If you could time travel, would you save George Floyd?

[iAMtheT0ASTER]

I honestly would. I don't think that George Floyd was a good person at all, but I'd save him just to avoid the chaos and division that his death has brought. So many buildings destroyed, cities burned, people assaulted and killed over the death of just one person. If I had a time machine I'd go back and either give Floyd a real $20 bill to use, warn him that the cops are coming so he can leave before it happens, hell I'd even go as far as running up to the cop and Sparta kicking him off of Floyd. The hell that this incident has put us through was not at all worth it.

I Would

I Wouldn't

[Tyrael]

You'd be wasting a perfectly good use of time travel.

The fallout from George Floyds death was inevitable. If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else. Racial tensions had been growing for decades and it was only a matter of time before it came to a head. And it's not going away.

[KrakenAttackin]

You are right. Let the bodies hit the floor.

[The_Maphio]

The way he's been killed was barbaric, but that criminal dumbass should have been taken out anyway, if you ask me.
Protesting violent and idiotic policemen is more than legit.
Protesting the disappearance of such a piece of shit is another wrong thing in its own accord.

[jgokgotit]

I would not save Floyd. He was a criminal resisting arrest. However, I would go far enough back in time to prevent Chauvin from getting to the scene. I would have someone inflict a significant (though not major) injury and run straight to Chauvin. As an officer seeing my injury, I'd tell him I was assaulted by someone so I could distract him from the Floyd call. When an officer sees an injury, they are trained to handle the injured person, even if they are on their way to a call.

[FilmGuy93]

Here’s what I don’t get; how would anyone save the guy, besides making sure he never got addicted to pain meds? Based on everything I’ve seen of the case, it’s not clear that the Chauvin’s behavior killed the guy at all. The only thing that is clear is that Floyd was one unfortunate victim of the opioid crisis.

[Miristheiss]

If I could time travel... with the goal of undoing crimes... murders... deaths from the past... no. It wouldn't even be on my radar.
I'd go try and stop September 11th... I'd try and stop the Las Vegas shootings... something bigger.

[The_Maphio]

... and worth it.

[Grubhub]

Funny how white people and racist white washed individuals talk about the black mans past when all that is irrelevant. Cops are supposed to be protecting us, not killing us. They use tasers and paper spray on white people. They use bullets for blacks. Derrick Chovein has over 20 compliments thoughout his career and has another attempted murder in his career. I believe I misspelled George Floyd killers name but quite frankly I don’t care about spelling a monsters name correctly. I know if a white cop murdered me most of america would victimize me as another black thug like they do to every black man. Even the black man who got killed by amber gager. The one who was eating cereal and she came in and killed em because she so called thought it was her apartment. They tried to say he was a weed smoker. Lol the mind of a white supremacist in America

[Grubhub]

Imagine getting murdered for no reason and there’s never any justice? I know when blacks murder whites they spend life in prison in most cases unless you’re rich and famous

[Grubhub]

Bill Cousy didn’t get off though from his drugging cases

[Grubhub]

White people commit mass killings every time I turn on the news and yet the police don’t kill them. SMH

[Rangers]

Yeah, I'd walk up and tell them I'm going to help while keeping my hands visible and then push his knee off of his neck with my foot and inform them that we're not supposed to stay on them, we're only to use that to get cuffs on them and shouldn't keep them there for more than 10 seconds, the cuffs were on and I didn't need to wait 9 minutes to realize he's over the 10 second limit.

[Redred56]

I would steer him away from CUP Foods where the call came from, that way there would be no conflict.
Nobody should die, but a store owner deserves respect too!
As do the police responding to the call made by CUP Foods.

[KrakenAttackin]

I would be more interested in saving the officer the trouble and city the riots. I would probably travel back in time, find George, and shoot him in an alley somewhere... than go get a cup of coffee.

[BeMuse]

Bah, I'm not wasting my time getting between a junkie and his pipe.

[Anonymous]

I've thought a lot about the concept of living in an afterlife (where everything is imaginary) where I could travel back in time, and kill various people (peacefully in their sleep) for various reasons. But I don't think that killing the cop who killed Floyd would necessarily be on my "to-do" list

[iAMtheT0ASTER]

You don't have to kill him, just make sure he doesn't kill Floyd.

[Opinion Owner]

In an imaginary life, nobody in real life actually gets killed.
And if I could travel back in time, (in the real world), I would only do it in an observatory manner, which means I could only see and hear different situations but not actually be there

[Anonymous]

kids being raped and killed at the border don't get as much praise as fentynal floyed. even after all of the good he's done for humanity like sticking a gun to an unborn babies head and selling meth, fentynal and funny money to children.

[baseballnerd24]

I would, I may not have agreed with his past actions before, but he didn’t deserve to die the way he did.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Yes. I would most likely push that cop off him and encourage others to help me. It's clear he was being slowly murdered.

[Jack9949]

I would time travel back with video footage of Chauvin getting charged and show it to him. “Reconsider” I’d say.

[jshm2]

In other words, you'd kill a White cop instead. Real smooth, genius.

[iAMtheT0ASTER]

Did I say I would kill ANYBODY?

[Bakcula]

I would save these white men from doing something stupid.

[msc545]

I would save George Floyd and get Derek Chauvin a new job away from other people.

[FilmGuy93]

Chauvin was authorized in that situation to use more force than he ended up using, and Floyd had actually requested to be placed on the ground. He was having trouble breathing in the cop car. I guess I just don't see Floyd's death as Chauvin's fault. At least not clearly Chauvin's fault.

[msc545]

I think you had auditory hallucinations when you watched the video. Floyd requested no such thing.

[msc545]

I also think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what was actually said by the numerous police officials who testified that Floyd used excessive force. There was no statement about him being authorized to use more Force than he did as you contend.

[FilmGuy93]

He did though... He says "I can't breathe, let me out of this car."

[msc545]

and you actually think that's a request to be put on the ground face down?

[FilmGuy93]

That's the police department's procedure.

[msc545]

@FilmGuy93 No, it certainly is not.

[FilmGuy93]

If you don't believe me, just listen to the police department's testimony. This is quite literally a matter of court record. There's no point in debating material fact.

[msc545]

@FilmGuy93 I listened to it, and also read the coup of the Police Department policy manual posted on the web. I don't give a fuck what defense witnesses said - all that counts in regard to policy is that manual.

[FilmGuy93]

So why don't you go ahead and read what that manual actually says? Because if you read what it actually says, you'll see that there is very reasonable doubt about Chauvin's responsibility in Floyd's death. So to get back to the point of OP's question; how could we go back in time to correct anything, if we don't actually know what killed George Floyd?

[msc545]

@FilmGuy93 Chauvin's knee compressing Floyd's internal carotid artery caused brain damage that gradually killed Floyd.

[msc545]

That is a professional opinion, and I am done arguing.

[FilmGuy93]

There's absolutely nothing to back that up, friend. But have yourself a good day.

[Anonymous]

Given what all the stupid rioters did, yes, I would save that thugs life.

[Anonymous]

I'd save him just to avoid the chaos and division that his death has brought.

[OddBeMe]

What could I do exactly if I time traveled? People there were already telling Chauvin he was choking him. I’m supposed to tackle a cop?

[MrTaboo]

Of you old go back. You'd have to stop him from swallowing the drugs. That's how he died. 5 time lethal dose of fentenal.