He supposedly took a fatal dose of fentanyl and was in the early stages of heart failure.
The guy was gonna die no matter what Chauvin did.
Edit- my issue was with Chauvin's body language and the contemptuousness in his expressions. But Keith Elison is either a moron or deliberately trying to engineer even more riots if he thinks being a douche is grounds to convict a guy of murder when all he did was sit smuggly on a dude whose heart was about to explode.
No it doesn't; the argument appears to be that he would have died soon anyways, so what does it matter that the cop killed him a little earlier? That what the cop did was lethal is not in dispute.
The cop didn't kill him, Fentanyl did, he was literally a dead man walking. Chauvin could have high fived him and offered him a blanket and some soup and he would have still dropped dead.
the difference between him and the dude in Tampa beyond the skin color, was the Tampa dude had his neck compressed and his face driven into the ground. The technique was administered improperly either due to negligence or homicidal malice on the part of the cops (In that case, I'm inclined to believe they murdered the dude), but Floyd was done..period.