MINNEAPOLIS: A store clerk said on Wednesday at the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin that he regretted accepting the fake US$20 bill from George Floyd that led to his arrest and eventual death.
Martin, 19, worked as a cashier at Cup Foods, the store where Floyd used a counterfeit US$20 bill to buy a pack of cigarettes.Advertisement Martin said he told the store manager about the fake bill, however, and he was told to go outside and tell Floyd to return to the store.Martin and co-workers went outside to a car where Floyd was sitting with two other people but they refused to return to the store and the manager called the police.
"He seemed to be having an average Memorial Day, just living his life," Martin said."He did seem high."Martin said he left the store when he heard"yelling and screaming" outside.Asked by prosecutor Matthew Frank what he felt at the time, Martin became visibly upset and said"disbelief and guilt".
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