Ha! Okay, I finished my real work.
Floyd was extremely intoxicated, as we know. He was acting erratically from the first moment officers interacted with him. Lane and Kueng were partners. I am not sure why two new and inexperienced officers would be paired up, but they were and were the first squad on the scene. Lane and Kueng noticed that the three occupants of the Mercedes SUV Floyd was driving were moving around a lot as they were walking up to the vehicle. Lane drew his gun just under two minutes into his footage because Floyd had his right hand out of sight and refused FOUR commands in ten seconds to show his hands. Lane later said that he thought Floyd might try to drive away. Floyd blubbers for a few seconds about getting shot by police before finally cooperating. Lane holsters his gun about 40 seconds after drawing it. Floyd continues to refuse to exit the vehicle, so Lane pulls him out and a struggle ensues for nearly a minute. Both Lane and Kueng are needed to get handcuffs onto Floyd. Kueng handles Floyd while Lane talks with the other car occupants. Floyd’s female friend implies that Floyd is crazy and makes a cuckoo gesture at her head to describe him. Kueng and Lane move Floyd across the street. While they’re moving him, Kueng notices foam around Floyd’s mouth. Floyd falls down several times and is generally uncooperative. He does not listen to orders and starts resisting again. They calm him down and start to search Floyd’s pockets, where a weed chillum pipe is found. Lane is calmly giving orders this whole time, explaining to Floyd that they can’t tell what he’s trying to do and is not following orders, which is why they are reacting how they are. Eight and a half minutes in, Floyd continues to refuse getting in the car, saying he is claustrophobic, “why don’t you believe me?” Floyd is completely delirious at this point, eyes extremely wide and wild looking. Foam at his mouth is visible. Floyd continues arguing about getting into the squad car for another minute or two. Kueng pushes Floyd down into the seat of the car and Floyd says he can’t breathe for the first time. He is nowhere near the ground when he starts complaining about not being able to breathe. Lane then says he is going to pull Floyd into the car. It seemed like Lane pulled too hard or Floyd pushed as he was pulling and Floyd ended up partially on top of Lane. This is when Floyd asks to be put on the ground, but it takes another minute until Floyd is on the ground. Chauvin and the Asian cop arrive while Floyd is still off the ground. Floyd is complaining about not being able to breathe again. Chauvin, Lane, and Kueng all take Floyd down to the ground completely after another struggle. Two officers lose their radios and Floyd’s shoe is knocked off. Floyd continues to kick and struggle on the ground, which is when Chauvin kneels on him and pins his left wrist back further in cuffs. Lane is calm once he gets Floyd’s legs pinned down. Veins were popping out of Floyd’s right arm. Floyd keeps moving and writhing on the ground as he says he can’t breathe. Chauvin and Lane both tell Floyd over the next few minutes to relax and that he’s using a lot of oxygen for someone who can’t breathe. Chauvin asks what Floyd is on and Lane asks Chauvin about PCP intoxication signs, says “isn’t that the shaking of the eyes?” Floyd is still moving and breathing for about four to five minutes while Chauvin has him pinned. When Floyd stops moving and breathing, it happens quickly in about 20-30 seconds and then Kueng is unable to feel a pulse. A crowd has gathered and is yelling at the officers. The Asian cop is on the sidewalk and controlling the crowd. He never touches Floyd. Chauvin seemed in shock and like he froze during the pinning. He barely moves during those few minutes, other than looking around at a white dangerhair who comes up yelling behind the officers and as we know from the crowd footage, looking at the crowd a few times. Other than that, he doesn’t move his hand that is pinning Floyd’s wrist or his leg and seemed stiff or frozen. EMS arrives about a minute after Kueng is unable to find a pulse; they were already en route. Chauvin releases his knee once EMS walks up to Floyd’s body and they move him to a stretcher using one of those white sheet things you see in old war movies. Chauvin looks like he is in shock.
Kueng goes back into Cup Foods to talk to the employees, who say that both Floyd and his dreadlocked male friend used fake bills. Floyd was successful and his friend was not. The manager said they also had more counterfeits, which is corroborated by the exhibit photos from the vehicle that show crumpled counterfeits in the seats.
Lane gets into the ambulance with EMS and starts CPR. Floyd has road rash on his left shoulder and left side of his face. He is also bleeding from his nose. Lane does compressions for a minute and a half until EMS puts on a compression machine. Lane then leaves the ambulance calmly. EMS was parked on the street around 40th Street administering CPR and was not driving towards a hospital. Lane gets into a fire truck that arrives and calmly recounts what happened to the firefighter. She seemed sympathetic, chats with Lane and laughs when talking about how nice the fire truck is. She wonders what Floyd was on and says “that’s a shame.” Lane is fiddling with handcuffs taken off Floyd. The firefighter tries to comfort Lane and says that if CPR is started early, chances are good. Lane gets out of the fire truck and checks with EMS. The compression machine is no longer on Floyd and EMS says he will be DOA to dispatch.
TL;DR: Floyd was extremely intoxicated, acted erratically, resisted several times, and didn’t follow orders. Chauvin seemed to freeze and was in shock. This is not 2nd degree murder, possibly negligent manslaughter at most. I don’t see how the other officers could be guilty of anything.