I don't think the line is all that blurry. It's awfully hard to argue negligence when someone presses their knee into a man's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while rejecting suggestions from fellow officers to turn him over while the man literally begs for his life.
As for allegations of racism, I just don't see how this situation plays out the exact same way if George Floyd were a white person.
And the body cam footage has not moved the needle at all for me.
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