Murder in broad daylight - can't get my head around the mindset.

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I, like many others - have watched the video of George Floyd being brutally murdered.

It's the mindset of the officer (we'll all officers) I'm struggling to get my head around.

There is no dispute GF was a criminal. He clearly had a hard life that involved drugs and had been in prison before.

But police aren't judge and jury. There protect and serve. Their role is to arrest and gather evidence.

Whatever causes someone to think it's perfectly normal to kneel on someone's neck for nearly 9 minutes? So casually. With what looked like no emotion. He clearly believed he was right to do so because people filmed it and he didn't wince.

He just calmly knelt there whilst he squeezed the life out of another human being.

Surely there must be something biological that's not normal to be able to act this way?

I'm not really looking for discussion of right or wrong because no one can condone what he did. But rather what drives people to behave that way.

It's terrifying

Look up the Stanford Prison Experiment. It's interesting.

Thank you. I will definitely have a read. I'd really like to be educated.

There's a film about the study too. Although I thought it was a bit shit.

Thank you for this reference to research.

Extremely interesting. So it seems it's a power construct. Which is interesting because it brings into question how much race played a part in his decision and how much it was that he saw a repeat criminal and so it dehumanisation.

Or perhaps both played a part in his decision.

But it really helped me see how someone who works as police could be so cold hearted in squeezing breath out of someone without any amount of remorse apparent.

There needs to be some work in overhauling the whole psychology really.