You know how much I love victim blaming so here is just a little.
Floyd made unnecessary fuss & was awkward with the police because, IMO, he had drugs in his car, had been driving under the influence & if found guilty of trying to pass off a fake $20 (whether it's been proven as a fake yet is in dispute) he would probably do a little jail time what with his previous.
He claimed he was claustrophobic & that's why he couldn't get in the police car, which was total horse shit as he'd just left a car. He made the situation more difficult for himself.
But that still didn't give Chauvin the right to 'allegedly'knee him to death.
He fell asleep in his car after he came out of the Cup Foods store so he was obviously struggling even then to remain lucid. When the store staff came out to confront him he was barely able to keep awake to interact with them. Even his companions in the car, one of whom was one of his drug suppliers, failed to rouse him to drive off. Had he driven off there might be other people dead today.
So taking that into account, the fact he swallowed more pills when he saw police approaching must have impaired him greatly. No wonder two cops were able to frogmarch him some distance to their patrol car outside Cup Foods where Chauvin joined them and it all kicked off.
I watched the original videos played in court last week and Floyd's voice didn't come across like someone being slowly asphyxiated. He was foaming at the mouth and had pains all over, apparently the same reaction he had had previously to the illicit drugs he had taken and this according to his girlfriend.
I strongly suspect that it was the drugs that killed him, Chauvin wasn't to know the extent of what he had taken.