Police release 911 call made before George Floyd's death where store clerk Framed him as a drunk who bought cigarettes with counterfeit money

The store clerk who called 911 on George Floyd complained to an operator about an 'awfully drunk' man who was 'not in control of himself'.

A call transcript released by the Minnesota Police Department on Thursday reveals that the caller reported a customer for using a counterfeit bill to buy cigarettes.

The caller said staff only realized the money could be fake once he left the Cup Foods store in Minneapolis. Someone followed him out and demanded he turn in his phone and the cigarettes before he was allowed to leave, however he refused.

'Someone comes our store and give us fake bills and we realize it before he left the store, and we ran back outside, they was sitting on their car,' the caller explained to the operator on Monday around 8.30pm.

The incident took place outside Cup Foods at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue Monday. A caller reported a customer who refused to return cigarettes when they accused him of using counterfeit money after he had already left. They told the operator he was sitting in a blue van

The caller claimed around 8.30pm on Monday 'he is not acting right', CCTV footage from a nearby restaurant shows part of the altercation between Floyd and the officers

Floyd was accompanied by two people at the scene however their identities are unknown.

'We tell them to give us their phone, put their (inaudible) thing back and everything and he was also drunk and everything and return to give us our cigarettes back and so he can, so he can go home but he doesn't want to do that,' the clerk continued.

'And he's sitting on his car cause he is awfully drunk and he's not in control of himself.'

The operator obtained the vehicle description and described where the blue van was parked.

'So, this guy gave a counterfeit bill, has your cigarettes, and he's under the influence of something?' the operator clarified.

The caller responded: 'Something like that, yes. He is not acting right.'

George Floyd was filmed Monday begging the Minneapolis cop to stop kneeling on him and telling him he could not breathe before he lost consciousness and later died

George Floyd

George Floyd's (pictured) heartbroken family have called for the cops to be charged with murder and their lawyer revealed white cop Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for a staggering eight minutes during the arrest for forgery

The clerk then refers to a woman but it's unclear whether the pronoun was mistakenly used.

'He's like tall and bald, about like 6…6‐1/2, and she's not acting right so and she started to go, drive the car,' the caller continued.

The operator asks for clarification on whether the suspect is male or female and the caller seemingly checks with someone else in the store.

It's unclear whether the caller was involved in the original encounter.

'Okay so, female or a male?' the operator asked.

The caller, whose name was redacted from the transcript replied: 'Um…'

It prompted the operator to follow up with: 'Is it a girl or a boy?'

The caller is then heard conferring with someone else.

'He's asking (inaudible) one second. Hello?' the caller adds.

The operator asks once more for the gender of the person, clarifying that they are asking about the person who allegedly handed over counterfeit money.

'It is a man,' the caller responds.

However there appears to be some confusion about the identity again.

'Okay. Is he white, black, Native, Hispanic, Asian?' the operator asked.

The caller replied: 'Something like that', prompting the operator to probe further for specific information.

' Which one? White, black, Native, Hispanic, Asian?' the operator questioned.

'No, he's a black guy,' the caller replied.

According to the transcript, the operator sighed after managing to obtain the basic to send out police and then told the caller to let them know if the vehicle leaves.

'We'll have squads out there shortly, okay?' the operator said.

It's unclear how the situation escalated but one video shows police dragging Floyd out of his vehicle and sitting him down on the sidewalk. Police claimed he resisted but he doesn't appear to in the surveillance footage from a nearby store.

Footage from a passerby shows a cop kneeling into Floyd's neck for eight minutes as he begs for his life and calls out for his mother, crying, 'I can't breathe, officer.'

He eventually stopped breathing and died.

Four MPD cops involved have been fired after the distressing video went viral but across the country there have been calls for them to face murder charges.

It has sparked protests, looting and riots, as Americans demand reform of the criminal justice system. Floyd's death evoked painful memories of the police killings of many African Americans. Specifically, Floyd's death was compared to that of Eric Garner who cried out: 'I can't breathe,' before he too lost his life.

Floyd's family demanded the officer and three others who were present, all since fired from their jobs, face murder charges.

'You know, I want an arrest for all four of those officers tonight. A murder conviction for all four of those officers. I want the death penalty,' Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, told CNN.

'I have not slept in four days, and those officers, they're at home sleeping,' he said. 'I can't stand for that.'

'But people are torn and hurting because they are tired of seeing black men die, constantly, over and over again.'

Two African American leaders of national stature, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, arrived in Minneapolis and urged more protests.

'We told the governor you must call murder a murder,' Jackson told an audience at the Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.

'When you put... your foot down somebody's neck until they can't breathe no longer, you murdered them,' he said.

Sharpton said videos were all the evidence needed to arrest the police officers involved.

'We are going to make sure that this prosecution goes down,' said Sharpton.

Local and federal investigators said they were working the explosive case as fast as they could.

'The Department of Justice has made the investigation in this case a top priority,' said Erica MacDonald, the US federal attorney for Minnesota.

'To be clear, President (Donald) Trump, as well as Attorney General William Barr, are directly and actively monitoring the investigation in this case.'

The White House said Trump was 'very upset' upon seeing the 'egregious, appalling' video footage and demanded his staff see that the investigation was given top priority.

'He wants justice to be served,' Trump's press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters.