It really seems the guy was dying from an overdose. The police did a stupid thing, but it was a bad situation. Floyd's name and image is already being removed from murals.

Anyone remember the story of Matthew Shepard? The "official" story is that he was tortured and killed as a hate crime by two strangers. A guy wrote a book a few years ago with the story that Shepard was actually a meth dealer, and the guys who killed him were involved with the drug scene. It is a narrative that instantly makes more sense. BUT the version where Shepard's murder was a homophobic hate crime was much better marketing for the LGB movement, and it was leveraged to add "hate crime aggravation" penalties to violent crimes. Also, the killers would have had to admit to being in Shepard's circle of gay friends, which would not be good for them in prison.