I don't think it was reckless at all. The guy was making threats against everyone in the area. He stopped the threat. Chokeholds are meant to be "non lethal" . He didn't shoot an unarmed man. Then he did render aid after the fact he went unconscious.
Now you bring up Floyd.... we could go 10000000 pages on this whole fuck up on all levels. Chauvin was hung out to dry..... I honestly don't think Chauvin got a fair trial. Lots of stuff coming out on how witnesses lied, judge didn't allow evidence, etc. Then other officers got fucked over as well. Should have Chauvin got charged with something.... YES. To what extent is debatable. Reasons why is this...
1. The technic used WAS taught (witness lied).
2. Drugs in system of Floyd (did it cause death debatable)
3. Should have Chauvin rendered aid quicker YES (knee off sooner than he did...ie: where charges needed to happen)
4. Other officers were doing crowd control and couldn't see what was going on (how they got screwed over)
There are more... like I said... could go on and on for both sides of argument. But the big one for me is the other officers had their backs to the situation because they were trying to control the crowd the majority of the time. They were the ones who got screwed over.
Anyways.... back to Penny. The DA's and attorney's now go after anyone and everyone especially when "race" is involved. People are looking to make headlines instead of going with FACTS. Hell look at the case of the stabbing down in Texas of the kids in the tent. Look how quickly that disappeared once evidence started to come out and vids. Same can be said about many others. EVEN Self defense ones. It is sad that the self defense stories or people helping others are not celebrated. There are actually many stories of black kids or youth's stepping up helping others in need than white kids out in the news. The sad part is those are here and gone in a day with the news cycle. Those need to be celebrated for weeks. Governors need to hand out awards for that shit.
But NO.... now we have kids dying because of fucking tik tok ding dong ditch fucking games and other stupid things. yeah I played ding dong ditch as a kid and people shouldn't be getting shot over it. But look at the stupid tik tok "fads" or "pranks" that people are doing to "get famous".... that people are ending up getting shot over. Just stupidity of what our culture celebrates. They should celebrate people doing good deeds or trying to help instead of punishing them with court drama and law suits.