It’s a self-protective aspect of human nature to put aside painful memories, and that’s what most of us have done with the murderous riots of the summer of 2020 that were sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
But for the people of this fallen city and for all the police officers across the country who were abandoned and betrayed by their irresponsible political leaders, the pain still burns.
It should burn for the rest of us too, because we are still suffering the consequences, in the catastrophic breakdown of law and order across the country. We will continue to do so until the lies about George Floyd’s death stop.
A brilliant new crowdfunded documentary, “The Fall of Minneapolis,” aims to remedy our collective amnesia about the events of May 25, 2020, a time when the country was already half-crazed by the ravages of the COVID-19 and enforced lockdowns, and when Democratic Party operatives, including candidates Biden and Harris, seized on the Defund Police movement to bring down Donald Trump.
Since then, so many lies have been told, and so much truth buried by the Big Tech censors who control reality, that the documentary comes as a slap in the face.
Wake up, he says. remember Look at the truth and hang your head a little in shame that you let yourself be deceived.
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“The Fall of Minneapolis” reveals a shocking story of injustice and perfidy, and a ruthless political operation that contained the seeds of the J6 Capitol riot eight months later and the subsequent hyperbolic crackdown on Trump supporters.
The film was produced by Liz Collin, a former anchor at a CBS affiliate in the Twin Cities who was taken off the air during the riots and demoted because her husband Bob Kroll was the head of the police union in Minneapolis at the time. Their home was besieged by angry mobs shouting abuse into megaphones and beating piñata effigies of the couple during the trial of police officer Derek Chauvin.
But he doesn’t allow personal emotion to creep into the film, instead driving the narrative dispassionately with shocking new evidence. Interview Chauvin in prison, where he is turning 21, his mother and many of the police officers who have resigned.
From the false testimony in Chauvin’s trial to the police body camera footage of Floyd’s arrest that was withheld for two months, to the autopsy report that was altered after the ‘FBI gets involved, Collin presents a damning forensic record that needs revenge.
Collin is relying on new evidence presented last month in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former Hennepin County Attorney Amy Sweasy against then-County Attorney Mike Freeman.
Sweasy’s complaint details an uproar at the Hennepin County District Attorney’s office over the decision to charge Chauvin Tou Thao’s associates, Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, with aiding and abetting second-degree murder. Lane and Kueng, who is black, were fresh out of the academy.
Sweasy and three other prosecutors refused to work on the case because it “violated professional and ethical standards.”
In affidavits, prosecutors spoke of the “dense . . . extreme premium pressure” they were under to release the book on Chauvin and charge the other cops because “the city was burning.”
One said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison “found it difficult to take on the Chauvin cases, especially when we had a governor who threw us under the bus.”
The original autopsy report by Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker the day after Floyd’s death found that “there was no physical evidence to suggest that Mr. Floyd died by asphyxiation. Mr. Floyd showed no signs of petechiae, damage to his airways or thyroid, brain bleeding, bone injuries, or internal hematomas.”
Sweasy claims that Baker also told him that day that “there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd’s neck. There was no medical evidence of asphyxiation or strangulation.”
But then she claims that Baker told her, “Amy, what happens when the real evidence doesn’t match the public narrative that everyone has already decided? … This is the kind of case that ends careers.”
On May 31, 2020, Sweasy said Baker shared toxicology test results with prosecutors, which showed Floyd, 46, had a “fatal level of fentanyl” in his blood, along with methamphetamine .
Floyd also had COVID and severe “arteriosclerotic heart disease,” with a 75% blocked artery, and “hypertensive heart disease.”
But Ben Crump, the ambulance-chasing lawyer who represented the Floyd family and secured a $27 million settlement from the City of Minneapolis, told the media: “George Floyd was a healthy young man.”
The private forensic pathologist he hired, Dr. Michael Baden, testified, without seeing Floyd’s body or autopsy slides, that “there was no underlying medical problem that caused or contributed to his death.”
The documentary says the FBI met with Baker after Baden’s review and soon after the official autopsy report was changed to find Chauvin guilty. Floyd’s cause of death had been determined to be “cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdualization, restraint and neck compression.”
There are many things that impact the documentary.
For example, he finds that the hold Chauvin, a “by the book” cop, used on Floyd was an approved technique that he and all other cops had been trained by the Minneapolis Police Department. It was called the Maximum Restraint Technique (MRT) for handcuffed and uncooperative suspects. All the policemen interviewed by Collin said that MRT was part of the official training.
In the bystander video that went viral after Floyd’s death, it appears that Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s neck. But in the body cam footage, it looks like his knee is on Floyd’s shoulder.
Police Chief Medaria Arradondo testified under oath at Chauvin’s trial that it was “not” a trained Minneapolis police tactical defensive technique.
But Chauvin’s mother pulled out her son’s training manuals in her interview with Collin, which show footage of the MRT takeover.
The pictures “surely are in Derek’s training manuals, so how can they say they don’t exist?”
But the judge refused to allow the evidence to be shown to the jury.
Everyone failed Minneapolis and eventually America failed.
Rogue’s Gallery
The main criminals seen in the film are:
- Arradondo, the cowardly police chief who immediately called Floyd’s death “murder.”
- Judge Peter Cahill, who threw out exculpatory evidence, rejected defense requests to move the trial out of Minneapolis, where the crowd could be heard pouring into the courtroom, and refused to sequester the jury ;
- Jacob Frey, the surrender mayor of the soy boy who ordered the Third Precinct to sacrifice its police station to the mob
- Keith Ellison, the Antifa attorney general who undermined the rule of law when he railroaded Chauvin and the three other police officers jailed with him, and lied that Trump supporters (whom he called of “white supremacists”) were to blame for the riot
- Tim Walz, the Biden-loving governor who refused to deploy the National Guard and instead allowed burning, looting and violent mayhem to engulf Minneapolis for 13 days and spread to the rest of the country.
Frey, Ellison and Walz won re-election. Arradondo took early retirement. None of them have been held accountable. This insurrection of the incendiary left has left the memory empty.
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