Blink 2 :)

1.Three Fatal Mistakes
Mistake number one, the cop automatically assumed that Diallo looked suspicious of something, rather than doing such an innocent task as getting a breath of fresh air. Mistake number two, when Diallo didn’t move at the sight of the police coming toward him the police officer mistook this action as him being ‘brazen’ since he had already assumed him guilty. It did not occur to him that he might not be fleeing because of curiosity since he was innocent. Mistake number three was the police officer mistaking Diallo’s fear and his reaching for the wallet to prove his innocence as a dangerous task. He made assumptions without finding any knowledge on whether or not they were true, therefore jumping to conclusions and killing Diallo.
2. The Theory of Mind Reading
This section is about Silvian Tomkins and Paul Ekman. Silvian Tomkins was taught Ekman the art of “mind reading” by being able to read people’s facial movements. Together they created a book that using all of the muscles in the human face told all of the different possible combinations of faces that could be made, and how each one relates to an emotion.

3. The Naked Force
This section is about how emotion controls our facial expressions, not the other way around. Even though we are able to voluntarily control our facial expressions every emotion we feel is projected on our face, even if it is only truly shown for a millisecond. Also it states that if you force your face to form a certain emotion, like sad for example, you will feel sad.
4. A Man, A Woman and a Light switch
This section is about how autism can make a person unable to have the ability to mind read. They are unable to decipher what is meant by facial expressions, body language, and subtle hints portrayed through persons eyes. They pay more attention to peoples movements as objects, and lose the meaning that may actually be being portrayed to them.
5. Arguing with a Dog
This section is about how adrenalin makes it so people no longer have “mind reading abilities”. For example polices officers when in a car chase become so obsessed with the chase that they are told to back away from the chased when they finally submit. This is said because police officers have made rash judgments while still hyped up on adrenalin that they have shot people who posed to threat. It is also stated that people become almost autistic, all of their focus is put on the target, and time appears to slow down.
6. Running Out of White Space
This section talks about how the more space between a person and a person trying to “read their mind” the more time/likelihood they have of getting it right. If someone is close to them and makes decides to shoot someone it would be harder to notice, since there is less time to notice their body movements or actions. It also mentions how police officers are trained to stand behind the driver when pulling over a car at night to reduce the chance of the cops adrenalin becoming to high, and accidentally shooting someone from judging them off of something they mistook as a dangerous action.
7. Something Told Me...
In this section it talks about how learning how to “mind read” Is a skill that can be learned over time. It states that putting yourself into a situation that raises your adrenalin can make it so each time your heartbeat does not increase as much, eventually making it so you can function in this stressful situation with practice.
8. Tragedy on Wheeler Ave.This section sums up all of the knowledge that was obtained from the previous sections and applies it to what happened on Wheeler Street. It states how lack of experience, heightened adrenalin, preconceived biases, and lack of space lead to Diallo’s death.