This isn't to trash the legacy a dead man. However, when it comes to George Perry Floyd, rendering an accurate picture is crucial, for it speaks to how quickly the public judges a situation. The repercussions of lionizing the victim and demanding the incarceration of his killer are anathema to due process.

In a less traumatized society, a society that hadn't been lied to about the severity of a pandemic and then locked down for months, the outcome might have differed. Perhaps the American public would have learned more, and reacted less hastily, about the Floyd case.

The mystery behind why his coworker killed him, the counterfeit $20 bills, Floyd's shady past: these should have given everyone pause. Yes, Floyd would still be dead, but it looks increasingly that the cause wasn't racism, but perhaps an unsettled score, or even a hit job.

Oh, and let's not forget newly-minted terrorist organization Antifa, who have exacerbated an already delicate situation.

So here we are. And this is what we have learned about Floyd.

Facts

1. He knew Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who killed him. The two were bouncers at El Nuevo Rodeo, a club in Minneapolis. This is perhaps the most curious detail, one which CDMedia expects will bear fruit when it comes to Chauvin's motive.
   
   As the NY Post reported, "Floyd and Chauvin both worked security at the El Nuevo Rodeo Club on Lake Street in South Minneapolis — and overlapped shifts on popular music nights within the last year".
   
2. He was a felon. As the BBC reports, "His life then took a different turn, with a string of arrests for theft and drug possession culminating in an armed robbery charge in 2007, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison." In the perpetration of the crime, Floyd held a gun to a woman's stomach.
   
   His rap sheet includes various other misdemeanors, including theft, multiple counts for possession of cocaine, and criminal trespassing. He went by several aliases.
   
3. Floyd's toxicology report is damning. The man who moved from Houston to Minneapolis to make a clean start was anything but clean, with fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system. The Hennepin County Medical Center autopsy report can be viewed in full here.
   
   The report also reveals a positive result for COVID-19 in April. The diagnosis was ruled not to be the cause of death.
   
   Further, it reveals the cause of death to be "cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restrain, and neck compression". 85 year-old Dr. Michael Baden, was hired to do an extra, independent autopsy on Floyd. To his eye, the cause was asphyxiation. Baden has stirred controversy due to his diagnoses of many famous cases involving celebrities and criminals, including his opinion that Jeffrey Epstein did kill himself.
   
4. Floyd also appeared in a pornographic movie. As a guest on the "Habib Show," he and two other men are filmed having sex with a young woman who gives her name as "Kimberly."
   
   Some tabloids have accused Floyd of gang affiliation as well, as he sports a "YRT" (Young Risk Takers) t-shirt at the beginning of the adult film, but CDMedia has not uncovered any reason to believe the group is anything more than an offshoot of Houston-based "Screwed Up Click" [sic], a consortium of rappers of which Floyd, nicknamed "Big Floyd", was a member.
   
5. Floyd tried to use a $20 bill to buy cigarettes in a Minneapolis market just prior to his arrest. The cashier spotted the fake and returned the bill to Floyd. He went outside, returned minutes later, and the bill was accepted. Then the cashier noticed the second bill was fake and called the police who arrived minutes later, according to the store's owner, Mike Abumayyaleh.
   
   While it's true that Floyd might not have known the bill was counterfeit, it's odd that he would leave and return with a different bill (if, in fact, it wasn't the same one), and try again.

Questions

• The owner of El Nuevo Laredo has claimed the men knew each other. They worked together for years. Would anyone treat a coworker as Chauvin treated Floyd unless they had a serious disagreement?
  
• How does a man with a rap sheet like Floyd's get hired to work security in a club? That he worked alongside a moonlighting cop who would one day be his killer isn't surreal or a coincidence, surely there must be a connection. What establishment owner hires both police officers...and felons?
  
• Is autopsy more art than science? When the deceased has copious amounts of deadly narcotics in his system, and is a smoker who was recently COVID-19 positive, is a true cause of death discernible? Will Floyd be the first patient to have the virus, die, and not be counted in the death tally?
  
• Was Floyd high at the time of arrest? Trying to pass one counterfeit bill, then trying again a few minutes later certainly suggests a lack of judgment. Even the New York Times has reported the amount of fentanyl in his system was enough to kill someone:

Mr. Kobilinsky said defense lawyers could make a point of the amount of fentanyl in Mr. Floyd’s body. Although the amount required to be lethal varies from person to person, fentanyl can stop a person’s heart and breathing, he said. “It’s high enough where a defense attorney would argue that this kind of predisposes him to heart failure, when you are on a drug like this,” he said.

Dr. Baden acknowledged that the amount of fentanyl in Mr. Floyd’s body was “considerable,” which would be particularly important if he had never used the drug before.

“He has enough that could be a cause of death if he had never had immunity or tolerance to the drug,” Dr. Baden said.

--NYT

Floyd demonstrated that he was capable of nuanced thought when he made a selfie video about the state of today's black youth. He claimed they're "so lost, man". The wise and heartfelt words of a man who lived on the wrong side of the law, struggled with addiction, had seen a lot of violence, and participated in heinous acts.

The "turnaround" of Floyd's life in Minneapolis, his personal renaissance instantly mythologized in mainstream media, has fallen apart. There are no "rebounding" fentanyl users.

In any case, being pinned under an officer's knee while handcuffed for nine minutes is a travesty. But would America have rallied to Floyd's cause so heartily (and violently) if they knew he was a career criminal, a synthetic heroin and meth abuser, and a dabbler in adult entertainment? This isn't to trash a dead man.

It's a note to the left: be careful when choosing a mascot.

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