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You walk outside of school and see a crowd of people surrounding what seems to be a fight. Some kids are recording it and others are just standing there watching.

Roughly four weeks ago, I pushed past the group of people hovering at the entrance of Harned Hall, scanned my Mississippi State University ID and picked my seat. As I

But the law recognizes that. not only with respect to money, but with regard to the reforms that come about as a result of a lawsuit. so without question, this is accountability that is very important to memphis and throughout the country. >> cornell, give me your thoughts too. >> absolutely. here we have a situation where you have a bystander effect in blue. in other words, you have people with the duty and responsibility to act. were charged with the responsibility of acting, but they choose not to act. so there is a kind of collective paralysis that makes bad worse. in other words, someone ...

We know there's research that documents this bystander effect. so the more people that are standing there watching someone whose rights are being violate ed and not doing anything, it causes everybody else to think if nobody else is jumping in here, then probably shouldn't either. so i think that's another big question. i believe not only should the memphis police leadership be thinking about, but other law enforcement leaders should be thinking about is the duty to intervene and is the system that i have in my organization set up to really enforce that. that's also going to be an issue here b...

Somebody sells going to call and that they don't necessarily need to take same objection you're togs about house with at least five that night i think six people in it she might have thought i heard strange things but five other people here so if there's a problem i'm sure somebody else will happened it. thes other piece that might be more individual factors for her, is how she responds to stress. does she -- somebody who springs into action is she somebody who just krief crumbles and freezes or somebody who just wants to avoid the situation? i don't know anything -- >> doctor you're saying th...