George Floyd: the MPD maintains the lie

 Mike McDaniel - American Thinker  

"But their trials were political farces with predetermined verdicts, carried out under threat of mob violence."

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"Katie Blackwell is the high-ranking Minneapolis Police Department administrator who arguably perjured herself in her testimony in the Derek Chauvin murder trial in the death of George Floyd. With the resignation of MPD Police Chief Brian O’Hara for alleged sexual improprieties, Blackwell finds herself acting chief.

"Many Americans recall the photo of Chauvin, apparently kneeling on Floyd’s neck. What the camera angle of that photo didn’t reveal was that he was actually kneeling on Floyd’s shoulder and upper back, a technique taught, sanctioned, and used for decades by the MPD. In fact, the local coroner determined the technique had nothing to do with Floyd’s death:  

On May 26, 2020, Senior Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Patrick Lofton documented a virtual meeting via Microsoft Teams on the cause of Floyd’s death. Hennepin County Medical Examiner Andrew Baker told the participants, who included four FBI agents, ‘The autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation. Mr. Floyd did not exhibit signs of petechiae, damage to his airways or thyroid, brain bleeding, bone injuries or internal bleeding.’ In sum, there was no evidence of a homicide.

"Under intense racial and political pressure, he changed his tune to cover Floyd’s actual cause of death from fatal levels of illicit drugs and internal damage from decades of drug abuse. Floyd was a violent, convicted felon who once held a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach during a home invasion robbery.

"Despite no fewer than 34 MPD officers testifying that the restraint technique was taught, routinely used, and MPD-sanctioned, and despite photographic and textual evidence from MPD training manuals, photographs of officers applying it in training, and even a photograph of Blackwell applying it in the field, Blackwell testified that the technique was never taught or sanctioned. That testimony was necessary to provide cover for a pre-determined verdict.

"Liz Collin of Alpha News produced the film “The Fall of Minneapolis,” which exposed Blackwell’s perjury. Blackwell sued Alpha News and Collin for defamation. It didn’t go well for Blackwell:" . . . More...