'If I would have been here the authorities would not have been called': Mahmoud Abumayyaleh on the killing of George Floyd, which happened outside his store
Photo: NBC News On May 25, Mahmoud Abumayyaleh got a panicked call from one of his employees. The teenager told him that cops were killing a man outside of the family-owned grocery store. When Abumayyaleh asked, “Who are you talking about?”, the employee could only respond, “They’re killing him, the guy, they’re killing him.”Over the next 24 hours, the tragic pieces of the story came together.
After Floyd’s death, the 35-year-old store co-owner has decided to make sure cops won’t be called to Cup Foods again. “We thought it’s just better to sever our ties” with the Minneapolis Police Department, added Jamar Nelson, who was hired to do community and media relations for Cup Foods after Floyd’s death.
Abumayyaleh grew up in the store, which has a meat market and phone-service shop, along with typical convenience-store fare, and started working there when he was 10. He knows most of his customers’ names and their backstories. “They’re looking for a scapegoat,” Abumayyaleh said, “because they’re used to seeing people getting killed by the police and not being prosecuted.”
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