An incredible documentary by Alpha News, titled “The Fall of Minneapolis,” was released last year, revealing what really happened in the death of George Floyd. Reporter Liz Collins, who produced the film and also wrote a bestselling book about it, interviewed key people involved, including police officers. Collins was fired afterwards from her longtime job at WCCO-TV, a CBS affiliate in Minneapolis/St. Paul, which she believes was due to her fair coverage of police incidents (she is married to the former president of the Minneapolis Police Officers Federation).

The documentary obtained bodycam footage from the officers who responded: Derek Chauvin, Alex Kueng, Thomas Lane, and Tou Thao. The mainstream media downplayed the fact that one of the officers was black and another was Asian. Kueng, who is black, arrested Floyd and spent more time with him than Chauvin, who arrived on the scene later. All four were sentenced to prison, with Chauvin receiving 22.5 years. 

Floyd can be seen in the bodycam footage repeatedly disregarding the officers’ commands. Lane told him to get out of his car eight times. Floyd lied to the officers, said he wasn’t on any substances, and said he got shot the last time he was arrested, which wasn’t true. After he was placed in........

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