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The owner of a Minneapolis grocery store that George Floyd had just left when he encountered the police said his employee called him crying after witnessing an officer press his knee into the man's neck.
"Please, please, please, I can't breathe," Floyd begged as he was pinned to the ground. "My stomach hurts. My neck hurts. Please, please. I can't breathe."
Abumayyaleh remembered Floyd as someone who was always pleasant. He said Floyd "may not have even known that the bill was counterfeit.