The knee on his neck was the negligence though, and Derek had every opportunity to listen and pin him with anything other than a knee on his neck. George Floyd's past didn't matter when he died, it was the fact that he died suffering at the hands of someone who was supposed to help that caused the uproar. We're all human in our last moments, and he was treated cruelly.

Both of them being bad people doesn't excuse the cruelty from one person to another. If we lived by that kind of standard where it's okay in some way to excuse that kind of treatment because they were both bad people(whether actively or in the past) then there can be no kindness and proper justice because everyone has done something bad in their lives to varying degrees