The Fall Of Minneapolis

Before going any further, let it be known that I am no fan of the police much less an apologist for them. My own experience of the British police since 1993 is a story that beggars belief. With regard to the American police, the information on their perfidy that is available for a few clicks of a mouse is staggering. That being said, police officers can also be victims of the system, especially when that system bends over backwards, forwards and sideways to appease a baying mob, one that stretches from the scene of the incident to the mainstream media, and indeed in this case to the other side of the world.

This crowdfunded documentary is about the death of George Floyd and what followed. We are fortunate to have extensive footage of what happened, not just bodycam footage but film shot by bystanders. Ihe image above is a screengrab from a video taken by a teenager named Darnella Frazier.

When they first saw this film and learned Floyd had died shortly afterwards, most people were both taken in by the claim he had been killed by Derek Chauvin, and horrified. Most people included me. However, it is now clear that at the very worst Chauvin was guilty of involuntary manslaughter and most probably guilty of nothing. The Fall Of Minneapolis makes that doubly clear, but it is far from the first documentary to do so. Candace Owens made an excellent documentary called The Greatest Lie Ever Sold, while AK Nation has analysed the toxicology report on Floyd, which tells a different story.

George Floyd was a sad case. He went to college on a sports scholarship where he excelled at basketball and football. Under other circumstances he could have become both an accomplished sportsman and wealthy, but like so many young people of both sexes from all backgrounds, he got into drugs, and it was downhill all the way from there. In this film we are shown footage of his 2019 arrest during which he was caught in flagrante delicto.

Floyd was arrested for the final time when he tried to pass a fake $20 bill. His arrest may look a bit coarse to non-US viewers. but this is standard for a country that is obsessed with guns and saw no fewer than 44 law enforcement officers shot dead in 2019.

Derek Chauvin did not testify at his trial, which is fairly standard in the United States. My own view is that in the absence of exceptional circumstances, anyone charged with serious crimes – including especially rape and murder – should take the stand. Not that it would have made any difference. The jury were almost certainly afraid to acquit Chauvin; those as ancient as me may recall what happened when a jury acquitted the uniformed thugs who assaulted Rodney King (against the weight of the evidence).

Such was the bias against Chauvin that on his conviction he received a longer sentence than Michael Slager. In April 2015, South Carolina police officer Slager murdered the unarmed Walter Scott, staged the crime scene, and lied about the encounter. Fortunately for justice though not for him, the entire incident was captured by a member of the public on his phone. Incredibly, Slager’s first trial resulted in a hung jury; eventually, after a plea agreement, he was given a 20 year sentence.

The death of George Floyd and the unwarranted conviction of the man accused of killing him was far from the end of the story though. The race pimps were out in force, as were the extreme left, and plain criminals. The now thoroughly discredited Black Lives Matter movement saw its coffers swell, and, edged on by corrupt Democrat politicians, including Kamala Harris, wave after wave of riots swept the country, police forces were defunded and demoralised, while Minneapolis in particular went down the tubes. This year so far there have been well over two hundred carjackings in Minneapolis, a truly staggering number for a city with a population of less than half a million.

One (extremely worthy) Minneapolis carjacking victim was the anti-police Democrat Shivanthi Sathanandan, who appears now to have changed her tune. Derek Chauvin is to appeal his conviction, not for the first time. As the other three officers involved in this arrest have now also been convicted of lesser offences, his prospects don’t look good in spite of this film and the exculpatory evidence.