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An incredible documentary by Alpha News, titled “The Fall of Minneapolis,” was released last year, revealing what really happened in the death of George Floyd. Reporter Liz Collins, who produced the film and also wrote a bestselling book about it, interviewed key people involved, including police officers. Collins was fired afterwards from her longtime job at WCCO-TV, a CBS affiliate in Minneapolis/St. Paul, which she believes was due to her fair coverage of police incidents (she is married to the former president of the Minneapolis Police Officers Federation).
The documentary obtained bodycam footage from the officers who responded: Derek Chauvin, Alex Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao. The mainstream media downplayed the fact that one of the officers was black and another was Asian. Kueng, who is black, arrested Floyd and spent more time with him than Chauvin, who arrived on the scene later. All four were sentenced to prison, with Chauvin receiving 22.5 years.
Floyd can be seen in the bodycam footage repeatedly disregarding the officers’ commands. Lane told him to get out of his car eight times. Floyd lied to the officers, said he wasn’t on any substances, and said he got shot the last time he was arrested, which wasn’t true. After he was placed in handcuffs, he continued resisting. He never stopped talking back to the officers and refused to get into the patrol vehicle. The officers tried to push him in. He can be seen kicking Lane.
Floyd forced his way out of the vehicle and ended up lying on the ground. Chauvin used the Maximal Restraint Technique (MRT) on him, which was approved by the Minneapolis Police Department. As Floyd continued to yell, Lane called for an ambulance. A firefighter who happened to be at the scene, off duty, testified during the trial against Chauvin that the medical team took a long time to respond, considering it was located only two blocks away. Bodycam footage revealed there was a miscommunication between the fire department and Emergency Medical Services.
One expert, after reviewing the bodycam footage, stated that she could see the paramedics failed to properly attach the oxygen to Floyd, “that’s a big mistake.” However, officials claimed that the paramedics did everything correctly.
The chief of the Minneapolis Police Department testified during the trial that Chauvin’s knee appeared to be on Floyd’s shoulder blade, not his neck. However, he claimed MRT wasn’t a trained technique. Chauvin’s mother showed Collins his training manuals, which included that technique. Other officers told Collins they were all trained on MRT. A black officer told Collins, almost in tears, that Chauvin was one of the top two or three recruits he ever trained.
However, Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill refused to allow evidence of MRT training to the jury. Cahill also refused to allow evidence of the miscommunication and Floyd’s drug arrests. Floyd had a lengthy criminal history, which included aggravated robbery with a firearm. The judge asked the jurors about their opinions of Black Lives Matter, and they had favorable responses.
Collins interviewed an officer who had arrested Floyd in a previous incident, who relayed that Floyd’s behavior was exactly the same, involving resistance to the officers.
The documentary revealed that prominent politicians lied about how long Floyd was restrained — it was only 7 minutes and 46 seconds.
Hennepin County Medical Examiner Andrew Baker performed the autopsy. The report about the autopsy from the district attorney said it found there was “no physical evidence suggesting Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation.” He had “preexisting health conditions,” including “coronary artery disease,” with “at least one artery that was approximately 75% blocked.”
Further notes from the medical examiner stated that “most cases of untreated hypertension can put you at risk for death.” Another memo from the district attorney, based on speaking to the medical examiner, found that stimulants in his system, combined with the hypertension and his violent fighting with the police, likely caused his death.
More notes from the conversation with Baker stated that Floyd had no bruising and “Chauvin’s knee is on the side of his neck, not where the structures are.” Baker told investigators that there were no findings of injury to the vital structures of Floyd’s neck or signs of asphyxiation or strangulation.
The toxicology report found that Floyd had 19 ng/mL of methamphetamine and 11 ng/mL of fentanyl in his system, which the memo described as “a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances.” People die from just 3 ng/mL of fentanyl.
A forensic pathologist who was hired for an “independent autopsy” claimed Floyd “had no underlying medical problem that caused or contributed to his death.” This was widely touted in the mainstream media.
Dr. Tom Haney reviewed the autopsy report and said it appeared prosecutors were trying to hide Floyd’s medical situation. He noted that the independent forensic pathologists never even examined his body.
The documentary covered how Minnesota politicians, including Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, surrendered the police precinct to the violent riot, leaving some of the officers in danger of being injured by the protesters who were throwing bricks and shooting mortars at them. They can be seen running out of the police station with violent rioters chasing them, who burned the precinct down. Officers watched as they looted businesses but were ordered not to intervene.
Some of the Minneapolis Police officers Collins interviewed said they were so disillusioned that they left the profession. There were 892 officers when Floyd died. By October 2023, that had decreased to 513. Officials assert that crime has gone down since Floyd’s death, but one of the officers told Collins that’s not true. The documentary showed statistics revealing steep increases in violent crime. Homicides have almost doubled since 2020.
Some thought Ben Shapiro was seeking attention by calling for President Donald Trump to pardon Chauvin. But this documentary proves otherwise. Shapiro has started a petition requesting a pardon and is also planning his own docuseries about the case.
We all knew this almost five years ago, it was reported here and elsewhere but ignored by the society dividers called the legacy media and government.
Will they ignore it again?
I only knew some of it. What I learned here made me go out and sign Shapiro’s petition (even though I know it will increase my junk mail).
Thank you, Ms. Alexander, for this informative piece.
I figure this time the D-Bags and their Minitrue Media will lie and deny it’s true rather than ignore I and try to bury it.
Minneapolis is a pit, made worse by the influx of Somalian Islamists engaged in a hostile take over of the city.
I hope the Twins and the Vikings bail as the number of white Christian Americans continues to dwindle.
You forgot the Timberwolves
There are plenty of states that would glad to have all three Minnesota sports teams.
What a waste.
He would have made a perfect ambassador to South Africa.
Very uncalled for remark. We have God fearing, good people in South Africa too. Spew your bad retoric somewhere else my friend. We are proud of our country, not of our Goverment, as the US also had this very problem for a very long time. Only now do they have someone for the people and not stealing lives and livelyhoods. We love our country, love our God and love Israel, despite the believe out there.
I hope you are right.
I have fear you are wrong ever since Bishop Tutu and Allan Boesak showed their fangs to the Jews.
I am South African anf i can tell you tjat is very true. That is only our goverments view and NOT AT ALL the feeling of the people. Just as in Canada, US, Australia etc. Goverments everywhere do NOT reflect the feeling of the masses.
Yes, you have good people in South Africa and at least two good TV mini-series on Netflix. You also have the highest rape and murder rates on planet Earth. And genocide of white farmers by by the Bantus.
Goldstein, Jewish right!? Your comments are especially ignorant considering all the Anti-semitism in your town and country! Go to Gaza.
What does his comment have to do with the Jew hatred of others? And how are Wears a Tutu and Ballsack absolved of promoting Jew hatred?
one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in modern history. chauvin and floyed worked at some club for security. He must have recognized him. MRT is an israeli technique designed to restrain without damaging the suspect. there was NO organ damage to his breathing apparatus at autopsy. Office told him to clam down and not talk as it used to much oxygen. and called EMS twice. Fentanyl kills by arresting breathing and he had placed it up his anus for a better high with dose well over one that is clinically known to cause death. When you cannot breathe people flail around as they do when drowning and it is one of the reasons rescuing a drowning victim is very difficult All noted by pathologist but he was charged rather than thanked by this odious man’s family.. They also made NO effort to clear crowds with cell phone cameras running. None of this is actually the behavior of those trying to kill someone. Family paid michael baden the so called “celebrity” pathologist to reexamine body but he never actually did. the officers all need to be released immediately and put in witness protection. as they say “no good deed goes unpunished”
…and no bad deed goes unpublished.
Unless it’s committed by a black or Moslem criminal. That’s how I knew the lowlife who shot four people on a military base was black, a Moslem, or both. I finally leaked out to real news networks (Newsmax, Real America’s Voice, Salem News Channel and The First) that he’s black and I expect he’ll turn out to be an islamopithecine to boot.
All four victims lived, than God.
“Officials assert that crime has gone down since Floyd’s death, but one of the officers told Collins that’s not true. The documentary showed statistics revealing steep increases in violent crime. Homicides have almost doubled since 2020.”
So predictable. Government says everything is peachy keen, but obviously the 43% drop in police officers combined with the hesitance of those remaining officers to interact lawfully and aggressively with criminals, especially black ones, will cause the official record to appear as though crime is decreasing.
That and the usual outright lies by government officials in the twin cities.
I think of Minneapolis as a particularly odious town, over this incident particularly, but also because they have such a.high opinion of themselves — “Minnesota nice”. Indeed. The place deserves Omar Fateh good and hard.
This is the briefest and best synopsis of “The Fall of Minneapolis” I have read. Not only should all 4 law enforcement officers wrongfully convicted and sentenced should be pardoned, they should sue the city of Minneapolis with a Trump appointed judge.
for risking their lives racing to the unknown or showing up on scene, doing as trained, because the perp in this case was destroying his middle aged body with the worst kind of street drugs – he would have died in custody with “19 ng/mL of methamphetamine and 11 ng/mL of fentanyl in his system”
Fentanyl is the most deadly drug to ever hit the streets. How this George Floyd dude did not OD at time of ingesting shows that had George Floyd ben a street addict but a sober, clean entrepreneur he would have been very successful. G Floyd must have had a strong healthy constitution and an intelligent mind to over come the toxicity of the street drugs he was on daily for years,
With the Minnesota elected government from governor to representatives and mayors, which is on par with California and New York, why would anyone want to be a law enforcement officer – to do your job as expected you may end up losing your life to prison!
This blatant disregard, disrespect, gaming, and now violent resistance to law enforcement and the rule of law in general is the new norm for the coloreds and whites that have learned from them. Young, old, politicians, bureaucrats, teachers, students, restaurant goers, you name it. Thank you Democrats. I hate, and have hated you all for the dismantling and “FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING AMERICA”! But we have no one to blame but ourselves for being cowed into allowing it. Sooner or later there must be a seriously muscular push back and take back or the entire country will resemble our destroyed,defiled once great cities. I make no apologies for my opinions and statements.
I folowed thus ravesty from he earlies reports of it. When it was released, I went to the Hennepin Countyy Coroner’s website and located the first autopsy report, and read it. I had no question that the big floyd guy in his wilful refusal to follow orders and surrender, was at fault for his own death. I downloaded and saved the entire first autopsy report. A few days later (the tox lab takes some time to process their evidence, because of the chemistry involved). I saw the note that the toxicology report was now completed and in his death file. I returned to Hennepin COunty Coroner’s site and quickly located that report,and read it. I have a background in medical chemistry. I was shocked when I read the high levels of fentanyl and meth in his blood. The fent was four times lethal, taking into account his massive body weight. Meth was about 2.5 times lethal. No question that had the creep stayed in his car undiscovered, he’d have died at about the same time as he did after being forced out of his car.
It was about this same time that news of a nearlyy identical “performance” about a year or so earlier where he was being arrested and while in the back of the cruiser in custody he again ingested a massive dose of fent. This time they were able to pump hm out in time and he survived. Too bad… because not only did he perform a replay his antics have no caused the unrightful imprisonmen of four honest and good law enforcement officers.
Minneap0lis seems to be on a fast track to rival South Africa’s big cities into perdition. How much longer this city can survive without descending into total anarchy and chaos, a remake of Mogadishu, remains to be seen. The worse things get there, the more reasonable people pack up and abandon the hellhole. That can only go one way and to one destination. I know only one family who used to live there, and they moved out to the suburbs two years ago.
It is well known that throughout history, evil folks use the lowest of the low to do their dirty work. Even dead lowest of the low. Floyd was garbage, and for the ignorant folks who follow the evil folks, he did his dirty work as a dead man. You cannot patronize ignorant people, and expect them to rise to great heights. In the education field, back in the late 1970s and throughout most of the 1980s, children were to be praised, even for the wrong answer. That has gotten us a collapsing society. We did it to ourselves for not understanding the adversary.
It was well known that Floyd died of fentanyl. The Democrats needed riots to divide and rule, their usual totalitarian tactic.
Floyd was already mentioning while being seated in the backseat of the police car that he couldn’t breathe. Floyd had ingested the popular 1980’s drug combination known as a speedball. That’s combining a stimulant (like cocaine or methamphetamine) with a depressant (like heroin or fentanyl), which can be deadly! The stimulant speeds up the heart, while the opioid slows respiration. This can mask overdose symptoms until it’s too late. Notable celebrities died from a speedball overdose like former Saturday Night Live actors John Belushi and Chris Farley.
Floyd already had an enlarged heart from drug abuse; you add to the scenario of doing a speedball and his body engaged in the fight or flight response (which further increases the heart rate) – you’ve got yourself someone who could die on the spot! That’s the real causation of Floyd’s death not the irrelevant placing of a knee on his upper back.
The way to prove this and I’m shocked that the defense team didn’t recreate Derek Chauvin’s knee placement on a healthy man of Floyd’s age, size body and weight. Under strict police supervision and having a doctor and/or EMTs on-site in case the volunteer’s health would be at risk. Chauvin should have placed his knee on the volunteer’s back at the same location and for the same duration as he did with Floyd. If the volunteer’s cardiovascular system wasn’t under risk of a lethal outcome then this would have proven there was no causal effect of Chauvin’s actions to the death of Floyd.
Floyd had the Fentanyl up his butt but I don’t know about the meth. And Chauvin took his knee off the side of Floyd’s neck and put it on his right shoulder blade.
Jonathan S. I took saw clips of Floyd complaining “I can’t breath” before and restraining hold, but that seems to have been scrubbed from the media. Is that in the documentary? I also saw reports he tested Covid positive, which is known for breathing issues. The George Floyd circus can be seen, by those with eyes to see, as a diabolic web of lies that successfully mesmerized most of the people.
I saw The Fall of Minneapolis last year. I think the really vital scenes in the film are while Floyd is still in the car & the officer is talking through the open window to him. Floyd repeatedly buries his face in his hands even though the officer is telling him to show his hands & put them on the steering wheel. At one point the film is slowed down & you can clearly see white powder on Floyd’s tongue as he speaks to the officer. I think Floyd ingested more drugs while he had his head buried in his hands. It’s very possible he would have overdosed after that even if the police never confronted him.
I believe these riots were planned before the junkie overdose.
The leftist-islamist alliance sacrificed one junkie to:
1- Destabilize the entire nation under Trump’s rule.
2- To destroy the rule of law. To create a path for further riots without facing consequences. As evidenced by current pro-hamass protests and attacks on Jews.
3- Enable voter fraud while law enforcement was under attack.
It was well planned beyond any doubt and part of a larger plot. Not a random incident at all.
The only question to ask is which foreign power was behind it? Islamists, communists or both?
The Power was not foreign. USA democrats were responsible. “Never let a crisis go to waste!”
Examine any big democrat run city or state in America. Consider the Kenosha riots. Gov. Evers and his Lt. Gov Mandela Barnes pronounced the police at fault before anyone knew the circumstances. Joe B. and the race hustlers did the same.
Democrats are the riot factories.
Kenosha, WI is known for riots, Rittenhouse and Voters fraud. (They were Zuck bucks collectors.)
Police officer, Derek Chauvin who was sentenced to prison by the politically correct court of “law” for the death of that hoodlum George Floyd completely refused to take into consideration everything that really mattered.
The PC court didn’t take into account that Mr. Floyd was both a drug trafficking and drug using hooligan and that one of the reason his died that night was not only that the officer used force on him, which is the only language that thugs and gangsters are able to understand because that will not respond to reason. Floyd died because of his drug abuse about with the force that officer used on him.
If Floyd hadn’t resisted the officer force then would not have been needed to control him.
Floyd died by his drug abuse and the stress he brought upon himself by being such a fool that he resisted arrest. In other words, Floyd is responsible for his own death.
The police officer, Derek Chauvin who was sentenced to prison by the politically correct court of “law” for the death of that hoodlum George Floyd completely refused to take into consideration everything that really mattered.
The PC court didn’t take into account that Mr. Floyd was both a drug trafficking and drug using hooligan and that one of the reason his died that night was not only that the officer used force on him, which is the only language that thugs and gangsters are able to understand because that will not respond to reason. Floyd died because of his drug abuse about with the force that officer used on him.
If Floyd hadn’t resisted the officer force then would not have been needed to control him.
In the light of Bible it’s wrong to resist of police officers or their orders. Romans 13:2.
Furthermore as this CP unjust prison sentence upon Mr. Chauvin is a reminder for Christians to pray for him since he was wrongly sentenced and that Bible also instructs in Hebrews 13 : 3. “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – Those who are mistreated…”
Some things need to be known which was that George Floyd was a vicious hardened criminal therefore it’s very wrong to make some kind of a “hero” out of hooligan was such criminal that he not was not only on drugs but was also involved in drug trafficking . Floyd even knowingly pass counterfeit money
Mr. Floyd was so totally despicable that he even entered a pregnant woman’s home under a false premise of deception to let his lawless ruffians lot her home , all the while he threateningly pointed a gun to that pregnant woman’s stomached ‘You better cooperate.”
The list of crimes that Floyd was guilty of can to go on. It’s absurd as well as wrong to make a “hero” out of heinously wicked thug. As the Bible reads “Woe to those who call evil good…” Isaiah 5:20. [N.K.J.V.]
George floyd’s post mortem radiological images made the rounds soon after the event and radiologists far and wide who saw them concurred that physical injury did not cause Floyd’s death. The jailing of Chauvin is a travesty.
Most people realize that the trial of Derek Chauvin was a politically motivated hanging. They need the white guy to take the fall because the AG demanded it. Chauvin should be immediately released because he is the real victim in this scenario. The progressive media tried Chauvin and found him guilty for being a white man who dared to do his job. The only justice from this point forward is to pardon him and file charges of racism against the Minnesota judicial branch. This is fair and logical.
This was obama and company’s greatest “accomplishment”. It single-handedly destroyed race relations more than any other event in a century.. Just try to explain the truth to the billions who fell for it – rots of ruck.