The teenage store clerk who was working at the store where George Floyd allegedly tried to cash in a fake $20 bill moments before he was killed, testified on Wednesday during the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin . Christopher Martin, the 19-year-old who worked at the Cut Foods where Floyd visited prior to his fatal encounter with police, said that he felt a great deal of guilt when he came out of the store and witnessed Chauvin's knee pressed on Floyd's neck. He lamented over not being able to cover the bill himself. "If I would have just not taken the bill, this could have been avoided," Martin told the court, according to Newsweek. According to a Twitter thread posted by PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor, the teenager explained that the store had a policy stating if an employee accepted a counterfeit bill, then the money would be deducted from their paycheck. “The Cup Foods cashier who sold George Floyd cigarettes and handled the alleged fake $20 bill,...
