Summary
➡ This text seems to be a detailed account of a tense interaction between a man named George Floyd and some officers. Floyd is pulled over, questioned, and eventually arrested. He repeatedly pleads with the officers, expressing fear and stating that he can’t breathe. The text ends with an officer comparing this incident to a previous encounter with Floyd.
➡ A police officer recounts the chaotic events surrounding the protests and riots in Minneapolis following George Floyd’s death. The officer describes feeling unprepared and unsupported, with inadequate protective gear and unclear instructions from superiors. The situation escalated to the point where the police precinct was abandoned and looted. The officer believes the response was mishandled, leading to widespread destruction and injury.
➡ A chaotic situation led to the evacuation of a police precinct during a riot. Despite the fear and confusion, the officers had to leave quickly as the building was overrun and set on fire. The decision to abandon the precinct was controversial, with some seeing it as a lack of leadership. The aftermath of the event left many officers feeling guilty and upset, and the incident is still a topic of debate.
➡ The text discusses the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer involved in George Floyd’s death. It includes testimonies from various people, including firefighters and police officers, about the events of that day and the procedures followed. There’s debate about whether the restraint technique used was part of official police training. The text also mentions concerns about the emergency medical response time and potential miscommunication between emergency services.
➡ Minneapolis agreed to pay George Floyd’s family $27 million to settle a lawsuit. This happened while the trial of the officer charged with Floyd’s murder was ongoing. The trial was heavily influenced by public opinion and media coverage, leading some to question the fairness of the justice system. The case has had a significant impact on the Minneapolis police department, with many officers leaving due to the intense scrutiny and fear of similar incidents.
➡ The speaker, a police officer, feels abandoned by city leadership and believes crime is increasing despite official reports. He’s upset about the plan to dismantle the police department and feels law enforcement is being unfairly demonized. He acknowledges systemic racism in law enforcement but feels new policies make the job impossible. He also discusses a specific case where he believes the truth was manipulated to fit a narrative, causing harm to an officer’s reputation and the community’s trust in the police.
➡ The speaker discusses the importance of keeping an open mind and not jumping to conclusions based on preconceived notions. They emphasize that we often think we know the truth, but in reality, we don’t. They also share personal anecdotes and engage with comments from their audience, discussing various topics from politics to their pet cats. They end by encouraging their audience to enjoy their weekend and look forward to future discussions.
➡ The speaker is having a good time and introduces Winchester, who seems to be popular. Winchester growls a bit before the speaker decides to end the night. They plan to return either the next day or Sunday, or possibly both days, and are excited to see everyone again soon.
Transcript
So I hope you’ll forgive me for doing that. I was trying to do the best I could to do something, just kind of in the middle to get something. But the funny thing is that when I got done, literally, I went and I laid down and I think it took me all of about maybe three minutes to fall asleep. And the next thing I knew, and this was like, I guess it was probably I did about 45 minutes.
And when I woke up, I think I had slept for like almost 3 hours. Just like, just gone. I was out. I was pretty toast. So anyway. But I’m feeling much better today and it is time for the watch party. So let me make sure that everything is working hunky dory here. Yes, we’re good. So before I dive in to the show, I thought that I found this very interesting clip from John Stossel.
And it was really good. Yes, safira, I know. I need to sleep more. I need to get better. Sleep is what I really need to do. My sleeping patterns are just not very good right now. But anyway, I digress. I assure you it’s not for a lack of trying. It’s not for a lack of trying. But that said, we’re not here to talk about my sleeping patterns. So we are here to talk about the Friday night watch party, which is the fall of Minneapolis.
But I thought before I would jump into the documentary, I’m going to go ahead and play this clip from John Stossel, which I thought was really good. So let’s go ahead and let me put that on the screen. And here we go. Let me know if this comes through. You guys can hear it. Well, actually, hold on a second here. Let me do one thing. Yes, I knew it needed to make sure that I had the proper speakers chosen.
Okay, here we go. Can you guys hear it now? Can you hear me? Nowhere. It is going on here. And why is that not playing? Let me try something else. It let me know if this works. It is not, generally speaking, unruly. Watching media coverage of recent protests, I noticed something od. The protests were mostly peaceful. Reporters kept saying protests were mostly peaceful. Even with fires burning, CNN put peaceful on the screen.
We’ve seen billions and billions of dollars in damage to cities. Joe Kancha covers media for the hill. He says journalism is now opinion based. The pictures tell the story, yet you have news organizations saying, this isn’t that bad. Is he right? In this video, we look at five examples, starting with those mostly peaceful protests. CNN said, look, a new report says 93% were peaceful. A cartoonist mocked that with a mostly floating ship and a mostly flying plane.
On Twitter, someone named still, like beer wrote, 93% of beer is nonalcoholic. So I guess I’m okay to drive. But there were more than 10,000 demonstrations. And most were peaceful. Most were. But when people start dying and when people start losing their businesses, that’s your story. You’d think the CNN folks would be embarrassed just looking at the monitor. Multiple locations that have been burning. Ratings have never been better for CNN, but they are just chasing the numbers.
Most of the people who work there consider themselves journalists and try to get it right. I don’t know if I agree with that, John. I think that more and more journalists are playing to a crowd. They’re telling them what they want to hear. What they want to hear. Well, then CNN must believe its viewers want to hear more and more about how horrible President Trump is. Trump’s truly jaw dropping reaction to the rising U.
S. Coronavirus death bill. This is bias. Example two, twist statistics to make Trump look even worse. CNN pointed out that although Trump said the US did the most COVID tests per capita, South Korea and Italy tested many times more. CNN correctly adjusted for population, yet to make Trump look worse. The same day, CNN stopped adjusting for population to repeatedly say the US has the most confirmed coronavirus cases of any country in the world.
That’s on Trump. In truth, many countries had more per person. But CNN wanted to lecture the president, you serve us. We have the most cases in the world. Only if you suddenly drop the per capita. Per capita only applies when the argument is bad for Trump, it’s blatantly obvious. We asked CNN if they consider their coverage objective. They didn’t respond. Example three, fact check Republicans, mostly at the DNC.
They didn’t fact check Joe Biden in real time, but just in time for President Trump’s acceptance speech. A week later, they debuted a fact checking Chiron to run during Trump’s speech. But there’s a reason they don’t fact check Democrats, says Chris Cuomo. They are not lying the way Trump does. Children are torn from their families and thrown into cages. Actually, the AP and BBC found plenty that needed checking, like Michelle Obama not mentioning that those cages began under her husband’s administration.
Example four, overtly try to help Biden. CNN contributor Van Jones made it clear that it’s CNN. We were prepared for it to be a terrible speech as long as he didn’t embarrass himself. We were going to come out here and praise it. So that’s all you need to know. Maybe that’s more honest than what we used to have. When I was working at ABC, everybody pretended to be down the middle, but they were really mostly on the left.
At least now you know what you get. CNN’s primetime lineup. Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon, all have the title of anchor, not opinion maker. Fox News Media. Fox calls its primetime anchors opinion hosts. They are biased. Joe Biden even stated, the police, ready for this, have become the enemy. Actually, Biden just said this. Last thing you need is an up armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood. They become the enemy, the opinion people.
I give them almost a free ride because quite frankly, that’s what they’re paid to do. Example five, asking candidates very different questions. Biden gets softballs. He just got one that said this story in the Atlantic about Donald Trump calling fallen military members losers and suckers. What does it tell you about President Trump’s soul? That was an actual question during a press conference. It’s not even softball, John. It’s T ball.
Except when you put a beach ball on the tee. Meanwhile, Trump’s asked, after three and a half years, you regretted all the lying you’ve done to the american people. All the what? All the lying, all the dishonesty. It’s clear that many reporters don’t like Trump or even Republicans. Last election, 96% of journalists political donations went to Hillary. Why aren’t I 50 points ahead? You might ask, why do so many journalists favor Democrats, John? I think it’s because most of our national media are in two cities, New York and Washington.
When you’re surrounded by everybody else in a city and in a newsroom that goes the other way, it’s almost impossible not to start to conform and go in that direction. The hill where Concha works generally ranks in the middle when people do media bias comparisons. Still, I can imagine people watching this video saying, oh, Stossel, you’re just interviewing this right winger. He doesn’t criticize the right wing media.
And I try to be objective. I swear to you I do. I look at example after example and it seems to be only from the left, directed at the right in terms of media coverage. And it’s just so apparent. I hope you learned something from these videos. We work hard to give you a perspective you don’t get elsewhere. Please. Okay. So there was that. Now, I thought it was important to play that little STOssle clip because it will bear on the video that I’m about to show you.
Kind of grab your. Grab something to hold on to and bite down, because you’re going to be really angry when you watch this. I don’t know how else to say it. This is probably going to make you more angry than anything that you’ve seen in a long time. But I think it’s very necessary to see this, and it’s necessary to share this with everybody because it is so important to know.
Before I play this, I want to say, I asked a friend of mine a while back if it came out that they were telling a story and they were lying about the story with George Floyd. Would she want to know about it? And she’s black. And she said no. And I was. Hmm. Okay. I just thought that was very telling because sometimes people really care more about the narrative than they do the truth.
And I was really kind of flabbergasted when I heard that. I was floored. But anyway, keep that in mind, because, like I said, this might make you mad, but it’s important to see all of this. And I think it was done very well. And I’ve watched about 80% of this in and out, trying to get as much of it as I could under my belt before I played it tonight.
So, without further ado, here we go. It’s don’t. From the gentleman. Sorry. Driver. In there. Lupin, which one? Over there. Just head back in it. See your hands. Stay in the car. Let me see your other hand. I’m sorry. Let me see your other hand, please. Both hands. Put your fucking hands up right now. Let me see your other hand. Put your hand up there. Put your fucking hand up there.
Jesus Christ. Keep your fucking hands on the wheel. Keep your fucking hands on the wheel. Who else is in the car? Back. Hands on top of your head. Hands on top of your head. Give. Very nice. Step out of the vehicle and step away from me. All right? Step out and face away. Step out and face away. Please don’t shoot me. Please, man. I’m not going to shoot you.
Step out and face away. Please don’t shoot me, man. I just lost my mom, man. Step out and face away. Step out and face away. Please don’t shoot me. Please don’t shoot me, man. Step out and face away, man. I’m not shooting you. Step out and face away. Please, man. Please. I didn’t know, man. Get out of the car. I didn’t know. I didn’t know. Fucking stop moving.
Put your hand behind your back, then. I’m not gonna do nothing. Face in the door. Hey, you, come back. Stay in the car. Stop resisting, man. Yes, you are. Please, stand up. Please, man. Stand up for me. Stand up. Come on, walk with me. Walk with me. Walk with me. Stand up. Why do you do me like that? 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. Sit down for me. Thank you, man. Thank you. Sit down. Thank you, man. Sit all the way down. I will have an ID on you. I got one. All right. What’s your name? George. George? George Perry. Floyd. What’s going, man? That’s it. Spell it for me. G e o r t e. Last name, Floyd. Flight of birth? October 14. October 14. Do you mind? Do me a favor, just run.
Never, man. George Floyd. Thank you. I don’t want no problem. I ain’t going to 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. You understand that? Yes. And do you 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 listened to us, and we will tell you what’s going on. All right. When you’re moving around like that, that makes us think way more is going on than we need to know. Right? We’re going to sort all this out. All right? That’s your car key fob right there? Yes, sir. I got one problem. Yeah, I’m hold on to that for you. All right, stand up right now.
I’m like, yeah, and look at you, still able to reach your side. You’re making me nervous. Yeah, I got you. Are you on something right now? No, nothing. You act. Let’s go. You got foam around your mouth, too. Yes. I was just hoping earlier. Okay, all right. Let me calm down now. Okay. And we don’t talk about that once we get to the car. Stop moving around. God, don’t leave me, man.
Please, man. Leave me, man. Just unlock the door for me. Stand up, stay on your feet and face the car door. No, man, you ain’t listening to nothing. We’re saying. So we’re not going to listen to nothing you’re saying. I hear you. But you are going to face this door right now. I’ll do anything. I’m leaving out everything, man. I’m not. I’m not that side. God, man, look at my business.
I’m not the kind of guy. Sit still. I’m not the kind of guy. I’m not the kind of guy. Mr. Alison. Please, God, don’t leave me by myself, man. Please. That’s it. Anything tarp on you? I won’t do the nerd job. Do you have anything sharp on you? Not even, like, a comb or nothing. Stand up straight. And I understand that people do stuff. You all don’t know me.
Guys, you need to take a seat right now. And I just had COVID, man. I want to go back to that. Take a seat. Hey, listen, I’m not that kind of guy. I’ll roll the windows down, all right? Look at that. Look at it. We can fix it, but not while you’re standing out here. I don’t want you to win. I don’t want to win. I got anxiety.
I don’t want to do nothing. There’s a breathing. When I start breathing, it’s gonna go off on me, man. You can win, bro. You’re not going. You can’t win. Don’t get in the car. He know it. Don’t do me like that, man. Okay? Can I talk to you, please? I am a duck. I’m claustrophobic. God. I’m claustrophobic. No, you’re not getting in the phobic. Okay, man. Okay. I’m not a bad guy, man.
In the car. I’m not a bad guy. Please take a seat. Please. No. Take a seat. I can’t joke. I can’t breathe. Please, my wrist. My wrist, man. Please. In the squad, only. On the ground. I’m only on the ground. Get in the squad. Going down. I’m going down. I’m not gonna breathe. Get in the car. I can’t breathe. Take a seat. Please, man. Is he going to deal with me under arrest right now for forgery? I tell you what’s going on.
Take him out. Please, man. I can’t fucking breathe. Come on out. Thank you. On the ground. You got you. Rob restraint cobble. I want to say something kind of what’s going on in the chat. I know there’s a lot of people who think that this whole thing is staged and that very well may be true. I don’t know. Are there people out there who do know if it was staged or not? Yes, but at the very minimum, I think it would be prudent to not look at this as a staged event, but look at it on its face with the facts as if the facts were real.
I’m going to ask everybody who is watching to set aside your belief system of whether you think this is fake or real and look at this and analyze this with the people who are analyzing it after the fact as though it were a real event. Whether it was or not, I don’t know. Again, I know that there are a lot of coincidences and a lot of things that don’t add up.
So I get that. And I don’t question that. Or. I mean, I’m not. I don’t. I don’t. I’m not doubting that there are things that are really kind of highly suspect and coincidences and whatnot. I get all that. But I want you guys to analyze this through the lenses as though this were a real event. Because even that, even if it were a real event, there’s still a whole lot here.
And the reason I ask you that is because there’s a whole lot of people out there who still look at this, and they don’t look at it through our lenses of it being a staged event. They look at it as it was a real event. The point that I’m trying to make is if we approach the people who think it was a real event with this information, there are so many holes that can be punched into or punched through as if it were a real event.
So that’s the point that I’m trying to make. Despite what you may think, if it was real or staged, I’m asking you to set aside the preconceived notions of it being staged and analyze this as though it were a real event. So that’s the last time I’ll say that, and we’ll get back to the show. Definitely. You’re the rough guy. All right. Oh, my God. I can’t believe you.
I can’t believe you. I can’t believe you. I can’t believe you, man. Mama, I love you. I love you. You got hobble in 2020, George Floyd says, I got shot last time, man. I got shot last time. You would have been the last officer to arrest George Floyd. Did you shoot him? No, I didn’t shoot him. No. The body camera is out there. Shows exactly what I did, exactly what the other officers did.
No, we didn’t shoot them. How was George Floyd acting during that arrest in 2019, everything was almost identical. I mean, the initial stop. When I first started to approach him, he was uncooperative. He wasn’t listening to my commands. He was very agitated. Just keep your hands up where I can see him. Hey, let me. Keep your hands where I could see him. Let me see your hands. Let me see your other hand.
I’m sorry. Let me see your other hand. Both hands. Put your fucking hands up right now. During the time I couldn’t see his hands. He’s moving them out. We found out later he’s probably eating dope. Open your mouth. Got what you got? Come. Go ahead and undo your seatbelt, please. I don’t want to get shot. I don’t plan on shooting you. I’m just saying, just take your time.
Step out and face away. Please don’t shoot me. Please, man. I’m not going to shoot you. Step out and face away. Please don’t shoot me, man. You for five whole excruciating minutes. For eight minutes and 46 seconds. 846-8468 minutes and 46 seconds. Nine minutes and 29 seconds. Nine minutes and 29 seconds, right. Actually eight minutes and 46 seconds. Our heart and our solidarity are with folks who understand what happened Monday night to George Floyd.
The vast majority of people that have come together have been doing so peacefully. Peaceful protest overnight in the Twin Cities. Several dozen arrests at the state capitol. But that entire time they’ve been very peaceful. The crowd continues to be peaceful. It started out as a lot of people gathering, which is your first amendment right, but it quickly changed. 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 going to have a bad day. And he was correct. The crowds got larger and larger and larger. So we knew that we were going to have our hands full each day. It just compounded. By the end of the day, it was probably 1000 people, and then the next day it was 4000 people, and then the day after that it was like 8000 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. This is like a modern day war zone. I mean, this is unbelievable what is happening on the streets of Minneapolis. So we are seeing someone being wheeled away, someone who looks pretty badly injured. They threw a whole bunch of bottles and rocks and I got hit in my mouth.
I end up breaking three more teeth. Break that. You were dodging water bottles, bricks, roman candles, anything they can get their hands on. It was crazy. It was like I was living in a third world country. I’m like, what is going on? Where do I live right now? And this is the thing that bothered me about government officials, is 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. We are still taking rocks, frozen water bottles. They’re shooting mortars at us. Can we escalate our use of force to deploy scat rounds? Twelve four, negative on the scat ground. Twelve four. I say again, negative on the scat round. There’s another plan in place. Standby. When did you realize this wasn’t a typical riot response? Pretty early on.
There was no response at all. They didn’t say why, but I assumed they didn’t want to make us look militant with the rioters. I actually had gear, but they were just saying, just wear your helmets and stand there, basically. Obviously, they didn’t take my request for more resources seriously. So we were just watching it unfold without less than lethal, without SWAT teams, without riot gear. Nobody had protective gear on.
We were just in our uniforms. At this point, they’re not giving you permission to wear your riot gear? No, 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, sent him home injured. I mean, it was 30 officers that evening probably that got injured while they were out there trying to deal with the riots in the squad car.
Me and my partner and we were at Chicago and Lake, and we had an observe and report post, basically. So we watched them with our own two eyes break into the T mobile store foot locker. Chicago Lake liquors. We were given a play by play over the radio, and the only sponsor we would get back is this copy, observe and report. We watched them loot. We watched them light the Molotov cocktail, and we watched them throw it into the building.
They’re starting to throw Molotov cocktails. We were ordered not to do anything. Fire department wasn’t responding, and 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 happening 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, shots fired, it was completely utter chaos.
Was just kind of wandering around aimlessly, waiting to be told what not to do next. Did you ever feel like there was a plan? 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. They’re not saying anything at all. No, nothing. Command, can you advise? The elections were coming up. Everything’s politically driven. They were going to use this incident for a political narrative, and they did.
It started with 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. If you’re feeling that sadness and that anger, it’s not only understandable, it’s right. One might stay in it. You know, fuck. I end up on the phone with the assistant chief. He’s like, so our plan is we’re going to take all the squad 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, how is this the plan? 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. 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.
People were showing up at the precinct gathering their things. So they’d come through the fence, get let in, go to the locker, grab their stuff and walk out. 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, two vans showed up and cleaned out all the museum items. You’re talking 2030 years of pictures, artifacts that are on the wall for supposed to be for eternity.
So you’re a lieutenant in this building and you don’t even know that the plan is to surrender it later in the evening. No, 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. I couldn’t see it, but you could hear it.
You could tell. 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 one and night two. Looks like the US bank building at 20 eigth and lake is on fire lanes above the buildings in front of you. Large fire east of the third precinct, 20 118. I was shocked. No way. No fucking way.
Then the city is not that stupid. They’re not going to 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. I made the decision to evacuate the third precinct. When do you get word that it’s finally time to leave the building? So I get a command over the radio that we need to evacuate the third precinct.
Evacuate now. Evacuate now. I said, like right now. Do we have to evacuate right now? And they said, yes, immediately. You need to evacuate now. Evacuate, evacuate, evacuate. 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. And I’m like, okay, so either we’re in so much danger that we’re trying to evacuate right this second 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 one of the SWAT team leaders looks at me and he says, why are we evacuating? And he’s coming from the outside in and I can’t see on the outside of the building.
So I’m like, why? And I don’t know. He doesn’t know. I don’t know. We just have to evacuate. Evacuate now. Evacuate now. They’re about to preach the back gate. Everything was happening so fast and there was such chaos. The heart’s racing right now, talking about this. And we run. We run with our belts on and 50 some people and three SWAT teams. And we get to the fence.
We can’t get out. We got it going where you’re sitting. Dust here. There was only one way in and one way out. And the way out was locked. 1283, they’ve reached the northwest corner of the front. Northwest corner of the front has been reached. They’re coming in. They’re coming in the back. We need to move. We need to move. Need to move now. One of the squads rams through the fence to get it open.
I remember looking through the rear view 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. Snowball. Can you even believe this is happening in that moment? 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 maybe a quarter block 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. I could see it. I knew them. I can’t even tell you how it felt in the pit of my stomach, watching my friends run for their lives. It was something I hope to never experience again. We ran probably four or five blocks, and eventually two buses show up. We get on, and it was just pure silence. I’ve never cried at work. And 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 let them all down. I let all them down. And I just looked out the window and the whole city was on fire. Our precinct was on fire. And it was just like, I’m watching a bad dream. Cabby, the precinct is on fire.
Get a citywide tone right now. In our loss of the third precinct, airing information citywide. The third precinct has been compromised. Cops do not run away. You run. Two. 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. Mayor Fry decided that it was just a building. And I know there’s probably several hundred cops and maybe some citizens that would disagree with that.
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. You can’t call it leadership. Lack of leadership. You’re not going to gain any confidence from anyone in the city by giving up your own property. It sent that message, in your opinion? Absolutely.
That’s some police officers home and had been their home their entire career. But to him, it’s just a building. 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. They weren’t doing anything to control the riot. They didn’t let us do our jobs. We will continue to patrol the third precinct entirely.
We will continue to do our jobs in that area. If George Floyd would have told the truth about fentanyl and methamphetamine, could that have helped to save his? 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. Open your mouth. Spit out what you got. Spit out what you got. 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 160. And so he ended up going to the hospital. Put your hands up right now. If 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. So we 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, what was going through your mind? I wish that those videos had been out sooner, that they hadn’t been withheld for two and a half months, because the videos portrayed quite a different story from what we had originally heard. I can’t joke. I can’t breathe. You mentioned you went through these police body camera videos minute by minute, right. What troubled you most? At the very end of Thomas Lane’s body cam video, one of us ride with 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. George Floyd was a healthy young man. The autopsy shows that Mr. Floyd had no underlying medical problem that caused or contributed to his death. Today, I filed an amended complaint that charges former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin with murder in the second 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 NFP County Attorney Michael Freeman and I filed a complaint that charges police officer King Lane and Tau with aiding and abetting murder in the second degree, a felony offense. I strongly believe that these developments are in the interests of justice for Mr.
Floyd, his family, our community, and our state. On behalf of the pastors and preachers from Minneapolis and St. Paul, the bloods on the south side, gangster disciples and vice lords on the south. On the north side, Psalm 27. When and how did you become concerned about the autopsy of George Floyd? 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 right now.
And I just had COVID, man, I won’t go back to that. I started realizing that, hey, something was wrong with this. A few days later, I found out that the autopsy report was available online, and so I downloaded the autopsy report and read through it. When I did that, my jaw hit the floor. No underlying medical problems. George Floyd was a healthy young man. An article published in a peer reviewed journal identified 17 errors in George Floyd’s autopsy.
Do these errors raise questions about how George Floyd died? Yes. In patients that have acromegaly, they tend to die from cardiovascular complications, such as heart attack or arrhythmias. Do you feel, in a way, they were trying to hide this information? I 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. What do you think about that? 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 two other forensic examiners. Those two 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. We acknowledge that additional medical information, including toxicology and further investigation, are necessary for a final report. What do you think of the federal government’s involvement in this case? One of the first questions I asked was, was the FBI involved? And when I found out the FBI involvement was within twelve to 24 hours, that really raised a red flag for me.
The FBI conducted a meeting with Dr. 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’ve had the opportunity to do that. But I think opportunity was taken to drive us apart.
Shaving is in the courtroom. But America is on trial. Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice. But even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact that George Floyd’s death did it. Take them out and just it. Stop resisting, man. Jesus. Thank you. Tonight, barricades surround the Minneapolis courthouse where jury selection is set to begin Monday for the murder trial of Derek Chauvin. The courtroom in a tower in downtown Minneapolis was ringed Monday with 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 property damage that occurred after Floyd’s death. But I’m going to 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 demand for justice, life. So tell us about that. So at some point, when you’re there at the scene still, did a fire truck come? Yes.
And they’re coming to respond to the call. They’re coming to respond to the call. And they went into cub foods to actually look for a victim, which is unique for that there to be that much miscommunication. Mr. Hills, you testified that you’ve been a firefighter now for two years, approximately. Correct. And I see you’re wearing your uniform today. Correct. And that would be like your dress uniform or your class a uniform, correct.
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? Okay. Are you really a firefighter? Yes, I am from Minneapolis. The man ain’t moved yet. Is it reasonable to assume that if a patient is having a medical emergency and the police are present, that they have called for EMs? Your question is unclear because you don’t know my job.
Can’t answer. Sure. So let’s take this scene, right. May 25, 2020, you walk upon a scene, you see someone having a medical emergency. Right. You did not call 911 to get the medics there. Right? Right. Would it have been reasonable to assume that medics had already been called based on what you saw when you first arrived? Yes. I can’t do nothing. And, in fact, paramedics did respond. Right.
You saw the ambulance come up. Yes. That’s not their normal response time. Okay. And so you noticed there was some abnormal response time for medics. 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 of blocks away. Okay. So do officers on scene decide? Do we call for medic or fire? I don’t believe so.
I believe that’s dispatch. They call for medical. So if police call dispatch and they say Ems, we need Ems. Code three. It’s dispatch. Who decides? Do we send medics or fire? Well, it would be fire with medics, not just fire. Ever. I don’t know the answer to that. Fair enough. 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 and park. And so the fire department didn’t know that. That’s disturbing. Right away. Yeah, I don’t have my phone, so I’ll be baker. I’m like, I just don’t understand. And then we figured out where it was, and then one of your officers is like, hey, ding dong, the wrong spot.
You would agree, chief, that from the perspective of Ms. Frazier’s camera, it appears that Officer Chauvin’s knee is on the neck of Mr. Floyd? Yes. Would you agree that from the perspective of Officer King’s body camera, it appears that Officer Chauvin’s knee was more on Mr. Floyd’s shoulder blade? Yes. I have no further questions. I’d like to 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? It is not.
And how does this differ? I don’t know what kind of improvised position that is, so that’s not what we train. All right, as you reflect on exhibit 17, I must ask you, is this a trained Minneapolis Police Department defensive tactics technique? It is not. When I heard that part of the testimony, I really wanted to get up off my chair and yell, bullshit. Several of those witnesses testified that MRT, or the maximal restraint technique, was not a part of Minneapolis police policy.
It wasn’t part of the training. The pages that didn’t want to 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. Hmm? 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? That’s Derek’s manual. These are Derek’s training manuals. And MRT is in there? 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. During the trial, several witnesses, including Chief Aridondo 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? Absolutely.
In fact, I’m looking at it right now. 5316. Maximal restraint technique. Right. In their written policy manual, the EMS and apples fire response was not normal. Normally, both those resources are sent. They arrive in short time, especially on a code three situation. This case, Minneapolis fire took 20 minutes. Cluster arrived and their stations eight blocks away. At the end of the day, the whole trial, including sentencing, was a sham.
So from that point, we saw you standing there on the sidewalk, just sort of standing still from there. Did you stay in the area for a little while? Yes. And a call? Yes. Why, at that point, did you call 911? I think it all settled in that I wish I would have done that immediately, because it was ridiculous that 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 calmed down, I realized that I wanted them to know what was going on. Your attorney wanted to show a photo of MRT to the jury, but Judge Cahill denied it. Was this a key piece of evidence? I think it certainly is important. Just the fact that it’s a PowerPoint training presentation that the city of Minneapolis police department delivered using that photograph that at least illustrates some of the training techniques that are performed.
Were you trained in MRT? The maximal restraint? Yes, I was. Yes, we all were. Yes, all the police officers were trained in the MRT. Your police chief said on the stand that he didn’t recognize that technique. 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, 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 absolutely horrific what happened, the whole scenario. But did he do anything intentionally to make that happen? No, it was all what we were trained on. You helped to train officer Alex King. What did you think of him? I probably trained a few thousand people. He was probably one of the top two, top two or three recruits.
I’ve ever had. Give me a minute. From what I’ve seen of the videotape, it was done at the scene with George Floyd. And the photograph in the police training manual, it looked pretty identical. Proposed by the defense was, after conducting your business in cup foods, did you return to the vehicle with Mr. Floyd? Mr. Hall cannot answer that question. Mr. Hall cannot put himself in that car with Mr.
Floyd. Again, this was a car that was searched twice and drugs were recovered twice. If Mr. Hall puts himself in that car, he exposes himself to constructive possession charges of the drugs that were found in that car. Knowing all that, you’ve had a chance to look at the questions that were proposed by both sides? I have. Would you be willing to answer those if I were to put you on the stand and swear you in as a witness? No, I am not.
Okay. And why would you not answer those? I’m fearful of criminal charges going forward. I have open charges that you testified that you were the officer who approached the passenger side of the vehicle. You approached George Floyd on May 6 of 2019. Is that right? That’s correct, yes. And Mr. Floyd didn’t drop dead while you were interacting with him, correct? No. Thank you. Nothing further. Anything further? Thank you.
You may step down. Thank you. The city of Minneapolis has agreed to pay George Floyd’s family $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit with his family as the jury selection continues for the trial of the officer charged with his murder. Like you mentioned, there is no amount of money that can replace a brother, a son, a nephew, father a loved one. But what we can do is continue to work towards justice and equity and equality in the city of Minneapolis.
The city of Minneapolis would pay them the largest civil settlement of its kind, $27 million. We’re looking for a guilty verdict. We’re looking for a guilty verdict. What should protesters do? Well, we got to stay on the street, and we’ve got to get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we need victims. I’m aware of the media reports.
I’m aware that Congresswoman 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. This jury, 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. Well, to be fair, the last few times I’ve advised them, I told them, don’t watch the news. Pure and simple. Derek was tried in a courthouse that was surrounded by barbed wire, concrete block, two armored personnel carriers, and a squad of national Guard troops, all of which of whom were there for one purpose.
In the event the jury acquitted him. Every person in this country is entitled to a fair trial in a fair venue under the Constitution. What kind of message do you think that sent to the jury, seeing those scenes outside the courthouse every day? 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 actually substantial risk that there would be riots in their community again, what do you think your son’s case says about the justice system in America? Is there justice system in America? Not according to what they did to Derek and the other three officers.
There isn’t any. I don’t believe in the justice system anymore. As sentence for count one, the court commits you to the custody of the commissioner of corrections for a period of 270 months. That’s two 70. That is a ten year addition to the presumptive sentence of 150 months. This is based on your abuse of a position of trust and authority, and also the particular cruelty shown to George Floyd.
This call is from a federal prison. Do you blame Chauvin for any of this? 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.
What does this case say about the justice system in America? 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 pressures 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’re pretty much just going to have a trial by street.
And no one ever wins in street trials with publicity that is already against you. There’s just no real way to have a fair trial. We have a whole constitutional amendment about that that is null and void. Why then did you want to speak out? 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 after what the world witnessed in the murder of George Floyd.
These four police officers are committing a series of actions that violate policies. This news is disgusting, and they’re immoral at the stuff they reported, the lies they reported. I saw the video. There was a lot of other angles that were excluded. Jesus Christ. A lot of training that was excluded. What was it like going to 911 calls after the riots? I was the first officer at multiple shootings.
I was involved with gun calls. And I’m just like, one of these situations is not going to turn out good. Yeah. I mean, no matter what I do, I’m going to be either the next chaven or I’m going to be shot or killed. And I go, I’ve already been injured twice in this job, bad. And now at the end of my career, I’m going to get hurt again or end up in prison.
When did you decide to leave the Minneapolis police department? I’ve been in several riots in this city, or protest, or whatever you want to call them. And of all the different riots I’ve been in, that’s probably the first time I’ve ever felt helpless. I found myself, for the first time ever, I kind of had a panic attack. It was a sense of helplessness. And that. That’s the shitty feeling.
I woke my wife up at, like, three in the morning, and I just told her, I think I can be done. Going to work, though, 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 going to vomit, I’m going to be sick.
I knew something was wrong. I 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 best cops you would ever see in your lives. And a lot of those people are gone. The last call I was ever on should have been a routine call. It was a simple hit and run.
An officer just dispatched to a hit and run call. The victim has pictures of the car that took off the description of the guy, and the guy drives by again, so the officer follows him, stops him. I think we had four 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 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 six five. 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 four 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 going to go to the ground sooner or later because he’s a big dude, and we’re going to go to the ground. And I’m thinking to myself, dude, if this guy ods, if this guy dies in our custody, four white cops at 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. My father was a police officer that grew up in Minneapolis. My family was here. I didn’t want to leave. It was the hardest thing I ever did in my life. I still have difficulties with it. I didn’t want to go.
I love being a police officer, but one day at sitting there having lunch, it was probably a group of 20 of us, and somebody had said, hey, lt, I heard you’re leaving. What’s your last day? And I said, well, today, in about ten minutes, in fact, could one of you guys give me a ride home? Because I had to leave my squad here. And the one guy that gave me a ride home, he’s like, okay, I got my squad right here.
So we were in a mark 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 like, oh, hey, somebody wants to wave at us. And then he flipped us off. And I went, holy crap, this was the right decision. Yeah, everything changed. And it didn’t have to had we had strong leadership right 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. Do you go into Minneapolis anymore? I have not been anywhere near the precinct. I can’t bring myself to go to the precinct. I mean, unless I absolutely have to. No. I’ve even missed a few funerals. Why did you decide to stay on? Well, I think for myself, mainly for pride.
I worked really hard to get here, really hard. And I made a lot of sacrifices in my personal life 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 three years later. Morrell is something that can ebb and flow, and it is something that I have to continue to monitor.
I do hear that the mayor talks that crime is down. Crime is down. Crime is down. Say it with me. Crime is down. I often wonder if we’re looking at the same city overall. Crime is way up. Give me the keys. Give me your money. Everything. Keys, everything. Cry. 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.
Can you even keep up? No. When I came on, we used to have a roll call of about 20 to 25 cops. I’ve had roll calls with two cops in them. So it’s just not enough. This council is going to dismantle this police department. They’re telling me to say it again. This council is going to dismantle this police department. This government, not just in Minneapolis, but in the nation in general, has done a very good job all the way to the White House, of demonizing law enforcement.
Do you believe there is systemic racism in law enforcement? Absolutely. 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. Our commitment is to end our city’s toxic relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department, to end policing as we know it.
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 going to be on the wrong side of history, or they will be left behind. But I’m determined that we are going to be on the right side of race. Is Inex strickably. A part of the american policing system. 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 here, come on over here with your blue lives matter. Blue lives ain’t shit. I did. I won the primary election and y’all can quote me on this. I am going to the state capitol with this same fucking message. Do you think police and city leaders and the media were hiding the fact that your son is in fact, a black officer? 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.
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. I can’t joke, I can’t breathe. And 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 and the media has been telling, what are we going to do now? And they look around in the room and ask each know who has the cojones to tell the truth.
Is it going to be you, Eridondo? Is it going to be you, Benjamin Crump? Is it going to be you, Mayor Fry? Who’s going to be the one that’s going to, you know, oops, we thought it was this. We were wrong. The facts don’t support it. We’re going to have to say something. And they must have looked around the room and said, no, not me. I don’t have cajones.
No, I don’t have them either. But they were able to loan a pair, I think, to Mr. Chief Aridondo so that he could, don’t you? 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 know is the story that makes more sense with the facts than the one that they were telling.
Alex, it seems practically everyone talks about how Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, was with George Floyd for eight or nine minutes. But there’s you, a black police officer who was 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? That’s a good question. Despite, like you said, the fact that I am black and that another colleague of mine, Tau, is asian.
So really, half the attending officers were in the minority. I think that was something that they just didn’t want to admit specifically my race, because, again, it goes very counterintuitive to the way the narrative goes. They couldn’t backpedal. This is where he grew up? Yeah. Been here most of his life. It’s our first house together. 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 education and in the city. Positive name. And that’s no longer the case. That’s hard to come to terms with. What’s it like for you to think about him every day in prison? My greatest fear is that it’s going to change who he is, but I just don’t know who he’s going to be when he comes out. So it is hard to think of him there.
Every day is excruciating. And we tell him, we know who you are. We know what a lie this is. And you don’t have anything to apologize for. What I observed was not training that I ever participated in. None that I observed other officers participating in. 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, and this is why they reacted.
And this was part of their training. None of that was said. None of that was said. It knowing you’re constantly reminded about the worst day of your life and the 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 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. 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 things have gotten so bad? The city itself has lost its appeal. Lot of trauma. And the plan is to find somewhere else where we can start fresh and not have all the bad memories. How do you get through every day in prison, Alex? Prison is a 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 ultimately, this isn’t the end.
And this won’t define me. Alex, what do you want people to know about this case? What’s been done is done. And I just hope that, at the very least, people in the future can keep an open mind and not let instances like this happen. Just use my case 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.
Because if things like this keep happening, no one, anywhere is going to have any sense of justice left. So, yeah, quite a story there. Um, like I said, you know, I know that there’s a lot of people who have kind of preconceived notions that some of that stuff was staged, fake. But you know what? We need to kind of keep our minds open to the possibility that maybe it wasn’t.
Maybe it was. And that doesn’t necessarily mean that innocent people weren’t caught up into this. I don’t know. How do we know? How do we know? We don’t. Come on, buddy. Come on. Come here. We don’t. You know, we need to be. We need to check ourselves in terms of what we know without absolute. With absolute conviction that we know what’s true because we think we do, but we don’t know.
And when I saw this, I was like. Because I had the same chauvin. It was a set up. It was a scam. This is, you know, this is. This is all bullshit, you know? But I don’t know. You know, I. I don’t know. And we. You know, we can’t allow ourselves to get caught up into that. And despite what we think we know, we need to. We also need to take some of this stuff at face value.
We just do. Um. When I. When I watched this, I was blown away. I really was. I was like, wow. Just wow. Let me kind of read through some of the comments here. I want to make sure that I don’t miss anything here. Let’s see here. We don’t know 100% that our government is run by Luciferians, but we all know because our God put truth in our hearts.
This is true. Um, it’s like any real people get hurt and sometimes they use a real situation to their advantage to push a narrative. This is true as far as the judges and such. Yeah, definitely. Something especially there will absolutely agree with that. Columbine was false flag and lots of innocent people were caught up in it. Yes, grew that timing seems awful convenient in an election year. Yes, grew that looks more like an accident than a murder drama.
Very good. Possibly. Hello, forex, how are you? Hope you’re well as well. I’m with you there. Kay Carlson. 100%. Let’s see. I’m not 100% sure about the voting and ballot harvesting, but I do know that there’s a lot of dirtiness going on with election stuff that’s beyond any shadow of a doubt. Let’s see, I was in Kenosha with most of my family watching my grandson’s baseball game with kingfish.
After the game was done, we decided to get a bite to eat. But I suggested to go out of town. And I’m guessing that you didn’t get to finish your comment there, Jen Griff. Yeah, that mayor’s a douchebag. Been trying to get people downtown again and called people losers for staying home to work. Yeah, that just kind of shows what a loser he is. Yes, Soros did get his wish.
Shogun says, I saw Floyd a month before this happened in a parking lot shouting at people. And he was a scary dude. Did you live, forgive me, I’m assuming that you, you live up there or close to it, you know, and I had a, I have a good friend of mine that we were neighbors in Costa Mesa back in the mid ninety s. And he moved back up to Minneapolis and he worked not probably a half a mile from that very spot.
So I actually was there long before this happened, back in 20, 15, 16, something like that. But. Oh, it’s okay, Jen. I figured that was the case. I went beyond the 200 characters. Yeah, third degree. The victim was a police officer. The perpetrator killed in a particularly gruesome fashion such as the poison or torture. The perpetrator ambushed the victim or killed more than one. Well, you’re welcome. I’m glad you guys got something out of it.
I don’t remember who suggested that I play this, but this came as a suggestion from one of the audience members. Definitely give credit where credit is due. This was not something that was a little bit, that was kind of fun and light hearted. This was kind of serious, definitely somber, but certainly knowledgeable. And I like things like this, even if they are somber or not. What’s the word? I’m looking for? Not really.
You know, you. You don’t. What’s the word? Well, you know, of a serious nature. Okay. Yes. It was you, Rune. It was you. I remember now. Yeah. Yarn. I had never seen any of this footage either. And it was rune that suggested this, so. Thank you, Rune. Seriously, this was great. So. But anyway. All right, everybody. Well, this is. If you guys have some more suggestions for watch parties, by all means, share.
There was a couple of things that came out of some suggestions from last week, and if I don’t get anything that’s even more impactful, then I already have something lined up for next week. But by all means, keep them coming. This is good stuff. This is very good stuff. All right, everybody. Well, thank you so much for your time. And I’ve got kind of a busy weekend, but I want to jump in and get more of the book completed before Monday, because I just want to get more done for further ahead so that by Tuesday, when we talk about the military industrial complex, which if you guys didn’t see the video that I did with Mike this past week, real quick touching on that, there was a few people who said that I interrupted him a little bit too much.
Well, there was a lot of dead space, and I thought he was going to go a little bit further into stuff, and he didn’t. So I kind of felt like I had to poke and prod and price some information out. But it wasn’t me trying to interrupt him. Not at all. But I think we both thought that there was going to be more material to talk about, but it didn’t work out that way.
So I was trying to make the best of a situation, but I certainly wasn’t trying to interrupt Mike too much. But anyway, if I mess up, guys, hey, I’m definitely not. You know, I. Hold me accountable. You know, I’m not. I don’t have too much of an ego to note, to admit if I’ve done something wrong. But again, I was just trying to. You all want to see he’s not here, but here’s.
So this isn’t Winchester, but this is Bronson. And he’s actually got better looking. He’s got a more beautiful coat than Winchester. I think he’s a little bit more orange, whereas Winchester is. Winchester is a little bit more tan. But here in Perrin. So these are Bengals. So these are. Is a. He’s a great cat. He really. Uh. But pet. I will pet winchester for you. So I see him all the time.
No, he’s definitely not as scared as last time. So he’s really coming into his own. So I love him all. Love him, love him. Love. Well, definitely Winchester. Same name as the rifle, but I don’t know if I named him because of the rifle, but I just really like the name Winchester. Anyway. All right, everybody, well, I’m going to let you all go enjoy the remainder, enjoy the weekend and the start of the weekend, and you guys have a wonderful evening.
And like I said, I’m going to try to get something recorded, at least one session this weekend, delving into the Mike King book. So we will see, though, just because I want to get it done doesn’t necessarily mean I’m going to be able to get it done. Oh, forex, they are gorgeous. I have seven of them, and they are all beautiful, absolutely gorgeous animals, and they keep me company.
Somebody said to me, I had breakfast with a friend this morning, and he was saying something about stress and talking about how asking me if the cats caused me a lot of stress having so many of them. And I’m like, no, not at all. As a matter of fact, they are my stress relievers. They don’t cause me stress at all. I love them because I’m breeding them. That was the whole point.
And I’m going to get one more. I lost one this week, actually. Was it this week? I think it was this week, yeah. One of my little black ones. Something was wrong with her. I don’t know exactly what it was, but she was just something, when there’s something that’s just not right. Well, I went to go get her. It was feeding time, and I went to go get her, and she was in one of her little spots, and when I went to go get her, she was gone.
And I just felt terrible, but there was nothing I could do. So I have another one. Oh, yes. So your sister has a Bengal. Yeah, an f four. That’s awesome. These are all f five s. And if you understand about anything about Bengals, they are highly intelligent, highly intelligent animals. A lot of people will say that a Bengal is for somebody who wants a dog but can’t have a dog.
That’s what the Bengals are for. Because these guys actually, they love to play fetch. They do tricks, they do all kinds of stuff, but, yeah, they’re a lot of fun. I enjoy the hell out of. And you all wanted to see Winchester. Come here, buddy. Come here. You’re popular and people want to see you. Come on. Come on. Everybody wants to see you. So say hello. Say hi.
I know. So this is Winchester. What’s the matter, buddy? Hmm? All right, so obviously he wanted to get down, but you got to hear him growl a little bit. That’s my boy. Winchester. All right, everybody. Well, I’m going to call it a night. So on that note, you all enjoy the remainder of your evening, and I will see you either tomorrow or Sunday. Or maybe both if I have the time.
So have a great night, everybody. Look forward to seeing you soon. Look forward to seeing you soon. Look forward to seeing you soon. .
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