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It’sa self-protective aspect of human nature to put aside
painful memories, and that’s what most of us have done New film gives the real story in the
face of George Floyd lies
about the murderous riots in the summer of 2020 that were
sparked by George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.
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But for the people of that fallen city, and for all the cops
across the nation who were abandoned and betrayed by
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their feckless political leaders, the pain still burns bright. the 'staggering' number of e-bike fire
deaths?
Itought to burn for the rest of us, too, because we still are
suffering the consequences, in the catastrophic breakdown
of law and order nationwide. We will continue to do so while Cindy Adams
the lies about George Floyd’s death are left to fester.
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A brilliant new crowdfunded documentary, “The Fall of
Minneapolis,” aims to remedy our collective amnesia about
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the events of May 25, 2020 — a time when the country was
already half mad from the ravages of COVID-19 and forced
lockdowns, and when Democratic Party operatives, including
candidates Biden and Harris, seized on the Defund Police Covers
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Flames from a nearby fire illuminate protesters standing on a barricade in front of the Third Police Precinct on May 28,
2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a protest over the death of George Floyd. New film gives the real story in the
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Wake up, it says. Remember. Look at the truth and hang your head a little in shame that you allowed
yourself to be fooled. 31,007

Personal connection
“The Fall of Minneapolis” reveals a shocking tale of injustice and perfidy, and a ruthless political operation
that contained the seeds of the J6 Capitol riot eight months later and the consequent hyperbolic
crackdown on Trump supporters.
Jets legend Joe Namath accused of
The film was produced by Liz Collin, a former anchor at a CBS affiliate in the Twin Cities who was taken allowing child sex abuse at football
off air during the riots and demoted because her husband Bob Kroll was the Minneapolis police union camp
chief at the time.
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Their house was besieged by angry mobs yelling abuse over megaphones and beating piñata effigies of
the couple throughout the trial of police officer Derek Chauvin.

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Protesters set fire to a police vehicle, on May 30, 2020 during a protest against the death of George Floyd.
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But she does not allow personal emotion to creep into the film, instead driving the narrative
dispassionately with shocking new evidence. She interviews Chauvin in jail, where he is serving 21 years,
his mother and many of the cops who have resigned.

From false testimony in Chauvin’s trial to police bodycam footage of Floyd’s arrest that was withheld for
two months, to the autopsy report that was altered after the FBI got involved, Collin presents a damning
forensic record that needs avenging.

Collin draws on new evidence unveiled last month in a sexual harassment lawsuit, filed by former
Hennepin County prosecutor Amy Sweasy, against then-County Attorney Mike Freeman.

Sweasy’s complaint details a revolt in the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office over the decision to charge
Chauvin’s fellow officers Tou Thao, Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, with aiding and abetting second-
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 rules.”

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In sworn testimony, prosecutors told of the “insane . . . extreme premium pressure” they were under to
throw the book at Chauvin and charge the other cops because “the city was burning down.”

One said that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison “taking over the Chauvin cases was difficult
particularly when we had a governor who kind of threw us under the bus.”

The original autopsy report by Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker the day after Floyd
died found there was “no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation.

Mr. Floyd did not exhibit signs of petechiae, damage to his airways or thyroid, brain bleeding, bone
injuries, or internal bruising.”

Sweasy claims that Baker also told her that day that “there were no medical findings that showed any
injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd’s neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or
strangulation.”

The “I Can’t Breathe – Silent March for Justice” in front of the Hennepin County Government Center on March 7, 2021,
where the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with murdering African American man
George Floyd.
AFP via Getty Images

But then she claims Baker told her: “Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with
the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on? … This is the kind of case that ends careers.”

On May 31, 2020, Sweasy said Baker shared the results of toxicology tests with prosecutors, which
showed that Floyd, 46, had a “fatal level of fentanyl” in his blood, along with methamphetamine.

Floyd also had COVID and severe “arteriosclerotic heart disease,” with one artery 75% obstructed, and
“hypertensive heart disease.”

But Ben Crump, the ambulance-chasing attorney who represented the Floyd family and secured them a
$27 million payout from the Minneapolis City Council, told the media: “George Floyd was a healthy young
man.”

The private forensic pathologist he hired, Dr. Michael Baden, declared,

without seeing Floyd’s body or slides of the autopsy, that “there was no see also
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
was to blame. Floyd’s cause of death had become “cardiopulmonary
arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck
compression.” Unhinged Democrats
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There is so much that is shocking in the documentary. even existing

For instance, it finds that the hold that Chauvin, a “by the book” cop,
used on Floyd was an approved technique he and every other cops had been trained to use by the
Minneapolis Police Department.

Itwas called the maximal restraint technique (MRT) for handcuffed, uncooperative suspects. All of the
cops interviewed by Collin said MRT was part of official training.

In the bystander video that went viral after Floyd’s death, it appears Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s neck.
But in bodycam footage his knee appears to be on Floyd’s shoulder.

Chief of police Medaria Arradondo testified under oath at Chauvin’s trial “it was not” a trained Minneapolis
police defensive tactics technique.

But Chauvin’s mother pulled out her son’s training manuals in her interview with Collin, which show
images of the MRT hold.

Protesters gather in front of a liquor store in flames near the Third Police Precinct on May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, during a protest over the death of George Floyd.
AFP via Getty Images

The images “sure as hell 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, ultimately, failed America.

Rogue’s gallery
The prime offenders fingered in the film are:

Arradondo, the cowardly police chief who immediately branded Floyd’s death “murder”
Judge Peter Cahill, who ruled out exculpatory evidence, refused defense requests to move the
trial out of Minneapolis where the baying mob could be heard inside the courtroom, and refused to
sequester the jury;
Jacob Frey, the soy boy surrender mayor who ordered the Third Precinct to sacrifice its police
station to the mob
Keith Ellison, the Antifa-hugging attorney general who ran roughshod over the rule of law when he
railroaded Chauvin and the three other police officers jailed with him, and lied that Trump
supporters (whom he branded “white supremacists”) were to blame for the riots
Tim Walz, the Biden-loving governor who refused to deploy the National Guard and instead
allowed arson, looting and violent mayhem to engulf Minneapolis for 13 days and spread to the
rest of the country

Frey, Ellison and Walz all won reelection. Arradondo retired early. None of them has been held to account.
This insurrection of the incendiary left has been memory holed.

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