Well I agree. However, there still is no excuse yet, for why he had his knee on that guys neck, and being fired and sent to trial, is a good move.
There is no way to look at that, as anything other than badly.
But yes, they should clearly establish the cause of death quickly.
The autopsy was done yesterday, so they probably know.
Probably, and since they havent gone public with it yet, it sounds like the cop did not cause the death, but may have contributed to the circumstances LEADING to the criminal's death.
The deeper mystery to me is what happened while Floyd was in the squad car.
Everything was going smoothly then suddenly they stop, pull Floyd out and put him in a punishing submission restraint.
What the hell happened? It wasnt something as silly as Floyd insulting Chauvin, or kicking the back of his seat, lol.
I suspect that Chauvin is a 'connected' cop who sometimes does things for the Ward Bosses when they ask him, and Floyd maybve have been doing 'unauthorized' things and the bosses were done with him and told Chauvin to teach Floyd a lesson. I would put the odds of what happened in the squad car to be about 20% Ward Boss and the remaining 80% as mystery meat, but hopefully a DOJ investigation will turn up what the catalytic event was. It wasnt a 'So's yo Mama.' sort of thing.