Michael Friedman, who previously served on a police disciplinary review panel, said ....... Chauvin's actions reminded him of "the most common reason for excessive force that I saw — was not responding to someone who was physically challenging, but what I would call retaliatory control."
He noted examples like when someone flees police, or they are resisting authority or what was alleged in Floyd's case, that he refused to be brought into the squad car. Friedman said such instances can bring out a certain mentality among many officers, particularly of the earlier generation, that they pile on force as a means of retaliation to maintain control.
Greg Hestness, a former MPD deputy chief, said .... "Chauvin's acts were not sort of knee-jerk, it wasn't a quick reaction, there were eight to nine minutes there" ... "I mean, to this day, I don't know what he was doing kneeling on that man for eight to nine minutes."
Chauvin case draws inevitable comparisons to another high-profile police murder trial