It's highly plausible that Chauvin wasn't gonna take the chance of letting Floyd cause major trouble again given the history.Yup.
But here is my take.
Those 2 had history and not good history either. Big man was a bully and caused major trouble back in the day. Not a gentle giant as the MSM would have you believe and he caused LEO many problems. It is pretty obvious this had something to do with how that played out that fateful day.
JMHO of course.