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Owner of Store Where Police Were Called on George Floyd: Calling Cops 'Almost Always Does More Harm Than Good' | Inside Edition
The owner of the store whose employee called the police on George Floyd for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill has vowed not to involve law enforcement in the future. "Police are supposed to protect and serve their communities; instead, what we’ve seen over and over again is the police abusing their power and violating the people’s trust," Mahmoud Abumayyaleh, the owner of Cup Foods, wrote on Facebook.
"We realize now that escalating situations to the police almost always does more harm than good, even for something as harmless as a fake bill," he wrote.
Abumayyaleh wrote that he was not at the store when Floyd came in on the evening of May 25, but that one of his employees followed "a state policy that requires stores to call the police in the case of counterfeit bills."
Floyd may not have even known the bill he was using was allegedly counterfeit, Abumayyaleh wrote, but when the police arrived, they quickly "proceeded to escalate the situation with increased use of violence and force."
"Despite the fact that George never resisted arrest, police proceeded to end George Floyd’s life over a counterfeit bill. It’s likely that George did not even know that he had a fake bill to begin with. We are deeply saddened for our part of this tragedy," Abumayyaleh wrote in his Facebook post
The owner of the store whose employee called the police on George Floyd for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill has vowed not to involve law enforcement in the future. "Police are supposed to protect and serve their communities; instead, what we’ve seen over and over again is the police abusing their power and violating the people’s trust," Mahmoud Abumayyaleh, the owner of Cup Foods, wrote on Facebook.
"We realize now that escalating situations to the police almost always does more harm than good, even for something as harmless as a fake bill," he wrote.
Abumayyaleh wrote that he was not at the store when Floyd came in on the evening of May 25, but that one of his employees followed "a state policy that requires stores to call the police in the case of counterfeit bills."
Floyd may not have even known the bill he was using was allegedly counterfeit, Abumayyaleh wrote, but when the police arrived, they quickly "proceeded to escalate the situation with increased use of violence and force."
"Despite the fact that George never resisted arrest, police proceeded to end George Floyd’s life over a counterfeit bill. It’s likely that George did not even know that he had a fake bill to begin with. We are deeply saddened for our part of this tragedy," Abumayyaleh wrote in his Facebook post
