A couple months ago, talk about George Floyd was flitting across right-wing media and I didn’t watch any of it. Today, I happened to click on a Glenn Loury and John McWhorter video, The Truth About George Floyd’s Death, from December 8, 2023. They referenced a documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis, above.
I decided to watch this documentary, by Alpha News journalist, Liz Collin. Collin is an Emmy award-winning reporter and news anchor according to the blurb at amazon for her book, They’re Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd. I haven’t read her book. She interviewed police officers and other people directly involved and she presented the actual body cam footage of the police officers, which was suppressed by the judge in the police officers’ trials. She went into the activist history of many of the officials involved in the case, like Minnesota Attorney General, Keith Ellison, who has close ties to Louis Farrakhan, defending gang members, championing cop-killers and being very anti-police. Then there’s the initial autopsy report, which showed the drugs and preexisting medical problems George Floyd suffered from, but no physical evidence of asphyxiation or injury to his neck.
Beyond that, the sequence of events presented by BLM mouthpieces, then repeated non-stop by the liberal media and Democrats, was not accurate, according to Collin, who uses police body cam footage and officials records to back this up. Most disturbingly were the number of officials who said the Maximal Restraint Technique used to restrain George Floyd was not an approved procedure or taught, when clearly the reporter talked to numerous officers, who said they were taught that technique and it was approved. The reporter showed the actual police training manuals.
If even some of Collin’s information is correct, it’s clear we were massively manipulated and lied to by the media bombardment hyping a BLM manufactured narrative of “I can’t breathe,” and hyping how many minutes Floyd was restrained and insisting he was murdered by the police. Those officers are in prison. We never heard about the fact that a police officer called for EMS support 36 seconds after Floyd was on the ground.
Collin’s documentary goes further in showing the aftermath and how officials tied the hands of police officers in Minneapolis and allowed rioters to torch the 3rd Precinct in Minneapolis. She presents interviews with several of the police officers who were in that precinct during this rioting.
Does any of this matter? What if the entire narrative BLM, the media and politicians told us was lies? Should we care? There are four former police officers in prison and Derek Chauvin, the officer who restrained Floyd, received a 22 year sentence. He was stabbed 22 times by a former gang leader in prison, in December 2023.
While it would be easier to just ignore this and move on, the truth is these false partisan narratives amplified by media do matter. Since the fall-out from “defund the police” has been an unmitigated disaster, Democrats and their media friends continually downplay crime statistics and many Democrats now claim they never supported defunding the police and that they fully support the police. These leftist culture war false narratives matter, just as right-wing false narratives matter too. The power to dominate most of the media coverage in America, still resides with the liberal media (what used to be called “mainstream”). These false narratives fuel deeper divides, distrust and lead to serious public corruption.
The liberal media will regale you with how crazy the right-wing echochamber is and the right-wing echochamber will yammer on about the left-wing crazy, but what happened during the George Floyd protests and riots goes much further than just concerns about partisan lies told in the media – deliberate lies (BLM narratives) were used to incite nationwide protests, which led to the most destructive rioting in US history, the lying led to the conviction of four police officers. And the BLM narrative about how we needed to “defund the police,” because the police are unfairly targeting back people, seriously eroded our entire culture and led to a rise in attacks on police officers, a rise in crime, and a loss of public trust in law enforcement.
If you challenge anything related to the BLM narratives, you’re going to be labeled a racist. The liberal news media, who willingly amplify so many of these false narratives, then have a vested interest in propping up the lies. Admitting they’re just political hacks for hire and not ethical journalists dedicated to the truth would be a hard pill for them to swallow. If they admit they didn’t investigate and just repeated the BLM narratives without question, well, that would destroy their journalistic reputations.
Perhaps, my skipping a lot of the news, because it’s exhausting, needs some rethinking, because after watching this documentary, I think, once again, the prevailing BLM narrative we were bombarded with in 2020 was deliberately manufactured and filled with lies. I could have known about this documentary two months ago, if I had been paying closer attention to the news, like I used to. I’ll have to consider how I consume news, because what happened in 2020 is still very relevant.
The larger issue, beyond even BLM’s despicable effort to foment racial animus, is we always come back to the Democrat and liberal media spin information war, which is now being developed into a whole new field – cognitive security – to police speech globally. Launching more manufactured narratives will certainly be part of this ramped up cognitive security effort, to combat what liberal elites deem “disinformation and misinformation,” that’s underway.
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