At what point do people not understand that if a cop says you are under arrest, you do not put up a fight and instead you put your hands behind your back and go through the LEGAL process as opposed to creating a situation where you might be shot due to resisting arrest and trying to flee using a vehicle which then becomes a deadly weapon (since at least 1 person every day is killed in high-speed chases) so the cop prevents the chase and endangerment to the general public as well as police officers before it escalates?
Yes, the police are needing to work better at de-escalating situations; however, the vast majority of these cases that result in people rioting and screaming about injustice are negating and avoiding the FACT that the person was resisting or fleeing from the cops in the very small hope that they can get away with something.
Floyd was the exception, not the rule. Chauvin was a complete POS and he deserves to have the book thrown at him for how he killed Floyd. And yes, I recognize Floyd was resisting, but if the police had listened and heard him say that he is claustrophobic they should have worked to help calm him down and arrange alternative transportation without any force being applied. The cops were made clearly aware of the mental challenge involved. So yes, Chauvin deserved to be convicted.
