Reminder that this is how the Minneapolis Police Department initially reported George Floyd's death:

[demmiblue]

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

1. Typical - "he physically resisted"

[LakeArenal]

2. No mention of nine minutes of lethal knee.

[dalton99a]

3. Yep. But thank God no officers were injured

from strangling a handcuffed man

[pwb]

4. Do not resist. Breathing is resisting?

I guess.

[Newest Reality]

6. Being alive...

Being alive is resisting. They stopped it, alright.

[intheflow]

5. Wait. There's body cam footage available?

Why haven't we seen that video?

[judeling]

7. Yes, but notice command didn't believe them.

The state had been called in (and we have come to know the FBI also) before it hit the papers or the internet.

[empedocles]

8. Investigate the author of the initial report, and all involved in the issuance of said report

[Coventina]

9. FTP & ACAB

[frazzled]

10. New tag

A Knee Is a Weapon

[cyndensco]

11. I saw the spokesperson read this statement the morning after George Floyd was murdered.

CBS News had just shown an excerpt of the video and followed it with the cop's statement.

What stuck out the most to me was that the spokesperson claimed the cops observed the suspect was suffering medical distress and called for an ambulance. The video they had just played showed that the murderer's knee was still on Mr. Floyd's neck when the ambulance arrived.

Thank God for video!

[fulllib]

12. Sound reformable to you?

Not me. This is one of the many reasons the City Council is cutting ties with them all together.