Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 2

Revisionist History

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Five years ago a police officer tried to stop Derek Chauvin from murdering George Floyd. Why didn’t he try harder?

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:10.6	May 31st, 2020,
0:15.1	six days after the death of George Floyd.
0:18.4	A small group of people gather in a room somewhere in downtown Minneapolis.
0:23.5	So, okay, so let's just...
0:25.9	We're going to try to run this one who typically run these, right?
0:29.6	I'm just going to identify everybody in the room here for the record, okay?
0:33.8	Two investigators from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension,
0:38.3	one FBI agent, two attorneys, and the first police officer
0:43.0	to arrive at the scene at the corner of 38th in Chicago that day.
0:47.6	Thomas Lane.
0:49.0	He's there to give a statement about what happened.
0:53.0	If you've ever watched videos of the death of George Floyd,
0:55.9	Lane is the tall one, 6-7,
0:58.2	right next to Derek Chauvin,
1:00.1	restraining Floyd's legs.
1:03.0	I guess, just tell us,
1:04.5	in your own words,
1:05.5	as much detail as possible,
1:08.7	is what happened from your perspective.
1:11.6	Okay.
1:12.6	We were dispatched to a perjury and progress report at the Tough Foods.
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