>>9450886 LB
>George Floyd also worked at Conga Latin Bistro club, owned by Jovanni and Ruth Thunstrom AND DROVE A TRUCK FOR JOBS
Good find. Was wondering about that.
This interview's insightful in ways that they didn't expect.
Jess Fields Show #17 - Maya Santamaria, Employed Both George Floyd and Alleged Killer Derek Chauvin
10:00 - Talks about how the mayor let the precinct burn “as a gesture of peace” so that no one would get hurt. Lets it slip that she was involved in the protests but then quickly backtracks and says “on the 1st day” (Precinct burned on day 2)
(El Nuevo Rodeo and her radio station burned down on day 3)
(Chauvin’s precinct was the 3rd Precinct, the same precinct that burnt down)
15:00 Maya pushes the rioters from out-of-state angle. Claims she has personal information that all of them are “Anglo-Saxon” and some of them "seem to be white supremacists”
When pressed on specifics she notes the following:
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One of the respected community organizers in the neighborhood told her she saw them organizing on Facebook.
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She noticed out-of-state license plates and “stickers on cars”.
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She saw them dressed in black and wearing red armbands and white laces on boots.
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She admits she’s not an expert on radical groups.
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Pushes the out-of-town element.
(Why didn’t she take any photos?)
19:30 - Mentions Ilhan Omar stressed that it wasn’t people of color burning down their own communities.
20:00 - Floyd & Chauvin discussion
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States from the beginning that she wants "to make clear that in no uncertain terms that she in no way implies that Floyd & Chauvin knew each other at all or had a working relationship or, on the contrary, that they had a beef. That would not be a fair representation.”
"Derek Chauvin was the head police officer that worked with me for the better part of 17 years.”
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Was outside in his patrol car.
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“His job description was going around the club and making sure that as patrons entered & exited the building that they were safe”.
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“If there was somebody inside that needed to be removed, if we found any illlegal thing on them, we could hand those things over to him and we don’t have to call 911.”
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“He would be there to hand over to law enforcement.”
(Was Chauvin using a city-owned patrol car while being privately employed?)
(If he was doing late-night shifts in his patrol car, why did his neighbors say on camera that they never saw a patrol car in his driveway?)
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There was security guards inside the club and the club was 3 floors. So there would be very little overlap unless you were the one security guard who happened to be removing a patron and handing over to the police officer.
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“So they probably crossed paths on the way to my office to get paid at some point, but that doesn’t mean that they knew other. “
(Never an incident where Floyd & Chauvin interacted while working as she described above?)
24:00 - Floyd didn’t work full-time for her. He had a different job during the weekends. She would call him in when she needed extra support during the week.
She only remembers him working in the last year or so. She had a security group hiring extra help.
(But Floyd was directly paid by her as noted above)
No personal relationship with Floyd. Just hi and friendly brief conversations. "He was great."
26:40 - “If he wouldn’t have already had a job at my friend’s club, we would have hired him on a regular basis.”
(FRIEND’S CLUB?????)
27:00 - Chauvin initially worked under another senior officer and then took over as the go-to guy when the other officer got transferred about halfway in.
“THEY USED POLICE PATROL VEHICLES.”
29:00 - Doesn’t recall specific incidents but remembers there being times where she either wanted to talk to him or did talk to him about him overreacting.
“Like why are you pepper spraying innocent people instead of the people fighting?”
Confirms that there were occasions when Chauvin went too far by her judgement.
31:00 - Claims there were about 4 officers that worked for her at one time.
Claims she got a lot of complaints over the years about the cops, not only Chauvin.
At the end of her career, she started an Urban Night. Claims she got calls from licensing, from the City of Minneapolis, and from the 3rd precinct asking her why she was catering to the black community.
States that the City of Minneapolis practiced “institutionalized racism”.
Police department was also “institutionalized racist”. None of the off-duty police officers wanted to work the urban nights.
36:30 - “CHAUVIN WAS THERE ALMOST EVERY NIGHT.”
(Was he also on duty when he was working for the club?)