In the RET I could pick a FOR that is inertial, and see a person in freefall accelerating towards the earth.
No you couldn't. Not if you were close enough to see them at all, anyway.
Here are your Free body diagrams
The FE model:
and the RE model:
So you can see these hold true for each respective model
Okay, so assuming one is in freefall in a vacuum, the only force in the second (erroneous, but for the sake of argument I shall pretend that it is not) free body diagram is acting downwards.
Now, say the person falling is holding a hypothetical box that no force can penetrate, and inside this box is a mouse that has no idea what is going on outside it. Using your free body diagram, then, the mouse will feel a fictitious force upwards as the person is pulled down, thus proving that - if your diagram is correct - a person in freefall is in a non-inertial frame of reference. Congratulations, you just disproved Einstein!