New film gives reel truth in the face of George Floyd lies

By Miranda Devine Nov. 20, 2023, 12:54 a.m. ET1/2

It’s a self-protective aspect of human nature to put aside painful memories, and that’s what most of us have done about the murderous riots in the summer of 2020 that were sparked by George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. But for the people of that fallen city, and for all the cops across the nation who were abandoned and betrayed by their feckless political leaders, the pain still burns bright.

It ought 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 the lies about George Floyd’s death are left to fester.

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-mad from the ravages of COVID-19 and forced lockdowns, and when Democratic Party operatives, including candidates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, seized on the “Defund the police” movement, in order to bring down President Donald Trump.

So many lies have been told since, and so much truth buried by the Big Tech censors that control reality, that the documentary arrives like a slap in the face. Wake up, it says. Remember. Look at the truth and hang your head in shame a little that you allowed yourself to be fooled.

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 January 6 Capitol riot eight months laterand the consequent 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 air during the riots and demotedbecause her husband, Bob Kroll, was the Minneapolis police union chief at the time. 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.

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-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 rules.”

In sworn testimony, prosecutors told of the “insane … extreme premium pressure” they were under to throw the book at Chauvinand 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.”

https://nypost.com/2023/11/20/opinion/real-truth-aid-the-floyd-lies/

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Theoriginal autopsy reportby 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.” 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 underlying medical problem that caused or contributed to his death.”

The documentary says theFBI met with Baker after Baden’s reviewand 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.”

There is so much that is shocking in the documentary.

For instance, it finds that the hold that Chauvin, a “by the book” cop, used on Floyd was an approved technique that he and every other cop had been trained to use by the Minneapolis Police Department. It was 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 that “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. 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 mayhem to engulf Minneapolis for 13 days and spread to the rest of the country.

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

https://nypost.com/2023/11/20/opinion/real-truth-aid-the-floyd-lies/

Andrew Tate Makes $1 Million Offer to Elon Musk

Nov 20, 2023 at 4:53 AM EST

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate has offered Elon Musk $1 million a month to advertise X, formerly known as Twitter.

Musk bought the social media platform in 2022 but has recently seen major advertisers jump ship after he wrote a post accusing Jewish people of pushing hatred and also faced criticism for allowing hate speech to flourish on X.

On Wednesday, the Tesla CEO replied with "the actual truth" to a post that read: "Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them." He was then accused by antisemitism watchdog the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for promoting "antisemitic theories" at "a time when antisemitism is exploding in America and surging around the world."

Major media companies such as Apple, Paramount Global, Disney, Lionsgate and Warner Bros. then pulled their advertising from X, as did technology corporation IBM.

But Tate, who had been previously banned from Twitter and other social media platforms, promised to stand by Musk.

"I will advertise X on X, I will literally promote your own platform on this platform. 1,000,000 USD a month. You dont [sic] need other advertisers. Simply let me know where to pay@elonmusk," he posted on X.

— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) November 19, 2023

Tate, a former professional kickboxer, rose to notoriety as a contestant on the U.K. version of reality TV show Big Brother in 2016 where he became infamous for his misogynistic comments. He was later removed from the show after a video recorded before he entered the house showed him hitting a woman, which he claimed was consensual.

He was reinstated to Twitter when Musk closed the sale of the platform in October last year.

Tate was arrested in December 2022 at his compound in Bucharest, Romania, on charges of human trafficking, rape and tampering with evidence. Romania's anti-organized-crime agency has accused Tate and his brother Tristan Tate of coercing six women into producing pornography through threatening "acts of physical violence and mental coercion." They were arrested along with two Romanian women, but all four have denied wrongdoing.

The brothers were released into house arrest after three months in jail, and later released from that but were ordered to stay in Bucharest unless given consent by a court to leave the area.

Prosecutors in Tate's trial also requested permission from the court to confiscate a number of physical assets which included 15 blocks of properties, 15 luxury cars, 14 luxury watches, and metal—it was not made clear what the metals were.

They also asked to confiscate shares held within four commercial companies, around $384,904,789 in cryptocurrency and ordered the defendants to pay the state's advance legal expenses of around 300,000 Lei ($66,047).

https://www.newsweek.com/andrew-tate-elon-musk-twitter-x-1845092

Appeals court panel appears critical of Trump gag order in D.C. case

The prosecution has suggested that public attacks from Trump could intimidate witnesses or invite retaliation against the prosecutors bringing the case.

Published: November 20, 2023 5:05pm

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals hinted it may limit the scope of a gag order against former President Donald Trump by the judge overseeing his indictment on conspiracy charges related to his efforts to challenge the 2020 presidential election results.

Judge Tanya Chutkan issued the initial gag order as part of special counsel Jack Smith's ongoing case. Smith has charged Trump with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government, threatening constitutional rights, conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, and obstruction of an official proceeding. He has pleaded not guilty to all counts.

Chutkan's order barred Trump from attacking herself, court staff, the prosecution, and witnesses. The appeals court heard arguments over the order on Monday and the judges signaled some skepticism of the order's parameters.

Judge Patricia Millett, for instance,expressed concerns that the order would effectively prevent Trump from discussing a pertinent issueduring the 2024 presidential campaign.

"He has to speak 'Miss Manners' while everyone else is throwing targets at him?"she asked, according to Politico. "It would be really hard in a debate, when everyone else is going at you full bore. Your attorneys would have to have scripted little things you can say."

Judge Nina Pillard, meanwhile,suggested that the testimony of prominent government officials would likely "not be affected" by any public criticisms Trump made.

Trump's team has contended that the order constitutes an unconstitutional limitation of his First Amendment rights, writing in their request to the appeals court that "The prosecution’s request for a Gag Order bristles with hostility to President Trump’s viewpoint and his relentless criticism of the government—including of the prosecution itself."

"The Gag Order embodies this unconstitutional hostility to President Trump’s viewpoint. It should be immediately stayed," they wrote earlier this month. The prosecution, meanwhile, has suggested that public attacks from Trump could intimidate witnesses or invite retaliation against the prosecutors bringing the case.

While the justices expressed skepticism of the order,Millett hinted that the court may opt to limit its scope rather than eliminate it outright, saying the court needed to "use a careful scalpel here," per Politico.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/appeals-court-panel-appears-critical-trump-gag-order-dc-case

Dem Rep. Goldman apologizes after calling for Trump to be 'eliminated'

"It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy and he has to be eliminated," Goldman said.

Updated: November 20, 2023 6:35pm

Democratic New York Rep. Dan Goldman on Sunday suggested that former President Donald Trump constituted a threat to American democracy and ought not to be eligible to hold public office again. His choice of words, however, drew criticism for giving the appearance of condoning political violence, and prompted him to later clarify his position.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Inside with Jen Psaki," the lawmaker said that Trump's "rhetoric is really getting dangerous, more and more dangerous, and we saw what happened on Jan. 6, when he uses inflammatory rhetoric."

"It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy and he has to be eliminated," he continued.

Dan Goldman on Donald Trump: “It is just unquestionable at this point that he cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit. He is destructive to our democracy. He has to be eliminated.” pic.twitter.com/BRUWlpAd7z

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) November 20, 2023

Goldman's choice of words, in particular the use of "eliminated," led conservatives to suggest that he ought to receive a visit from Secret Service for using a turn of phrase that could be construed as calling for Trump's assassination.

"In the least, Goldman should be investigated by the Secret Service for this threat," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton commented.

"If a Republican went on TV and said that a Democrat presidential candidate needed to be 'eliminated' they'd be raided by the FBI within hours. Donald Trump is facing half a millennia in prison for saying people should 'fight,'" TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk posted. "Instead, Dan Goldman alludes to the assassination of Donald Trump and does so with zero consequences and zero fear of any consequences."

Goldman later clarified that he intended Trump no harm.

"Yesterday on TV, I mistakenly used the wrong word to express the importance for America that Donald Trump doesn’t become President again. While he must be defeated, I certainly wish no harm to him and do not condone political violence. I apologize for the poor choice of words," he said on Monday.

(I bet the SS is going to visit him again.People that wish no harm, do not use hateful words all the time when they use Trump’s name. Was Musk's tweet on the Godfather referring to Goldman's comments?)

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/democratic-lawmaker-calls-trump-be-eliminated

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I'd say Dan Goldman's threats fit this description:

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18 U.S. Code § 2385. Advocating overthrow of Government.

Whoever knowingly or willfullyadvocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government; or

Whoever, with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, prints, publishes, edits, issues, circulates, sells, distributes, or publicly displays any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, or attempts to do so; or

Whoever organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons whoteach, advocate, or encouragethe overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence; or becomes or is a member of, or affiliates with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

If two or more persons conspire to commit any offense named in this section, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction.

As used in this section, the terms “organizes” and “organize”, with respect to any society, group, or assembly of persons, include the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.