Good rebuttal to Liz Collin's "The Fall of Minneapolis" in the Minnesota Reformer

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I notice that right wingers love to reference this as the "real truth" about George Floyd. The article is fairly long and the clip below doesn't do it justice. It is worth the read.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/01/11/i-watched-the-fall-of-minneapolis-so-you-dont-have-to/

I watched ‘The Fall of Minneapolis’ so you don’t have to
Liz Collin advertises bombshells, but serves up a cherry-picked rehashing of previous reporting
by Deena Winter

Alpha News Reporter Liz Collin, in her documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis,” pretends that these complicating factors about Floyd’s murder never came up at trial and weren’t reported by the hundreds of journalists who covered the case.

Collin’s claim serves two self-serving purposes: It inflates the value of the supposed “bombshells” of her documentary, and makes the rest of the media complicit in an alleged conspiracy to cover up the real story of Floyd’s death.

Just one problem: She’s wrong.

I covered the case and the trial from beginning to end. From a huge press room set up across the street from the courthouse, about 40 reporters from around the world watched the trial on giant screens, with just two reporters allowed in the actual courtroom per day. (I do not recall seeing Collin there.)

Collin uses various scenes to soil the dead man’s reputation. He denied being on drugs, even though he clearly was on drugs. In his drug-addled state, he seemed to indicate he’d previously been shot by police (there’s no evidence he was), and he said “I can’t breathe” before he was even on the ground, saying he was claustrophobic.