If somebody had tried to intervene in it, they likely would have been shot and killed, in addition to Floyd still being killed.
The broader media narrative would have been that the police had apprehended a man who was on drugs and/or had been involved in a home robbery when his friends tried to stop them.
The police would have been hailed as heroes and what is basically the right-wing narrative would have become the dominant one instead.
the person who filmed floyd's death is actually a teenage girl (i believe she's black) who got a lot of hate from everyone for not intervening, it was very sad, especially since (obviously) seeing floyd be murdered really traumatized her
also ramsey orta who filmed eric garner's murder was arrested and was imprisoned where he was repeatedly beaten and poisoned and forcibly given covid by one of the COs.
Thankfully he's out now.
hearing shit like this really makes all that propaganda about "evil commies/iraqis/chinese/russians" ring hollow :amerikkka: