If he were white, the cop still would have murdered him?
The answer is: big chances that NO.
Lets analyze it.
Even the most prestigious psychologists will find an unexplained anomaly when police confront a black person who is a suspect or has committed a crime. No matter how well trained police officers are in order to have the situation under control, we have, as humans, other reactions beyond the obedience to orders learned in the school, academy, etc.
When the allies reached the Nazi concentration camps, and they found the detainees in such deplorable condition, the smell was so bad, their faces looking so sick, their bodies and clothes in miserable status, the first reaction of the rescuers was treating them like disposable animals rather than mercy. It was a natural reaction of rejection, even when they knew their duty was to help those people, it is something that can't be explained but is a uncontrollable reaction to what is not wanted at all.
Look at Floyd intoxicated as hell, practically a human waste, an example of how low a person can reach destroying himself. Police are very familiar watching blacks, whites, hispanics, in such a condition. They don't want to deal with people in such condition, but that is their job. The rules are to treat people with dignity at the moment of arrest. But it happens as a common denominator, that blacks are experts in resisting arrest, no matter how many times they are told to stand still and don't move, when people is drunk, drugged or just with evil soul all their life, they won't obey a simple order.
Here is when the scenario changes from an arrest procedure leaded by dignity to an arrest where force must need to be applied. And here is when the unwanted reaction takes place, the rejection against the individual in front of him.
When you have a huge argument with your wife, she will have two big strategies, one is becoming historical and the second is becoming hysterical. No matter the order, both will come into the scenario. The historical strategy is remind you all the arguments since you knew each other, the hysterical is crying, trying to hurt you physically or emotionally.
Same scenario here. Inside the police officer mind, in that moment of confrontation with the detainee presenting resistance, the historical scenario fills up his brain. In that moment, the black person in front of him is the whole blacks who have presented resistance in the past. The police is not looking at one individual anymore but at lots of criminals. You wrongly call it "discrimination" but such is not true. In that moment is generalization.
Do you want proof?
Right now, the protests are against police in general, no matter if good or bad police.
Right now, the eyes of people see the whole police department as racists. Some authorities are working to defund police in their jurisdictions, no matter if only one police is the bad apple, the reaction is against the whole police department.
And look, this "defund" is the sudden and immediate reaction by people and authorities, like the allies in Nazi concentration camps, like police when confronting a black person resisting arrest.
This is the reason why police will kill more blacks than other races when crimes have been committed, is not because a single case in front of them but the whole record of cases invading their minds, and no one can wash that information from their brains.
After the historical scenario takes place, then the hysterical comes as the supplement.
In several cases when police have killed a black suspect or criminal, if you notice it, police KNEW they were on camera, they knew someone is recording what they are doing, and even so they continued with their action.
Put yourself in the following scenario. You want to steal supplies from the office storage room at your work place. You notice that there are surveillance cameras outside and inside that room, but even so, you went inside and took what you want to steal. Then you must be desperate, out of your mind, you want to be caught, etc.
This police officer knew he was on camera, it should be stupid from his part trying to kill someone in front of everybody. However, after the historical records of blacks resisting arrest in his mind, including other memories reminding him he knows the man under his knee, the hysterical step came to place, to hurt the other person.
This is not pre meditated, this is a reaction right in that moment. He won't care about the phones recording his abuse, and if you ask me if he is himself I can tell that he is not. He is at that moment lots of frustrations. From outside he wants to demonstrate he is in control, but in his inside all his frustrations have took all dominion.
Why frustrated? Simple. And you won't like my answer at all to this question.
The authorities who want to defund their police departments want to use those funds "to help" black communities in their jurisdictions.
In other words, blacks who live thanks to welfare, food stamps, and cheap housing, and because they usually don't work but deal with drugs, those are the cause of most criminality, those are the problem, not police but the ones living as parasites at the cost of the government. This is the frustrated part, these blacks don't want to progress but try to make easy money with drugs, and they HATE police.
I have neighbors who are blacks and who don't play the character of being "victims of history". They own nice houses, they do work and have cars, take vacations, etc. Then this is not "race" or "minorities" but just about bad apples.
And there are lots of authorities who wrongly support these "bad apples" because they are "minorities", because they deserve opportunities, because there is a history record of slavery in the past that is a stain in their lives and they need to heal from those memories. 70 years since Luther King and these guys can't recover... what a bunch of bumps!
In the field, where police are the ones who must confront the criminals, there are no blacks who need opportunities, no blacks who are slaves, but blacks who are criminals because such was their choice. And while police is arresting criminals,on the other hand at a higher level authorities and politicians are defending them.
Defunding police to "help" black communities, how? Are authorities to offer them jobs or to giving them additional social services?
I did work in a government agency for two decades, and most of blacks just collected paychecks without working, plus they were drunk everyday and stealing a lot. Only a reduced number of them were really hard workers, and those were the ones I chose to hang with. And yes, from the "bad apples" side, I was considered a "racist". lol
No, if Floyd was white he won't be under the knee of that white police officer, but not because the police officer was a racist but because there is a frustration from all sides of society.
Liberals are making society to reach the most chaotic status ever, The more that minorities are given green light to obtain more preferences without deserving them, the more decay will be in society.
Demand an audit on all police departments, check police officers with 5 complaints or more of abuse of power, fire the ones with the worst records and that will show police cooperation to solve this abuse of force issue.
On the other hand, Stop using the street cleaning truck and provide brooms to food stamps collectors to people who is not handicap or having medical conditions that force them to stay in bed, and teach them that working reveals dignity, and that dirty designated streets means no right to collect welfare. The funds taken from police departments must go to brooms so poor people can have a basic work task.
Do you feel offended with my suggestion of making people producible and earn what they eat?
Do you have a better suggestion to be put over the table?