Over the late summer months of 2023, Liz Collins and J.C. Chaix released a documentary focused on the conviction of Minneapolis police offer Derek Chauvin. In their film, Collins and Chaix argue the Minnesota justice system convicted a man to appease "woke" activists and social justice agitators rather than on the evidence.
The piece received plenty of coverage in the Republican dominated media--Jason Whitlock, Breitbart, and One News Nation immediately come to mind--but also from intellectually stronger pundits like Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and most recently Coleman Hughes. Hughes wrote an editorial published by Bari Weiss' Free Press that concluded the documentary raises serious doubts about Chauvin's conviction.
Along comes Radley Balko, a veteran crime reporter with years of experience at the Washington Post. In a series of three essays (the third is still pending) on his Substack site, Balko destroy's the documentary's premise showing how the producer Collins, and screenplay writer, Chaix, misled, misrepresented, and outright lied to viewers about this case. His rebuttal of the documentary's thesis was so thorough that Glenn Loury recently went on his The Glenn Show to say outright that he and McWhorter were wrong to reach the conclusions about the movie and spent a few moments trying to understand how he was so easily duped.
Anyone on here watch this documentary and accept the filmmaker's thesis? If so, have you read Balko's response to Coleman Hughes' opinion piece?
The piece received plenty of coverage in the Republican dominated media--Jason Whitlock, Breitbart, and One News Nation immediately come to mind--but also from intellectually stronger pundits like Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, and most recently Coleman Hughes. Hughes wrote an editorial published by Bari Weiss' Free Press that concluded the documentary raises serious doubts about Chauvin's conviction.
Along comes Radley Balko, a veteran crime reporter with years of experience at the Washington Post. In a series of three essays (the third is still pending) on his Substack site, Balko destroy's the documentary's premise showing how the producer Collins, and screenplay writer, Chaix, misled, misrepresented, and outright lied to viewers about this case. His rebuttal of the documentary's thesis was so thorough that Glenn Loury recently went on his The Glenn Show to say outright that he and McWhorter were wrong to reach the conclusions about the movie and spent a few moments trying to understand how he was so easily duped.
Anyone on here watch this documentary and accept the filmmaker's thesis? If so, have you read Balko's response to Coleman Hughes' opinion piece?
