Thank you for the well researched and thoughtful article. This sort of knowledgeable, intelligent, analysis, rather than the frenzied media hype with which we are constantly bombarded, is sorely needed. I have just one criticism for you to consider.

You say, "The evidence points to the MPD and the local political establishment, rather than the individual officer, as ultimately responsible for George Floyd’s death." But that is contrary to the factual evidence you provided. The real cause of death - whether anybody likes this or not - is lethal amount of drugs in his body at the time of death, along with his history of habitual drug use and serious heart condition.