Three Years Later, Minneapolis Is Still Not OK
with John McWhorter, Liz Collin & JC Chaix
In the summer of 2020, in the midst of a riot following the death of George Floyd, the personnel stationed in the 3rd Police Station were ordered to abandon their post. Rioters in Minneapolis set the building ablaze. Now, three and a half years later, violent crime in Minneapolis remains a problem. Liz Collin and JC Chaix, who made the film The Fall of Minneapolis, discuss the condition of Minneapolis today and cops’ struggle to reconcile themselves to what happened.
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One last comment. Why were pages removed from the police manual filed with the court. Pages covering MRT, and then the COP outright says they don’t teach or use that technique? And yet, numerous other officers both confirm they do and the pages are clearly shown in Chauvin’s own manual. That is tampering with evidence, plain and simple. Does anyone believe this wasn’t a deliberate railroading of a white officer to fit a narrative?
I was disappointed to see how you backed off from your December 5th video in this one. Now John is saying he doesn't’ “think” Chauvin “meant” to murder Floyd, where on December 5th you said he didn’t. Who got to you guys and told you what to say, cause it looks like that. You know very well there were three officers holding Floyd down, and if it was really about compression on his side and not strangulation (I think that chest compression theory can be disputed, just check the comments from your 12/5 video where a very competent person describes exactly how air flows and what it means) then was it Chauvin putting the greatest amount of pressure on his chest? Or was it one of the other officers? The fact that this man had a lethal amount of fentanyl and meth in his system AND had COVID too, and you think it was officer’s fault? You changed the footage you showed of the Chief of police from where he outright lies, to something else where he says he doesn’t know what ”That” was. You don’t show the picture in the police manual of those officers doing exactly what they were taught. And I had to laugh when you talk about the mayor kneeling before Floyd’s casket in tears, and say you’re sure he was really crying, when if he was, it certainly wasn’t about the man himself. Why did you back down from your very bold video on 12/5? I trust your opinions but I have to wonder now, and I’m sorry for that. Yes, I am a support the blue person, but I’m happy to call out bad behavior, such as Officer Lila Morris on January 6, or Officer Michael Byrd on the same day.