Al - the prosecution presented a timeline of video evidence, from many different sources and angles, leading up to the arrest and death.

That was one part of the trial I did watch,
because I'd knocked off clearing out the attic for a 10-minute tea and hot pastie break, but then got engrossed in the live news coverage for an hour or more.

Last summer, like many folk I also started off with the the cynical opinion that Floyd was probably a bad 'un,
who was violently resisting arrest and caused his own death by hard-working stressed cop.

But it soon enough became apparent that although in his life he was no angel,
on that fateful day
Floyd was hardly the nasty villain our right wing British press were falsely depicting him as;
in order to undermine the progressive principles of the BLM cause.

In the videos he came over as a dopey big lump.
Happily stoned and as affable as could be.

You've gigged in enough pubs to recognise the difference between a gentle giant happy friendly drunk,
and smaller aggressive 'little Napoleon complex' arseholes,
throwing their weight around starting fights trying to prove they are the big men to be feared.

That's what any reasonable witness would, and did, make of all those phone cam, body camera, and CCTV video clips..

We are not talking about a friendly village Bobby on the beat,
overwhelmed by trying to arrest a big city
criminal
'county-lines' violent drug dealing knife man.

Which has sadly become more of a reality in provincial West country towns like we live in.
Increasingly violent drug gang stabbings the mail and express thrive on for headlines..

My personal default position is to respect our British police.
Because when they occasionally knock on our town centre front door asking for witness statements
regarding violent crimes on our street,
I don't know if they are good or bad cop.
Whichever, they are just doing a difficult job;
and there's no harm being polite to them..

So Al, please don't think that reacting in favour of Floyd's callous cold killer getting banged up for life,
necessitates being anti police in general...