And he will be convicted.
But.....
For the wrong reasons.
The entire defense is, I believe the wrong way to go.
There is no way to defend squatting on another human being's neck for over nine minutes after they are subdued, while the public calls out for you to show some basic humanity as the man pleads for his life and calls out to his mother.
Nor does racism explain this, this is not plotted racism, Chauvin is working with two nonwhite officers, he knows he is being recorded by the public with their phones, the public is calling out, openly condemning him as he does this, and yet he just stares out blankly and continues smashing down on Mr. Floyd's neck.
The demented look on Chauvin's face reveals what the real defense and plea should have been.
Diminished mental capacity.
That he was not in his right mind, not in a rational state probably due to the stresses of being a police officer over a long period of time.
Some form of PTSD sending him into a psychotic episode.
That should have been his defense.
That does not mean he walks free, but it might mean the right sentence for what actually happened.
Hey, if you were given a choice, would you choose to get pumped to 11 ng/ML of Fentanyl or have someone pin you to the ground with their knee on your neck for 8 minutes?
Not sure what any drugs he might have taken have to do with anything. Medical experts have already said drugs had no part in his death.
Bullshit. That concentration of fentanyl can be lethal unless you have a huge tolerance.
His girlfriend testified that he quit doing drugs for months before his death. He went through rehab. That means he lost opioid tolerance.
And on top of that, the pills he apparently consumed were counterfeit. They had the markings of Percocet, which is a combination of oxycodone and Tylenol.
Perhaps unbeknownst to George Floyd, he actually consumed fentanyl and methamphetamine when he thought he was taking Percocet.
Fentanyl is more potent than oxycodone by an order of magnitude!
There's a practice called "hot packing". That's when a drug dealer purposefully overdoses a client by giving them drugs that are much more potent than they know.
Pushers do this to suspected snitches, and/or just for advertising purposes. Once word gets out to the local junkies that someone overdosed on their product, demand for their product will spike.
I think there's a reason why his so-called "friends" did not tell the first responders what drugs he was on. If the cops knew he was on an opioid, they could have saved his life with naloxone.