“2. What Floyd did before his arrest very much so will explain why such a harsh form of restraint was used.”
And this video is cut short. Floyd becomes more combative for a few minutes while they try to sit him up and get his seat belt on. He eventually manages to work his way out the opposite traffic side of the car.
There are issues with law enforcement in this country for sure.
They have been turned into meter maids by communities that have even become dependent on the revenue. Shortening yellow lights to get more tickets... tickets, tickets, tickets...
There has been a general trend towards militarization: MRAPs, black uniforms, high and tight haircuts, military grade drones, every department/office with more than 12 officers needing a SWAT team and of course multi-cam uniforms and FAST helmets...
The idea of “policing” has gone lost somewhere along the way.
Frankly, some of the race baiting politicians are side stepping the real problems by making this into a shallow but for them politically expedient, race issue.
Sadly, most in law enforcement are very good people, but incidents like this turn them into the bad guys, and in America everything comes and goes in huge big fads or trends. NOTHING is measured/proportional, rational... So once the trend goes the other way, then cops become the bad guys no differently than soldiers in the 60s... America is only about extremes.