With striking of Black juror,
Floyd activists see racism
Posted By: NorthernDog, 3/18/2021 9:58:00 PM
MINNEAPOLIS — A prospective juror who once lived in the neighborhood where George Floyd was arrested told the attorney for an ex-officer charged in Floyd's death that he had a personal reason for wanting to serve on the jury. “Because me, as a Black man, you see a lot of Black people get killed and no one’s held accountable for it, and you wonder why or what was the decisions,” Juror No. 76 said under questioning during jury selection in Derek Chauvin's murder trial. “So, with this, maybe I’ll be in the room to know why.” But the man won’t
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They actually have chosen several black jurors. Just not those with a boat load of animosity against the police and a laundry list of complaints which they didn't hesitate to announce in the courtroom.