us wouldn't know but the police should
cops use to help folks in trouble now they shoot first especially if the person is brown
I have grandbabies that have a black father who I adore and I worry for them

How can you ask?

In the scheme of the trial the bill doesn't have a damned thing to do with it. The Murder does

Even if the defense could prove that the bill was fake, and that Floyd knew it was fake, that is nowhere near a capital crime. Take this red herring BS elsewhere.

Chauvin murdered George Floyd.

The Trial is Over, the Facts are a Matter of Public Record. The real issue
NOT the Counterfeit $20 bill
NOT the Counterfeit $20 bill
The issues around George Floyd’s MURDER are very simple:
1st: A Police Officer inflicting
9 minutes and 29 seconds of

                  Mechanically Induced Asphyxiation

is MURDER
2nd: The SLOW MURDER of a Man
for Passing a Counterfeit $20 bill
is WRONG...
3rd: NO ATTEMPT to "de escalate" the Event from the START.
As evident when the rookie officer tapped
George Floyd's car window with his GUN PULLED...
SUMMARY: Chauvin saw a Black, he Did Not See a
Man Entitled to the Rights Guaranteed to
ALL Americans via the U.S. Constitution...

Because the penalty for simply having a counterfeit bill is Death...if you are black.
No such bill has ever been exhibited, it was a "because he's black" stop, Period.

Actually a visual check can determine if a bill is fake. The best way is to hold it up to the light and look for the strip that's inside the bill. Also check for watermarks. I believer there are a few other ways to check as well. And I think there are indeed small devices that can detect counterfeit bills.

One question. If you were a cashier and had gotten a fake $20, wouldn't you have it to turn in when the police arrived? I bartend. I have gotten a bad bill a bunch of times. I always tell whoever gave it to me, to pay with something else. I have gotten a bad bill and replaced it in the register with a real one because, just because. I have inadvertently passed a bad bill as well, it was a $20. It was at the bank. They confiscated it, made me fill out a form. I lost $20. I never heard another thing about it. The story about the counterfeit 20 is bullshit.