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The shop where it all began is trying to survive the "George Floyd affair"

2021-04-25T06:08:39.579Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - In Minneapolis, many residents still blame Adam Abumayyaleh and his siblings, owners of Cup Foods, after which George Floyd was killed.


By Amanda Mars

(El País)

Stamps, cigarettes and organic milk.

T-shirts, smartphone cases and bus tickets.

Halal, Mexican and Middle Eastern specialties.

Olives and cheese.

The Abumayyaleh couple arrived in Minneapolis from Palestine in the 1970s with their only baggage of unwavering willpower and a handful of children.

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Once there, the family continues to grow.

When the tenth child was born, the couple opened a gigantic store on the corner of a street in the south of the city, where you could buy everything and which would eventually appear on TV news around the world.

On May 25, George Floyd entered Cup Foods, the name of this establishment, and paid for his cigarettes with a fake 20 dollar bill.

One of the salesmen then calls the police: a brutal arrest will follow just in front of the business, the death of George Floyd and a real wave of anger.

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Source: lefigaro

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