This is really interesting...
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"When I grabbed him," Wilson told the grand jury, "the only way I can describe it is that I felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan." He says that after he first shot Brown, Brown's face was, "like a demon, that's how angry he looked." After shooting Brown several times again on the street, he says his large target charged him from more than 10 feet away, seemingly oblivious of the bullets"
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Waytz explains that a substantial body of research has shown that white Americans can unconsciously perceive black Americans as other than human.
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Read the whole Article at Popsci.com :
What Social Psychology Says About Darren Wilson And Michael Brown | Popular Science
Also in Psychology Today: The Dehumanization of Black People
The Dehumanization of Black People | Psychology Today