It's not about Floyd. The problem is the video completely deceives about Chauvin's demeanor... Chauvin does not speak like a southern redneck, that is a black bystander yelling at floyd to get up while Chauvin's face is hidden behind the car.

Listen to the video again! I think it's Chauvin's voice that says "Relax!" "What do you want?" Can't hear anything else from Chauvin.

While Chauvin is leaning behind the car and we can't see his face, a different thickly accented voice (perhaps a bystander near the camera?) Is heard scolding Floyd: "bruv, get up and get in the car right man" repeatedly and "I told you you can't win" "I saw day whole tang" and Floyd replies to this voice yelling at him from the sidelines. "I can't" Chauvin ignores this exchange.

The other cop tells a bystander they tried getting Floyd in the car "for 10 minutes" That happened before the recording even started, probably causing the heart attack regardless of the knee hold.

reportedly At one point, Lane asks, “Should we roll him on his side?” and Chauvin says no. Lane says he is worried about “excited delirium” Chauvin responds, “that’s why we have him on his stomach."

On first viewing it seems Floyd is being choked to death with cruel impossible orders given to him, but the coroner says the knee didn't kill him, and the bystander who'd apparently been yelling at Floyd to stop struggling because he couldn't win is mistaken as Chauvin's voice because we can't see the accented speaker or chauvin's face at the time.

So Chauvin didn't apply lethal force, and was just holding a tweaking thrashing Floyd still waiting for the ambulance already called before the video began! I'm only speculating it's dept policy for them not to try to render aid by pretending to be medics or treat prisoners as patients while waiting for the ambulance... And Chauvin probably didn't want to make it look like he was admitting his knee did anything by removing it completely after Floyd flatlined.

This is a really really unfortunate situation, and maybe a really really unfortunately deceptive video.