If dirty cop Derek Chauvin had been able to subdue him with the help of the two or other cops who were on the scene once he was cuffed, we wouldn't have had to put up with weeks of rioting and billions of dollars of property damage.
I read a lot. There are many people who believe that this "protest" was artificially created for the purpose of political benefit to Democrats for this election year. There are deliberate provocateurs who scour social media and the news looking for events they can use to fire up the black base because the polling was showing a heavy support for Donald Trump among black males. (40%)
I've also read that the Chinese bot farms are doing everything they can to ramp up outrage and disrupt normal conditions in the USA because this serves their interest.
My point here is that if it had not been this, it would have been something else. Once Agent provocateurs are engaged in creating a false outrage, they will not be stopped by reality.
For example, the reality of this George Floyd incident is that the cop very likely did not kill him. It appears he died of a combination of having a serious heart condition and taking meth and fentanyl.
People think the cop's knee on his neck killed George Floyd, but it appears that's not accurate at all.
Prior to this George Floyd incident, it was all about Arbery getting killed by two rednecks with a shotgun. Left out is the fact that Arbery charged at and assaulted the man holding the gun.
The goal here is to stir outrage, and any incident which could be made to look like it was unfair to black people, was going to get used to stir this outrage.
To sum it up, it wasn't caused by this cop. It was caused by people looking for excuses to cause it, and this cop just happened to be in an unfortunate place at an unfortunate time, presented with an unfortunate circumstance, and took unfortunate actions.