In this interview, a former Minneapolis CBS news anchor—who lost his position after the George Floyd incident and is married to a Minneapolis police officer—discusses his concerns about the mainstream media narrative surrounding Floyd’s death. He explains that the full body‑camera footage, which he says shows Floyd non‑compliant and contradicts the viral video, was leaked by an international news agency two and a half months after the incident, briefly posted online, and then removed. The footage forms the basis of the documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis,” which he claims reveals many falsehoods propagated by media and political leaders. He raises questions about why the public and the jury were not shown the complete video, references the autopsy, and highlights that evidence about the maximal restraint technique (MRT) used by officers was excluded from the trial. Throughout, he expresses frustration at the perceived suppression of facts and urges viewers to seek the truth beyond the dominant narrative.
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Oh, I think even all along with this, Dennis, our point was to show that this incident and all of this was made into something that the facts did not support. Just a bit of background about me, I was a longtime member of the mainstream media. I was a longtime news anchor at the station in Minneapolis, the CBS station. I was demoted, I lost my anchor position through this. Being married to a Minneapolis police officer. And, but more than anything, really, I was troubled by this narrative that the media kept peddling, right? That this is the most racist interaction that's ever taken place with police before, ignoring the fact that it's a Black police officer who arrested George Floyd. Body camera footage is hidden from the public in this case, the very first time that's ever happened in Minneapolis police history. Body camera footage that shows a very different picture than the viral face Facebook video that we were shown for months.
How did I see, which is the way I came to many of my conclusions, how did I see at the time, has it been taken down? I saw a 45-minute or so video of how they treated him so decently and tried to get him into a police car after he had tried to, at least allegedly, pass counterfeit money. And he kept saying, "I can't breathe," but he wouldn't go into the police car. Do you know what video I'm referring to?
Yeah, so it was about 2 and a half months after the incident where it was leaked by an international news agency. It was basically allowed to be viewed by reporters who would sign up to see the body camera footage at the Hennepin County Courthouse, and someone leaked it through there, and then it was put online and quickly taken down. But this, for the first time really, is the entire video that we start the documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis, out with. This is an 18-minute in total interaction that takes place with George Floyd, where you are seeing that he is not complying, and there are many lies sort of told along the way by George Floyd, by Minnesota so-called leaders. Here, etc.
So that is interesting. I saw a video which was taken down.
Yeah, still to this day, it's actually quite difficult to find the body camera footage. We luckily saved it early on. But these are the questions I'm sort of trying to bring to the public. Why perhaps you should be upset? Why weren't you told the truth about this? Why were you swayed in a way to think this way when there was so much more to, to this story. And, and there's so much contained just in that, that body camera footage. Uh, I know we'll talk about the, the autopsy as well. Um, also Derek Chauvin's, uh, trial. Of course, we know he was found guilty of the, the 3 charges, uh, but not so much about what the jury was allowed to see, Dennis, but what they were not, what was kept out, um, of the actual trial. And that includes this maximal restraint technique, which we refer to in the trailer that your audience just listened to. But, but yeah, this, this MRT, which is also something the officers are talking about in the body camera footage, also 36 seconds after George Floyd himself asks to be laid on the ground, you have Thomas Lane clearly making a call to—
All right, all right, let me remind everybody, the movie, the film is The Fall of Minneapolis. It's on Rumble.
