Assault Surveillance Videos
These videos document a violent assault inside my home on April 15, 2025. Just after midnight, I was woken up, naked in bed, by two men demanding I unlock my iPhone. One was holding my wallet. I said, “Take all the cash,” because they already had it — but it got much worse.
They beat me unconscious multiple times with their fists, leaving bruises and scratches later documented in a forensic medical exam. The assault included physical and sexual violations. They were professionals. They knew that multiple concussions would impair my memory and make it harder to testify clearly later.
They left the phone with me as they pillaged my home — which allowed me to call 911 and activate my surveillance system. While I lay injured in bed, they ripped doors off their hinges, tore my refrigerator apart, threw contents across the floor, breaking anything fragile they could find.
They were staging the scene to make it look like a mutual domestic violence incident, so I’d be arrested too. They were experienced. They knew exactly what they were doing.
I called 911 four times. The police — two officers — arrived nearly two hours after my first call. They came into my bedroom, where I begged them to protect me. Instead, they gave the assaulters five minutes to “gather their things.” During that time, more of my belongings were stolen — while the officers stood by.
Thank the heavens they were gone, as I was waiting for the ambulance still. I called out from my bed: “When will the ambulance come?”
The officers slammed my front door shut without answering. That moment is captured on video. Why were they so unhelpful? Was it some kind of homophobic or racist response? It seems like there was something that repulsed them as they so ineptly failed to perform their required duties, which was confirmed by the police office (recorded) when I gave a second report to at the Emergency Room.
The ambulance never came. No police report was filed. No bodycam footage was released or even acknowledged if exists. No one from law enforcement, MAARC MN Adult Abuse Reporting Center (charged with protecting vulnerable adults), my disability wavier case management, the MN DHS appeals division, or care coordinator has investigated or even offered to help in any credible way.
The event was just the beginning: The assaulters and robbers continue to attempt fraud and identity theft weekly. These are professionals. Credit card charges are still processed as they auto updated numbers the card companies to easily provide thier vendors at the customer’s expense (literally and figuratively). They switch transaction attempts from local to foreign locations —timing them just before and after midnight — testing amounts from smaller to larger sums, different sites. Every card has been canceled and reissued multiple times. When I go to the store, I can’t pay as the card is locked or I’m waiting the 10 or more days for them to mail me a new card. Each attempt requires about an hour phone call to collect the information for evidence, evidence no one currently wants to collect to prosecute the case.
Multiple medical visits for traumatic brain injury, the physical issues from the beatings, and attempting to deal with the psychological fallout.
NOTE on VIEWING THESE VIDEOS
They are disturbing. Please don’t look away. Most people have to, but if you can stay with it, you can understand what it is for me better. You might see things I missed and share them with me.
People seem to have a difficult time even believing the incident occurred. Often they blame me. They don’t believe the police failure. They don’t know how I could have let one of the assaulters, a friend dying of pancreatic cancer, and friend I’ve known over 15 years, sleep on my couch. He’s a special ed teacher and a sweetheart, except when he drinks alcohol or takes drugs. I knew this, but as his cancer was at a point where he could no longer hold liquids or food, I mistakenly though I was safe, at least from him drinking alochol. How could I forget he could smoke meth as evidence I found later suggests, from the person he invited over.
This happened. The videos do not show everything as not all my cameras were operational, such as the one in my bedroom where most of the beatings occurred. I haven’t figure out but I think they were aware of some of the cameras as the one in the living room started working the next day but didn’t record during the assault. Luckily they missed the ones that did record.
I likely say this often, but the assault did not end when the unidentified police escorted the assaulters out of my home. See what so many including the police, case managers, appeals judge, Hennepin County Social Service workers, and my condo assocciation board refuse to acknowledge.
When you view the videos, you may understand that they don’t look as it proves they are each liable for mistakes and failure to provide help to a vulnerable adult and person with major disabilites, as mandated by law. Every party has been told of the incident details. Often it is clear they just don’t believe the narrative. But as a published research and cognitive scientist, I am trained to state things accurately, without bias.
The videos indicate that my statements likely still soften the reality of the event. I understand friends, at least, as it is also too much for me to hold inside as well. Posting these videos is like reliving it again and incompacitates me and I have to stop and restart. I hope that my perseverance in publishing the videos lessens the power these actions still hold over me from being held hidden inside. Noone will do this for me, as I have asked.
I’m releasing them like wild captured creatures back into the universe where hopefully compassion and healing will blend them into nature’s cycles of transformation and renewal. Hopefully I make it.
