Liz Collin exposes Minnesota’s unraveling after George Floyd protests, detailing Vance Belter’s 2023 shooting spree—targeting Democrats and abortion clinics—while media buried autopsy findings showing Floyd died from fentanyl and heart failure. Governor Tim Walz faces scrutiny for military fraud, China ties (30+ trips, Maoist propaganda), and defunding police amid soaring crime, including a 40% officer drop and 700 carjackings post-2020 riots. Collin’s blacklisting after criticizing the narrative reveals systemic bias, with Minneapolis now a crime-ridden shell of its former self under progressive governance. [Automatically generated summary]
Five years ago this summer, George Floyd, a convicted felon, OD'd on fentanyl outside a convenience store in Minneapolis, and the country changed forever.
Five years later, Tim Walls is still the governor.
Keith Ellison is still the attorney general.
The cops who were falsely convicted of murdering George Floyd are mostly still in prison.
But what happened to Minneapolis itself?
Well, it's been wrecked, and no one has said a word about it.
Liz Collin is one of the only journalists remaining in the state of Minnesota, and she gives us an update on the aftermath of the George Floyd revolution.
And the hope was always that there would be responsible people who cared about facts reporting on what's happening at the state level and in cities.
And in most places, that's not true, but it is true in Minnesota, thanks to you.
So I'm just, I'm grateful that you're filling that void because we need to know what's happening.
I want to start by, because I think you're an expert on, like, what is the truth about the assassinations in your state of a couple of Democratic lawmakers?
Yeah, sadly, the chaos really continues in Minnesota.
Appreciate you having me on and thank you for your kind words about our reporting that we do over at Alpha News.
But this all starts on a Saturday.
It's Saturday, June 14th, 2 in the morning, and this shooting spree begins.
Vance Belter is the man who is charged now with the assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark.
But what we know is that he first arrives at Senator John Hoffman's home, the home he shares with his wife, Yvette.
Their adult daughter happens to be in town during this.
And Belter is dressed as a police officer.
He's wearing also a latex mask.
He has a flashlight, arrives at their door saying, police, open up.
He's shouting.
It's very chaotic.
And basically, this is two in the morning.
They open their door to him, and he starts shooting, from what we understand.
Senator Hoffman is hit multiple times.
His wife hit multiple times.
His daughter heroically calls 911, tells the police it's Senator Hoffman that's been shot.
And this, in a way, I think, sends a message to the rest of the surrounding agencies that this could have something to do with legislators or perhaps people are being targeted to look for this person, obviously.
We know now that Belter stops at two more homes, people who are not home, legislators that are not home.
At one point, he encounters a police officer in New Hope.
That officer actually approaches his vehicle.
He is in a vehicle that looks like a squad car, an SUV squad car, goes so far as to outfit it with police lettering actually on the license plate.
It says police on the license plate, you know, light bar, all the things you would look for in a squad.
This New Hope officer rolls up next to him.
He is looking straight ahead and does not, you know, acknowledge the officer at all.
She then rolls her window up and continues on to this lawmaker's home.
So there's some questions about, you know, how was he not apprehended in that moment?
This is when he then continues to the former House Speaker, DFL House Speaker, Melissa Hortman's home.
And at this point, the police catch up to him, the Brooklyn Park Police Department.
They are doing a welfare check basically on the Hortman home saying, you know, she doesn't live that far away.
We should go to the Speaker Emerita, Melissa Hortman's home.
And they get there.
Shots ring out, but from what we understand between the police and Belter, somehow Belter still gets inside the Hortman home.
Mark is killed.
And then they find Melissa's body inside the home as well later on.
I mean, it's going to take a little while to get there, definitely five, 10 miles or so to that address.
He then, and we have this all on surveillance camera.
We've been able to get some surveillance video from the neighbors who could see his last movements.
He's moving around some of his police cars.
At one point, a bike appears out of the shed.
It's all very strange.
But then he walks to a nearby bus stop.
And again, according to the charging document, this is where he meets a stranger.
He wants to buy an e-bike off of this guy who then offers and says, I actually have a car for sale too.
It breaks down a bit.
But he buys the e-bike and this black Buick from this stranger at the bus stop for $900.
This man actually drives him to the bank where he empties his $2,200 he has in his bank account.
This is when the FBI releases surveillance video of him wearing a cowboy hat.
This is the last picture.
Basically the picture they're releasing to the public to find this guy that morning.
But this then leads to the largest manhunt in Minnesota history to find him.
He ends up, we know now, he'd been texting his wife.
He said something along the lines of dad went to war last night and also something about not wanting the kids to be on the property because there's going to be some people that are trigger happy that could be there soon.
So that seemed to be an indication he was going back to.
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What is that?
What are we looking at here?
This is bizarre.
Father of five prepper from Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, all of a sudden winds up wearing a latex mask and like a fake police car and murdering people.
And then the police don't arrest him somehow at the shooting.
There's all kinds of notebooks with all kinds of things in them from what we understand.
We did obtain this hit list that went out to law enforcement because obviously they were protecting all of these legislators trying to figure out where this guy was because this manhunt goes on for 43 hours before he just surrenders in a field, puts his hands up in the air and basically walks toward law enforcement and says, I'm Vance Belter.
But this hit list, these are all Democrats on the list.
There's a couple abortion clinics, Planned Parenthoods that are on there.
So people have said, you know, this is some sort of pro-life thing.
But also, interestingly enough, he has a confession letter.
This is what I would call it.
It's a letter made out to the FBI to Cash Patel that says that Governor Tim Walls made him do this.
He says that he made him do it because he wanted Senator Amy Klobuchar to be killed and Walls then to take that Senate seat, which again makes no sense To any sane person, but these are all part of the pieces that are.
The way his roommate described it, he was working at these funeral homes and would keep kind of odd hours.
And so Minneapolis would be closer to, you know, where these would be located.
But what's interesting is even in his last movements that have been tracked by the neighbors, everybody has these great security cameras nowadays.
And they're kind of doing the detective work themselves over in that neighborhood as well.
But you can see him coming in with some plastic bags.
We know now he'd bought some supplies at Fleet Farm just leading up to these attacks.
He's walking out with his notepads.
From what law enforcement has said, he was doing a lot of writing, a lot of ramblings as they've just described them.
At first, they said there was this manifesto.
They've kind of backed off on that and said it's more of this hit list, nothing that seems to really make much sense as far as a motive is concerned at this point.
But for some reason, he did surrender to law enforcement, and it seems in a way he wants to tell his story.
Also in that confession letter, he talks about he is trained by the military.
He says that he's, and this is what was on the website as well, that he did security in Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, it says on his website.
But at this point, just still so many questions about what is actually even true.
You know, it's been difficult because in Minnesota, you just keep saying that these kind of things don't happen, and then they do.
And so much of this has happened.
We've kind of been dubbed this capital of chaos these last five or six years, and it's pretty disheartening.
You try to approach everything as a reporter and gather as many facts, but you're like, how have we now come to report on political assassinations in Minnesota?
So there's been a ton of speculation that he, like a number of other people, high-profile murderers in the last 50 years, may have been not at all what he seemed to be.
This is like some sort of Operation designed to discredit the enemies of the people who designed it.
It just seems that even talking to profilers through this, they really maybe there is something more because none of this actually makes sense or adds up to become that radicalized, you know, what actually, what actually happened.
But it's a story, you know, we're obviously staying on.
Yeah, maybe it'll wind up like the Vegas shooting where it doesn't make sense at all and no one wants to talk about it and we just kind of forget about it.
You know, biggest mass shooting in American history that like no one mentions ever, but clearly it's not.
I was still allowed to report on a few things, but I was no longer allowed to report on state government, city government, anything to do with policing.
I would have to get permission before I would even be able to call someone in law enforcement.
I mean, this has been my career.
I mean, I have a lot of good sources, and I've reported on a lot of these issues long before I was even married to Bob, but all of a sudden, everything became, you know, an issue.
And I will say that my husband appeared on stage with President Trump.
This was back in 2019 when he was running for reelection.
And that really became an issue with the station as well.
I consider myself a pretty strong person, but it took me even a long time to even walk in the front lawn again, just thinking they took a knee around our flag, our American flag.
If you were black, you were allowed to kneel in our front yard.
And if you're white, you had to look on as they were shouting.
I mean, they literally brought a bullhorn.
They were shouting swear words at our neighborhood kids, threatening to burn the city down where we lived.
Many cities have now passed ordinances in Minnesota saying if you don't pull a permit to protest, we're going to arrest all of you because nobody was arrested.
And this is what I thought was interesting as a reporter.
So keep in mind, I was still working at WCCO at the time, but I called my news director and I said, the man leading this protest, he's running to be a state rep and he's endorsed by Walls and the Democratic Party.
So I finished my contract a couple of years, not even quite.
And then I had kind of as a therapy worked on my book called They're Lying, The Media, the Left and the Death of George Floyd, which is a bit about my personal story and so much of the truth that just never stood a chance with all of this.
And I left.
I went into independent media.
I didn't want to lie anymore.
I was disgusted with what the media had turned out.
So what about all the people you, when you work in a place, you like, you know, you know, your supervisor, you know, all the vice presidents and the station manager, the HR people, did anyone ever say, gosh, we're really mistreating you.
I don't think they're doing so well, but I think that's local media in general since we launched alp we've had four flavors but we are proud to announce alp has a brand new flavor one of several will be rolling out over the next year or so and it is sweet nectar i have personally tested this product two at a time and it's excellent sweet nectar the new flavor out from alp really really good you can order it in bulk by
the palate if you want i have strongly recommended sweet nectar stay tuned for morning flavors but to abandon your longtime employee because the mob demands it is like maybe the lowest thing i can think of you know it was crazy because i i i grew up watching that station i mean literally it was the dream job when i finally landed it when i worked in all these crappy markets you know lived in crappy
places um but i you know i loved the news because i always felt like i'm you know i'm just gonna do whatever it takes um to get back home to be able to broadcast you know my hometown and and whatnot as goofy as that sounds doesn't sound goofy it sounds great but actually and then it um it happened and just kind of i but i you know it's not even even before george floyd you could see what the media was was turning into and that really bothered me on a moral and ethical level more than anything else just
not so much what we would tell the public anymore but what we would not how we would craft a story um i talk a lot about this in in the book but there were mandates after george floyd that half of the people we interviewed had to be non-white or from a protected class in the wake of uh from what i understand cbs news um you could not use the term riots at all in your reporting actually right just the way we would control
Thomas Lane was released also, and Tutau was still in prison.
Tutau was given an extra year on his sentence because the judge in this case, Judge Peter Cahill, did not like how he was reciting Bible verses during his sentencing and gave him an extra year.
So how did, if there's no evidence that he murdered George Floyd, Why was I at Fox scolded for saying that he didn't murder George Floyd, which I was, by the way?
I said George Floyd seemed like he died of a drug OD because that's what the autopsy seemed to say.
Why is that not widely known?
Why does nobody, even now, five years later, people have to be like, oh, he was killed by a white cop, and all these, trying not to use the F word, but all these Republican office holders are like, no, he was murdered by a, you know what I mean?
Okay, so everyone stands up, Nikki Haley and Jeb Bush and all, you know, all these people, probably the majority of the Republican senators who were serving five years ago said this, you know, black man murdered by a white cop.
The mayor, Jacob Fry, who's not from Minneapolis, who's brought in and somehow becomes mayor and then wrecks the city that he's not from, didn't build.
He says in public shortly after the death that the restraint technique the police officers used on George Floyd was not taught to them.
I guess this is why I've forgotten so many of the details because they're just horrifying.
So the public doesn't get to know that the restraint technique that the police officers, not just Derek Chauvin, but the other three used against this berserk drug addict convicted felon, that that was a technique that they learned at the police academy and that was.
It's actually in there to wait, to hold and wait for EMS.
This is also something else that was never talked about.
The ambulance went to the wrong address, which is why there is such a long, typically an ambulance would be there in about 90 seconds at the most.
There's, you know, a fire station that close.
They went to the wrong address.
And you see this on the body camera footage that one of the paramedics is almost joking around with Thomas Lane going, gosh, we didn't know where you guys were.
We went to the wrong place.
That's why it took us so long.
And there's a very problematic EMS response to all of this.
That is also not allowed to be discussed in Chauvin's trial either.
The fact that they go to the wrong address, they also are hooking George Floyd up to get air to breathe, and the machine itself is not plugged in in the ambulance.
And this is before, you know, this is more than five years ago at this point where they didn't even, the officers didn't all have Narcan at that point.
This was kind of just the beginnings of all of that.
And you also had two officers that were brand new and they were partnered together.
And I think you can see, even just with their interactions, they understand something is going on with him.
He also stuffs some, you know, what you think are drugs in his mouth during their interaction.
And they're asking him, what do you want?
What did you take?
And, you know, he's very combative, but they think it's more of a something is going on medically.
They try to get him into the squad car.
It's George Floyd himself who asks to be laid on the ground.
Many people don't know that.
He asks to be laid on the ground himself.
And this is just this hold that they do.
But we quickly find out, again, it's within 12 hours that in his autopsy, you can see that he's been described to us as a ticking time bomb, sadly, George Floyd.
He has this tumor, a paraganglioma, that more testing isn't done on that.
And that can lead to, in his hip, a large tumor.
And that can lead to death when people are in that hyped state, which clearly George Floyd is.
And all these repulsive preachers got up there in Protestant churches and sold that to their congregations, all these politicians, like basically every leader, every business leader, you know, the entire leadership class of the country pivoted behind this lie within 24 hours.
Nikki Haley was like, we need Minneapolis to burn down.
It'll be an atonement for the sins of white supremacy.
I mean, it was like, never seen anything like it.
What was that?
Like, it really felt like this was a play that they had planned for this day.
You had Governor Walls saying these same things, fanning, again, fanning the flames, withholding the National Guard, encouraging people to basically show up and protest.
You had his wife speak on camera about how she left the windows open to the governor's mansion so she could smell the burning tires just to really appreciate the movement and the moment.
So one of the lessons is, and this is just the ugliest feature of human nature, but if someone or something becomes super unpopular, only an infinitesimally small number of people are brave enough to stand up and tell the truth.
Like if the once the mob forms, almost everybody goes along with it.
George Floyd's dead, and I already said I felt sorry for him watching the video because he knew he was dying and like it's scary, you know, for people who haven't prepared for it, I think.
But is there any evidence now that we know more about George Floyd, the man, that George Floyd ever did anything to improve our society or help anybody else or did any virtuous or redeeming things ever?
There were rumors about that perhaps happening, but then he would be brought back to a state facility where he'd be in, you know, he'd be in solitary confinement for sure.
And they've all can't find enough microphones to talk about how they can't wait for that to happen because they would love him to serve every last hour in Minnesota.
Not by the population itself, but by its leaders trying to invert virtue and make you worship a rapist.
And St. George Floyd, if they can make you worship someone like that, the lowest person in your society, like truly the lowest, stupid, criminal, violent, selfish.
Addicts are selfish by definition.
If that's the hero they can make you worship, then they just flip the society upside down and they destroy it.
I mean, if our judicial system is what it says it is, when you're presented with all of the evidence and all of the facts and you take out all of the manipulation, the fear-mongering, again, you had even Chauvin's trial.
Armed guards are standing by.
The Hennepin County Courthouse is being patrolled by this militia.
In a sense, this fencing is put up around the building.
The jury is not sequestered for the trial.
You have these mobs of people out protesting every day.
I don't think anybody in their right mind is going to say, yeah, this guy is innocent because then I'm going to probably be protested or killed or lose my job or whatever it is in the fallout.
Again, I had nothing, really nothing to do with this.
I just don't see how Ted Cruz and the rest can say that Iran is the biggest threat to a country in which things like this are happening.
This is the threat, the attack on truth and fairness, decency, the love of people for each other, the cohesiveness of your society, citizenship, virtue.
Like all of it is dying because it's being overwhelmed by evil.
And yet you look, you know, your focus is outside the country on some theoretical threat.
And what's interesting is, again, we're focusing over at Alpha News on these stories.
There's supposed to be a congressional hearing about all of this, and it's kind of just gone nowhere, sadly.
We also know, I've spoken to a couple people that served with Tim Walls in Nebraska in that guard unit, and they suspect, and we've done stories and tried to reach out to Walls for comment, but they suspect that perhaps he took their standard operating procedure, the SOP, for the howitzer Army tank.
He was assigned to this tank.
It was nuclear capable, and this was all laid out in the SOP that goes missing while he's there.
You were saying that men he worked with in the National Guard in Nebraska went to the FBI because they believed he had given classified military secrets to the Chinese government.
So it's gotten so much worse under this guy who got married on the fifth anniversary of Tiananmen Square because he loves the idea of tanks mowing over protesters.
And so Minnesota, like every other place in the country, is just like totally dominated by out-of-state leftists, billionaires who hate America, want to destroy it.
And they've completely taken over your state and changed it utterly, packed it with immigrants, by the way, changed the nature of who lives there, the demographics of it completely.
And none of it was organic.
Like it wasn't like the people of Minnesota asked for this.
But when we talk about even just this war on the police that has been waged in Minneapolis across the state of Minnesota, he was an attorney who came to Minnesota and represented gang members decades ago.
In fact, represented a gang member who was responsible for executing a Minneapolis police officer, Jerry Hoff.
He was involved in that.
It's hard to believe, I think, by any cops in the state.
However, he was elected to be our attorney general.
But in addition to these four officers, there was another female officer criminally charged and another Minneapolis police officer criminally charged as well.
So this is six police officers charged.
They tried to charge another Minnesota state trooper criminally recently, and the charges were dropped.
We also lost in the line of duty five first responders.
One was a firefighter paramedic in a matter of 13 months in Minnesota.
But even I was shooting some interviews in Minneapolis just recently, and it's not uncommon to see crime for yourself happen just on the way.
There's somebody down the street being held at gunpoint for their car.
I mean, I know it sounds crazy, but it really is like the wild, wild west.
There was a naked man that one of my friends captured on his cell phone having lunch in downtown Minneapolis, just a naked guy walking around on the street.
Drug deals happening.
You can see them from above in some of the high-rise buildings when people even do go.
But it's sad.
It used to be a place where you'd go see a show.
And certainly people are still doing that, but not anywhere close to what it was before.
You know, I'm always a hopeful person, and I think that's why I did jump ship and wanted to play a part in telling the truth and join independent media.
And I've definitely seen more people open their eyes.
At least we're willing to now have these conversations.
But when you have a political assassination that takes place and you're just like, how is this?
This isn't the state that I grew up in.
Again, seems to be unrecognizable.
But I remain hopeful because it really is.
It's a beautiful state.
Wonderful people made me who I am.
And I think there are more of us than we realize.
Sometimes you can feel a little bit out there and alone, but there are more of us than we realize.
Yeah, I think that there are many people who even five years ago, I mean, I'll just say dall of Minneapolis, I mean, I couldn't even find a hairstylist or a makeup artist because this was crazy.
If you could, if you would be willing to tell the truth about this.
I'm sure it's thankless a lot of the time, but I think it's important to tell the truth, whether it's acknowledged as true at the time you are creating a documentary record that at the very least historians can assess to find out what really happened.
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