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Frederick Douglass is a towering figure in American history. The most-photographed man of the 19th century, Douglass, who passed away in 1895, made his mark as a passionate orator, writer, abolitionist, social reformer, statesman, and civil rights trailblazer.
Fast forward 125 years to 2020, when another black American made his mark in history and is arguably more well-known to young generations around the world than Frederick Douglass is. Career criminal and substance abuser George Perry Floyd, who died in an infamous confrontation with Minneapolis police that year, became the emblem of the Left’s literally incendiary claims that America is nowhere more systemically racist than in our nation’s police departments, which purportedly are waging a genocidal war against black people.
The Left predictably exploited what was later judged to be Floyd’s murder while restrained by white police officer Derek Chauvin, to make the suspect a martyred saint for their social justice agenda. “Thank you, George Floyd,” a shameless Nancy Pelosi mumbled through her pointless COVID mask after Chauvin’s murder conviction, “for sacrificing your life for justice.”
The Minneapolis intersection where Floyd died has been officially designated “George Perry Floyd Square.” A 6-foot bust of Floyd sits on a marble base in New York City’s Union Square. A 700-lb. statue of a tank-topped Floyd sprawls on a park bench outside City Hall in Newark, New Jersey. Floyd’s image, often crowned with a halo, abounds on everything from t-shirts and bumper stickers to artwork and murals from Minneapolis to Berlin to Kenya to Syria. Apart from Barack Obama and Michael Jackson, Floyd may be the most recognizable black man worldwide of the 21st century.
In a sad irony, during the 2020 “summer of Floyd” when rioting over his death consumed the nation, a statue of Frederick Douglass was torn down in Rochester, New York where the most recognizable black man of his century had helped shuttle slaves to freedom in the Underground Railroad. What a tragic commentary on how far the Left has dragged down role models for blacks from the proud, self-made icon Douglass to a drug-addicted criminal whom the Left holds up as an idol solely because he was “victimized” by “white supremacy.”
Recently I wrote at FrontPage Mag about six must-see documentaries to help conservatives understand various threats to our civilization from the radical Left and their allies among the globalist elites. Since then a brand new film has been released which I highly recommend. The crowdfunded movie The Fall of Minneapolis, written and directed by Dr. JC Chaix and produced by multi-Emmy-Award-winning reporter Liz Collin, is based on her gripping book They’re Lying: The Media, The Left, and the Death of George Floyd. Like that book, the film exposes the gaping holes in the prevailing narrative constructed around George Floyd’s death and the trial of officer Chauvin, and the devastating consequences for the city of Minneapolis in particular and America in general. The Fall of Minneapolis is now streaming for free on Rumble.
Featuring extensive police bodycam footage of Floyd’s arrest, clips from the trials of the officers, and more than a dozen interviews with the people directly involved, the film includes exclusive interviews with former officers Derek Chauvin and Alexander Kueng, who spoke to Ms. Collin from prison. The families of Chauvin and Kueng also speak out publicly for the first time.
The documentary features current and former Minneapolis police officers who tell their harrowing stories from the subsequent riots that turned the city into what more than one officer called a “war zone.” They describe the surrender of the city’s Third Precinct to a raging, looting mob which swarmed the evacuating officers who had not been allowed even to wear riot gear. In a heartbreaking concluding segment titled “The Aftermath and the Right Side of History,” these men and women of courage and integrity, who had once been passionate about serving in law enforcement, explain very emotionally why they felt compelled to leave the careers they loved in the wake of the riots.
They weren’t the only ones. The film notes that in the three years since the riots, the Minneapolis Police Department – demoralized by lack of support from government officials, targeted for violence by a community taught to hate the police, and fearful of risking prison like Chauvin for engaging with black suspects – has lost 380 officers.
Those of us who from the beginning were skeptical of the official George Floyd narrative, and of the accompanying rush-to-judgment about the four police officers who went to prison, have since had our doubts confirmed as new details and facts leaked out. As the film shows, we now know that despite telling officers he wasn’t on any drugs, Floyd was later determined by an autopsy to have over three times the lethal level of fentanyl in his system at the time of his arrest, in addition to pre-existing medical conditions like coronary disease and untreated hypertension that put him at high risk of death under certain circumstances. The doctor who conducted the initial autopsy stated that if Floyd had simply been found dead at home instead of in police custody, his death could legitimately be described as an overdose. If Floyd had admitted to police officers that he was on fentanyl, they could have acted accordingly and the career criminal would still be alive – or in any case, would not have died that day.
But the leftist media and a whole race-hustling industry led by such despicable hate-mongers as Al Sharpton zeroed in on this opportunity to fashion a false narrative that racist white cops (one of the four was actually black, and another one Asian) cruelly and intentionally murdered a healthy, innocent black man as he repeatedly shouted “I can’t breathe!” The Left needed an incident like this to confirm their ugly accusation that America is a systemically racist nation, and that police departments are riddled with racism and should be defunded and dismantled.
“They were going to use this incident for a political narrative – and they did,” one officer told Ms. Collin.
The film recaps how, as the news media coordinated to inflame racial tensions in the city and across America, Minnesota’s pro-crime, Antifa-supporting Attorney General Keith Ellison, who has a long history of defending gang members (whom he has described as “misunderstood victims”), charged Chauvin with 2nd-degree murder and had the other officers arrested too.
Floyd family attorney Ben Crump, a notorious racial ambulance chaser, described the substance abuser as “a healthy young man.” Crump and the family hired a doctor who conducted an “independent review” of the autopsy; he falsely declared that Floyd had “no underlying medical condition that caused or contributed to” his death.
The officers’ bodycam videos were withheld from the public for months after the incident while politicians, the media, and perennial race hustlers like Sharpton painted a racial narrative that swiftly began tearing the city apart. Liz Collin’s film allows those previously suppressed perspectives to blow that narrative wide open.
Like much of America, the officers in this film no longer have any trust in our so-called justice system. One told Collin, “I think unfortunately, we’ve come to the point now where the justice system has been controlled by mob mentality. Social media, news outlets, peer pressure now control the outcome of trials, investigations.”
The officers to a man (and woman) blame the city’s rioting on a total absence of leadership and support from state and city officials, especially: cowardly Governor Tim Walz, who threw the police department under the bus, describing Floyd’s death to the media as “tragic and senseless” while calling the rioting (which actually was tragic and senseless) “righteous anger” exhibited by “people of conscience”; woke Mayor Jacob Frey, who gave the order for police to evacuate the Precinct (at one point in the film he is shown kneeling beside Floyd’s coffin, sobbing into his virtue-signaling COVID mask); and then-Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, who told the media bald-faced lies about not having trained his officers in the restraint technique Chauvin employed to subdue a resisting Floyd.
The Fall of Minneapolis, produced by and featuring investigative reporter Liz Collin, is a must-watch film for blasting through the shaky structure of the Left’s George Floyd myth and getting to the truth about one of the most devastating blows to American unity in our modern history. In the process, it is also a long-overdue tribute to, and defense of, actual victims in this ugly episode: the men and women of Minneapolis law enforcement, demonized by the pro-crime Left, targeted for violent assault, and forced out of their mission to serve and protect.
Epilogue: This week the Supreme Court struck down Derek Chauvin’s appeal to review his murder conviction.
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George Floyd is the Black man that the left needs.
His image of failure is the framework to destroy the future of Black men in America.
The White Leftist need this image of George Floyd to help groom other young black boys to be just like George. Drugs and crime not like Booker T. Washington, Fredrick Douglas, Clarence Thomas Sowell and many other great Black men.
To destroy a race of people you need to infect the children especially the boys who are essential in the future of a society and the existence of a race of people.
White Leftist couldn’t keep Blacks as Slaves so they now abort 40% of Black babies in the womb. They encourage black crime and gang violence to help trim the herd.
When the grifting bitch, Nancy said “Thank you, George Floyd” she meant that his corpse could be used as a prop to distract voters & derail the inevitable Trump election.
The evil bitch (part of the inner cabal that set up Jan 6th) also used Officer Sicknick’s body as a prop to brazenly lie & slander the gullible, innocent patriots that day.
Sicknick was a Trump supporter who died of a stroke the day after.
Nancy & DC leftists ghoulishly saw an opportunity to spin a vicious slander from his death . . . which tips their hand that Jan 6th was indeed a set up. What low-lifes would invent a “murder” to smear conservatives like that??
(The only people killed were Trump supporters; Kevin Greeson, Ashley Babbitt, then Rosanne Boyland.)
Nan really is evil, in a Machiavellian way.
She most certainly is not “evil, in a Machiavellian way.” Machiavelli made it clear that the “vicious cruelty and inhumanity, along with numerous wicked deeds” of such an individual “do not permit us to honour him among the most excellent of men” (or women).
More than 100 police officers were injured on January 6th, the Always Trumpers’ gift to Democrats. Blue Lives Matter!
Ashley Babbitt would be alive today had she not engaged in criminal activity. Being a veteran does not give you a free get-out-of-jail-card , Her criminal behavior gives her something in common with George Floyd. The three people you mentioned weren’t killed because they were Trump supporters, but because they engaged in a mind-numbingly dumb criminal attack on the Capitol, an attack which Democrats will continue to exploit. Trump said the protest would be “wild.” Got that right…
Dear, Nancy Pelosi deliberately rejected the National Guard so the Dirty Democrats could
trap American Taxpaying protestors of election fraud and DOJ/FBI corruption.
When they come for your hide at four in the morning with an FBI raid, don’t whine and cry about it.
You will reap what you sow.
Well. that’s utter baloney. Are you trying to tell us that the President of the United States couldn’t have called in extra law enforcement officers?
Pull the other one.
AlwaysTrumpers should simply admit that this riot was on Trump and his stooges.
Why should any extra security have had to be called in? In the history of the U.S. there’s never been a riot at the certification ceremony after a candidate lost…..until Trump legitimately lost.
It was Trumpsters who rioted and got people killed….including Ashlii Babbitt who unfortunately believed Trump’s lie about a stolen election. Trump got her killed…own up to it.
Stop defending Trump, and support a candidate (Haley, DeSantis, Christie) who isn’t a lying criminal.
It wasn’t a riot – watch the newly released footage.
There really wasn’t much of a “riot”, see for yourself the video’s of the peaceful protestors. Any “violent” actions came about when the Capitol Police started to tear gas the peaceful crowd, fire flash bangs and rubber bullets into them. Their “violence” was mostly self defense, and then outrage at the way they were being treated.
Yes, that is exactly what he is telling you. Trump did not have JURISDICTION. Nasty Pelosi has jurisdiction over the Capitol Police and the Dhimmicrap Mayor has jurisdiction over the local police. Both REJECTED the offer of the National Guard that Trump made.
Please try and do more research so you don’t look so comprehensively STUPID next time
Trump would have had to declare a National Emergency to be able to exert Jurisdiction over the Capitol Hill riot. As we are now seeing from the tapes of January 6th there simply wasn’t enough violence to justify that having happened. Of course, he had already done his job by trying to get the Nat Guard in to PREVENT the possibility. This was rejected by Nasty and Duh Mare to create the Propaganda ignorant people like YOU believe about a MAGA Insurrection.
Understand if it was that easy for the Prez to step into local unrest the riots we saw from the leftards leading up to the election would have been put down by Trump instead of being allowed to burn billions of dollars of our cities.
“In the history of the U.S. there’s never been a riot at the certification ceremony after a candidate lost…..until Trump legitimately lost.”
Since Trump did not LEGITIMATELY lose you are pulling the other one yourself.
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The only lying criminals are NP & her crooked committee of deceitful lackeys. The truth will always out. She choreographed this entire event. And she will face repercussions one day. I hope it’s here on earth cuz it would give many pleasure but if it turns out to be in heaven, there are no amount of prayers that can save her from her fate.
Your ignorance is astounding. Just prior to Babbitt being shot, she was trying to prevent a rioter from breaking a window. She yelled at the Capitol Police just standing there to do something. If she was guilty of anything, perhaps trespass. No justification for her death. Greeson and Phillips were merely standing on the outside of the Capitol, engaged in no “attack” what so ever. Rosanne Boyland was in a corridor, she wasn’t attacking anything. The brutality of the Capitol Police that day was beyond the pale, and eventually there will be justice.
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What law(s) did Ashley Babbitt break that deserved more than a few days in jail, at most?? She may very well be one of many who broke NO laws.
It appears only your brain is internally exiled from your mouth and hand.
YOU sir are mercifully free from the ravages of intelligence…
Take note of the trees as you look at the forest… It helps…
IT is a sad commentary on society that there are people that think like you.
George Floyd would be alive today had he not engaged in criminal activity. Never mind, he would most likely be dead from an overdose much like what he died from.
The George Floyd riots were well planned ahead and part of the bigger plot to destroy law and order in the US, and to empower the criminals and terrorists.
This kind of lies and propaganda is specifically designed for low IQ people who can hardly read through a headline, let alone think, analyze or comprehend any reasoning, logic or facts.
Ignorant, emotional, mentally unstable people who mainly act on animal instincts.
No amount of reasoning, teaching or training will make a dent in their behavior. It’s in their genes, who they are and will ever be.
Those characteristics regardless of race or social status make the perfect group to recruit and manipulate by our enemies, to anger them with a few lies and use them against the normal people to destroy an entire civilization from within. All it takes is few key positions within MSM and lots of social media bots to trigger riots.
We the people must identify the main conspirators behind this plot and start the clean up from top to bottom. A hint: It’s an alliance of the islamists and communists. We must direct all the attention against those two groups.
When you want to defund the Police and use the money to pay for welcoming those so called refugees then this is what happens. we need RED, Remove Every Democrat
How about DEAD? Deport Every Asshole Dirtbagocrat.
The Chief and Deputy who lied under oath about the maximal restraint training should be charged for lying under oath and fired immediately. When the actual training manual is available that shows his position, the whole case should be thrown out and him released. Why his defence council never mentioned it is a surprise as his wife has his copy. There also have to be training records that show time, date and training materials. Why were they not produced as evidence? This shows he did nothing wrong, performed as required and he was railroaded.
Yes, in Democrat controlled rat holes, always use the knee in the neck for poor, drug addled,
petty criminals in hand cuffs. This is the Democrat, racist, way. Dehumanize people,
treat them like animals, and forget due process. Floyd is lucky he didn’t get a jack boot on
his neck.
They call Trump a felon, too, and raided his home. No one has any rights. Remember that.
These ill-trained cops were standing around, relaxed and at ease from the first.
NEVER were they in any danger or fear of their lives.
Floyd was handcuffed and obviously distressed on drugs.
What was needed was an officer who could calm the situation and
stop using the “F” word like hip hop artists, teen agers, and Democrat script writers.
Aren’t cops expected to deal with people like Floyd every day, and even worse criminals
who are armed and dangerous? Who knew they were incapable of handling the situation.
Chauvin will never again be able to stick his knee in anyone’s neck until they’re dead and keep it there.
That’s a good thing.
Your lover buddy Floyd was screaming that he cant breath while he was still sitting in his Car after swallowing all the dope he had on him and pleaded that he didn’t want to go back to Prison, so perhaps he should not break the Law in that case.
He is the poster boy of the black community… THAT should tell you all you need to know about the hero’s in the black communities today.
Blacks in America needs to learn that success is the best revenge and stop blaming others for the destruction of their own communities.
I have noticed that its all straight black men looting stores of the Phones and goodies invented by straight white men… Weird huh ?.
Derek Chauvin was just stabbed and is in critical condition.
There is a lot to pray for; Mr Chauvin’s recovery, salvation, justice. But lets not forget the evil doers who knowingly sent an innocent man to prison. My prayer is the unjust will have sleepless nights, and be confronted with the choice between Christ or their evil will.
Hopefully hanging judge Cahill will die soon of a heart attack and begin his new career as a sodomite for big buck demons in Hell.
The autopsy showed that floyd died from an overdose , there was no bruising on his neck and he was chockers full of illicit drugs . chauvins knee did not make contact with his neck . vince everett ellison has covered the case extensively . they had to convict chauvin as the rioters would have burned America to the ground just like BLM and ANTIFA . floyd was a career criminal just like those who elevated him to sainthood . all those who sang floyds praise should have been charged with the aiding and abetting . but that is not going to happen . the democrats and republicans have got their hero [ floyd ] and their patsy [ chauvin ] wake up america you have been conned . anyone who believes crone nancy and her insurrection ruse needs to do their homework . she sang the praises of those who stormed the wisconsin state capitol 10 years ago . but then that’s what hypocrites do . she called it ”an impressive show of democracy in action ” . how soon we forget .
People want throw away God given Biblical justice, and institute man-made, crowd sourced, social justice. Paul ‘We war not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual wickedness in high places.’
Some things need to be known, if for nothing else but for the sake a balanced perspective.
Which is 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 .
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.]
The police officer, Alexander Kueng, 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 Kueng 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…”
Who could forget the meltdown and bad information people got from the media on George Floyd. In addition to the beat down on police, they were defunded. Many businesses remember when city blocks of businesses went up in flames and many lost businesses they worked their life for. All this destructiveness is destroying American cities and its part of the global war on freedom and democracy, and law and order.
I saw a video of Floyd talking to an officer before he was being held on the ground by officer Chauvin’s knee. The policeman’s face was not visible, but he was heard having reasonable conversation with Floyd who was sitting in the back seat of the car unattended by anyone hostile. He was complaining that he wasn’t able to breathe. The officer responded by offering to keep open the windows or turn on the air-conditioning. That didn’t sound to me like someone especially hostile to a non-dangerous criminal. Further, the coroner’s report said Floyd died of a heart attack. There was no evidence that his breathing was cut off by Chauvin’s posture. In fact, I’ve read an account that said the knee was on Floyd’s back just below the neck and that it was a traditional police restraint. This event was railroaded into a menacing example of police brutality in order to appease the persistent clamor of racist accusation. As a result, innocent men are paying the price.
None of this excuses the cops murdering Floyd. Nor the commenters here excusing the murder.
I recall a couple of things about Minneapolis that predated the rise of Geo. Floyd. On Lake Street I used to go to a Thrift Store, and I recall a large gilded statue of a Mexican revolutionary hero on a plot of land on Lake Street. And also, I once went along with a black pride march through downtown to Loring Park, a large park on the edge of downtown. I recall marchers wearing Che picture shirts. So, I conclude there was already leftist sentiment in the city, it simply embraced the Geo. Floyd event as its new icon. Since his regrettable death, I used to see George Floyd posters in the yards of many houses in residential areas, and as well BLM posters and signs . Of course black lives matter, but the lives of all law abiding citizens matter too, strange as that seems.
St George died of a Fentynal overdose, you lying scumbag.
The twin cities have been far left for a very long time.
it’s ok to kill a yt-woman if ura mfkng dindu
Saw “The Fall of Minneapolis” the other day. It’s available on YouTube. Excellent but depressing. There is no way any of the cops should have been convicted. A real travesty of justice all because the political/governmental/judicial/media establishments needed some scapegoats, and needed them pronto. That the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari to hear Chauvin’s case is disgusting. He and the other cops were simply railroaded. Really, check out the film. It’s worth your time.