Desperate, not "retarded"
Chauvin believed he was at real risk for going to jail if Floyd followed through with informing on his drug related activities at the nightclub awash in drugs, which is a pretty good assumption.
Jail is virtually a death sentence for cops .
What you see Chauvin doing is in pure desperation to avoid going to jail .
Like I said before, that would be a really retarded move to murder someone in front of witnesses. If Chauvin was that "desperate" he could have tracked down George Floyd and gotten to him where there were fewer witnesses and rolled the dice that there were no cameras or witnesses.
Your assumption just doesn't add up. A CITIZEN called the police on Floyd over an alleged forged $20 bill. That is what got that party started. So that factors in how? Chauvin set that up to have the shopkeeper call the police dispatch, and then the police dispatch assigned Chauvin to the call?
Come on, think about that for a minute. Your theory would involve too many other people to have been what happened. I for one do not believe in many conspiracy theories like that, especially criminal conspiracies. Not since the old school Italian Mafia were there criminal associates where everyone kept their mouths shut. Today just about anyone would rat out anyone else to save their own skin.
It was like that with the defense "theory" in the OJ Simpson case. The defense would have us believe that two separate sets of detective teams from two different divisions who had NEVER met each other before, along with another half dozen crime unit technicians (one just a few weeks on the job) ALL stood out front of Nicole Simpson's house over her body in the early morning hours and as a group conspired to frame OJ Simpson.
Nah... that never happens. In general terms you can't get 10 people to agree on where to go to lunch together, much less risk life in prison to frame an ex-NFL player.
It may come as a surprise to you but desperate drug criminals which is what Chauvin is are not always the most logical moral thinkers .
Chauvin figured this was going to be Floyd or him at this point.
You are speculating. Provide more facts.
He thought whatever punishment came from an excessive force charge was going to be better than conviction for running a drug/ extortion/protection racket in uniform .
Once he put his knee to Floyd's neck he was in for a penny in for a pound .
It wasn't excessive force, it was a murder. A murder with witnesses around. So your theory doesn't hold water. Chauvin murdered Floyd he didn't just rough him up.
Nobody said it was not murder, and you can't show me where I did ?
I'm confused, I always have said it was a murder (2nd degree... implied malice).
In fact I even upgraded it to , " PREMEDITATED " murder .
You are claiming with your theory of possible past association that the premeditation and planning occurred before the response to the citizen calling the police on Floyd. that Chauvin I guess was laying in wait for this supposed call that was going to come. I guess that might work, but only in Hollywood movie. A story line I suppose where Chauvin somehow planted forged $20 bills in such a way that Floyd would then go out an unknowingly pass them and then Chauvin would catch the radio call and then be there using the police call as a pretext to commit FIRST DEGREE murder (express malice).
That would be a stretch I think.
There is a ginormous difference between a race related murder & an ongoing nightclub drug sales related dispute/ murder between people is the issue.
Murder is murder. Chauvin committed 2nd degree murder and the premeditation occurred within the 8 1/2 minutes where it was clear to any reasonable person that the force was now lethal, and Floyd was in fact dying. This didn't require some prior plan to be classified a murder. Now if it turns out there was a history, and Chauvin had some animus directed at Floyd on this chance meet-up around a dispatch to an alleged crime, then that might certainly weigh in on the Federal civil rights case that will surely follow the state murder case. That Chauvin's malice toward Floyd was based on Floyd's race.
