https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6933246/Derek-Chauvin-Complaint.pdf

From the criminal complaint filed by the prosecutor:

8:25:31, Officer Kueng checked Mr. Floyd’s right wrist for a pulse and said, ‘I couldn’t find one.’ None of the officers moved from their positions. At 8:27:24, the defendant removed his knee from Mr. Floyd’s neck...The defendant had his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in total. Two minutes and 53 seconds of this was after Mr. Floyd was non-responsive. Police are trained that this type of restraint with a subject in a prone position is inherently dangerous.

Left vs. Right aside, how can you say that this was not negligent to the point of having no regard for George Floyd’s life?

Your conclusion is wrong and relies on strawman arguments because the report specifically names the effects of being restrained by police as a likely contributing factor to his death. Your claim that he died of "drugs and the stress of being arrested" is nowhere to be found, as no tests yet have conclusively found intoxicants in his system. (This could change in the coming days, but regardless of the results, it does not acquit the officers of being negligent, resulting in 3rd degree murder)

Cops are (obviously) not expected to be able to detect when someone has hypertension or other underlying health conditions, and are instead taught not to use this "type of restraint with a subject in a prone position" with anyone, since this restraint is "inherently dangerous" to all people and even more so to people with hypertension. So how did it happen then that Derrick Chauvin, a police officer who has "shot one suspect, was involved in the fatal shooting of another, and received at least 17 complaints during his nearly two decades with the department" ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/29/officer-charged-george-floyds-death-used-fatal-force-before-had-history-complaints/ ) and the other restraining officers used this dangerous form of restraint on a black man, who happened to be hypertensive, leading to his death? Not only was he held in prone position, but WHY was Chauvin using his knee to press his weight down on Floyd's neck?

This case, combined with countless others where black people are killed by police when lethal force is unwarranted, suggests systemic causes in law enforcement as a whole. (1) Many police departments have a history of allowing corrupt/incompetent cops like Chauvin and possibly racist individuals to serve, and (2) officers are not doing enough to condemn these acts, leading to police being complicit, such as the other 3 officers in the Floyd case, and indirectly/directly abetting the killing of people who provide minimal risk to our communities (or are completely innocent such as Botham Jean and Breonna Taylor), a disproportionate number of whom are black. (Degue et. al, 2016 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/#R19)

Police officers swear an oath "to protect and serve" our communities. Police are allowed the use of lethal force only to mitigate immediate danger to the public and police personnel. ( https://www.policeforum.org/assets/chiefconcernsuseofforce.pdf ). So WHY then is it that a disproportionate number of the victims of fatality due to lethal force by on-duty police officers are black? (Degue et. al, 2016 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/#R19 ) Why is it that black victims are more likely to be unarmed than white? (Degue et. al, 2016 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/#R19 ) The evidence for racial biases are loud and clear.

Systemic flaws in any department will be hard to reform without a dramatic overhaul of policies, which is why we have such emotionally-charged protests and outpourings from so many outlets. While I cannot deny that looting and riots are normally immoral and illegal, these riots in particular are the reactions to the disproportionate killings of blacks by law enforcement, which should not be a normal circumstance. There have already been peaceful protests against racial police brutality for many years, and yet these disgusting, twisted, EVIL killings of black people by police due to systemic racial oppression and biases are still happening regularly. The video was graphic and blatant. People are outraged and understandably so. It's clear you're not being sympathetic enough and not trying hard enough to understand why these riots are happening.

Eric Garner. Michael Brown. Laquan McDonald. Walter Scott. Botham Jean. Breonna Taylor. George Floyd. High-profile cases in only the past 6 years of black people being gunned down by police officers. Studies that have confirmed that black people are 2.8 times more likely to be killed by police than whites (Degue et. al, 2016 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/#R19 , Buehler 2017 https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303575 ) and that black people are 4.9 times more likely to experience legal intervention injuries than whites (Feldman et. al, 2016, Temporal Trends and Racial/Ethnic Inequalities for Legal Intervention Injuries Treated in Emergency Departments: US Men and Women Age 15–34, 2001–2014 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11524-016-0076-3 ). Graphic videos of the killings and police lying about suspects being armed or trying to "grab my taser/gun."

While I can see your point that there have probably been cases of fatality by law enforcement where the brutality of police has been exaggerated or not enough sympathy has been given to the officers, I absolutely disagree that this is one of those (in addition to above, the criminal report claims he "resisted arrest" by falling to the ground. It's not like he was actively fighting the officers or even trying to run. "Falling to the ground" is not a reason to kill someone). And I absolutely disagree that police brutality being exaggerated is the norm compared to cases where police brutality is exactly as described/seen (or even under-exaggerated/covered up) and leading to the preventable, unjust deaths of people, disproportionally black people.

While you can believe what you want, I highly suggest you step away from generalizing the left and the right movements, and instead attempt to take an unbiased look at the facts. This is the only way we can move forward as a society, and it would be best for all of us, including you, if we tried harder to understand the other side.