Stop with your hidden racism of including Floyd's medical history. He did not deserve to have a cop kneel on his neck for over 8 minutes.

No one does. 

It's as if Joe is commenting on a man with a stab wound that bled to death,  but since the man is a hemophiliac and took two aspirin a short time before the stabbing we must conclude he died because his blood doesn't clot. As if the stabbing had nothing to do with the death and the victim should put fault only on himself. Idiotic.

In my opinion, George Floyd knew he was going to die for at least five minutes. He begged for his mother. He stared death in the face and could do nothing except beg for his life. The man applying pressure on his neck through Floyd's resistance, anger, cries of mercy and eventual begging for life is a criminal.

I think what you're trying to get to is Depraved Indifference, which is similar to negligence, but requires proving a depraved state of mind, or wanton indifference.

Tunnel vision? 

That exchange indicates some type of training issue may be part of this.

That's because you are thinking in terms of what is fair to Mr. Floyd, and how to get justice for him.  I get that.  Right now its easy for us to condemn Chauvin because of what is on that video tape.  

But despite how overwhelmingly convincing the tape is, you have to remember that Chauvin is still presumed to be innocent, and the criminal justice system is set up to protect his rights as the defendant.  

These protections are necessary to help prevent innocent people from being convicted, because the founding fathers accepted the axiom that if the judicial system errs, it would be better for a guilty man to go free, than for an innocent man to be imprisoned.  

It seems unfair to Mr. Floyd, but that is largely because we have such overwhelming evidence in this case that to almost all of us there seems to be no question Chauvin is guilty.  But in most cases we don't have the luxury of a video tape like this. 

Crap like this is not going to stop happening as long as the police are allowed to police themselves.

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I blame the prosecution for overcharging. A second degree murder charge requires the jury to decide the defendant has a depraved mind. It's really hard for the prosecution to prove to the jury what Zimmerman was thinking. It's one thing to think that Zimmerman was guilty of killing Trayvon and another to say that the prosecution proved that Zimmerman killed him with a depraved mind.

On the other hand, if they built the case around Zimmerman being a stupid asshole who was responsible for Trayvon's death because he profiled him and idiotically confronted him with a gun, I think the jury would have been more likely to find him guilty of manslaughter.

With Chauvin, it's much easier to argue that kneeling on someone's neck for nine and half minutes is proof that he was acting with intent without regard for human dignity and life.