A judge has sided with Alpha News and reporter Liz Collin, who asked for the defamation suit filed by the Minneapolis Police Department’s Assistant Chief to be dismissed.
Judge Edward T. Wahl found none of the statements Assistant Minneapolis Police Chief Katie Blackwell challenged were “defamatory as a matter of law, given the well-established caselaw assessing commentary by media figures on matters of high public interest involving limited-purpose public figures.”
Collin and Alpha News were being sued by Blackwell, based on her portrayal in the documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis” and book “They’re Lying.”…