{"id":277615,"date":"2023-12-10T09:10:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T09:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=277615"},"modified":"2023-12-12T08:10:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:10:05","slug":"the-fall-of-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=277615","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Fall of Minneapolis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Annastasia Katz \u2013 The Unz Review Dec 8, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>In 2021, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amren.com\/author\/anastasia-katz\/\">covered<\/a> the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, for American Renaissance. Now, a documentary about the trial and the effects of Floyd\u2019s death on policing in Minneapolis has been released. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30022239\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\"><em>The Fall of Minneapolis<\/em><\/a> was produced by investigative reporter Liz Collin, who based the film on her book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theyre-Lying-Media-Death-George\/dp\/B0BJNG6N8D\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ZSZZPE4YJA4C&amp;keywords=they%27re+lying+liz+collin&amp;qid=1701232499&amp;sprefix=They%27re+lying+li%2Caps%2C147&amp;sr=8-1\"><em>They\u2019re Lying: The Media, The Left and the Death of George Floyd<\/em><\/a>. It is free on <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v3vyvzv-the-fall-of-minneapolis.html\">Rumble<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eFPi3EigjFA\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Fall of Minneapolis<\/em> premiered on Rumble on November 16. As of December 7, it had more than three million views, 6,500 likes, and only 31 dislikes. Released on YouTube on November 23, by the same date it had 478,000 views and 13,000 likes. The film uses interviews with several Minneapolis police officers (including Derek Chauvin and Alex Kueng, the black officer also convicted in Floyd\u2019s death), news reels, and trial footage, to give a police officer\u2019s view of the 2020 BLM riots<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eFPi3EigjFA?si=7TLxsRk3Av6C6NTt\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>The production values of the film are excellent, and it is exciting and at times heartbreaking. In less than two hours, you will learn key points of Mr. Chauvin\u2019s defense and some facts that were never presented to the jury.<\/p>\n<p>The film starts by saying it will show you what the politicians and media \u201cdon\u2019t want you to see.\u201d It documents the 10 times George Floyd was arrested for such things as drugs and armed robbery. His priors were not allowed as evidence, because they were considered prejudicial.<\/p>\n<p>The film also shows the police bodycam footage the jury saw during Mr. Chauvin\u2019s trial to show George Floyd\u2019s arrest from the officer\u2019s point of view. The infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=thfNLVvve4A\">video<\/a> taken by a bystander begins after four officers spent several minutes struggling with Floyd, trying to get him into a police car. People who have seen only the viral video will be surprised to see what happened before.<\/p>\n<p>The film shows the moment when the car Mr. Floyd was driving was pulled over. He had two passengers, both black, and both came through unharmed. Drug dealers Morries Hall and Shawanda Hill had no trouble following the officers\u2019 instructions, but Mr. Floyd did not cooperate at all. The documentary even shows Miss Hill shouting, \u201cStop resisting, Floyd!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Floyd lied to the police several times. He told Officer Lane he was shot the last time he was arrested, and he said, \u201cI just lost my mom, man,\u201d although his mother died two years earlier. Officer Kueng asked Mr. Floyd if he was on drugs, and he replied, \u201cNo, nothing, man.\u201d The bodycam footage shows Officer Kueng pulling a marijuana pipe out of Mr. Floyd\u2019s pocket. Later in the film, reporter Liz Collin interviews a nurse who says that if he had told the truth about the drugs he had taken, that could have helped save his life.<\/p>\n<p>These clips are very useful, but I think it would have been better to show the entire incident all the way through, so the audience could see exactly how it unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary reminds viewers of some important facts brought up in trial:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>George Floyd began saying \u201cI can\u2019t breathe\u201d while he was fighting the officers who were trying to get him into the squad car.<\/li>\n<li>Officer Lane called for an EMS ambulance 36 seconds after Floyd was on the ground.<\/li>\n<li>Methamphetamine and fentanyl were recovered from the car, and similar pills covered in his saliva and DNA were recovered from the back of the police car where he spat them out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Liz Collin interviews Officer Scott Creighton, who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pu28epHmT0s\">arrested Floyd in 2019<\/a>. He did not shoot Floyd. The bodycam footage from that arrest is shown alongside video of Floyd\u2019s 2020 arrest. \u201cEverything was almost identical,\u201d Officer Creighton tells her. Mr. Floyd refused to show his hands and was apparently eating drugs before surrendering.<\/p>\n<p>The most heartbreaking part of <em>The Fall of Minneapolis<\/em> is called \u201cThe Fall of the 3rd Precinct.\u201d It is worth watching the documentary just for this. Mrs. Collin interviews seven police officers who were ordered by Mayor Jacob Frey to abandon the precinct; all were all shaken by the experience. Their voices have not been heard before, and are a strong indictment of Mayor Frey\u2019s cowardice and incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>The police officers \u2014 most of whom are now retired \u2014 recalled how the crowd in the streets grew larger and became violent. Rioters threw bottles and rocks at one of them, Scott Creighton, breaking three of his teeth. Officer Al Williams said he was dodging water bottles, bricks, and Roman candles. Jason Reimer said, \u201cIt was crazy. It was like I was living in a third-world country. They [city government] let people . . . throw rocks, and bricks, and fire bombs, and we\u2019re supposed to just put on a helmet and take that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police, some of whom had decades of experience and had worked riots before, knew that the orders coming down were not typical. They were told not to wear riot gear and not to do anything about the mayhem. Cops watched people looting, throwing Molotov cocktails, and shooting, but they were not allowed to make arrests, only \u201cobserve and report.\u201d Mr. Williams said, \u201cI was wandering around aimlessly, waiting to be told what not to do next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police were assured that there was a \u201cplan in place,\u201d but when Lieutenant Lindsay Herron asked what it was, she got no answer. On duty at the 3rd Precinct, she had asked for reinforcements, but wasn\u2019t taken seriously: \u201cThere was no riot gear given to anyone at that point, and we\u2019re in the middle of a war zone.\u201d Mrs. Herron estimates that 30 officers from her precinct were injured because they weren\u2019t allowed to wear protective gear.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Lt. Herron got the assistant chief on the phone, and he told her the plan was to make the precinct look abandoned, because if no one was there, it would not be a target. She recalls wondering, \u201cHow is this the plan? There\u2019s thousands of protesters. There\u2019s thousands of rioters. There\u2019s dead pigs [laid in the street] in front of us. That signifies they will kill a cop.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div id=\"attachment_277616\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PigRioter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277616\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-277616 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PigRioter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PigRioter.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/PigRioter-480x310.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-277616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man holding a pig\u2019s head in the direction of Minneapolis police behind a barricade in the parking lot outside the Minneapolis Police Department\u2019s Third Precinct office.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tim Hanks, a black officer, was ordered to remove firearms and ammunition from the 3rd Precinct. Moving trucks arrived to empty everything out, and SWAT teams came to take out the police who were still inside. The SWAT leader asked Lt. Herron why they were evacuating, as he saw no reason to do so. Mrs. Herron tearfully recalled how they left the building and how they had to run a gauntlet for blocks before buses came to pick them up. \u201cCops do not run away,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Al Williams left in a squad car. He looked back and saw rioters rush the fence, climbing it until it collapsed. \u201cIt looked like a zombie movie,\u201d he says. As his car pulled away, rioters broke all its windows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div id=\"attachment_277617\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ThirdPrecinct.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277617\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-277617 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ThirdPrecinct.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ThirdPrecinct.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ThirdPrecinct-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-277617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Minneapolis Third Police Precinct is set on fire during the third night of protests following the death of George Floyd. (Credit Image: \u00a9 Carlos Gonzalez\/TNS via ZUMA Press Wire)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Retired Sergeant Darrin Waletzki tells Mrs. Collin that cops were \u201crunning for their lives,\u201d and there was \u201cno plan of exit from the precinct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everything left behind in the precinct was destroyed. In the film, Mayor Frey says the precinct was just a building, but Mr. Hanks said it was \u201chome\u201d to the cops who worked there. Mayor Frey does not appear to realize that it was also a vital symbol of order.<\/p>\n<p>In the documentary, the 3rd Precinct officers explain that the bitterness of that day caused most of them to retire. The city government\u2019s policies and anti-police attitudes from the public had made their jobs much harder. Their police careers ranged from 21\u201337 years of service. Tim Hanks retired because he \u201cfelt helpless\u201d and was having panic attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Creighton, a white officer, worried that he would be \u201cthe next Chauvin.\u201d He had been injured twice on the job, and feared that he would \u201cend up in prison\u201d for doing his job.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Reimer describes the \u201chorrible day\u201d he decided to retire. \u201cAnytime we were out dealing with anybody, especially if the person was colored, we were getting all kinds of screaming and yelling and everything else.\u201d He and several other cops were dealing with a large black suspect who was high on drugs, fighting the police when they tried to cuff him. Mr. Reimer says, \u201cI\u2019m thinking to myself, if this guy ODs, if this guy dies in custody \u2014 four white cops \u2013 at 17th and Chicago, 20 blocks from George Floyd \u2013 we\u2019re going to prison!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Herron retired because going to work became so stressful it made her physically ill. She got a knot in her stomach, and felt like she would vomit as she drove to work in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Voss, whose office was burned by rioters, retired after 37 years of service. She told Mrs. Collin that another officer gave her a ride home in a squad car at the end of her last day of work. A person on the street flipped them off as they drove by, and she thought to herself that she made the right decision. She felt betrayed by the mayor, the police chief, and the city council.<\/p>\n<p>The one police officer Mrs. Collin interviews who still works for the department is a black man who has been with the MPD 19 years. Sergeant Rich Walker says he stayed on because he could \u201cnot let evil win.\u201d He believes that the decision to give up the 3rd Precinct was a failure that still affects the city today. He notes that crime is way up \u2014 Mayor Frey insists it is down \u2014 and that the police can\u2019t keep up. Mrs. Collin cites crime stats and shows that the number of officers in the MPD dropped from 892 in May 2020 to only 512 in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The film shows Minneapolis city council member Jeremiah Ellison, son of Attorney General Keith Ellison, at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MXy1pRGv8NY\">\u201cDefund the Police\u201d rally<\/a> in 2020, promising his council will \u201cdismantle the police department.\u201d It did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mncourts.gov\/mncourtsgov\/media\/High-Profile-Cases\/27-CR-20-12646\/ExhibitMtD08282020.pdf\">Comments<\/a> by Dr. Andrew Baker, who performed George Floyd\u2019s autopsy, are very important. He says Floyd had signs of untreated hypertension, which \u201ccan put you at risk for death.\u201d He adds: \u201cAnd certain intoxicants can exacerbate [that condition].\u201d In another document, Dr. Baker notes that Floyd\u2019s toxicology report showed a high amount of fentanyl in his system: \u201ca fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He goes on to say, \u201cIf he were found dead at home alone and no other apparent causes, this could be acceptable to call an OD.\u201d I think the filmmakers would have seemed more credible if they had not ignored his next sentence: \u201cI am not saying this killed him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hennepin County Prosecutor Amy Tamburino is the person who asked Dr. Baker to perform the autopsy. The film cites a deposition she gave last year in a sex discrimination lawsuit: \u201cHe [Dr. Baker] told me that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd\u2019s neck. . . . He said to me, \u2018Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn\u2019t match up with the public narrative that everyone\u2019s already decided on?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Collin interviews surgeon Tom Haney, not associated with the case, about an article in the <em>Journal of Clinical Medicine<\/em> called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/364745473_Possible_Acromegaly_Complicating_The_Death_Of_George_Floyd\">\u201cPossible Acromegaly Complicating the Death of George Floyd.\u201d<\/a> Asked by Mrs. Collin if officials were trying to hide this information, he says, \u201cI\u2019m not sure if the medical examiners were trying to hide it, but it seems like the prosecutor team was trying to hide it.\u201d The article was published in September 2022, nearly a year and a half after Derek Chauvin\u2019s trial.<\/p>\n<p>For me, the most disappointing part of the film is Liz Collin\u2019s phone interview with Derek Chauvin in prison. It seems much too short, but that may be because Mr. Chauvin has to be tight-lipped while his case is under appeal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div id=\"attachment_277618\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Liz-Collin.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277618\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-277618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Liz-Collin.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Liz-Collin.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Liz-Collin-480x266.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-277618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liz Collin interviewing Derek Chauvin by phone.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mr. Chauvin blames Floyd\u2019s death on Emergency Medical Service\u2019s slow response: \u201cEMS and fire response was not normal. Normally, both those resources are sent. They arrive in short time, especially on a Code 3 situation. In this case, Minneapolis Fire took 20 minutes plus to arrive and their station is eight blocks away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers back up Mr. Chauvin by showing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/tense-exchanges-conclude-second-day-of-chauvin-trial\/\">testimony<\/a> from Genevieve Hansen, an off-duty firefighter who showed up when Mr. Chauvin and the other officers had Floyd on the ground. She admitted she was surprised the EMS response was so slow. She knew there was a station nearby, and EMS would normally come more quickly. The documentary shows bodycam video of a paramedic saying they first went to a wrong location.<\/p>\n<p>The film accuses Judge Cahill of stacking the deck against Mr. Chauvin by refusing to admit evidence about the Maximal Restraint [neck] Technique (MRT). Derek Chauvin told Mrs. Collin \u2014 correctly \u2014 that MRT was in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lims.minneapolismn.gov\/download\/Agenda\/1860\/UseofForcePolicy2.pdf\/54462\/2328\/Use%20of%20Force%20Policy%20Excerpt%202\">policy manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Fall of Minneapolis<\/em> does a good job of dispelling the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/derek-chauvin-knee-george-floyds-neck-minutes-complaint\/story?id=70961042\">\u201cknee on the neck\u201d<\/a> myth that many news outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trials-derek-chauvin-minneapolis-racial-injustice-060f6e9e8b7079505a1b096a68311c2b\">repeated<\/a>, by showing the part of the trial where bodycam footage shows Officer Chauvin\u2019s knee was actually on George Floyd\u2019s shoulder blade, and it only appeared to be on his neck.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div id=\"attachment_277619\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Chauvin-mother.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277619\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-277619 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Chauvin-mother.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"494\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Chauvin-mother.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Chauvin-mother-480x395.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-277619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Chauvin\u2019s mother holding her son\u2019s police training manuals.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div id=\"attachment_277620\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kneeling-586x600-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277620\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-277620 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kneeling-586x600-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"600\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kneeling-586x600-1.jpeg 586w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Kneeling-586x600-1-480x491.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 586px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-277620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration from the manual showing the Maximal Restraint Technique.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/TrainingPosition-600x359-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-277621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/TrainingPosition-600x359-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"359\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/TrainingPosition-600x359-1.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/TrainingPosition-600x359-1-480x287.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>At the trial, Police Chief Medaria Arradondo was shown the screenshot of Mr. Chauvin taken from the bystander video, and he denied that this was a technique MPD trains officers to use. The police officers of the 3rd Precinct all disagree. The film includes a photo, routinely shown to officers during training, of three men restraining a suspect lying on his stomach. The image is very similar to how Derek Chauvin and two others restrained Floyd. We are told that the defense wanted to show that photo to the jury, but Judge Cahill wouldn\u2019t allow it. It would have proven that the officers were using a technique MPD trained them to use.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Fall of Minneapolis<\/em> shows Thomas Lane doing CPR on George Floyd in the ambulance. I don\u2019t remember seeing this at trial, although a paramedic did testify that Officer Lane did CPR. This video might have helped the jury understand that no one wanted to kill Floyd, or it might have made them wonder why no one did CPR sooner.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CPR-600x336-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter size-full wp-image-277622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CPR-600x336-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CPR-600x336-1.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CPR-600x336-1-480x269.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Mrs. Collin interviews a nurse named Debra Nelson, who noticed something wrong when she watched Officer Thomas Lane\u2019s bodycam footage. She tells Mrs. Collin, \u201cThe paramedic handing the bag to Thomas Lane to ventilate the patient, you can see that the oxygen tubing is coiled up, it\u2019s not even attached to the oxygen source. That\u2019s a big mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Collin interviewed Alex Kueng, the black officer who is now serving a 3\u00bd-year sentence. He says: \u201cHe [Chauvin] made the decision he thought was right. . . . He\u2019s always been one that was by the book and legally abiding. I think he did exactly what he was trained to do. Unfortunate that the publicity got as riled up as it did by the officials and politicians that were involved with the case. And it took away all chance he had to say his piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Collin interviewed Alex Kueng\u2019s mother, who believes the media downplayed her son\u2019s involvement because \u201cthey couldn\u2019t backpedal\u201d on the story about racism. \u201cThey didn\u2019t want to admit\u201d that a black officer and an Asian officer were on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The film emphasizes how intimidating the environment was for jurors. The city had to prepare for more rioting if Mr. Chauvin were acquitted. Store windows were boarded up. The courthouse was protected with fences, barbed wire, concrete barriers, and National Guardsmen. Crowds of protesters gathered in front of the courthouse, screaming and chanting, high-profile politicians among them. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) loudly told the news cameras, \u201cWe are looking for a guilty verdict!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city also announced \u2014 during jury selection \u2014 that it would pay George Floyd\u2019s family $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of all this, Judge Cahill denied Mr. Chauvin a change of venue, arguing that everyone in the state had seen the press coverage. Not all had seen looting, vandalism, and watched a police precinct burn down.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Chauvin was convicted and sentenced to 22 years and 6 months and sent to a medium-security prison in Arizona. Last April, the Minnesota Court of Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/derek-chauvins-murder-conviction-upheld-minnesota-appeals-court-rcna80041\">upheld his conviction<\/a>. On November 13, 2023, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/derek-chauvin-claims-new-evidence-shows-he-didnt-cause-george-floyds-death-attempts-overturn-conviction\">filed a motion in federal court<\/a>, asking that his conviction on federal civil rights charges be overturned. The motion will probably fail, because when Mr. Chauvin entered his guilty plea, he waived his right to appeal on any grounds except ineffective counsel. On November 20, the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police1.com\/legal\/articles\/us-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-derek-chauvins-appeal-in-george-floyd-case-Pz3qLPsEQLxAV9dd\/\">Supreme Court declined<\/a>, without explanation, to hear his case.<\/p>\n<p>On November 24, Mr. Chauvin was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/derek-chauvin-was-stabbed-22-times-in-federal-prison-attack-charges-say\/\">stabbed<\/a> 22 times by another inmate, John Turscak, a 52-year-old member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang. Mr. Turscak told investigators did it on \u201cBlack Friday\u201d to symbolize Black Lives Matter. Mr. Chauvin was treated at a local hospital and has since been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/derek-chauvin-returned-to-prison-following-stabbing-lawyer-says\/\">returned to the prison<\/a>. His mother <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/26\/news\/derek-chauvins-mom-carolyn-pawlenty-claims-she-learned-of-prison-stabbing-after-news-outlets\/\">is angry<\/a> the prison didn\u2019t tell her sooner that her son had been attacked.<\/p>\n<p>She also asks, \u201cIs there a justice system in America? Not according to what they did to Derek and the other three officers. There isn\u2019t any. I don\u2019t believe in the justice system anymore.\u201d Minneapolis has fallen, and so has the United States. Maybe films like this can set us back on course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Republished from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amren.com\/features\/2023\/12\/the-fall-of-minneapolis\/\">American Renaissance<\/a> by permission of author or representative)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/the-fall-of-minneapolis\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new film on the trial Derek Chauvin tells how large parts of America are now abandoned to lawlessness and criminality <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":277626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277624,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277615\/revisions\/277624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}