There's plenty of blame to go around. Floyd shouldn't have done drugs. He shouldn't have tried to pay with a counterfeit bill. When the bill was rejected, he shouldn't have left the store with the cigarettes without paying for them. He shouldn't have resisted arrest and refused to get in the cop car.
The cop shouldn't have put his knee to Floyd's neck for fucking almost 9 minutes. He should have checked on Floyd, especially once he was unconscious. The other cops should have called out Chauvin and checked on Floyd.
The rioters and the looters should have had some self control and not went wild like a bunch of animals, setting back race relations at least 20 years and making a mockery of any peaceful protests just trying to get justice and change to police procedures.
The media shouldn't have fanned the flames. They shouldn't have been pushing the idea that white people are the devil for the last few years making something like this likely. They should report accurately on the statistics which would show that police brutality isn't a purely racial thing. They shouldn't be excusing the looters and rioters and making it about racism when the cop was on an ego trip and the looters are just criminals looking to steal stuff. They shouldn't be frothing at the mouth trying to instigate another Kent state incident they can report on.
The politicians should do their jobs and not let politics keep them from maintaining law and order in their own cities. The President shouldn't shitpost during a serious crisis and antagonize the Dems -- even if they deserve -- because he should be able to put the good of the country above the immature slap fights with the Dems. The Dems shouldn't let their cities burn just because they hate Trump.
It's taken a shit load of bad decisions from so many people to get us here. And I wish we were allowed to talk about that openly instead of having to choose between ACAB and the KKK. The truth is that everybody sucks (except us, of course

) and we need some actual grown ups in the room to fix this shit.