The decision had not been scheduled ahead of time.
Two jurors were dismissed as a result, citing their belief that the city had signaled Chauvin's guilt with their payout. These jurors were both men. One of them was white.
Two more jurors acknowledged that they had learned of the payout, but both pinky-promised it would not impact their judgement in the case.
The latest seated jurors are a black man, a biracial woman, an unmarried white female nurse, and a retired elderly woman who volunteers to help underprivileged children.
I suspect the Minneapolis City Council deliberately timed this payout in order to influence the makeup of the jury.
Anyways, our judicial system is now much like our election system: operating on expectations of good faith and honesty between parties who view each other as existential threats.
Reminder that one of the OJ Simpson jurors is on record stating that their not-guilty verdict was payback for the decision in the Rodney King trial.
How in the world can he get a fair trial there? I’d honestly be scared of threats
He can't and he won't. The only difference between the four compromised jurors is two of them told the truth about being compromised and two of them lied. In a hyper-polarized state with multiple factions vying for total control, the very concept of a fair trial is laughable. Right now, I wouldn't trust people of one race to determine the guilt of someone belonging to another race under any circumstances. That's the price we are going to pay for multiculturalism. That's life in a low-trust society.
I would suggest that "Jury of your peers" in a society that believes in "lived experience" and the innate viewpoint of race means that only blacks can judge blacks and only whites can judge whites....
I'll never forget the madness of the O.J trial, where many of the blacks essentially admitted that they made him not guilty as vengeance for Rodney King. That's the difference between them and us, we'd never make a black man guilty or a white man not guilty purely as racial vengeance. As much as we may not like them, we still have a sense of justice. Sadly though, the woke in our tribe have lost that sense of justice, and would gladly do the same thing those blacks did during the O.J trial to us.
That's only true if you're talking racists and people with integrity.
If your 'them and us' is racial in nature then you're as racist as they are.
It's a guarantee that the family and friends of jury members are going to be "accidentally leaked". CNN: "Oopsie whoopsie, Jenny Doe from 123 Minneapolis accidentally had her identity leaked, reminder, her husband, who is currently being held in a hotel away from her, voted no on convicting the brutal mass murderer of personally stranguling a saint. Once again, Jenny Doe is alone in 123 Minneapolis, and the police are being advised to stay inside during these riots."