George Floyd Redux: 4 Hotel Employees Who Removed “Morbidly Obese” and Drugged-Out Man From Woman’s Restroom Charged With Murder

According to a criminal complaint, the four employees dragged [decedent] Mitchell out of the Hyatt Hotel on June 30 after he entered a women’s bathroom and held him on his stomach for eight or nine minutes. . .

An autopsy showed that Mitchell suffered from morbid obesity and had ingested cocaine and methamphetamine, the complaint said.

Hyatt surveillance video shows Mitchell frantically running into the hotel’s lobby and then into the gift shop before entering the women’s bathroom, the complaint said.

A few seconds later, a woman emerges and Turner, who was off duty but happened to be visiting staff at that moment, drags Mitchell out of the bathroom into the lobby by his shirt.

[One of those charged, a hotel guard,] told investigators that Mitchell was very strong and kept resisting them and tried to bite him. But the guard said he never did anything to intentionally hurt or harm Mitchell. [Another charged employee] told a detective that he heard women screaming in the bathroom after Mitchell entered it, and he thought Mitchell was on drugs. (Read more from “George Floyd Redux: 4 Hotel Employees Who Removed “Morbidly Obese” and Drugged-Out Man From Woman’s Restroom Charged With Murder” HERE)

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