Nothing drove that home for me more than hearing someone, during the George Floyd trial, cut someone off who referred to him as a man with "He was a drug addict"
Objectively speaking, Floyd was a miscreant at best and almost certainly a net-negative in terms of benefiting society. A fair trial would have classified the incident as manslaughter, but since cities were literally burning and the jurors were publicly known, they were not at liberty to judge the case impartially. The transformation of Floyd into a martyr and the violent quasi-religious movement that followed will be a good case study for future historians.
The cops engaged in a bit of street justice. Usually they get away with it, but since it resulted in death on camera they were caught. This is not to say that Floyd wasn't a criminal--he certainly was.
Had the police been better they would have taken him in and no one would have batted an eye but that isn't what happened.