With The Mystic Wanderer posting the images that asks questions about George Floyd's arrest-location, I took a look
via Google maps at the corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in the Powderhorn District of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Location:
Sure enough, the images taken of Mr. Floyd's situation before his death are confusing.
I've grabbed some of the pictures and took a long look at what occurred.
Picture No.1: This image is from a security camera mounted on on a store called 'Funky Grits'. Using the coordinates I've
offered, the store is on the right-hand side of street and where Mr. Floyd was initially apprehended. No.1. image shows the
trash-can, the hydrant and the base of the traffic-light post.
(Please note that the May 2019 Google Map image shows the Funky Grits with a 'Black Lives Matter' sign in the window.)
Picture No.2: Since the doors of the black car are open and this image is when the Police actually are moving onto the
sidewalk, it seems the vehicle is Mr. Floyd's and was already inside the car. This means the car was stationary and there
was no indication of any immediate escape from the alleged forgery crime. The sign-post of an 'Emergency Route' can
be seen.
Mr. Floyd was alleged to have passed the fake $20 note for a packet of cigarettes at a grocery store. Wikipedia states
that the clerk challenged Mr. Floyd, who refused to give back the cigarettes. What happened after this altercation is not
said, but it's possible the store employee telephoned the Police.
If we assume the Funky Grits does not sell tobacco, the store further along Chicago Avenue known as 'Connect' does
advertise the sale of tobacco. However, 'Cup Foods' on the left-hand side corner of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue does
have a sign on the corner of the building advertising itself as a menthol tobacco shop.
Cup foods sells many different items, stamps, keys, phones, bus cards, organic milk, t-shirts and halal meat.
Picture No.3: This image shows George Floyd in handcuffs and still on 38th Street beneath the security camera.
The impression is that two Police Officers (Thomas Lane is the only one visible) are now taking Mr. Floyd towards a Police
vehicle, presumably the one seen in Picture 1.
Picture No.4: Then there's a change of location. The image taken by a passer-by, shows Officer Derek Chauvin and another
kneeling on top of Mr. Floyd. This location is now the Chicago Avenue-side of the Cup Food store.
The bus-stop seen in the photo serves the Metro Transit and sits just outside the car-park of The Worldwide Outreach For
Christ ministry.
This building is diagonally opposite the Cup Food store on Chicago Avenue.
Picture No.5: A close-up of Officer Chauvin. The dark rectangle behind him is the base of a metal box -probably traffic-light
controls, and the light-green marking is also on the Google map. There are two broken lines on the Chicago Avenue Google
map location too.
Somehow and for some reason, the arrival of the Police, the arrest and the accompanied walk to the Police car parked on 38th
Street moved across the road, around the corner to the Chicago Avenue-side of the Cup Food store and Mr. Floyd isn't in the
Police vehicle.
How?
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