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So it wont be hard for you to provide some sources.
Care to address the rest of my comment?
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I haven't really kept up with this story, but as I understand it there are 2 big differences here.
First is a matter of timing. Most COVID lockdowns are done, so while Floyd's death happened at a time where a lot of people had a lot of time on their hands, Nichol's death happened when people are mostly busy with work.
Second, (if I am getting the facts correct here), the officers involved in Nichol's death were arrested before the story got large coverage, which means there is less to protest about. >

Exactly. Much of the Floyd protests were due to the fact that the cops tired to sweep it under the rug, calling his death a “medical event” in official communication. It wasn’t until a teenager released her personal recording that we realized what happened and saw the attempt to cover it up. 
Contrast this event, where there was no cover up and the police force acted swiftly to deal with the problematic cops. The video was released by the police themselves after disciplinary action was already taken. 
This event is the system for punishing bad police working as it should. >

How long until that video was released? >

A couple of weeks. 
Keep in mind though that in that time, the cops were fired, the DA started the process to charger them with murder and their unit was disbanded. 
The protests were a desire for accountability. Accountability was already happening when the video was released. >

It could be argued that it only happened this expeditiously because the cops are black this time. Which kind of aligns with the CMV. >

Perhaps. 
Or perhaps they saw what happened after Floyd and realized that they had to do something fast to prevent riots. 
We have no way to know. >


The only reason I can see

There are clearly at minimum two significant factors that may have influenced the lack of protests/rioting. 
One - you mentioned.
Two - The police fired the officers right away and charged them with murder prior to the video being released. 
To not even mention the second one speaks volumes. 
It's reasonable to suggest that the race of the officers had some influence on the community reaction. It's unreasonable to pretend that the officers actually being held accountable had nothing to do with it.
One of the primary things we hear from protestors in these cases for decades is "No Justice. No Peace."
I would say this case is a good example that with justice, there can be peace. >

I'll admit there could've been a difference here. However I don't think it has to do with them being charged faster really (Chauvin was charged quickly as well). It's the fact that the police had to footage, not some random on the street who puts it on youtube. >

The weather could be a factor as well.  It's -10F where I'm from now.  You can't spend hours rioting when it's the dead of winter.  I have noticed that people don't protest as much when it's as cold as it's been recently. >

A few other reasons to consider.


With Floyd, the video came out from civilian sources immediately and was viral on social media immediately. The police were constantly playing catchup on the narrative, letting the protests build, rather than in this case where the video came out from official sources a week after the event. The Police were much more in control of the narrative for Nichols' murder.


It's winter rather than summer. That makes a big difference for people's willingness to rally outside, especially in the northern US.


Covid lockdowns and job loss was right before Floyd. People were already feeling trapped and restless and desperate at that time, the protests combined a lot of feeling that was not necessarily related to exact situation they were protesting. 


This seems obvious but we already had the George Floyd protests. We did the whole thing already and it seems like nothing changed. We had a couple cities talk about defunding the police, then not really do anything. A lot of the public got burned out on protest, thinking it's not that effective. That energy from 2020 isn't there anymore. Maybe it just needs more time to build back up, but I very much believe that even if these officers were white it would not have caused anything like the Floyd protests. >


This seems obvious but we already had the George Floyd protests. We did the whole thing already and it seems like nothing changed. We had a couple cities talk about defunding the police, then not really do anything. A lot of the public got burned out on protest, thinking it's not that effective. That energy from 2020 isn't there anymore. Maybe it just needs more time to build back up, but I very much believe that even if these officers were white it would not have caused anything like the Floyd protests.

I want to quickly address this: I think the officers wouldn't have been fired this quickly and the unit being disbanded (if I heard correctly) if it wasn't for those protests.  While the main goals may not have been achieved, I think some good still came out of it. >

That's true. It did change a lot about the response to police murder of civilians, but it did not lead to changes to the system of policing itself. I think it has helped make murder charges for cops more likely, which could be a deterrent, obviously a good thing. That's not really enough for most people though. >

I agree it's not enough, I just wanted to point out that "nothing changed" and "didn't achieve it's goals, but achieved some benefits" are important to keep in mind.  It's not a change enough to stop fighting for improvement...not by a long shot, but it was a positive change. >

True, good point. I think that is good perspective to keep in mind. >

The rule is that police killings don’t cause large protests, George Floyd is an exception. In the US around 1,000 people are killed by police per year. >

I think a lot is also based on graphic video. >

Sure and how many videos do we have police brutality? Many instances of police brutality are caught on peoples phones now. 
The thing about large outpourings of public anger is that it’s hard to say which combination of factors can spark an uprising and which will barely cause a stir. A trigger event has to happen in the right set of circumstances. >

I want to bring up something that I haven’t seen commented yet.
Fatigue.
Protests—about anything—go in waves. While there will always be a handful of people constantly doing activist work for their ideas, protests with large swarms of people like we saw in 2020 are not a regular occurrence. People have to go back to work. People have to take care of their kids. People get tired of going out on the streets every day and seeing nothing change. People get frustrated and disillusioned and discouraged. Now, like other people have commented, the sustained mobilization we saw in 2020 was in part due to the pandemic. People had a LOT more time and energy on their hands. But even sans pandemic, the repeated instances of police brutality that have been publicized since about 2014 or so have been…ceaseless. People are tired, and rightfully so, of different iterations of the same shit happening.
I can assure you that Tyre Nichols murder is not going unnoticed. My professors and classmates are heartbroken discussing it. But I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch the video because I’m tired of seeing human beings murdered by gangs in blue. >

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There's nothing to protest! The officers involved have already been fired and charged with murder. They've also disbanded (or are talking about dibanding) the police unit. I can't see what a protest would rally for?
This isn't a time for protests. This isn't a classic "racism" issue. Right now is a time for vigils; for reflection on America, for us to have a collective howl about how police and all the guns in the US keep killing innocents. >

There were still protests after Chauvin was arrested and charged. >

Were they protesting to try and get Chauvin arrested and charged? Or did they have a different goal? >

They had a different goal. Largely centered around ideas concerning whiteness and white supremacy. They don't have that now. So there's simply less outrage, since the cops were black that killed him >


Largely centered around ideas concerning whiteness and white supremacy

Was it? I remember it being anti police. Any sources showing anti white supremacy as central to their movement?

They don't have that now.

What DO they have now? Don't you think anti police sentiment enough to protest over? >

"Dismantling white supremacy" was one of the central themes of blm. It was brought up constantly. There's tons of documentation for this.