The trick I think they're playing rests on the assumption that black people are insane retards with no agency and must be treated like children. And I mean this not as an insult to them, but their logic is something like: yes this guy was a junkie, yes he sucked, yes he committed a crime and deserved to be arrested, yes he was high at the time and that may very well have contributed primarily to his death, but his life was in Chauvin's hands and the fact that he was not a literal saint to Floyd that makes everything that happens to him his fault. Because he did not save Floyd's life, he might as well have killed him, which is what he is really on trial for.
They never saw George Floyd as a saint. They saw him as an animal; he was a dog being hit in public. That's why they turn away from facts about his life, they want to see a poor pathetic imbecile screaming for his momma.
I mean of course by that logic it is also the EMT's fault for not getting their faster, it's that fat fire department bitch's fault for not acting more professionally to administer help, it's the store employee's fault for kicking it off, if we want to assign blame that broadly then everyone is to blame. Because according to the prosecution, it was this entire society's responsibility to keep this insane nigger alive. And if we do not see a white man hang, then this society deserves to suffer. This is the America you live in.
