BROADCASTS.com

b'

Three police officers are on trial in Minnesota for their role in George Floyd\\u2019s murder. The case centers on their \\u201cduty to intervene\\u201d in the actions of Derek Chauvin. But some are asking: How do you teach cops to stand up to other cops? 

Read more:

Former Minneapolis police officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas K. Lane and Tou Thao are facing trial on federal charges that they deprived George Floyd of his federal civil rights in the fatal May 2020 arrest. Reporter Holly Bailey has been reporting on the courtroom proceedings \\u2014 a process that\\u2019s played out much differently than in Chauvin\\u2019s trial. \\u201cIt feels like we\'re really going to get deep into what police officers in Minneapolis are trained to do, and how exactly they are trained,\\u201d Bailey says.

In the aftermath of Floyd\\u2019s death and Chauvin\\u2019s conviction, police departments around the country have been seeking out training in \\u201cbystander intervention\\u201d \\u2014 teaching police officers how to speak up when their colleagues are doing something harmful. 

\\u201cFor decades and decades, we\'ve been teaching police officers about intervention, but we\'ve been doing it really badly,\\u201d says Jonathan Aronie of the Sheppard Mullin law firm, the co-founder of the Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement Project. \\u201cAll we do is we give them a PowerPoint and we say, \\u2018Thou shall intervene,\\u2019 as though it\'s easy. And we\'ve never, ever taught the skills of intervention.\\u201d