No one thinks about this timeline anymore, but it took more than two months after George Floyd died in Minneapolis for a foreign media organization — The Daily Mail — to publish the body camera footage of his arrest and subsequent overdose. Minnesota Democrats had refused to release the video, without explaining why. But it was obvious, in retrospect, why they didn’t release it: The leaked body camera footage was fatal to the official narrative concerning Floyd’s death. It demonstrated that Floyd, because he was in the process of overdosing on a lethal level of fentanyl, was struggling to breathe long before he was on the ground. But by the time the footage was released to the public, in August, it was far too late. Too many people had already been convinced that Floyd had somehow been murdered by a police officer who didn’t cause any physical injury whatsoever to Floyd’s neck or upper body, who was following established procedure, and who knew he was being recorded by an increasingly …
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