Jesus this is getting boring. Will you drop the meta-analysis of our conversation? I promise, you're not as insightful as you seem to believe you are.

I'm not trying to force anything. On the same night that those police officers killed Tyre, thousands of police officers went about their jobs in an exemplary or at least neutral manner. The police officers who killed Tyre worked in direct opposition to the rules and regulations set out for all police officers to follow. Because of this, they were removed from the police force and now face criminal charges. So even by your definition, they appear to have acted as individuals instead of as nodes in the police hive.

If you want to talk about the police en masse, you have to contend with the fact that 98% of police interactions are non violent. If you want to talk about this specific example, you have to contend with the fact that those police officers were not commended for their behaviour, as you'd expect if it was in keeping with the strictures of "the police" as an entity, but ejected from that entity for their actions.

If those five officers were "deindividualised" by their indoctrination, and were acting in accordance with the programming of the police, why is the programming so incredibly ineffective that it only affects less than 2% of police interactions?????