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@RepJeffries The True Insurrection: January 20th, 2017 footage from Washington DC on the day of Trump's inauguration. This happened all around the country. Democrat sponsored domestic terrorists were unleashed on America protesting Trumps election! @realDonaldTrump #Democrats #Insurrection https://t.co/0cd35DdcSO
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Police had to push back protesters to allow firefighters to reach the small fires that had been set throughout the day. One protester threw a flashbang grenade at the police, which exploded in an officer's face. Tear gas was used, and six officers were reportedly injured. The situation escalated to the point where someone threatened to destroy a limousine and urged someone named Gabe to leave. Additionally, there was mention of putting the cops in a "piggy wolf."
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Speaker 0: You are Police had to push back the protesters so firefighters could get to the flames. Small fires had appeared all day. This upped the temperature, which, of course, was the point. 1 demonstrator threw a flash a wolf. Banged grenade back at police.
It exploded in an officer's face. Plenty of tear gas, 6 officers reportedly injured. They will destroy your limo. You need to leave now. Hey, Gabe.
47. Put the cops in piggy wolf? Right.
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🔥MUST WATCH🔥 The Fall of Minneapolis: A crowdfunded documentary about the death of George Floyd and the later trial of ex-Police officer Derek Chauvin. What you think you know and the evidence you never heard. Eye opening! #TheFallOfMinneapolis https://t.co/4bvQERNqBu
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Summary: The video transcript provides a comprehensive overview of the George Floyd case, starting with the encounter between Floyd and the police officers, the subsequent protests, and the burning of the Minneapolis police precinct. It includes interviews with individuals discussing their experiences during the riots and their opinions on the autopsy report. The handling of the case by medical examiners and the involvement of the FBI are questioned. The murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer involved, is described, highlighting heightened security measures, witness testimonies, and discussions on the justice system and systemic racism in law enforcement. The trial concludes with Chauvin being found guilty and sentenced to prison. The impact of Floyd's death and the trial on the city of Minneapolis and the police department is emphasized, with plans to reimagine policing and address systemic issues.
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Speaker 0: Gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Sorry. Is the driver
Speaker 2: in there?
Speaker 1: The loop is. Or which 1? The whole one over there. Which 1? Yeah.
Yeah. Just head back in. Oh, You see your hands? Hey there, man. Stay in the car.
Speaker 3: Let me see your other hand.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Let me see your other hand.
Speaker 1: Please. Both hands. I'll do nothing. Put your fucking hands up right now. Let me see your other hand.
Alright. What I do, though? What what we do? Put your hand up there. Put your fucking hand up there.
Jesus Christ. Keep your fucking hands on the wheel. Had your fucking hands on the wheel. Yes, sir. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. Lawson's in the car. Yeah. They got shot. That's it.
Back in. Sorry, mister. I'm so sorry. God dang, man. Man, I got I got shot the same way as I was before.
Okay. Well, when I say let me see your hands, you put your fucking hands up. I'm so sorry, Alright. You got them? Man.
Speaker 4: Dang, man.
Speaker 1: Put your hands on top of your head. Man, it's awesome. Oh, man. That's something I got shot. I think I was Hands on top of your head.
Yeah. Hands on top of your head. Step out of the vehicle and step away from me. Alright? Yeah.
Step out and face away. Step out and face away. Tell me. Please don't shoot me. Please, man.
I'm not gonna shoot you. Step on face away. I'm a get out of out, man. Please don't shoot me, man. Don't shoot me, man.
You're fine. But it wasn't worth I just lost my mom, Step out and face away. Step out and face away. Please don't shoot me, miss Jones. Please.
Don't shoot me, man. Step on and face away. Can you not shoot me, man? I'm not shooting. Step on and face away.
Your day. Please. Please. Please, man. Please.
Please. I didn't know, man. So I don't know. I didn't know because I was just I didn't know. Not moving.
No. I'm not doing nothing. Put your head behind your back then. I'm not gonna do nothing.
Speaker 5: Face. Get the door.
Speaker 1: Hey. You come back. Stay in the car. Oh, man. Stop resisting Yes.
You are. What's going on, man? Stand up. Please. Please, man.
Stand up for me. Stand up. I ain't gonna do that. That's wrong, man. Come on.
Walk with me. This is bad. Walk with me. Stand up. Why you doing me?
Stand up. Come on. We're trying to get out of the street here so you don't get hit by a car. Take a seat. Turn down for me.
Thank you, man. Thank you, mister Welch. Down. Thank you, man. You wanna work for.
Sit all the way down. Let me read out. Mister, I will. Hey, man. Oh my god.
Please. Please, man. You got an ID on you? Yes, sir. I gotta go with the home.
Alright. What's your name? George. George? George Perry Floyd.
I mean, I don't know what's going on. Man, that's it. Spell it for me. G e o Yep. R t e.
Last name? Floyd. Last name? 830 f l o y d. F l o y d?
Yes.
Speaker 6: Date of birth?
Speaker 1: And that's the. October 14th. October 14th? 73. Man, I guess I live on faith.
Wait, man.
Speaker 6: Would you mind doing me a favor? Just run.
Speaker 1: No. No. No. No. The
Speaker 0: George Floyd.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Man, he was licking his trousers. I don't want no problem. I ain't gonna do nothing. Man, do you know why we're here?
Why? We're here because it sounds like you gave a fake bill to the Individuals in there. Yeah. Do you understand that? Yes.
Speaker 7: And do you
Speaker 1: know why we pulled you out of the car? Because you was not listening to anything we told you. Right. I didn't know what was going on. You listen to us, and we will tell you what's going on.
Alright? When you're moving around like that, that makes us think way more is going on than we need to know. Right. And it's not I hate. It's probably Gotcha.
Alright. Wanna put you in the back of a squad. Alright? It's okay. That that's all.
Good. Good. Good. Good. Good.
Good. Good. Good. Good. Good.
Good. Good. We're gonna sort all this out. Alright? Do you need Is that your car key?
I I it's my sister. Key fob right there? Yes, sir. Her name is all I got one problem. Yeah.
I'll Hold on to that for you. Alright? Stand up. Wait. Wait.
I'm ready. Because I was so pissed with you. I was Like, right now. I'm like, what's going on? Yeah.
And look at you. You're still able to reach your side. You're making me nervous. I'm right. That's what I was doing.
It's my wrist. Okay. Yeah. I got you. Won't fix all that.
Won't fix all that, but you got a watch with me. I didn't tell that, but you gotta watch me. Oh, out. Out to you. You want something right now?
Not no. Nothing. Because you acting man. Let's go. Yeah.
You got foam around your mouth too? Yes. Yes. I went to do it a little bit earlier. Okay.
Alright. Let me come on down now. This little bit better now. Alright. Okay.
Now you can do one favor, man. And we're gonna talk about that when we get to the car. Alright. Stop moving around. Oh, man.
God, don't leave me, man. Please, man. Leave me, man. I don't want this old lady, man. Yeah.
Just unlock the norm for me. I have to beat it there. Hey. Stop falling down. Bathrophobic.
Yeah. Stand up. Bathrophobic. Stay on your feet and face the car door. Man.
Please. No. Please I have the door open. The door open. Don't talk to no one.
Please, if you talk to me Man, you ain't we're listening to nothing we're doing, so we're not gonna listen to nothing. Understand. I've I've got the phone inside of us. The door. Man.
I'm I'm trying to phone I hear you, but you are gonna face the door right now. You're looking on staff. I don't know anything. I don't believe you got everything, man. I'm not a zipper, man.
I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna ask you.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna God. No. He's in New Zealand. Why? Why?
I'm Don't even bother myself, man, please. I'm just about the phobic. That's it.
Speaker 4: I'm still going in the car.
Speaker 1: Anything sharp on you? I won't do the murder. I'll Do you have anything sharp on you? Sir. Now you're looking at home or nothing?
Nothing. Why y'all doing me like that? I mean, I was just please take it really from yourself, man. Stand up straight. Phytoplobe for real.
That was it. I got them.
Speaker 9: Could you
Speaker 1: please take it with me, please? Yes. I'm a Mario. Stay with me, man. I I will.
Please stay with me, man. Thank you. God, man. I didn't know all this was gonna happen, man. Leave, man.
I didn't want my I don't know if there's none of y'all. Well, nothing.
Speaker 10: There you go. Inside
Speaker 1: and understand. Work on your side. Hey. Hey. I'm listening.
And I understand that that that that people do stuff. It's and and and and y'all don't know me. Take a seat. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Why are you having trouble walking out? Because that was my. Go down real bad. Please, man.
Please don't do this. Take a seat. I'm going in. No. You're not.
I gotta go in. Take a seat. Grab a seat, man. Ryan, I don't believe you because I was Take a seat. I'm not the kinda guy.
I'm not that kind of guy, man. Take a seat. No. I'm a dietitator. Take a seat.
Stop, man. You need to take a seat right now. And I just had COVID, man. I don't wanna do it today.
Speaker 8: Hey, guys. I'll
Speaker 1: roll the windows down. Hey. Listen. Dang, man. Listen.
I'm not a candidate guy. I'll roll the windows down. Please, man. Legs in. Alright?
Yo, dude. Stop. Look at that. You're not even listening. You get it.
You get it. We can fix it, but not while you're standing out here. Man. Why don't you do me bad, man? Man, give me a win.
Man, I don't want y'all to win. I don't wanna y'all to win. Win now. Put me, bro. I don't wanna I've done the phobia.
Yeah. You ain't gonna win. I'm done the phobia. I got anxiety. I don't wanna do nothing now.
You made a mistake. Somebody Let the breeder let the breeder go off on me.
Speaker 11: You can't play
Speaker 1: it. Go get He's going through his hours. Now you don't do me like that, man. Hard. Okay.
Can I told you, please? You you get me this car when you're done. I am a doctor. I'm doctor Bobby. I'm not gonna be working with me.
God. I'm No. You're not being in the I've got the phone. It's all over the car. Okay, man.
Okay? Another bad guy, man. He in the car. Another bad guy. Okay.
Leave, man. Please. No. No. Take a seat.
I can't. Hold up. I can't joke. I can't breathe Please. Yes.
I'm fine. Maurice Maurice, man. Maurice, man. I think, like, the furnace. Okay.
And I'm on the ground. Only on the ground. Only on the ground. $1. $1.
Get in the squad. I'm going down. I'm going down. I'm not gonna worry Okay. I yeah.
Go get me there. I can't I need a leave. Leave, man. I don't need this to me. Does he want to jail with me?
Speed up. He's under arrest right now for forgery. Alright. What's going on? What?
What? Just take him out. What was? Please, man. I can't fucking breathe.
Come on out. I need you to fuck you. Right. Just lay him. Come on.
Yeah.
Speaker 12: On the ground.
Speaker 1: On the ground. You got your restraint. Jesus Christ. I can breathe.
Speaker 0: Hello? Thank you.
Speaker 1: Not moving. Mama. Mama. Mama. I can't believe this.
No problem. I can't believe this. I can't believe this, man. Mama, I love you. Reese, I love you.
Speaker 0: You got holler.
Speaker 13: In 2020, George Floyd says, I got shot last time.
Speaker 1: Man, I guess I live in faith. Amen. And you
Speaker 13: would have been the last officer, to arrest George Floyd. Did you shoot him?
Speaker 14: No. I didn't shoot him. No. The body camera is out there. It shows exactly what I did, exactly what the other officers did.
Now we didn't shoot them.
Speaker 13: How was George Floyd acting during that arrest in in 2019?
Speaker 14: Everything was almost identical. I mean, the initial stop, when I first started to approach him, you know, he was uncooperative. He wasn't listening to my commands. He was very agitated. Just keep your hands up where I can See him.
Speaker 11: I feel wrong.
Speaker 1: Oh, the speeder. Hey. I'm coming. I'm coming. Let me I thought I thought you were playing.
Just keep your hands where I could Get to see him. I see your hands. Hey there, man. Stay in the car.
Speaker 3: Let me see your other hand.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Let me see your other hand. Please.
Speaker 1: Was on both hands. Do something. Put your fucking hands up right now.
Speaker 14: During the time, I he was I couldn't see his hands. I he was moving them out. We found out later he's eating dope.
Speaker 1: Goodness. I'm telling my my mama, man. My mother, man.
Speaker 2: My mom's here, please.
Speaker 1: Come on. Go ahead go ahead and undo your seat belt. I'll shoot you, man. Please. I won't be stopping.
I I don't I don't plan on shooting you.
Speaker 14: I'm just saying. Just take it. Take your time.
Speaker 1: Step on the face away. Baby. But please don't shoot me. Please, man. I'm not gonna shoot you.
Step on the face away. I'm a get out of the eye, man. Please don't shoot me, man.
Speaker 15: For 5 whole excruciating minutes.
Speaker 16: For 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
Speaker 17: 846. 846. 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
Speaker 14: 9 minutes and 29 seconds.
Speaker 18: 9 minutes and 29 seconds. Right? Actually, 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
Speaker 19: Our heart and our solidarity are with folks who understand what happened Monday night To George Floyd,
Speaker 20: the vast majority of people that have come together have been doing so peacefully.
Speaker 5: Peaceful protest overnight in the Twin Cities, several dozen arrests at the state capitol. But
Speaker 18: That entire time, they've been very peaceful. The crowd continues to be peaceful.
Speaker 6: It started out as a lot of people gathering, which is, you know, your First Amendment right, But it quickly changed.
Speaker 11: My husband actually left for work before me. He works for Minneapolis Police Department. And he texted me on the way into work and said, You're gonna have a bad day and
Speaker 21: he was correct.
Speaker 11: The crowds got larger and larger and larger, so we knew that we were gonna have our hands full.
Speaker 14: Each day, it it just compound is by the end of the day, it was probably a 1000 people. And then the next day, it was 4,000 people. And then the day after that, it was, like, 8 to 10000 people. I think it's really important for people to understand that the police that were working the street at that time were dealing with situations that, in my mind, only you could think of as wartime.
Speaker 20: This is like a modern day war zone. I mean, this is this is unbelievable what is happening on the streets of Minneapolis.
Speaker 3: So we are seeing someone being wheeled away, someone who looks pretty badly injured.
Speaker 14: They threw a whole bunch of bottles and rocks, and I got hit in my mouth. I end up breaking 3 more teeth.
Speaker 1: Break that shit up.
Speaker 12: We were dodging water bottles, bricks, Roman candles, anything they can get their hands on.
Speaker 9: It was crazy. It was like I was living in a a third world country. I'm like, what is going on? Where do I live right now?
Speaker 1: Hey. Hey. Hey.
Speaker 9: And this is a thing that bothered me about government officials as they let people sit back and throw rocks and bricks and fire bombs, and we're supposed to just put on a helmet and take that.
Speaker 4: We are still taking rocks, frozen water bottles. They're shooting mortars at us. Can we escalate our use to force to deploy scat round. 1204, negative on the scat round. 204 is, again, negative on the scat round.
There's another plan in place. Stand by.
Speaker 13: When did you realize this wasn't a typical riot response?
Speaker 22: Pretty early on, there was no no response at all. They didn't say why, but I assumed they didn't wanna make us look militant with the rioters. I actually had gear, but they were just saying just wear your helmets and and stand there, basically.
Speaker 11: Obviously, they didn't take my request for more resources seriously, so we were just Watching it unfold without without less than lethal, without SWAT teams, without riot gear. Nobody had Protective gear on. We were just in our uniforms.
Speaker 13: At this point, they're not giving you permission
Speaker 11: to wear your riot gear? Nope. There was no riot gear given to anybody at that point, And we're in the middle of a war zone. It was just officer after officer. Injured, back in.
Send him home. Injured. I mean, it was 30 officers that evening, probably, that got injured while they were out there trying to to deal with the the riots.
Speaker 12: We were, in the squad car, me and my partner, And we were at Chicago and Lake, and we had a observe and report post, basically. So we watched them with our own 2 eyes break into the T Mobile store, Foot Locker, Chicago Lake Lakers. We were given a play by play over the radio, and the only sponsor we would get back is just copy, observe, and report. We watched them loot. We watched them light the Molotov cocktail, and we watched them throw it into the building.
Speaker 1: They're starting to they're starting to throw a volatile podcast.
Speaker 12: We were ordered not to do anything.
Speaker 14: Fire department wasn't responding, And then we were trying to put out fires along, and cars were trying to run us off the road when we're trying to do that. All kinds of things were happened to our team. And it wasn't just me, but All the strike teams and all the officers during that time, the stuff that was going on, you know, shots fired. It was complete Utter chaos.
Speaker 12: This was just Kinda wandering around aimlessly, waiting to be told what not to do next.
Speaker 13: Did you ever feel like there was A plan?
Speaker 11: I am reaching to the command post over and over again about what's our plan, what's our plan, what's our plan, without any response whatsoever.
Speaker 13: They're not saying anything at all? No. Nothing.
Speaker 4: Command, police, Bobby.
Speaker 2: Command, any advice?
Speaker 9: The elections were coming up. Everything's politically driven. They were gonna use this incident for a political narrative, And I did.
Speaker 19: It started with the, the tragic and senseless murder of George Floyd and it extended through the week of, righteous anger being expressed by Community leaders and all people of conscience.
Speaker 15: If you're feeling that sadness and that anger, it's not only understandable, It's right.
Speaker 11: I end up on the phone with the assistant chief. He's like, so our plan is we're gonna take all the cars and everything around and make the precinct look abandoned. And if no one's there, it shouldn't be a target. And I'm literally just staring at the phone like, This how how is this the plan? Like, there's thousands of protesters.
There's thousands of rioters. They have dead pigs in front of us. That signifies they will kill a cop.
Speaker 1: Cut and cut to cut.
Speaker 23: We were tasked to go down to the precinct to remove All of the shotguns and patrol rifles and ammunition from the precinct. When I got down there, You swear it was kids moving out of college dormitory because everybody there was moving trucks and everything out back, literally, emptying out the precinct.
Speaker 11: People were showing up at the precinct, gathering their things. So they'd come to the fence, get let in, go to the locker, grab their stuff, and walk out. And I was like, where are you going? Oh, I'm just coming to get my stuff in case they give away the precinct. Like, it's got our museum stuff.
Pretty soon, 2 vans showed up and cleaned out all the museum items.
Speaker 6: You're talking 20, 30 years of pictures, artifacts that are on the wall freight. It's supposed to be for an eternity.
Speaker 13: So you're a lieutenant in this building, and you don't even know that the plan is to to surrender it later in the evening?
Speaker 11: No. Not not even a clue. As they were, like, cleaning things out, they took all the cameras out because they didn't want the rioters to break them. We're now in a precinct with boarded up windows. I could tell what was going on outside.
Speaker 13: I couldn't see it, but you could hear it. You can tell
Speaker 11: I knew there were fires. The radio traffic was completely insane. It was fire after fire after fire. The whole city was burning just like night 1 and night 2.
Speaker 4: Looks like the US Bank building at 28th and Lake is on fire. Flames above the buildings in front of us. W US Bank at 28th and Lake be on fire.
Speaker 1: I can
Speaker 2: fire you by having a large fire east of the
Speaker 1: 3rd precinct.
Speaker 4: Copy. Large fire east of the 3rd precinct 21/18.
Speaker 24: I I was shocked as it didn't no way. No fucking way. And the city's not that stupid. They're not gonna do that. You can't just give up a precinct.
I did not think anybody in their right mind would think it would be a good tactical move to give up A precinct.
Speaker 15: I made the decision, to evacuate the 3rd precinct.
Speaker 13: When do you get word that it's Finally time to leave the building. So I
Speaker 11: get a command over the radio that we need to evacuate the 3rd Precinct.
Speaker 2: Evacuate now. Evacuate
Speaker 11: I said, like, right now?
Speaker 2: 3201. Do we have to evacuate right now?
Speaker 11: And they said yes immediately.
Speaker 4: You need to evacuate now. Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate.
Speaker 11: I have 50 some people. I quickly get on the air and tell everyone to gather in the roll call room. I get a phone call from the head of 911 as I'm trying to do roll call, and she says, Our whole 911 backup system is there. You need to go get the radios.
Speaker 21: And I'm like,
Speaker 11: okay. So either we're in so much danger that we're trying to Wait right this 2nd, or we're not. We're going now as fast as we possibly can. A few SWAT teams come in. I realize they are our escort out and the SWAT one of the SWAT team leaders looks at me and he says, why are we evacuating?
And I'm he's coming from the outside in, and I'm I I can't see on the outside of the building, so I'm like, why? I don't know. He doesn't know. I don't know. We just have to evacuate.
Speaker 2: Evacuate now. Evacuate now. 10/21/55.
Speaker 4: They're about to breach the back gate.
Speaker 12: Everything was happening so fast, and there was such chaos. You know, the heart's racing right now talking about this.
Speaker 11: And We run. We run with our belts on and 50 some people and 3 slot teams, and we get to the fence. We can't get out.
Speaker 4: We gotta go where you're sitting ducks here.
Speaker 12: There was only one way in and one way out, and the way out was locked.
Speaker 4: 20 3, they've reached the northwest corner
Speaker 2: of the pack. Northwest corner of the front has been reached. They're
Speaker 1: coming in. They're coming in the back.
Speaker 4: We need
Speaker 2: to move. We need to move. Make now
Speaker 11: one of the squads rams through the fence to get it open.
Speaker 12: I remember looking through the rearview mirror as we left. It looked like a zombie movie. They all just rushed to the fence and started climbing the fence, and they caused the fences to collapse. And then they just all rushed the precinct. And as we were driving down the line, Every window got broken out of the squad car, driving the gauntlet down snowing.
Speaker 25: Can you
Speaker 13: even believe this is happening in that moment?
Speaker 22: Never seen anything like it. And I had been involved in a lot of riots over 30 year career. There were still people chasing us down the street. But as I got a maybe a quarter black away, I realized that Not everyone was in vehicles. They were running basically for their lives at that point because they just left them, Basically, with no plan of attack or no plan of, exit from the precinct.
Just basically left us all on our own. They were scared.
Speaker 21: I could see it. I knew them. Open
Speaker 6: the door. I can't I can't even tell you how it felt in my in the pit of my stomach watching my friends run for their lives. It was something I hope to never experience again.
Speaker 11: We ran probably 4 or 5 blocks, and eventually 2 buses show up. We get on, And it was just just pure silence.
Speaker 21: I've never cried at work, and I couldn't I couldn't control myself. I apologize to them. All I could do is say, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And they were like, This is not you, and I felt like I didn't save the precinct.
I didn't
Speaker 11: I let them all down. I let all of
Speaker 21: them down, and I just looked out the window and the whole city was on fire. Our precinct was on fire, And that was it was just like I'm watching a bad dream.
Speaker 2: Harvey, the precinct is on fire.
Speaker 4: To the citywide tone right now and our loss of the 3rd precinct.
Speaker 2: Airing information citywide, the third precinct has been compromised.
Speaker 11: Cops do not run away.
Speaker 21: You run too.
Speaker 15: The symbolism of a building cannot outweigh the importance of life, of our officers, or the public. We could not risk serious injury to anyone.
Speaker 23: Mayor Fry decided that it was just a building, and I know there's probably several 100 cops And maybe some citizens that would disagree with that.
Speaker 6: This has never happened in our country's history. Have you lost a police station or police precinct to a riot? Furthermore, forfeiting it. It was unbelievable Then and it still is now that they chose to surrender that precinct.
Speaker 22: You can't call it leadership. Lack of leadership. You're not gonna gain any confidence from anyone in the city by giving up your own property.
Speaker 13: It sent that message in your opinion?
Speaker 8: Absolutely. That's
Speaker 23: some police officer's home and had been their homes their entire career. But to him, he, like, he it's just a building.
Speaker 24: It was it was devastating. Everything was broken. Anything that we left in there was demolished. My office was torched. My office was actually the one part of the building that was still burning.
Speaker 22: They weren't doing anything to control the riot. They didn't let us do our jobs.
Speaker 15: We will continue to patrol the 3rd Precinct entirely. We will continue to do our jobs in that area.
Speaker 1: Oh, out
Speaker 13: If George Floyd would have told the truth about Fentanyl and Methamphetamine, could that have helped to save his life?
Speaker 26: Yes. Yes. It could have. That's proven by what happened the year before when he was arrested by Minneapolis police, And he was putting tablets in his mouth.
Speaker 1: Open your mouth. Spit out what you got. Spit out what you got.
Speaker 26: He admitted at some point that he had swallowed a bunch of pills. And the paramedics came and talked to him and took his blood pressure. And his blood pressure was extremely high, 216 over a 100 and 60, and so he ended up going to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Put your hands up right now.
Speaker 26: He had admitted that he had, again, ingested pills in the car. When they were attempting to arrest him, things could have turned out much differently.
Speaker 20: So we
Speaker 13: know now that the police body camera videos were withheld from the public and even the jurors. When you were able to see those videos,
Speaker 11: what was going through your mind?
Speaker 26: I wish that those Videos had been out sooner that they hadn't been withheld for two and a half months because it the videos, portrayed quite a different story from what we had originally heard.
Speaker 1: I can't joke. I can't read about it.
Speaker 13: You mentioned you went through these police body camera videos minute by minute. Right. What troubled you most?
Speaker 26: At the very end of Thomas Lane's
Speaker 25: body cam video.
Speaker 1: One of us to ride with? Yeah. And now Ride with? Yeah. Stay with it.
I don't have my phone.
Speaker 26: The paramedic handing the bag to Thomas Lane to ventilate the patient, you can see that the oxygen tubing is coiled up. It's not even attached to the oxygen source. That's a big mistake.
Speaker 4: George Floyd was a healthy young man.
Speaker 27: The autopsy shows that mister Floyd had no underlying medical problem that caused or contributed to his death.
Speaker 10: Today, I filed an amended complaint. The charges the charges former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chaubin with murder in the 2nd degree for the death of George Floyd. I believe the evidence available to us now supports the stronger charge of second degree murder. We've consulted with each other, and we agree. Finally, I'd like to announce that today, NIP County Attorney Michael Freeman and I, filed a complaint that charges Police officer King, Lane, and Tow with aiding and abetting murder in the 2nd degree felony offense.
I strongly believe that these developments are in the interest of justice for mister Floyd, his family, our community, and our state.
Speaker 17: On behalf of the pastors and preachers from Minneapolis and Saint Paul, the bloods on the south side, Against the disciples and vice lords on the south on the north side, Psalms 27.
Speaker 13: When and how did you become concerned about the autopsy of George Floyd?
Speaker 28: I think we all saw Video and television coverage of this, and I saw one of the body camera footages from the police officers that showed that he was complaining of shortness of breath before entering into the car.
Speaker 1: Right now. And I just had COVID, man. I don't wanna throw it to that. Tell you that, man. Even as a breather when as a breather, it's gonna go out on me, man.
All your life then.
Speaker 28: I started realizing that, hey, something was wrong with this. A few days later, I found out that the autopsy or it was available online. And so I downloaded the autopsy report and read through it. When I did that, my jaw hit the floor.
Speaker 4: No underlying medical problem. George Floyd with a healthy young man.
Speaker 13: An article published in a peer reviewed journal identified 17 errors in George Floyd's autopsy. Do these errors raise These questions about how George Floyd died.
Speaker 28: Yes. In patients that have acromegaly, they tend to die from cardiovascular complications such as heart attack or arrhythmias.
Speaker 13: Do you feel in a way they were trying to hide this information?
Speaker 28: I'm not sure if the medical examiners were trying to hide it, but it Seems like the prosecutor team was trying to hide it. There's no mention of that in the original autopsy report nor any of the other reviews. I wouldn't even call them autopsy reports but other reviews by other medical examiners.
Speaker 13: What do you think about that?
Speaker 28: Very strange. It raises a lot of questions. The original autopsy was done 12 hours after he was declared dead. The official report that came out a little bit later, I'm told was changed after the family had a review by 2 other forensic examiners. Those 2 examiners never did a physical autopsy and, in fact, did not view any of the slides or pictures.
They complained that they did not have those.
Speaker 25: We acknowledge that additional medical information, including toxicology and further investigation are necessary for a final report.
Speaker 13: What do you think of the federal government's involvement In this case.
Speaker 28: One of the first questions I asked was, was the FBI involved? And when I found out the FBI involvement was Within 12 to 24 hours, that really raised a red flag for me. The FBI conducted a meeting with doctor Baker which really raised another red flag. I think there's a lot of questions that remained unanswered with this. And when I study what happened and how people and our leaders reacted to this.
I just shake my head and almost cry in compassion of what has happened to Minneapolis. And instead of bringing people together, we had the opportunity to do that, but I think Opportunity was taken to drive us apart.
Speaker 16: Shaven is in the courtroom, but America's on trial.
Speaker 1: Alright. Isn't it?
Speaker 7: Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice.
Speaker 17: But even doctor King's assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd's
Speaker 29: death
Speaker 1: Take him out and just For what? Am I Stop resisting, man. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 0: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Tonight, barricades around the Minneapolis court house where jury selection is set to begin Monday for the murder trial of Derek Chauvin.
Speaker 30: The courtroom in a tower in downtown Minneapolis was ringed Monday Concrete barriers, barbed wire, and soldiers from the state's national guard. Nearby businesses were closed and windows boarded up due to fears of arson and other damage that occurred after Floyd's death.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you there's a new day in America and a new day in Minneapolis. And that day belongs to all of us when we do name for justice. Don't say his name. George Floyd. Say his name.
George Floyd. Say his name. George Floyd. George Floyd.
Speaker 8: So tell us about that. So at some point, when you're there at the scene still, did a fire truck come?
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 8: And they're coming to respond to the
Speaker 1: call. Correct?
Speaker 31: They're coming to respond to the call. And they went into Cup Foods to actually They look for a victim, which is unique, for that, There to be that much miscommunication.
Speaker 32: Mister Nelson?
Speaker 29: You testified that You've been a firefighter now for 2 years approximately?
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 29: And, I see you're wearing your uniform today. Correct. And that's would be, like, your dress uniform or your class A uniform? Correct. And that's common to wear when you testify in court?
Correct. Fair to say that you were not wearing your class a or any uniform on May 25, 2020? Correct.
Speaker 4: I was
Speaker 1: off duty.
Speaker 29: Right. Okay.
Speaker 1: No. Are you really a firefighter? Yes.
Speaker 11: I have from Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: Okay, bro. You get on the sidewalk.
Speaker 11: Take your right foot. Check your paws.
Speaker 1: Get back in the sidewalk. The man in the moon said, bro. Where where? Be a freak. Is it
Speaker 29: reasonable to assume that if a patient is having a medical emergency and the police are present, that they have called for EMS?
Speaker 31: Your your question is unclear because you don't know my job. So, can answer.
Speaker 29: Sure. So let's let's take this scene. Right? May 25, 2020. You walk Upon the scene, you see someone having a medical emergency.
Right? You did not call 911 to get the medics there. Right?
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 29: Would it have been reasonable to assume that medics had already been called based on what you saw when you first arrived?
Speaker 11: Yes.
Speaker 14: And in fact,
Speaker 29: Paramedics did respond. Right? You saw the ambulance come up.
Speaker 31: Yes. That's not their normal response then.
Speaker 29: Okay. And so you noticed there was some abnormal response time for medics?
Speaker 31: Right. And I also noticed that That is precisely the kind of call that fire would respond to and station 17 is just A couple blocks away.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 29: So do officers on scene decide? Do we call for medic or fire?
Speaker 31: I don't I believe so. I believe that's dispatch. I they they call for medical.
Speaker 29: So if if police call dispatch, And they say, EMS, we need EMS code 3. It's dispatch who decides, do we send medics or fire?
Speaker 31: Well, it would be medic. It would be fire with medics, not just fire ever. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 29: Fair enough.
Speaker 26: There were a few mistakes that turned out to be big mistakes in the way EMS was dispatched to the scene. So the fire department ended up at Cup Foods walking around looking for a patient when the paramedic had already updated the location. They had moved to 36th in the park, and so the fire department didn't know that. That's disturbing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Alright. Ready? Yeah. We're good.
I don't know if my phone's all the baker.
Speaker 0: You just see if you
Speaker 1: are are in your
Speaker 2: And then We figured out where it was.
Speaker 13: And then what your officer's like, hey.
Speaker 1: Anything dogs?
Speaker 29: You would agree, chief, that From the perspective of miss Frazier's camera, it appears that officer Chauvin's knee Is on the neck of Mr. Floyd?
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 29: Would you agree that from the perspective of officer King's body camera, it appears that officer Chauvin's knee was more on mister Floyd's Shoulder bike.
Speaker 9: Yes. I have no further questions.
Speaker 0: Like to
Speaker 8: show you what's been received as exhibit 17. Is this a trained technique that's, by the Minneapolis Police Department when you were overseeing the training unit?
Speaker 24: It is not.
Speaker 8: And how does this differ?
Speaker 24: I don't know what kind of improvised position that is.
Speaker 7: So this is not what we train.
Speaker 9: Alright. Yeah.
Speaker 8: As you reflect on exhibit 17, I must ask you, is this a Trained Minneapolis Police Department defensive tactics technique.
Speaker 33: It is not.
Speaker 7: When I heard that part of the testimony, I really wanted to get up off my chair and yell Bullshit.
Speaker 13: Several of those witnesses testified that MRT or the maximal restraint technique was not a part of Minneapolis police policy.
Speaker 7: Oh, the, it wasn't part of the training. The pages that were didn't wanna be presented in court because they weren't in the manual. I've seen the manual. I've read through the manuals. I've seen I've seen them.
They're not in the manuals? Well, they sure as hell are in Derek's training manuals. So how can they say that they don't exist?
Speaker 13: That's Derek's manual.
Speaker 7: These are Derek's training manuals.
Speaker 13: And MRT is It's in there?
Speaker 7: Yes. It's in there. So how can you say that's not part of the training? So the chief of police at that time told a freaking lie. This call is from a federal prison.
Speaker 13: During the trial, several witnesses, including chief Arredondo and inspector Blackwell, testified that they didn't recognize the technique You and the other officers were using as if it was not a part of Minneapolis police training, but was MRT, The maximal restraint technique part of training and policy.
Speaker 0: Absolutely. In fact, I'm looking at it right now. 5 dash 316. Excellent restraint technique. Write in the written policy manual.
The EMS and Annapolis fire response was not normal. Normally, both those resources are sent. They arrive in short time, especially in on a code three situation. This case, Minneapolis fire took 20 minutes cluster arrived. And they're stations 8 blocks away.
At the end of the day, the whole trial including saying it was a sham.
Speaker 8: So from that point, you know, we saw you standing there on the sidewalk, Just sort of standing still.
Speaker 11: Mhmm. Hello? Hi. How's your name, babe?
Speaker 8: From there, did you stay in the area for a little while?
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 8: And at some point, you made a 911 call? Yes. Why at that point did you call 911?
Speaker 31: I think it all settled in. I wish I would have done that immediately because It made it was ridiculous that 17 station fire station 17 was as close as it was. And that they hadn't been there. I should have called 911 immediately, but I didn't. And when things calm down, I realized that I I wanted them to know what was going on.
Speaker 13: Your attorney wanted to show a photo of MRT to the jury, but Judge Cahill denied it. Was this a Key piece of evidence?
Speaker 0: I think it certainly is important. Just the fact that it's a PowerPoint training presentation that the city in Elmas Elmas based department delivered, using that photograph, that at least illustrates Some of the training techniques that are performed.
Speaker 11: Were you trained in MRT, the maximal restraint technique?
Speaker 32: Yes.
Speaker 24: Yes.
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 14: Yes. I was. Yes. We all were.
Speaker 6: Yes. All the police officers were trained in the MRT.
Speaker 13: Your police chief said on the stand that he didn't recognize that technique.
Speaker 1: Mhmm.
Speaker 11: I I heard him say that. It's tough to hear people lie, just straight lie. And again, goes right back For me, the good and the bad, like, the right and the wrong, and for you to be under oath and just straight lie. The amount of training that we go through, I mean, it's it's consistent every single year. It's written down.
It's on body cam. I mean, Was that unfortunate? Absolutely. I know Derek Chauvin. It's it's absolutely horrific what happened, the whole scenario.
But did he do anything intentionally to make that happen? No. It was it was all what we were trained on.
Speaker 13: You helped to train officer Alex King. What did you think of him?
Speaker 23: I probably trained a few 1,000 people. He was probably one of the top 2 Top 2 or 3 recruits have prepared.
Speaker 33: From what I've seen of the videotape, it was done at the scene with George Floyd and the photograph and the police training manual, they look pretty identical.
Speaker 34: So question 7 proposed by the defense was after conducting your business in Cup Foods, did you return to the vehicle with mister Floyd. Mister Hall cannot answer that question. Mister Hall cannot put himself in that car with mister Floyd. Again, this was a car that was searched twice and drugs were recovered twice. If mister Hall puts himself in that car, he exposes himself to constructive possession charges of the drugs that were found in that car.
Speaker 32: Knowing all that, do you you've had a chance to look at the questions that were proposed by both sides?
Speaker 35: I have.
Speaker 32: Would you be willing to answer those if I were to put you on the stand and swear you in as a witness?
Speaker 35: No. I am not.
Speaker 32: Okay. And why would you not answer those?
Speaker 35: I'm fearful of criminal charges going forward. I have open charges that's not settled yet.
Speaker 18: You testified that you were the officer who approached the passenger side of the vehicle. You approached George Floyd on May 6, 2019. Is that right?
Speaker 14: That's correct. Yes.
Speaker 18: And mister Floyd didn't drop dead while you were interacting with him. Correct?
Speaker 25: No. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Anything further?
Speaker 8: No, you're not.
Speaker 32: Thank you. You may step down.
Speaker 28: Thank you,
Speaker 18: The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay George Floyd's family $27,000,000 to settle a civil lawsuit with his family as the jury selection continues for the trial of the officer charged with his murder.
Speaker 6: You know, I like you mentioned, there is no amount of money that can, replace a brother, A son, a nephew, a father, a loved one. But What we can do is continue to work towards justice and equity and equality in the city of Minneapolis.
Speaker 5: The city of Minneapolis would pay them the largest civil settlement of its kind, $27,000,000.
Speaker 1: We're looking for a guilty verdict. Verdict. We are looking for a guilty verdict.
Speaker 27: What should protesters do?
Speaker 1: Well, we we gotta stay on the street, and we've got To get more active, you've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they they know that we need business.
Speaker 32: I'm aware of the media reports. I'm aware that Congressman Waters was talking specifically about this trial and about the unacceptability of, Anything less than a murder conviction and talk about being confrontational, but you can submit the press articles about that. A congresswoman's opinion really doesn't matter a whole lot.
Speaker 29: This jury has has, Despite all best efforts, has been bombarded with information relevant to this case. It is impossible to stay away from it Unless you literally shut off your phone or you shut off your TV, you shut off your computer. And no such instructions have been given during the course of this trial.
Speaker 32: Well, to be fair, the last Few times I've advised them, I told them don't watch the news. Pure and simple.
Speaker 33: Derek was tried in the courthouse that was surrounded by barbed wire, concrete block, 2 armored personnel carriers, and a squad of National Guard troops, All of which are whom were there for one purpose in the event the jury acquitted him. Every person in this country is entitled to be to a fair trial, in a fair venue under the constitution.
Speaker 13: What kind of message do you think that sent to the jury Seeing those scenes outside the the courthouse every day.
Speaker 33: I don't have to speculate on the message, the jurors had in their minds. Every juror had a stake in the outcome of that case. Because every juror knew that if there was a not guilty finding, there was a less than trivial and and actually substantial risk that there would be riots in their community again.
Speaker 13: What do you think your son's case says about the justice system in America?
Speaker 7: Is there justice system in America? Not according to what they did to Derek and the other 3 officers. There isn't any. I don't believe in the justice system anymore.
Speaker 32: A sentence for account 1, the court commits you to the custody of the commissioner of corrections for a period of 270 months. That's 270. That is a 10 year addition to the presumptive sentence of A 150 months. This is based on your, abuse of a position of trust and authority And also the particular cruelty shown to George Floyd.
Speaker 7: This call is from a federal prison.
Speaker 13: Do you blame Chauvin for any of this?
Speaker 0: I don't. The way I see it is that he made The decisions he thought was right as he did before. He's always been one that was by the book and legally abiding. I think he did exactly what he was trained to do. Unfortunate that the publicity got as riled up as it did by all the officials and politicians that were involved with the case, And it took away any chance he had to even say his piece.
Speaker 13: What does this case say about the justice system in America?
Speaker 0: I think, unfortunately, we've come to the point now where the justice system has been controlled by mob mentality. Social media, news outlets, peer pressure now control the outcomes of trials, investigations. The justice system no longer is really something you can trust because if you're in any way on the negative side of the media, you You know, you're pretty much just gonna have a trial by street, and no one ever wins in street trials with publicity that is already against you. There's There's just no real way to have a fair trial. We have a whole constitutional amendment about that that's null and void.
Speaker 21: Why then did you wanna speak out?
Speaker 11: The whole city is different. The police force lost so many people because of it. Just the amount of crisis that people went through. The media did a really good, strange job of reporting the way they wanted the narrative to go.
Speaker 19: After what the world witnessed in the murder of George Floyd.
Speaker 11: These 4 police officers are committing a series of actions to violate policies.
Speaker 9: This news is disgusting sting, and they're immoral at the stuff they reported, the lies they reported.
Speaker 11: I saw the video. There was a lot of other angles that were excluded. A lot of training that was excluded.
Speaker 13: What was it like going to 911 calls After the riots.
Speaker 14: I was the 1st officer at multiple shootings. I was involved with gun calls Then I'm just like, one of these situations is not gonna turn out good. I mean, no matter what I do, it's I'm gonna be either the next or I'm gonna be shot or killed and I go, I've already been injured Twice in this job. You know? Bad.
And now, you know, now at the end of my career, I'm gonna get hurt again or or end up in prison.
Speaker 13: When did you decide to leave the Minneapolis Police Department?
Speaker 23: I've been in several riots in this city or protest or whatever you wanna call them. And of all the different riots I've been in, that's probably the first time I've ever felt list. I found myself, for the first time ever. I kinda had a panic attack. It was a sense of helplessness, and that that's a shitty feeling.
I had woke my wife up at, like, 3 in the morning, and I just told her, I think I can be done.
Speaker 11: Going to work though was was physically making me ill. It wasn't the flu. It wasn't a cold. It wasn't anything that I could put my finger on. It wasn't something that went away.
It was the drive into the city, the knot in my stomach, That I'm gonna vomit. I'm gonna be sick. I knew something was was wrong.
Speaker 22: I've left the job about a month after the protest. I just couldn't do it anymore. We were, one of the highest trained departments in the country. These were some of the you would ever see in your lives and a lot of those people are gone.
Speaker 9: The last call I was ever on was should have been a routine call. It was a simple hit and run. An officer is dispatched to a hit and run call. The victim has pictures of the car that took off, a description of the guy, and the guy drives by again. So the officer follows him, stops him.
I think, we had 4 officers there because people started yelling. I mean, this was just after the riots. Anytime we're out dealing with anybody, Especially if a person of color, we were getting the all kinds of screaming and yelling and everything else. It didn't take too long before we realized this guy was completely high on drugs. He was huge too.
He was probably 65. I mean, he was tall, way bigger than me, probably twice my size. And he's, like, I'm not going to jail. And I'm, like, okay. Well, we got our body cameras on.
We got 4 guys. And I'm thinking, well, this guy's drugged out. And he's like, well, I'm not going to jail, I'm going home. Pretty soon the fight's on. And we're fighting with this guy trying to get him cuffed.
We're not hitting him. We're not striking him or anything, but we're gonna go to the ground sooner or later because he's a big dude, and we can't we're gonna go to the ground. And I'm thinking to myself, dude, If this guy ODs, if this guy dies in our custody, 4 white cops, that's 17th in Chicago, 20 blocks from George Floyd, we're going to prison. And I'm looking at these guys and I go, we're going to fucking prison. And I was like, I don't know if I can do this anymore.
It's a horrible day.
Speaker 14: My father was a police officer that grew up in Minneapolis. My family was here, and I didn't wanna leave. It was the hardest thing I ever did in my life. I still have difficulties with it. You know, I didn't wanna go.
I I love being a police officer. You know?
Speaker 29: But,
Speaker 24: one day at sitting there having lunch, it was probably a group of 20 of us And somebody had said, hey, LTA. I heard I heard you're leaving. What's your last day? And I said, well, today in about 10 minutes. So in fact, could one of you guys give me a ride home because I had to leave my squad here?
And, the 1 guy That gave me a ride home and he's like, okay let's, you know, I got my squad right here so we're in a marked squad I still had a uniform on and I see a guy walking And I see as he's going to raise his hand. And I was I was like, oh, hey. Somebody wants to weigh about us. And then he flipped us off. And I went, Holy crap this was the this was the right decision.
Yeah everything changed And it didn't have to had we had strong leadership right from from The very top. The governor, the mayor, our chief of police, city council of Minneapolis, the assistant chief, and the deputy chiefs. This is how you treat your people. You just turn your back on us.
Speaker 1: Do you
Speaker 11: go into Minneapolis anymore? I have not been anywhere near the precinct? I can't bring myself to go to the precinct?
Speaker 23: I mean, unless I absolutely have to. No. I've even missed a few funerals.
Speaker 13: Why did you decide to stay on?
Speaker 6: Well, I think for myself mainly for for pride. It I worked really hard to get here, really hard. And I made a lot of sacrifices in my personal life to to be able to don a uniform and stand for something, and I could not let evil win. They failed When they gave up that precinct, our department still hasn't recovered from that, and it's 3 years later.
Speaker 20: Morale is something that, can ebb and flow, and it is something that I have to continue to monitor.
Speaker 32: I do hear
Speaker 6: that the mayor talks that crime is down.
Speaker 15: Crime is down. Crime is down. Say it with me. Crime is down.
Speaker 6: I often wonder if we're looking at the same city. Overall, crime is way up. How they ignore that or don't pay attention to that is beyond me. It's just another example of why we're in this situation we're in now.
Speaker 11: Can you even keep up?
Speaker 6: No. When I came on, we used to have a a roll call of about 20 to 25 cops. I've had roll calls with 2 cops in them, so it's just not enough.
Speaker 1: This council is gonna dismantle this police department.
Speaker 6: Alright. There. Tell me to say
Speaker 1: it again. This council is gonna dismantle this police department.
Speaker 6: This government, not just in Minneapolis, but in in the nation in general, has done a very good job all the way to the White House of demonizing law enforcement.
Speaker 18: Do you believe there is systemic racism in law enforcement? Absolutely.
Speaker 6: Now with the element of, it seems happy prosecutors to prosecute officers for mistakes made, makes it almost unbearable to do the job. And the policies passed makes it impossible to do the job that needs to be done.
Speaker 36: Our commitment is to end our city's toxic relationship with the Minneapolis police department to end policing as we know it.
Speaker 20: This is the department that I believe will, be on the right side of history. They are going to be on the right side of history, or they're gonna be on the wrong side of history. But or they will be left behind. But I'm determined that we are gonna be on the right side of history. Race is inextricably a part of the American policing system.
Speaker 1: Don't run now. Don't run now, racist white people. I'm here. Oh, yeah. We pull up.
We pull the fuck up, and we're here. Come on over here to your blue lives matter, sir. Blue lives ain't shit. I did. I won the primary election, and y'all can poke me on this.
I am Going to the state capital with the same fucking message. Do you
Speaker 13: think police and city leaders and the media were hiding the fact That your son is in fact a black officer.
Speaker 25: I think they had Such a hard time walking back a story that they had told, that they would have done anything to maintain that Story. You know they have a story. Our family has a story. I have a story in my mind about what really went on as well. When I think about the conversation they must have had once the facts came out about the race of the officers, about the toxicology report, about the medical examiner's report, about the body cameras.
Speaker 1: I can't joke. I can't breathe. Love it.
Speaker 25: And, you know, my story goes as they're sitting around looking at each other in a room going, Okay. Now what do we do? The truth and the facts don't match the story we've been telling Everybody in the media has been telling what are we gonna do now. And they look around in the room and Ask each other, you know, who has the cojones to tell the truth? Is it gonna be you, Arredondo, is it gonna be you, Benjamin Crump?
Is it gonna be you, Mayor Frey? Who's gonna be the one that's gonna say, oh, you know, oops. We thought it was this. We were wrong. The facts don't support it.
We're gonna have to do something that we're gonna have to say something. And they must have looked around the room and said, nope, not me. I don't have cojones. You have co nope. I don't have them either.
But they were able to loan a pair, I think, to mister chief Arredondo so so that he could don't worry. We'll give you we'll we'll borrow you a pair so you can have them to go on stand and lie about the training these police officers have had Since you don't have any to tell the truth. And that actually, you know, is the story that makes more sense with the facts than the one that they were telling.
Speaker 13: Alex, it seems practically everyone talks about how officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, was with George Floyd for 8 or 9 minutes. But there's you, A black police officer who is with George Floyd for much longer, practically 18 minutes from the moment he was handcuffed Until you close the ambulance door, why is this fact rarely ever mentioned?
Speaker 0: You know, that's a that's a good question despite like you said, the fact that I am black and that another colleague of mine, is Asian. So really half the attending officers were in the minority. I think that was something that they just didn't wanna admit, Specifically, my race because it again, it goes very counterintuitive to the way the narrative goes. They couldn't backpedal.
Speaker 11: This is where he grew up. Mhmm.
Speaker 25: Yep. Been here most of his life. It's our 1st house together. I've taught at Three different north side schools, so they all were students in the neighborhood, would live right around me. So, yeah, the king name around here had a meaning in In education and in the city, positive name.
And, that's no longer the case. That's hard to come to terms with.
Speaker 13: What's it like for you to think about him every day in in prison?
Speaker 25: My greatest fear is that it's gonna change who he is, and I just don't know who he's gonna be when he comes out. So it is hard to think of him there. Every day is excruciating. And we tell him, You know, we know who you are. We know what a lie this is.
And you don't have anything to apologize for?
Speaker 20: What I observed, was not training that I ever participated in, none that I observed, other officers, participating in.
Speaker 25: I can't understand How an untruth or a lie can be so accepted without question. This is what happened. This is how they reacted, did, and this is why they reacted, and this was part of their training.
Speaker 13: None of that was said?
Speaker 1: None of
Speaker 25: that was said. Knowing you're constantly reminded about the Worst day of your life and, tragedies that, gosh, are in the news every day. The ramifications of that day in terms of, how police are treated in the city and how many have quit, and It's gotten so bad. That trajectory, you know, of the fallout of what happened not just that day, but to the city afterwards that continues to happen and across the country. I just can't understand why they don't see that.
I mean, how can that not be seen? It's not the police that are the problem. Something else needs to change. How can that not be obvious when When things have gotten so bad. The city itself has lost its appeal.
A lot of Trauma. And, the plan is to find somewhere somewhere else where we can start fresh and not have all the bad memories.
Speaker 13: How do you get through every day in prison, Alex?
Speaker 0: Princeton is a very, very unique experience, I can say, one I never thought I'd see myself in. But It's very easy to get caught up in a lot of self wallowing and a lot of whatever thoughts you have in your own head. And the easiest way to do it is to take it day by day. Do little things here and there that you can keep doing to take time off your sentence, Keep pushing the days forward, and just keep your head up and know that, this ultimately, this isn't the end, and this won't define me.
Speaker 13: Alex, what do you want people to know about this case?
Speaker 0: What's been done is done, And I just hope that at the very least, people in the future keep an open mind and not let instances like this happen. Just use my case case and ex as an example is to not jump the gun, not knee jerk, not fall to this race bait, to the social media, to the media, and let them get away with what they do this momentous burden because if things like this keep happening, no one anywhere is gonna have any sense of justice left.