Is there any proof that George Floyd was killed because he was black?

From last year to this, no one has been able to produce evidence that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd because Floyd was a black man. If they could, then they would have done so at the trial. They would have shown that Chauvin left his home that morning intent on finding a black man he could throttle under his knee. I admit that this is an unpopular point to make. Yet it is a rather important one, is it not? Especially if the whole of American history, culture and current events — and by extension those of the entire western world — are to be reinterpreted through the actions of this one damned Minnesotan cop. It’s the sort of thing that might be worth getting right, isn’t it? If you are going to savagely rewrite everything from race relations in our society all the way through to which harpsichords have a guilty look about them, it’s worth getting the fons et origo exactly correct. Something we seem to have entirely failed to do. And such failure has consequences. As I write, a young woman called Sasha Johnson is lying in a London hospital in a serious condition having been shot in the head. When news of this came out on Sunday, prominent Labour Party politicians and most of the UK’s broadcast and print media all followed the line of Johnson’s militant allies. Which was that Johnson had been shot in the head in Peckham at three o’clock in the morning because of her ‘activism’ on behalf of Black Lives Matter. Sky ran with ‘Black equal rights activist shot’. Anyone who has ever heard one of Ms Johnson’s incendiary interventions into race relations (such as ‘the white man will not be our equal but our slave’) will know that equal rights aren’t remotely on her horizon.