> don't think it's blowing it out of proportion to have a zero-tolerance policy toward police murdering the people they're arresting
Who is arguing this? Anywhere? Why are people being treated as though they're trying to excuse murder? That's dehumanizing.
>One of these days the cops could sit on your neck or your child's neck until you pass out and die
This may seem like a trivial dismissal, but one of us has a different approach to parenting, and I suspect it is shared by approximately 50% of the voting population. I would teach my children to cooperate with police under the circumstances in the Floyd video. I would also teach them not to do drugs in public.
No, this is not victim blaming, and I do believe that the force in this case was excessive and unnecessary. But I also advocate for teaching people to function in a society where their actions affect others and can create dangerous situations unnecessarily.