One prospective juror during his interview said he was concerned about his safety and that of his family if he served on the jury. He was dismissed from the jury pool.
Imagine serving on the Chauvin trial jury and having serious doubts about one or more of the charges. Would you be willing to be the cause of a hung jury when you knew your name, address, your employer and even the school your kids attend would be leaked?
And many people today scoff at the hysteria and mania of the Salem Witch trials of long ago ...sneering that oh no, they never would have participated in those trials ... yeh ... right.
The more troubling thing is that the (s)elected government leaders are not speaking out that whatever the verdict would result, it needed to be done through the best system of justice in the world... the same system that will be used should any criminal decide that they will try to bring harm to anyone in volved in the case. But many of them are fearful themselves. Salem Witch trials are here today.