Business Insight: The Bystander Effect and What Makes People Act
What needs to be explained about the bystanders who witnessed Police Officer Derek Chauvin killing George Floyd is not why they didn’t take drastic, risky physical action, but why they did take the steps to record videos and yell for Chauvin to stop.
Mon, May 3, 2021
This article was originally published in The Conversation. It was written by Professor Wayne Eastman.
The most powerful evidence for the prosecution at the trial of Derek Chauvin was a video showing the then-Minneapolis police officer pinning a pleading George Floyd to the ground by kneeling on his neck until he grew silent and then died.