Posted on 05/03/2021 7:24:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
A juror on the Derek Chauvin trial who told the court that he had no prior knowledge of the George Floyd civil case was photographed last August wearing a shirt that read “Get your knee off our necks” and “BLM.” He stated last week that he saw jury duty as a means to “spark some change.”
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Juror #52, now identified as Brandon Mitchell, reportedly told Judge Cahill on March 15 that he had no prior knowledge of the case prior to being summoned for jury duty.
Mitchell is the first juror in the Chauvin trial to speak openly about the deliberations. ADVERTISEMENT Speaking in a show called Get Up! Mornings with Erica Campbell on April 27, Mitchell said that people should say yes to jury duty as a means to promote societal change. “I mean it’s important if we wanna see some change, we wanna see some things going different, we gotta into these avenues, get into these rooms to try to spark some change,” he said. “Jury duty is one of those things. Jury duty. Voting. All of those things we gotta do.”
According to Minneapolis’ FOX 9 reporter Paul Blume, who livetweeted the case on March 15, “Judge Cahill asked Juror #52, whether he heard anything about the #GeorgeFloyd civil case. He says, no. He explained hearing some basic info about trial dates, etc from the news in recent months, but nothing that would keep him from serving as impartial juror. #ChauvinTrial” “Juror #52 wrote in his jury questionnaire that he wondered why other police officers at the scene did not intervene in #GeorgeFloyd deadly arrest. He recognizes the historic nature of the case. Defense says he is an acceptable juror. So state's turn to question,” Blume added.
In a Facebook post dated August 31, 2020, Brandon Mitchell was pictured (seen below) wearing a shirt with the words “Get your knee off our necks” and “BLM,” which is short for Black Lives Matter. This would directly contradict his claim that he had no prior knowledge of the case.
Jury Nullification.
So much for a “Jury of Your Peers”.
Fair trial, my butt.
Mistrial?
Just sayin.
Let’s see if some judge has the stones to grant an appeal.
Serving as jurors might be a good opportunity for robots to replace humans.
Mistrial.
This one juror has overturned the entire trial.
This is not an intelligent person....................
The guy ought to be convicted for lying to the court. Then he could be cell mates with Chauvin.
Absolutely. And after the verdict is overtired with prejudice, Chauvin needs to sue everbody involved from the prosecutors, politicians, witnesses, jurors, media outlets down to the janitor.
Yep, lawyers need to be real careful.
Glorifying a common piece of garbage criminal. Those are these peoples’ heroes. Pathetic. This should give cause for a mistrial for Derek Chauvin.
Good more grounds fort the appeal
Mistrial/ jury nullification. Set Chauvin free.
They BELIEVED him? Him saying he only knew basic info is evidence of him lying in the first place.
“spark some change.”
Does that mean quit arresting black criminals then they won’t get hurt resisting?
Why wasn’t this uncovered during jury selection? You can bet if a prospective juror was photographed wearing a Back the Blue or the Thin Blue Line t-shirt it would have been discovered during jury selection and used to dismiss him or her from serving on the jury.
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