I understand why African Americans are so incredibly angry about this. The killing of George Floyd was worse then a lynching. It was done in daylight and it was done by police. 3 other cops stood by and let another cop squeeze the life out of a black man who was restrained and not resisting. And when he lost consiousness, the still choked him, and let him die. I think 2nd degree required intent to do harm, not kill. It is CLEAR that after he passed out there was no need to keep this on, so the ONLY explaination is intent to do harm. The rest all need to be tried for criminal negligence. This is a really horrific incident.
1st degree = premeditated deliberate killing
2nd degree = unpremeditated deliberate killing
3rd degree - recklessly cruel non deliberate killing.
The other 3 cops are possibly accessories to murder 3. The A-G is probably waiting on the coroner's full report.