The fact the Floyd wasn't a felon, despite the picture some people in the peanut gallery are painting, will play into this case.
Are you fucking retarded? He pled guilty to aggravated robbery with a gun, during a home invasion. He was sentenced to five years. That's a fucking felony.
ETA: nevermind, I apparently took low quality bait.
But since we're going into this thug's criminal life, that felony was far from his only crime. Just between 1997 and 2005, he served eight jail terms. These were mostly minor crimes like possession, theft, and trespassing. The home invasion robbery where he put a gun to a pregnant woman's belly while leading others in the robbery plan was in 2009.
He then apparently made some kind of attempt to clean up his life, volunteered for various things, and was clean for a while. But by 2014, he was already back on drugs. That's when he moved to Minneapolis and went into rehab again. At some point in this time, he worked at a nightclub, where apparently Chauvin had also worked at some time. I don't know if they knew each other. If they did, it might give the prosecution some window to argue there was some beef between them and this was a motive for actual murder, but I think they'd have gone for first degree if there was anything like this in evidence. Apparently, the guy who initially made the claim they'd had some beef later retracted it.
By 2019, he was definitely back on drugs and was arrested with opioid pain pills, pulled the "I CAN'T BREATHE" thing, and was taken to the ER. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested for driving a delivery truck without a CDL and causing a crash. Later in 2019, he lost a part-time job as a security guard at another nightclub because of COVID-19, and later, in 2020, he got COVID himself.
So we ended up with him, jobless and back on drugs, passing counterfeit bills, probably to maintain his drug habit, and that's when he got killed.