TOP FIVE LIES Surrounding George Floyd's Death—The TRUTH Will SHOCK You!

Summary

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The Charlie Kirk Show

Episode: TOP FIVE LIES Surrounding George Floyd's Death—The TRUTH Will SHOCK You!

Date: March 18, 2021
Host: Charlie Kirk

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Charlie Kirk sets out to challenge what he sees as the mainstream narrative about George Floyd’s death. He promises not to excuse Floyd’s death or to exonerate officer Derek Chauvin but to present what he believes are neglected facts, drawing largely on content from unwokenarrative.com. Kirk identifies five “big lies” he claims warped public understanding of the incident and its aftermath, and argues these misconceptions led to historic levels of unrest and division in the U.S.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Was the Incident Purely Racially Motivated? [00:00–02:03]

• Claim: The prevailing media narrative is that Floyd was targeted due to his race.
• Kirk’s Argument: Floyd wasn’t simply an innocent bystander but was suspected of using counterfeit currency. Police responded to a 911 call and interacted cordially with other Black bystanders nearby.
  • Quote [00:31]:

    “George Floyd was suspected of using counterfeit currency and counterfeit bills … two officers, Lane and Kung, were informed … When police officers approached the vehicle, Floyd was shoving counterfeit bills into the side of his seat.”

2. Floyd’s Interaction with Officers & Resisting Arrest [02:03–06:07]

• Claim: Floyd was thrown to the ground unprovoked.
• Kirk’s Argument: Footage shows Floyd acting erratically, foaming at the mouth, admitting drug use, and resisting officers’ attempts to get him into the squad car. Kirk says Floyd expressed inability to breathe “seven times before any police officer touched anything near his neck."
  • Quote [03:11]:

    “George Floyd complained that he could not breathe seven times before any police officer touched anything near his neck.”

  • Quote [04:34]:

    “George Floyd asked to go on the ground after he resisted arrest while he was high on fentanyl and methamphetamine. He requested to go on the ground, quote, ‘I want to lay on the ground’… three times.”

3. Officer Chauvin’s Knee—Protocol or Murder? [06:07–08:34]

• Claim: Chauvin had “no precedent whatsoever” to restrain Floyd with a knee on the neck.
• Kirk’s Argument: According to Kirk, Minneapolis police protocols permitted compressive holds, including knees on the neck, as long as they don’t obstruct the airway. He concedes Chauvin may have kept his knee there too long and might be guilty of manslaughter or third-degree murder, but says the specific hold itself was not against local training.
  • Quote [06:45]:

    “Putting a knee on the back of George Floyd’s neck was not against Minnesota training protocol.”

  • Quote [07:28]:

    "That is a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances."

4. Cause of Death: Drugs or Asphyxiation? [08:34–11:45]

• Claim: The cause of Floyd’s death is conclusively known.
• Kirk’s Argument: Kirk recaps two autopsy results:
  • The official Hennepin County report found lethal fentanyl and methamphetamine levels, no sign of asphyxiation, and suggested underlying health issues could have contributed.
  • A second autopsy, commissioned by Floyd’s family, found evidence consistent with traumatic asphyxiation but did not have access to all samples.
• He insists that definitive causality remains unsettled and that drugs could alone have caused Floyd’s death.
  • Quote [09:50]:

    “The medical examiner for Hennepin county said, quote, ‘the autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of suffocation.’”

  • Quote [10:56]:

    “If George Floyd were found dead at home alone…this could be acceptable to be called an overdose.”

5. Was Floyd “Wrongly Targeted” & Was This Systemic Racism? [11:45–13:55]

• Claim: Floyd was targeted because he was Black, exemplifying a pattern of systemic racism.
• Kirk’s Argument: Kirk says all other Black bystanders were treated respectfully. He suggests Chauvin and Floyd might have had personal conflict due to prior acquaintance, but this was not random racial targeting. He also raises the possibility of “excited delirium” as a death factor, referencing medical literature.
  • Quote [12:30]:

    “Every other black person in this encounter was treated fairly, communicated to directly and no one was targeted because of their skin color.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Role of Media:
  • [14:09]:

    “All that would have been preventable if we had a responsible media that would have told you the facts of this case.”

• Charlie’s View on Future Unrest & Media Narratives:
  • [15:01]:

    “If Derek Chauvin gets anything less than a public lynching, which of course he won’t, BLM Incorporated is going to burn the cities of this country to the ground.”

• On the Complexity of the Case:
  • [16:07]:

    “That is a complicated story. Not a black and white right and wrong, burn it all to the ground story. Resist emotion. Go to facts and logic, especially when it comes to this.”

• Call to Action:
  • [16:35]:

    “Share this video with your friends if you dare. Stand up against the WOKE mob. God bless.”

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Important Timestamps

• [00:00–02:03]: Setting the theme, introducing five “lies.”
• [02:03–04:34]: Breakdown of initial police encounter, claims of resisting arrest.
• [04:34–06:07]: Floyd's repeated statements of “I can't breathe”; request to go to the ground.
• [06:07–08:34]: Chauvin’s knee technique and discussion of police training.
• [08:34–11:45]: Summaries of two autopsies, fentanyl/methamphetamine levels.
• [11:45–13:55]: Kirk’s contention against systemic racism as the main motive.
• [13:55–end]: Broader societal implications, critique of the media, and final arguments/call to action.

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Concluding Tone

Charlie Kirk adopts a combative, fact-checking tone, positioning himself against mainstream and activist narratives. He directly appeals to listeners to consider alternative sources (“unwokenarrative.com”), encourages skepticism towards mainstream reporting, and calls for fact-based discussion rather than emotional or tribal reactions to the case. The episode underscores his unapologetically conservative, culture-warrior persona throughout.

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For listeners who want a summary: Charlie Kirk sharply disputes widely reported aspects of the George Floyd case, urging listeners to base their understanding on detailed reports and what he sees as overlooked facts, while warning about the consequences he believes stemmed from a rushed and oversimplified narrative.

Transcript

[A]

The death of George Floyd. If you are interested in finding the truth, you've come to the right place. I am not going to make the case that George Floyd deserved death, nor am I going to make the case that Derek Chauvin is completely innocent. I'm instead going to present facts, evidence that no one else is talking about. You can come to your own conclusions in the comment section or in emails to your friends. You can draw any conclusion that you see fit. But you are gonna find by the end of this video that there are lots of pieces of information that have been withheld from you. So there are five big lies around the death of George Floyd. Number one, the biggest lie is that this was purely and simply a racially motivated incident. The narrative that a majority of Americans have been led to believe is that George Floyd was an innocent man walking the street and white police officers decided to pull over their car and target him for no reason. The first question we should ask is, how did George Floyd get in a altercation with the police officers in the first place? I am reading from a terrific website, unwokenarrative.com and a lot of the research and the evidence and the facts that I will be sharing with you are from this article and the work they have done. The truth about George Floyd's death. George Floyd was suspected of using counterfeit currency and counterfeit bills at a local store in his neighborhood. Two officers, Lane and Kung, were informed that a man in a blue Mercedes Benz was parked in front of cup foods using fake bills. When police officers approached the vehicle, Floyd was shoving counterfeit bills into the side of his seat. Now, just to give you a little bit of a frame of reference, these police officers had perfectly pleasant interactions with other black people surrounding the arrest of George Floyd. Play tape still went off. Is he drunk? Is he on something?

[B]

He got a thing going on. I'm telling you about that. We have problems all the time when they come, especially when that man stood that gun like that. It's been one.

[A]

So as you can see there, the police officers had a perfectly pleasant and cordial conversation with other black people right near the scene of the arrest. George Floyd left the vehicle after being asked by police officers and began resisting arrest. In fact, if you watch the entire video, you will find George Floyd resisting the police officer's direct orders multiple times. Play video. Are you on something right now?

[B]

No, Nothing. Cause you acting erratic. Let's go. Scared, man. Go take a seat.

[A]

Grab a seat, man.

[B]

Y' all don't believe me? Take a seat. I'm not that kind of guy. I'm not that kind of guy, man. Take a seat. Yeah, I'mma die in here. Take a seat. I'mma die, man. You need to take a seat right now.

[A]

Now you notice the officers even asked him if he was on something cuz he was acting so erratic and was foaming at the mouth. We will get to the autopsy in just a second. But the autopsy later revealed that George Floyd had lethal amounts of fentanyl and smaller amounts of methamphetamine in his system at the time of his death. Police officers then directed George Floyd to get into the police squad car. Now, it's so interesting when you watch this video in full and unwokenarrative.com, what a great name for a website, mentions this, that George Floyd complained that he could not breathe seven times before any police officer touched anything near his neck. But here's another piece of very interesting footage from the encounter where George Floyd is saying, I can't breathe while he's in the cop car. Play tape.

[B]

I'm not a bad guy, man.

[A]

I'm in the car.

[B]

I'm not a bad guy. Please sit. Please take a seat. Please, man. Please. No, I have to take a seat. I can't joke. I can't breathe. Please. Fine. My wrist. My wrist, man. My wrist, man. Please.

[A]

So this brings us to the second lie that almost everyone has been led to believe. That George Floyd was thrown on the ground. George Floyd asked to go on the ground after he resisted arrest while he was high on fentanyl and methamphetamine. He requested to go on the ground, quote, I want to lay on the ground. I want to lay on the ground. I want to lay on the ground. Three times George Floyd asked to go on the ground. And again saying that he could not breathe seven times. You will see that Floyd was incoherent, foaming at the mouth and erratic, not listening to police officers. Requests to calm down and wait in the squad car. Police officers even went as far to say, I'll turn on the air conditioning. I. I'll open the window. Police officers are trained to put someone who is arrested in a cop car. This is the next cut that's very interesting. George Floyd even tells the police officers that he has the Chinese coronavirus, that he has Covid. Later tests will show that he did have a positive test for Covid. Play tape.

[B]

I'm a die, man. You need to take a seat right now. And I just had Covid, man. I don't want to go back to that Listen. Dang, man, listen. I'm not that kind of guy.

[A]

I'll roll the windows down and put your legs in.

[B]

All right? God, look at that. Look at this. Look at it. Look at it. We can fix it, but not while you're standing. Hey, man. God, y' all do me bad, man.

[A]

Now, from that point, George Floyd, after he requested to go on the ground, he went on the ground. Derek Chauvin shows up. Derek Chauvin then infamously put his knee on George Floyd's neck. You have all seen this picture. A popular narrative, which is lie 3 as it comes to the death of George Floyd, is that Chauvin had no precedent whatsoever to put his knee on George Floyd's neck. That is not true. The Minnesota police are trained to do so. In fact, this is part of their training procedure, and I quote, compressing one or both sides of a person's neck with an arm or leg without applying direct pressure to the trachea or airway or otherwise known as the front of the neck. So putting a knee on the back of George Floyd's neck was not against Minnesota training protocol. Now, I do think that there is a fair argument that Derek Chauvin had his knee on George Floyd's neck for far too long. Derek Chauvin very well might be guilty of manslaughter or third degree murder. However, to say that he was going out of his way to make up some form of arrest towards George Floyd is simply and factually untrue. Which leads us to the fourth biggest lie around the death of George Floyd, which is that we know how George Floyd died and we don't. In fact, there are two contradicting autopsies. The first autopsy that was conducted concluded that George Floyd had a significant, in fact, a lethal amount of fentanyl in. In his system. In fact, the Hennepin county medical examiner's autopsy report said that Floyd experienced, quote, fentanyl intoxication and, quote, recent methamphetamine use and that they were, quote, significant conditions leading to his death. In Another document, Baker, Dr. Andrew Baker, the Hennepin county medical examiner, who has no political agenda whatsoever, said, quote, that is a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances. In a memo filed on May 26, Dr. Baker concluded that, quote, the autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation or suffocation. Let me say that again. The medical examiner for Hennepin county said, quote, the autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of suffocation. Now, prior to issuing the Autopsy report. The Hennepin county medical examiner preliminary found that autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumata asphyxia or strangulation. And Mr. Floyd also had underlying health conditions including coronary artery disease and hypertensive heart disease, otherwise known as an enlarged heart. Again, this is from unwokenarrative.com credit where credit is due. They found a significant amount, as previously mentioned, of fentanyl, methamphetamine, Delta 9, carboxy, Delta 9, THC, cotinine, caffeine, fentanyl. You can see it all on your screen here. And again, George Floyd had an enlarged heart. He had a number of natural diseases such as heart disease and clinical history of hypertension. Now, there was a second autopsy that was ordered by George Floyd's family because they were dissatisfied with the first one and its findings. It did find that George Floyd, According to the second autopsy that was performed by Dr. Michael Baden, the former chief medical examiner of New York City, and Dr. Alicia Wilson of University of Michigan, that in the re autopsy findings they found that, quote, have seen accounts from the complaint and based on that, yes, our findings do differ from the Hennepin county medical examiner, however, they found that there is mechanical or traumatic asphyxia. But Dr. Wilson, who was hired for the re autopsy, said that they did not have access to toxicology results, tissue samples or some organs, but added that those items, quote, are not likely to change the results of the re autopsy. So there are two contradicting autopsies, one that say that there was no possible strangulation and one that says there was possible strangulation. Now, the truth will have to be decided by the jury. But to say that we know conclusively is not true and that the original autopsy by the actual local county medical examiner found that the fentanyl, the methamphetamine, played a conclusive role. In fact, according to courthouse news, the Star Tribune, Floyd was possibly dying even before he encountered the police. And this is a very important point to note. You could draw your own conclusions of whether or not you think that it was strangulation or drugs or a mixture of both is quote, if George Floyd were found dead at home alone with no other apparent causes, this could be acceptable to be called an overdose. Deaths have been certified with levels of 3. And again to repeat this, this is a fatal level of fentanyl under normal circumstances. Fifth lie when it comes to George Floyd and his death was that George Floyd was wrongly targeted, that this was racism and just a micro example of macro racism that is not at all true. Every other black person in this encounter was treated fairly, communicated to directly and no one was targeted because of their skin color. In fact, there is evidence to suggest that Derek Chauvin and George Floyd had a shared history of disagreement and confrontation. Not that this was a random person on the side of the street that was profiled simply because of their race. George Floyd also might have died of excited delirium. And it's more than just being panicked and fearful. Approximately 2/3 of people diagnosed with excited delirium die at the scene or during police or paramedic transport to a hospital according to health.com unwoke narrative summarizes all of this perfectly. And I'm going to read directly. George Floyd was under the influence of various drugs, had dangerous pre existing health issues and may have experienced excited delirium in his final moments. All factors which could have resulted in death without police presence. George Floyd resisted arrest. As you saw in the video, an officer's restraint was up to the police code of Minneapolis. Now, the death of anyone under arrest is a tragedy. It is not an outcome that anyone wants, however, to use that specific incident and say that this was 100% racially motivated, that George Floyd was thrown on the ground, which is not true. To say that Chauvin had no precedent to put his knee on his neck, which is not true. It's in their training manual. Now you might say it shouldn't be, but. But that is a different argument than saying that Derek Chauvin acted improperly. To say that you know 100% what the cause of death was when there's two contradicting autopsies and number five, to say that Floyd was wrongly targeted. Those five lies all of a sudden led to one of the most misleading, destructive and divisive moments in American political history. Which led to the power of BLM Incorporated, to the worsening of racial tensions in our country, to the flow of billions of dollars, to groups that promote critical race theory, to the defunding of the Minneapolis police, to the burning of the Portland courthouse, to the targeting and death of black police officers across the country. All of that would have been preventable if we had a responsible media that would have told you the facts of this case. But here's what's going to happen next. Anyone that watches this video that is not, let's say, enlightened might be under the hypnosis of the WOKE industrial complex. They're going to call for this video to be removed from social media. They're going to go to all the tech censors. So do us a favor. Share this video with your friends. And number two, if Derek Chauvin gets anything less than a public lynching, which of course he won't, BLM Incorporated is going to burn the cities of this country to the ground. The only thing that will prevent that are the facts that I just shared with you, that this was not an incident that anyone wanted to see happen, including everyone that tried to get George Floyd to sit down and calm down and allow the process to play out. Know the facts. The facts show you that that there's a lot more to this story than the activist media might tell you and that will prevent the next round of violence in our country from occurring. They want you to believe that this was as simple as Derek Chauvin pulling over his car, seeing a random black man, arresting him for no reason, and putting his knee on his neck for no reason whatsoever. We have debunked that. Not just to say that's untrue, but it's the opposite of the truth. That George Floyd was trading counterfeit bills. That he was not just high on fentanyl and methamphetamine, but had a fatal dose of it. He resisted arrest. He was saying he couldn't breathe seven times before he was actually brought down to the ground. He requested to be brought down to the ground and Derek Chauvin did what his manual told him to do. And then Derek Chauvin likely had his knee on his neck for too long and will let the justice system play itself out. That is a complicated story. Not a black and white right and wrong, burn it all to the ground story. Resist emotion. Go to facts and logic, especially when it comes to this. Please Share this video with your friends if you dare. Stand up against the WOKE mob. God bless.