Derek Chauvin
Appearances
Revisionist History
Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 1
For me, a very poignant event in my own thinking was that as a clinical psychologist, I was seeing a highly aggressive teenager in a state psychiatric hospital.
Revisionist History
Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 1
And the boy's name was Rocky. I came up to his ward one day, approached him from behind to say hello, was trying to establish a relationship with him, touched him on the shoulder from behind. And he turned around and punched me in the gut. And in a nanosecond, he stopped and said, oh, my, you can't be too careful around here.
Revisionist History
Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 1
And he was making a decision that in that moment that somebody touching him on the back shoulder might be a threat. And he responded. That was his mindset then.
Revisionist History
Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 1
I remember going to the pediatrician at age four and being deathly afraid of getting a shot, right? But my parents and everybody certainly quickly told me that doctor was not trying to be mean to me, right? And I had to learn that. But I do think that it's a socialization of benign intent that early life is about rather than the socialization of hostile intent.
Revisionist History
Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 1
I remember interviewing a 10-year-old kid who told me about when he was four or five, the family that he lived in at that time, his father, stepfather, would come home every night from work.
Revisionist History
Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 1
how to minimize the likelihood that he was gonna get beaten up that night by smelling whether his father had alcohol in his breath, whether his father had a mean look, whether his father called him into the kitchen with his belt already undone, put it on the kitchen table. He was learning all, he's four years old and he's learning all these signals and he could describe them to me in great detail.
Revisionist History
Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 1
So I think an early life of threat personal, physical threat, there may be others as well, is one way that it would be very adaptive to develop a defensive mindset and to assume a hostile intent from another person.
Revisionist History
Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 1
Let's look at another segment. Brent, if we can go to the start of 2021.