“The Fall of Minneapolis” Movie May Help Get Derek Chauvin Retried

About a year ago a very good documentary was released titled “The Fall of Minneapolis”. It was put together by the journalist Liz Collin of Alpha News. I wrote about this a little over a year ago here:

“Derek Chauvin Did NOT Murder George Floyd!” – The Thinking Conservative

Collin is a Minnesota native who lives in the Twin Cities area with her husband who is a former Minneapolis Police lieutenant and union leader. Collin worked for the CBS affiliate WCCO serving the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, as a reporter and anchor. Liz Collin is a multi-Emmy-Award-winning journalist. Today she is also a public speaker, media producer, and investigative reporter for Alpha News.

Two of her most notable works include the Amazon bestseller “They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and The Death of George Floyd” (Oct. 2022) and the resultant documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis” (Nov. 2023). She has also come out with a new film titled “Minnesota v. We the People”, which can also be watched for free as well.

“Minnesota v. We the People | Full Documentary” – Alpha News

So what transpired in the last year has actually been two-fold related to Chauvin and Collin.

Minneapolis Police Department Assistant Chief of Operations Katie Blackwell has filed a defamation suit saying her career has been clouded by baseless accusations Liz Collin’s film “The Fall of Minneapolis” and book “They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and the Death of George Floyd.”

“Director of ‘The Fall of Minneapolis’ responds to defamation lawsuit after bombshell court filings” – Alpha News

This could end up being a big mistake for Blackwell though. Since she filed that suit some 34 Minnesota former and active police officers have since filed sworn depositions that say the neck restraint hold used on George Floyd by Derek Chauvin WAS part of their police training, contrary to what Blackwell testified to on the witness stand. In fact, a police yearbook was found showing Blackwell using the same restraint in a photograph herself. Over a dozen of those officers have also signed depositions that Blackwell perjured herself on the witness stand during the Chauvin trial.

A second development is public pressure do to new revelations is giving grounds for an appeal for former Minneapolis Police officer Chauvin who was accused, tried, and convicted of murdering George Floyd.

“Derek Chauvin allowed to analyze George Floyd’s heart tissue, judge rules” – Fox 9 KMSP

CONCLUSION:

Liz Collin is an American hero to me. She has exposed serious irregularities in the justice system and politics of Minnesota. She has exposed the lies related to the case of George Floyd and the strangeness of Governor Tim Walz. Vice president Kamala Harris selected Walz as her vice presidential candidate running mate in the 2024 General Election and much of America found his onstage behavior beyond odd.

Liz Collin does an outstanding job of recapping her recent journalistic life in this interview.

“Reporter & Anchor Liz Collin shares new updates in the Derek Chauvin case” – Chicago’s Morning Answer

I wanted to be a police officer long before I became an educator. I know a little bit about this profession. A number of things have bothered me about this dark moment in American History relative to Derek Chauvin.

1. That neck hold does not block your windpipe or restrict your breathing as the officer’s knee goes on the side of the neck, not the front. Also, it is not used unless somebody is resisting arrest. I would have liked to have been in the trial of Derek Chauvin as a volunteer to allow him to put the same hold on me in that courtroom to prove I could indeed breathe and he did nothing wrong. It is beyond me why that was not done.

2. George Floyd has a long rap sheet which includes armed robbery so it is beyond insane to portray him as a hero and Derek Chauvin as a villain. Floyd once held a loaded gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach as leverage during an armed home robbery.

3. The fact that a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, was imprisoned for the murder of a black career criminal, George Floyd, while a white J6 protester and military Air Force veteran, Ashli Babbitt, was shot dead by a black Capitol Police officer, Lt. Michael Byrd, and Byrd was then portrayed as a hero while Chauvin was portrayed as a villain puts the hypocrisy of the left on blast.

4. To be a police officer makes you an agent of the court which makes you an extension of the court and beyond reproach. It is unconscionable that a police officer would commit perjury to push a political agenda to a set corrupt narrative.

5. Derek Chauvin and the other arresting officers of that incident did not mean for George Floyd to die. His death was an accident due to multiple health issues he had they did not know about. While the could see he was overweight they most probably did not know he had COVID-19 recently, he used illegal drugs regularly, and had a heart condition.

6. The medical examiners may also have been compromised by the events happening in Minneapolis that day, too. They may have been pressured to report George Floyd’s cause of death to as a homicide to appease an ongoing narrative.

7. Derek Chauvin was stabbed some 22 times in a prison library last fall. This kind of security breach does not have happen in a prison unless somebody wants him dead.

“Inmate charged with stabbing Derek Chauvin 22 times has trial set for 2025” – Fox 9 KMSP

I feel genuinely sorry for officers Chauvin and Byrd. Good law enforcement officers, like good educators, do not see skin color.

I think Officer Chauvin did not know Floyd’s very serious health conditions would contribute to his death that day. Likewise, I think Officer Byrd had a moment of panic set in when he drew his weapon and fired on Babbitt as he felt grossly outnumbered by an approaching crowd.

My point being, Officers Chauvin and Byrd should have been treated the same regardless of their skin color and that of their victims and they were not.    

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