Hell no. The fact that we know the outcome (death) only makes a decent argument to intervene.
I’m not risking years in jail by touching a police officer if I’m there in real time.
You’re expecting him to get off the guy at any second. You don’t know if he truly cannot breathe or if he’s lying. Intervene any later and he’d still be passed out because paramedics arrive no earlier.
Let’s say you went back in time and saved him. Now you’re in jail for years, with zero media attention or pardon support, because he lived.
Cop will say “I wasn’t going to kill him”
Suspect will say “Stupid ass, I wouldn’t have died”
Lol. Just wow.
Integrity means doing what is right when no one is looking or when you will get 0 accolades.
There arent many instances when you should do what that quote suggested, but a damn good argument can be made that this was one of them.