Police officers actually arrested George Floyd because of a suspicious fake 20 dollar bill that he passed in a market. Everything actually happened on the 25th of May, when he visited a grocery store in Minneapolis to purchase a pack of cigarettes. One of the employees in the store suspected that George Floyd had paid with a counterfeit bill, then he called and informed the police.
Mike Abumayyaleh, the owner of the store, made it known that he was not at his store when the incident occurred, but one of his employees claimed that Floyd had entered the store with a woman and a man. The man actually attempted buying something, of which the employee suspected the payment was made through a counterfeit bill, so he rejected the bill.
But some minutes later it's like George Floyd came back into the store to buy a pack of cigarettes with a suspicious counterfeit 20 dollars bill again. Then he followed the appropriate protocol and called the cops.