THE GEORGE FLOYD CASE – EXAMINING THE FACTS

American Renaissance

‘The Fall of Minneapolis’

Anastasia Katz, American Renaissance, December 8, 2023

The Fall of Minneapolis 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’s death), news reels, and trial footage, to give a police officer’s view of the 2020 BLM riots.
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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’s defense and some facts that were never presented to the jury.

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’s defense and some facts that were never presented to the jury.

The film starts by saying it will show you what the politicians and media “don’t want you to see.” 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.

The film also shows the police bodycam footage the jury saw during Mr. Chauvin’s trial to show George Floyd’s arrest from the officer’s point of view. The infamous video 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.

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’ instructions, but Mr. Floyd did not cooperate at all. The documentary even shows Miss Hill shouting, “Stop resisting, Floyd!”

Floyd lied to the police several times. He told Officer Lane he was shot the last time he was arrested, and he said, “I just lost my mom, man,” although his mother died two years earlier. Officer Kueng asked Mr. Floyd if he was on drugs, and he replied, “No, nothing, man.” The bodycam footage shows Officer Kueng pulling a marijuana pipe out of Mr. Floyd’s 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.