Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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So it is true that Antifa is messing up what should have been a very clean and effective Black Lives Matter message because that video made it very possible for Black Lives Matter to really gain a lot in terms of empathy and understanding, political clout, maybe gifts, things changed, maybe get some movement and maybe make a difference. There were all these things that could have easily come out o…

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What else we got going on here? I told you that we would eventually see that missing video of George Floyd's tragic ending few minutes. Because remember we weirdly had a video early on in the arrest sequence and we had a video of his final minutes but that whole thing in between was missing. And what did I tell you? I told you that somebody didn't want you to see it. And now we've seen some of it but I think there's still some missing.

So the part we've seen is a little bit too cleverly ambiguous. So let me say this. You know that video lies, right? If you just edit out a little bit of video you can completely reverse what is seen. We saw it with the Covington kids situation. You've seen it with enough situations. You know that as a general truth if video is edited even a little bit it can completely reverse what you saw.

We have not yet seen the full video of the stop from beginning through death. There's still a piece missing. And here's what's really sketchy about the piece we're seeing. It seems to start when there's something happening inside the cop car and you can see cops from both sides and based on their feet you can see that there's something like a struggle going on inside the backseat of the cop car. And it looks like there must be some kind of a physical struggle with George Floyd and then you see them exit around the corner and then they end up by the bumper but you're looking from the other view so you can just tell that that's where they are but you can't see much happening.

So here's what's still missing. What happened just before the altercation in the cop car? Why is it that we would see this video that starts exactly when it's ambiguous? Because what the tweet that I saw was somebody who imagined that it was a video, and I say imagine because you can't tell, he imagined that what was happening inside the car that you can't see at all, there's no visibility really in the car, but you know there's some kind of altercation going on there because of the legs on the outside. So one person imagined that that was the police beating up George Floyd, just beating him up.

Now is that possible? Yes, anything's possible. But could it be that there was something else going on? Somebody had suggested, I think Ian had suggested, that he had said something about being claustrophobic when he was towards sort of his final words there. Now if he was claustrophobic there might have been maybe some kind of a panic situation in the back of the car. It could have been misinterpreted as resisting arrest when it might have been more of a panic. Maybe. I'm just saying that we don't know what to rule in or what to rule out. We still have a black hole of non-information there.

So I would ask you to be really careful when you see that new video from the new angle because it's missing probably the most important part. And I'm guessing that the most important part, the missing part, somebody doesn't want you to see because it might change your mind about something. Now it could change your mind in the wrong way meaning it could be misleading. So it's possible that somebody doesn't want you to see it because it's misleading. You can't really let them. That would be a legitimate reason to hold it back. If they thought it was gonna cause a race riot and it was misleading a reasonable person might decide to just hold it back. But another reason to hold it back is that you want to mislead. We don't know. We don't know who has the video and we don't know why they're holding back. We assume that the whole video exists because it would be kind of weird if it doesn't.

But there's probably something that happened right before they put him in the car that would suggest where the bad behavior, where the sequence of events started I guess, and then maybe would give you some greater understanding of the whole situation. That said there's no excuse for killing the guy once he's down on the ground. So there's still a lot of questions that need to be answered there.

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The weirdest thing about these protests is that the whole point of the protest is against the police. At least that's the trigger for it. As I said Antifa is there for their own reasons and they're not being especially helpful to Black Lives Matter. But given that the trigger for it and at least Black Lives Matter's main issue is the police, the weirdest thing that's coming out of this so far, and…

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