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The complaint and general identification from the manager unquestionably provided reasonable suspicion for a stop. [/quote]

In a strict sense, if someone was just looking at this portion in the event of a complaint, I would agree that Lane would probably not have an issue meeting a pretty low bar. But in the sense of whether it was the way an average or more experienced officer would handle the call, I think that is questionable but don’t know enough about Minneapolis specifically. People in cities complain all the time that officers “don’t do anything” when responding to nonviolent theft or property crimes in the context of making arrests when the incident isn’t in progress. There are a few reasons.

The interaction with the manager at Cup Foods is extremely brief. He does say “the driver” which Lane confirms, but it isn’t really clear that the car would be visible enough from the entrance of Cup Foods where that conversation takes place. We learned in trial that the manager sent his young employee out to talk to the people in the car twice before calling police, so I surmise that’s how he knew who was in the driver’s seat. But there’s no way Lane and Keung could have known how reliable that ID was based on the interaction we see taking place in the entryway to Cup Foods.

He does say something like “go before he drives off” which arguably might create the perception that the car had been driving.

It’s worth noting that Chief Arradondo was questioned yesterday by the prosecution and this came up, he said that someone accused of passing a counterfeit bill wouldn’t be taken to jail. That’s kind of specific and I think it’s accurate to say that doesn’t capture the full interaction that led to Floyd being cuffed. But I do think that when Lane and Keung are on trial, MPD witnesses will be reluctant to defend the extremely brief interaction at Cup Foods. I’m blanking on how much we’ve heard on the initial dispatch details, but in his BCA interview, I recall Lane saying the call was initially dispatched as a “forgery in progress.” It is unusual at least, that in a city on Memorial Day, officers would have been dispatched so quickly to a report of a counterfeit $20. It’s possible there were some more details given to the original dispatch that increased the call priority, or they had already investigated this issue before. We haven’t heard the manager testify yet, just two young employees. Also notable that surveillance video from inside Cup shows the manager had a handgun visible in his back pocket. I’m not sure exactly what the takeaway from that is, in terms of what he expects to encounter day to day, but it did stand out. [/quote]

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