If you'd followed PJ Media's coverage and more importantly remembered it two-and-a-half years later, the crack-up of the St. George Floyd narrative won't be as surprising to you as it is for some. Now, with claims that the police chief lied on the witness stand and the city lied about Floyd's previous run-ins with cops and withheld the police body cams, there are even more questions about this drama that changed the country.
With the lies about the murderous Trayvon Martin and the complete fabrication of the Michael Brown shooting by some of the same actors involved in the George Floyd case, you'd think we'd learn a lesson. But the left and the corporate media wouldn't allow that message to get through.
And everyone played their part. There was a beginning, a middle, and an end to what should now be a familiar drama. George Floyd was pulled over by a racist officer. He told the officer he couldn't breathe. He was just a guy trying to get his life together. He was just minding his own business before those racist cops came for him. The knee on his neck killed him.
And then the Third Precinct went up in flames, Target was looted and set afire, the poor excuse of a mayor kneeled to the mob in a public struggle session, and so did Congress.
All of a sudden COVID wasn't an impediment to public "gatherings" — riots — because rage at institutional racism and whiteness was more important than a pandemic.
The left propped up Floyd's case and beatification, Benjamin Crump came with his hand out, those evil police officers went to jail, Democrat-run cities went up in flames, the judicial system was exposed as a sham, and all Americans became less safe. It was a perfect script for chaos.
There were many things we found out and amplified at the time of the 2020 riots. And then there was the trial of Officer Derek Chauvin, which is when the scales should have fallen from the eyes of the nation but didn't.
Lots of people suggesting the world didn't know facts about George Floyd
— Victoria Taft, The Adult in the Room, FITF Squad (@VictoriaTaft) November 21, 2023
Here's what I reported on @PJMedia_com at the time on the #GeorgeFloyd trial.
1/ Floyd claimed "I can't breathe" at moment cops woke him up from his drug induced stupor
They had not touched him. pic.twitter.com/IaENW4t5ri
Here's what we were fed vs. what we learned at Chauvin's trial:
- We were told Floyd was just trying to get his life back on track. In fact, he was being investigated for passing fake $20 bills.
- We heard he was at the store doing some shopping. In reality, he was working with his drug dealer and ex-girlfriend in circulating the money at a local market.
- They told us the police scared the hell out of Floyd when they descended upon his car. But when a cop tapped the driver's side window to talk to him, Floyd was asleep at the wheel of the parked car, passed out on fentanyl.
- We were told Floyd couldn't breathe because cops were mistreating him. In reality, the minute the cops got there — before they touched him, before he was arrested — Floyd said incessantly, "I can't breathe."
- Cops supposedly ordered Floyd to the ground. The truth is that he asked to be placed on the ground because he wasn't feeling well — because he was overwhelmed by the fentanyl and other drugs he'd been taking AND HAD COVID AND A PRE-EXISTING HEART CONDITION.
- Floyd's dream team of outside lawyers, bought by leftist charitable organizations, said the cops killed Floyd. But the only person who did the autopsy on his body, the medical examiner, said Floyd died of a drug overdose. The medical examiner's testimony was buried by the dream team during the trial.
- We were told Chauvin killed Floyd with reckless disregard for his safety by keeping his knee on Floyd's neck. In reality, Chauvin's knee was on Floyd's shoulder and back. His knee may have slipped to Floyd's neck and a photo was taken as they began to move him to the ambulance.
- The cops took their time calling for an ambulance because they were white racists, right? Actually, the cops called in for medical help at the beginning of the stop. The ambulance went to their location but then had to park a distance away because of the outraged, loud crowd. They had to move Floyd to the ambulance after an agonizing 11-minute wait.
- The left said the cops' use of force was against all regulations, but that isn't true, either. Officers could have used a Taser on Floyd (or worse) but the knee hold was working to keep him secure until the ambulance arrived.
- Floyd was 6'4" and weighed 240 pounds. Chauvin was 5'9" and weighed 140 pounds.
- We were told the neck hold killed Floyd, causing apparent asphyxia. But Floyd's cocktail of meth and fentanyl, plus his preexisting conditions INCLUDING COVID, also could have led to his asphyxia. Floyd nearly died from the same cocktail of drugs two months before his fatal encounter with police.
- Floyd told police that he was on drugs, right? "Audio from a police video was introduced into court that seems to show Floyd telling cops 'I ate too many drugs,' though prosecutors believe he told police 'I ain’t doing no drugs.'" It's believed he ate the drugs while in the car and then again when he was in the police car to hide evidence and to protect his dealer. Drugs believed to be his were found in the police car. Floyd's drug dealer took the 5th to protect himself from possible charges for killing Floyd.
- Chauvin's attorney was outnumbered by the dream team of lawyers for the prosecution 12 to one. They consistently did document dumps on the solo practitioner during the trial.
The case should have moved from post-riot Minneapolis to another city but the judge wouldn't allow it. The jurors had to walk through a security gauntlet to the courthouse in the lead-up to the case. Chants and protests were heard from raucous crowds at the courthouse in an obvious form of jury intimidation.
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Now, a new documentary called "The Fall of Minneapolis" makes several new allegations about the Floyd case.
George Floyd's death led to anger and violence across America. But the George Floyd story is very different depending on who you talk to.
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) November 21, 2023
A new documentary called "The Fall of Minneapolis" lays out new info Americans haven't heard before. The journalist who produced the… pic.twitter.com/b1Sh5oWYKu
The producer of the documentary, Liz Collin, a former local news anchor who lost her job when the woke mob came for her, is married to the former head of the Minneapolis police officers' union. She reports that the chief of police lied on the stand, and the FBI, which got involved within 24-48 hours, put political pressure on local officials to bring charges against the three other officers — when local prosecutors didn't believe there were grounds for doing so. The public never heard about Floyd's previous arrest in which he again ate a bunch of drugs to hide the evidence a year before his infamous run-in with Minneapolis Police.
The George Floyd riots, as Watters notes above, cost two dozen lives and resulted in defunding police departments — leading to a major crime wave, downed statues, Critical Race Theory in schools, and a transfer of wealth from corporate America to Black Lives Matter, which used the money to grift more money to buy real estate and other goodies for themselves.