UPDATED: The George Floyd Body Cam Transcript
I've been busy with a variety of things recently, so haven't had as much time for the blog as I would ordinarily have. One thing I have done was, yesterday, I read the body cam transcript that details the arrest and subsequent death of George Floyd. You can find the entire transcript here .
The body cam in question was worn by J. Alexander Kueng, who was the black officer involved. Everything in the transcript confirms what we discussed here weeks before: Floyd's non-compliance, the police recognition that Floyd was seriously impaired, the call for an ambulance, etc. There will be no surprises for you as you read the transcript but, by the same token, you'll be left without any doubt as to why this transcript wasn't released earlier. It's very clear from all available evidence that Floyd ODed on fentanyl and was not killed by anything the police did or did not do.
For a good running commentary on the early part of the transcript, see Larry C. Johnson's coverage: Body Cam Transcript Tells a Different Story on the Death of George Floyd .
All of the above was very obviously known to the Dem authorities and anyone who did any remotely serious inquiry into this incident. Instead, they used a false narrative to try to throw the whole country up for grabs for a malign Leftist political purpose.
Conservatives who went along with this, even referring to Floyd's supposed 'murder' or 'killing' by police should be ashamed.
UPDATE: To his very great credit, President Trump has refused Minnesota's Dem Governor's request for aid. I quote Don Surber:
Now the Democrat governor wants taxpayers in 49 other states to pay for the damage by his fellow Democrats.
Hahaha.
President Donald John Trump told him no.
The Star-Tribune just reported, "The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz’s request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged in the unrest following George Floyd’s death.
"Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a “major disaster” for the state of Minnesota in his request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on July 2. More than 1,500 buildings were damaged by fires, looting and vandalism in the days of unrest that followed Floyd’s May 25 death in Minneapolis police custody, racking up more than $500 million in damages, according to Walz."
It was not unrest. It was organized chaos.
Organized. Dem sanctioned. Earlier in the week Minnesota LE officials stated that it could have been contained or mitigated. Public safety was way down on the list of Dem priorities, and now they own it.
Republican Congressman Tom Emmer of Minnesota wrote to the president, "If the federal government is expected to assist in the clean-up of these unfortunate weeks, it has an obligation to every American — prior to the release of funding — to fully understand the events which allowed for this level of destruction to occur and ensure it never happens again."