Here's the thing. They're going to say that no matter what Floyd did, he didn't deserve to die.

Fortunately that kind of intellectually/logically bankrupt nonsense will never be tolerated in the courtroom (except maybe in a witness impact statement which means nothing).

The jury will understand that it was never a question of "deservingness". Chauvin wasn't carrying out a sentence as a punishment for a crime, he was trying to arrest Floyd. Even if Floyd did deserve to die, that still wouldn't authorize Chauvin to kill him because Chauvin is not an executioner. His job is to make arrests. Floyd died in the process of one of these arrests, and it's a question of who's fault that was, not whether Floyd "deserved" to die. Whether Floyd did or did not deserve to die is completely immaterial, since nobody's allowed to just unilaterally kill people who deserve to die anyway.

Here's the thing. They're going to say that no matter what Floyd did, he didn't deserve to die.

Fortunately that kind of intellectually/logically bankrupt nonsense will never be tolerated in the courtroom (except maybe in a witness impact statement which means nothing).

The jury will understand that it was never a question of "deservingness". Chauvin wasn't carrying out a sentence as a punishment for a crime, he was trying to arrest Floyd. Even if Floyd did deserve to die, that still wouldn't authorize Chauvin to kill him because Chauvin's is not an executioner. His job is to make arrests. Floyd died in the process of one of these arrests, and it's a question of who's fault that was, not whether Floyd "deserved" to die. Whether Floyd did or did not deserve to die is completely immaterial, since nobody's allowed to just unilaterally kill people who deserve to die anyway.