George Floyd & Officer Derek Chauvin Once Worked At The Same Club

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George Floyd & Officer Derek Chauvin Once Worked At The Same Club

George Floyd and Derek Chauvin — the officer who killed him, may have ran into each other before as they both worked security at the El Nuevo Rodeo Club on Lake Street in south Minneapolis.

Club owner Maya Santamaria spoke to KSTP and revealed that George and Derek often had overlapping shifts on popular music nights.

“Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open,” said Santamaria. She recently sold the club in the past few months after owning it for over 20 years.

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“They were working together at the same time — it’s just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside.”

She also revealed that upon her first viewing of the video she didn’t recognize either of the men.

“My friend sent me [the video], and said, ‘This is your guy who used to work for you,’ and I said, ‘It’s not him,’” she said. “And then they did the closeup and that’s when I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s him.’ I didn’t recognize George as one of our security guys because he looked really different lying there like that.”

As we reported, Floyd became unresponsive after Derek ignored his pleas for help and continued to suffocate him with his knee.

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