[ExI] chauvin

[John Grigg]

I would like to think that police departments around the nation will learn
something here about the psychology of some cops in such situations, and
adjust their vetting and training programs appropriately. But most likely
they will not...

John

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 5:11 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Justice was served, no doubt.
>
> I have been reading and looking at the pictures and a thought occurred to
> me:  Chauvin looks like a person very determined to do what he sets out to
> do.
>
> Consider the situation:  he is surrounded by fellow officers and some
> bystanders, one (or more?) of whom in taping.  I just have to wonder if
> that made him so resistant to the remarks of the fellow officers (whose
> content I do not know) that he wasn't going to let up even when Floyd
> started having seizures.  Just made him more determined.  I wonder what
> would have happened had there been no bystanders other than the other
> officers.
>
> Then I wondered what made him stop?  I did not find anything to tell me
> that.  Does anyone know?
>
> I did not know about the seizures before.  It makes it even more curious
> that the fellow officers did not do something.  There are sorts of social
> psych things going on in that scenario and I certainly do not know what
> some of them are.  But I do think that social influences occurred there,
> affecting Chauvin and the other officers.  Perhaps those will come out at
> the next trial.
>
> bill w
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