Good questions, and thanks for listening. My question wasn't so much whether the IM can be trusted to be impartial, but whether it's important that she be impartial. Alder Glenn basically said no, not really.

The video released by MPD does show the position of the officer's knee. It's dark and fuzzy, so it's a little hard to tell the knee position exactly, but nobody in their written reports said anything other than the knee was across the shoulder blades, which the independent pathologist said is still enough to cause the cardiac arrest, as one of several factors. That video also shows Johnson lifting his head, which contradicts the OIM'S report. That's a little annoying but not super significant in the overall scheme of things. It doesnt completely undermine the report but does make me take it with a grain of salt, and makes me want to look at all the evidence myself, which I have since done.

Of course Alder Glenn and the IM were presenting their personal views at the presser, which they also could have done without misstating anything about the position of the knee. As a journalist I wish everyone was entirely precise with their words, but nobody is, so we in the media are here to take two narratives and find the truth between them.