Does it matter what your background was if an injustice is perpetrated on you?
Suppose some of the victims in Hitler's death camps were actually bad people would that make a difference? The odds are that out of 6 million there were some bad apples.
Similarly in Stalin's Gulag we are sure to find some people who had done bad things. The guilty weren't treated better than the innocent?
Clearly an injustice is not vindicated because of unrelated bad acts. We see a lot of kneejerk reactions to the George Floyd killing by people trying to say he wasn't a saint. He didn't have to be. Being a human should have been enough. In fact we wouldn't let them treat an animal like that.
It was clear for all to see that a person already constrained was killed by the actions of a police officer while others looked on. It isn't justifiable and it isn't even clear that there was any reason for the behavior.
I'll even speculate that murder wasn't intended. Maybe the cop was trying to send a message or maybe he was just sadistic. The fact that they worked at the same club makes on wonder if there wasn't some history involved, but it actually doesn't matter.
Whether you have been a saint or a sinner or something in between, deadly force should only be applied when there is no reasonable alternative. Kneeling on someone's neck until they die is just wrong
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