Chauvin put himself where he is right now. He won the lottery for being the sacrificial chicken of the SJW/BLM reset movement of mid-2020.
I would have just gotten off the low-IQ'd low level criminal and tried to de-escalate the situation (because Floyd was hysterical, "Why, wuddya mean, what what, c'mon man, pleasssseee, wait whatttt, I got assmaa mannnn, cmon").
Black males live up to the stereotype all the time. Emotional, low IQ, and violent. All they have to do is talk calmly and stay calm. I don't care who you are or what race, once you start getting emotional, hysterical, and angry with cops, they usually do one of two things: respond with greater force or try to de-escalate and calm the belligerent individual down.
This was a situation where a low IQ individual met a cop that wasn't gonna put up with it because Floyd was a big black dude. Floyd should have known that he was potentially gonna get a lot of force applied to him if he resists arrest (for being a big black dude).
And Chauvin should have exercised better judgement. Its harder for people to breathe while laying down on their stomache. Plus you don't know if theyre on drugs or have any other conditions like heart or asthma. Also some people smoke and are constipated and oxygen deprived all the time. Same way as a police officer say in Arizona or Nevada, you shouldnt lock a suspect in your car for 30+ minutes when its 105 degree outside.