Minneapolis and Minnesota need a co-responder program in place to train 9-1-1 operators and officers responding to 9-1-1 calls. To begin with Minneapolis police department needs to distinguish between a police emergency (which George Floyd did not present), and a medical emergency. The George Floyd case was a medical emergency which was made worse by the actions of two rookies. First Thomas Lane, who recently pled guilty to manslaughter, and Officer Keung who followed Lane's instructions. Lane was in charge of the entire crime scene, not Derek Chauvin, who arrived much later and was not in charge, despite the false reports of the Star Tribune and others. On July 21, 2022 former Officer Thomas Lane was sentenced to two and one-half years in federal prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter. But the facts suggest the federal and state courts understated his role and bungled this case.

The body cameras contain these two images of George Floyd, 16 minutes before Derek Chauvin and Thao arrived (left below the video) which are out on the internet. This is what was arranged by the MPD 9-1-1. We need to know this, and not have it manipulated in a prosecution of the police. This is about George Floyd and about the right of every citizen not to be targeted like this when they are having a fatal drug emergency. Instead our 9-1-1, which combines police with other emergency response, must distinguish a medical emergency, and try to save a life in a case like this. Not until viewing these images can it be understood how the lethal fentanyl was working. It was at best negligence by these rookie officers and the store owners and the 9-1-1 operator, to attack George like this.

It is important to note that these photos were taken first when George was in his car and Officer Chauvin was not on the scene at all. Floyd had already been threatened with a gun--for what? Because the owners of the store wanted him to give some cigarettes back he had paid for.

Body camera footage just released shows George on the sidewalk being told why he was pulled out of his vehicle and handcuffed:
"Because you wouldn't listen to us."
I am unaware of any authorization for this kind of police procedure. What is the duty to listen to an officer or being subjected to police detention? I'm waiting, Tina. Tina Smith was the chief of staff of this city Minneapolis. Is this how it works?

His face shows the effects of the more than two times the lethal dose of fentanyl he had just taken, as well as the terror of being beset by two rookie cops--with a gun pointed at him. He had not done anything, except that drug whether he knew it or not. The photo is of citizen George Floyd being led in handcuffs down the sidewalk where he was forced to sit and wait for over ten minutes. The anguish of a lethal drug, while being led by these police following the orders of 9-1-1 and not intelligent enough to recognize the severe danger he was in.

    What these photos I've posted show is that while still in his car George showed there terrible signs of the drug. He was not resisting, he was trying to talk to the officers. And the officers were in effect saying, don't talk, we have orders from Minneapolis PD 9-1-1 and from the store owners. They did not have the full information, of course. Were they told that another guy had given them a fake $20 (so they say--I've yet to see the evidence) and that the store rather than calling 9-1-1 gave the bill back to him? Who knows, maybe that guy gave the bill in question to George.

    The key point is that George was telling them important things, these two rookie cops. That he was afraid of going back to a Corona facility; that he was afraid of getting shot because they drew guns on him, who knows why; and that he was high on fentanyl and hadn't done anything and didn't know why they had come to him like this.

    Somebody done George very, very wrong. And Keith Ellison is railroading him through this, hiding the evidence, to him it's one thing--get the cops and feed the voice of the unheard (riots). We need to care about the whole truth of what happened to George, not just the parts the store and the mass media want us to see--that may not even be real.

Out of control state and federal judges encourage election fraud and cheating by Amy Klobuchar supporters

STEVE CARLSON asked the U.S. Supreme Court to make Gov. Mark Dayton recertify the Franken Senate race -- they failed

The U.S. Constitution (Art. I, Sec. 4) requires that each state prescribe the manner of selection of U.S. Senators, and then follow and enforce those prescribed laws. But Mark Dayton, to help Al Franken and Mark Ritchie avoid a contest challenging the constitutionality of his campaign's and his parties practices, unlawfully released a certificate for Franken to the U.S. Senate during the tolling period where such release is prohibited by law. Carlson asks the U.S. Court to reverse a Minnesota Supreme Court refusal to force Dayton to follow the law.

Hillary Clinton and the "Minnesota Vota Quota" system of picking federal officials and judges

On August 27-28, 2015 Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and other Democrat presidential candidates came to Minneapolis to plan their general eletction strategy for 2016. Steve Carlson, U.S. Senate Nominee for the Minnesota Independence (formerly Reform) Party, defends free and fair elections based on the issues independent voters care about, and attacks identity politics rampant and destroying the nation right now.

Memorandum of Law against Chief Justice Lori Gildea to toss the Independence Party appeal

Carlson: Dayton and Simon have present legal duty to invalidate Franken election petition

Steve Carlson argues Al Franken contest to Minnesota Supreme Court on appeal from "deformed" Franken proceeding

Part II - Introduction to argument to Supreme Court

Part I - Grounds and introduction of contest appeal

STEVE CARLSON SAYS MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT VIOLATES UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, SECTION 4 OF ARTICLE I

ARGUMENT TO MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT TO INVALIDATE AL FRANKEN'S ELECTION CERTIFICATE
Petition filed under Minn.Stat. 204B.44 and 204C.40 Subd. 1 and 2 inter alia.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY OF FRANKEN'S 2014 ELECTION CONTEST

DRAFT APPEAL TO MINNESOTA SUPREME COURT GROUNDS FOR MOTION AND FACTUAL BACKGROUND OF FRANKEN ELECTION LITIGATION 2009-PRESENT

Steve Carlson argues Franken election contest in Minnesota state court

Smiley v. Holm. How the U.S. Supreme Court empowered state legislatures to clean up federal elections with the power of the U.S. Constitution. News flash!

Al Franken uses same dirty tricks used in 1977 to stuff fraud contest of Ron Paul in Texas.

After Al illegally obtains election certificate, he wants the whole contest to stop. But Minnesota's law is designed to dovetail with the Constitution, and Section 4 of the Congress Article of the Constitution grants Minnesota the right to prescribe and enforce a contest statute. Free and fair elections count in Minnesota.

Dayton and Ritchie deliberately falsify Al Franken's election certificate and cover letter to U.S. Senate Secretary

Read Mimi Wright's opinion protecting Betty McCollum from the election laws she violated. http://law.justia.com/cases/minnesota/supreme-court/2013/a12-2286.html

On January 6, 2015, the 114th Congress was re-organized. An election contest was filed December 2, 2014 filed against Al Franken for serious, deliberate, material violation of Minnesota election law and the U.S. Constitution. I am not aware of any communication from the U.S. Senate to me in response to that contest. But Minnesota courts, again, impermissibly attempted to block a House of Congress, this time the U.S. Senate, from acting as the judges, instead impermissibly trying to judge themselves, with a 3-judge panel. But this is incredibly dangerous to and destructive of, our civil rights and voting rights, and undermines the Constitution in a way warned of by the U.S. Supreme court in an 1884 case called Ex parte Yarbrough. Carlson explains how the Senate is supposed to be chosen (Part I) and why the Senate needs to allow campaigns to take all the money out of Congressional elections, by allowing use of voter e-mail addresses (Part II).
Part II

Part I

On December 18, a panel led by trial judge of the year John Van De North railroaded Al Franken to the U.S. Senate in violation of the Minnesota elections law and the U.S. Constitution, mishandling an election contest of serious, material and deliberate violation of Minnesota elections law and the Constitution.

Why Minnesota courts should not be allowed to RAILROAD Minnesota election for Senate by avoiding New Yorker Al Franken's responsibility for his wrongful conduct, which destroys the voting rights of Minnesotans

On December 18 in St. Paul, a trial of an election contest was held for over three hours. The record will be forwarded to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. to determine the contest. Senator Franken's election certification will be held until the record is completed and then forwarded with it, plus evidence of serious, material and deliberate violations by Senator Franken and the Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie.

Parts I and II of U.S. Senate election contest Steve Carlson's response to requests from Franken and Ritchie to dismiss the contest and block it from reaching the U.S. Senate

Steve Carlson, 2014 Nominee for U.S. Senate to run against U.S. Sen. Al Franken, has filed an Election Contest against Franken because of Al's AMAZING ability to create impressions--here the impression that the IP had no U.S. Senate Nominee, that the IP was not a major political party with equal rights, and that he could use his Zen art of boredom to astound the nation with a sweeping and convincing "victory". Only the election's not valid. Here's why.