Why George Floyd Was Killed
Another little-known aspect of George Floyd’s institutionalized murder, one that makes it personal, is the fact that the deceased victim of police violence worked as a bouncer in the same club as the cop who killed him. The rationale and motive for his murder may be found in examining the earlier video showing the early stages of the ‘arrest,’ where Floyd is being handcuffed and taken into custody.
He is not resisting arrest, though he keeps asking what’s going on, why he is being detained, on what grounds, etc. But the slightly arial view shows that Floyd is a head taller than the tallest of his outnumbering White and Asian attackers, that he is extremely fit, statuesque, muscular and trim, really built — a very big, beautiful, powerful Black man, who was, by ALL accounts, gentleness and kind persuasiveness itself, even and especially in his role as a bouncer — which is what one needs in a bouncer — not mere brawn and brutality.
As he was crushed to the ground, his neck and windpipe being compressed and shattered by the full weight of the killer, Floyd repeatedly addressed his attacker as ‘sir,’ as he vainly requested relief from the pressure on his breathing apparatus, saying over and over, “Please, I can’t breathe.” Floyd was, even while dying, respectful and non-aggressive, to the end.
A bouncer, more than perhaps any other job description other than a hostage negotiator, needs to be diplomatic. Easily managed situations of drunken stupidity require cajoling, not aggression, so as not to escalate into needless violence. This trait no doubt made Floyd pretty popular at his and his murderer’s shared moonlighting gig.
Violence and brutality spell trouble in a bouncer — trouble for the club ownership and especially for the masculine clientele. These latter traits existed in massive evidence in the cop who killed Floyd. He had been in trouble before, with complaints against him for excessive violence on the job and charges of police brutality.
This aspect of the killer’s past may be why his wife filed for divorce immediately upon hearing about the crime, after publicly apologizing and expressing her condolences to Floyd’s family. No doubt she knows these same traits all too well.
The full length video shows the killer, Derek Chauvin (are names destiny?), appearing to almost be in a fugue state, remaining with his full weight on Floyd’s neck long after Floyd was silent and non-responsive, sometimes gazing musingly down at his victim, and at one point threatening those who would approach and haul him off of his prey with a can of mace. I bet he wishes he had let them do so now.
He has his hands in his pockets the whole time, as if to demonstrate that this is merely the casual exercise of his power and control. His subordinates zealously guard the perimeter, as if protecting their senior officer’s right and privilege — his primacy — in slowly killing the Black man on the ground.
