Minneapolis restaurateur Rashad West. West’s surveillance camera footage from his restaurant, Dragon Wok, disproved Derek Chauvin’s claims that George Floyd resisted arrest. Photos: Nancy Musinguzi

The Man Whose Surveillance Camera Sparked a National Uprising

Rashad West went from hardworking teen to college athlete to restaurant owner by the age of 26. Then he single-handedly proved that George Floyd was not resisting arrest.

Bonsu Thompson
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9 min readJun 29, 2020

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Bonsu Thompson
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Bonsu Thompson is a writer, producer, Brooklynite and 2019 Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow.