Racism? Maybe, more likely a case of profiling. Homicide? Yes. Whatever led up to that moment was irrelevant. I don't care if Floyd was running around screaming that he had a gun and was going to murder every pig in sight (he didn't, he wasn't). He was incapacitated on the ground, not resisting anything, and he was unable to breathe, told the officers as much, and an officer continued to put his weight onto the knee that was resting atop Floyd's throat. Here's how I see that: second degree murder. Gross disregard toward human life, check. Willful act causing death, check. Intent? Well [BLEEP], if you're gonna drop a knee on someone's throat and hold it there as they're pretty well limp and telling you they can't breathe, and you continue to leave your knee there despite receiving all kinds of training that theoretically means you can recognize a person in distress, well, that's a person taking willful action that ends the life of another human being. Not premeditated and I highly doubt that pig woke up in the morning and decided to kill a black guy that day. But all the same, he was willfully putting his weight on a knee that was pinning his victim's neck, and despite there being no video evidence of Floyd resisting, he apparently refused to take his knee off of Floyd's neck until he died as a direct result of that pig's action.

Cops vs. pigs. The ones that protect and serve are cops. The ones that drop a knee on a defenseless man's neck and slowly but surely murder him? Oink oink, smells like bacon. Bad pig, no donut.

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