MINNEAPOLIS – A white Minneapolis police officer and the black suspect he’s charged with killing both worked as security guards at the same Latin nightclub but its former owner says she’s not sure they knew each other.
What she is certain of is how aggressive Officer Derek Chauvin became when the club hosted African-American dance nights, responding to fights by pepper-spraying everyone in the crowd, a tactic she told him was “overkill.”
Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd before he died. Chauvin is charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. Additional charges are possible.
