The troopers said their supervisors had trained them to focus on black- and brown-skinned drivers because, they were told, they were more likely to be drug traffickers.
Because they were told by a 28-year-old woman that it would be better for their image to let it go ahead rather than close it down.
"Showing each individual defendant was doing what they were doing because they were told to do so by a superior officer," the person briefed on the case said.
"People couldn't get into see senator Brandis because, they were told, he was too busy," he said outside court on Friday.
Many of the players were making phone videos, possibly because they were told this was what a million people would look like.
"We've got people who were turned away by other late-night shows because they were told they were too old – this is someone with 15 years' experience.
In Milgram's best-known experiment, people showed an alarming willingness to torture other people simply because they were told to do so.
Over 100,000 people were turned away from the polls because their names were not on the roll, because they lacked adequate identification, or because they were told, to their surprise, that they had already voted.
Thus, stories such as the Märchen ("tales") collected by the Grimm brothers in Germany are folktales because they were told by the people rather than by an aristocratic elite.
But because they liked her, and because they were told that "Miss Sirota's heart is set on this" (with no word of the fact that this mere girl had also written it), they acquiesced.
For decades Americans have lashed out against taxation because they were told that cutting taxes would give people an incentive to work harder and thus make the American economy flourish.
