George Floyd
George Floyd and former Officer Derek Chauvin arrested for third degree murder, both worked security at the El Nuevo Rodeo club on Lake Street, according to Maya Santamaria. Santamaria owned the building for nearly two decades, but sold the venue within the last few months.
A former club owner in south Minneapolis Maya Santamaria says the former police officer Derek Chauvin, and the black man who died in his custody George Floyd, not only knew each other but both worked security for her club up to the end of last year.
"Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open," Santamaria said. "They were working together at the same time, it's just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside."
They knew each other because there were always a dozen security guards working, and that included off-duty police officers. Santamaria says she did not recognize either one of her security guards in the video showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for over seven minutes at first.
"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.' But when they did the closeup, that's when I realized, 'Oh my God, that's him,'" Santamaria said. "I didn't recognize George as one of our security guys because he looked really different lying there like that."
5 INVESTIGATES, local news for the area were the first to break the story, and reached out to both Chauvin's attorney and the Minneapolis Police Deparment, but neither responded for comment at the time this story was published.
Santamaria still operates La Raza 95.7 FM radio station in the same building that houses El Nuevo Rodeo, but a power outage has knocked them off-air as a result of Tuesday's protests.
The Latino owned business is two blocks east of where protests erupted in front of the Minneapolis Police Department Third Precinct and spilled into nearby businesses. Like their neighbors, the building's glass doors are shattered and now covered in graffiti.
"All of the neighborhood has come out to volunteer and clean up and lend a hand," Santamaria said.
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