The psychology for police brutality lately seems to be pretty simple. 1.) Accuse someone of acting inappropriately, and use "corrective force". If that action

The psychology for police brutality lately seems to be pretty simple. 1.) Accuse someone of acting inappropriately, and use "corrective force". If that action is real or not, is irrelevant. 2.) Should your victim react negatively then accuse the victim of resisting. Once the accusation is made, more than likely everyone begins to believe this narrative as the truth. 3.) Once the victim and other bystanders begin to react negatively treat them as hostile targets. These hostile civilians are now rioters. 4.) You have justification to violently shut down the riot. Now that protestors are acting with hostility they are no longer peacefully protesting. They are now rioting. 5.) Ruthlessly use force to ensure that all rioters are apprehended and shut down without question. 6.) Congratulate yourselves for shutting down a riot.