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   From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov   
      
   On 5/4/21 9:05 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:   
   > MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of the jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin in the   
   > murder of George Floyd on Monday defended his participation in a protest last   
   > summer in Washington, D.C., following online speculation about his motives   
   > for serving on the jury and whether it might be grounds for appeal.   
   >   
   > A photo, posted on social media, shows Brandon Mitchell, who is Black,   
   > attending the Aug. 28 event to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I   
   Have a   
   > Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington. Floyd’s brother and   
   > sister, Philonise and Bridgett Floyd, and relatives of others who have been   
   > shot by police addressed the crowd.   
   >   
   > That photo recently recirculated online, the Star Tribune reported.   
   >   
   > It shows Mitchell standing with two cousins and wearing a T-shirt with a   
   > picture of King and the words, “GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS” and   
   “BLM,” for   
   > Black Lives Matter. Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes, 29 seconds   
   > last May as Floyd said repeatedly that he couldn’t breathe.   
   >   
   > Mitchell, 31, acknowledged being at the event and that his uncle posted the   
   > photo, but said he doesn’t recall wearing or owning the shirt.   
   >   
   > Mitchell was one of 12 jurors who convicted Chauvin of second- and third-   
   > degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Mitchell, the first juror to go   
   > public, spoke to several media outlets last week, including The Associated   
   > Press.   
   >   
   > “I’d never been to D.C.,” Mitchell said of his reasons for attending   
   the   
   > event. “The opportunity to go to D.C., the opportunity to be around   
   thousands   
   > and thousands of Black people; I just thought it was a good opportunity to be   
   > a part of something.”   
   >   
   > Mitchell and Chauvin’s attorney, Eric Nelson, have not returned messages   
   from   
   > The Associated Press seeking comment.   
   >   
   > Mike Brandt, a Minneapolis defense attorney not involved in the case, told   
   > the AP the revelation alone wasn’t nearly enough to overturn Chauvin's   
   > conviction, but it could be combined with other issues — the announcement   
   of   
   > a massive civil settlement to Floyd’s family during jury selection, the   
   > shooting of Daunte Wright, the judge’s refusal to move the trial — in an   
   > appeal to say Chauvin was denied a fair trial.   
   >   
   >   
   > AdChoices   
   > Ted Sampsell-Jones, a professor at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law, told   
   > the AP that the photo of Mitchell was “evidence that Chauvin can point to   
   in   
   > order to establish that his right to an impartial jury was denied.”   
   >   
   > He added: “Speaking frankly, Chauvin did not have a fully impartial jury in   
   > the sense we usually give criminal defendants. That wasn’t the fault of the   
   > judge or the prosecutors, it was simply a function of the incredible   
   > publicity and public pressure” surrounding the trial.   
   >   
   > Mitchell said he answered “no” to two questions about demonstrations on   
   the   
   > questionnaire sent out before jury selection.   
   >   
   > The first question asked: “Did you, or someone close to you, participate in   
   > any of the demonstrations or marches against police brutality that took place   
   > in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s death?” The second asked: “Other   
   than   
   > what you have already described above, have you, or anyone close to you,   
   > participated in protests about police use of force or police brutality?”   
   >   
   > Mitchell told Nelson during jury selection that he had a “very favorable”   
   > opinion of Black Lives Matter, that he knew some police officers at his gym   
   > who are “great guys,” and that he felt neutral about Blue Lives Matter, a   
   > pro-police group. He also said he had watched clips of bystander video of   
   > Floyd being pinned and had wondered why three other officers at the scene   
   > didn’t intervene.   
   >   
   > He said he could be neutral at trial.   
   >   
   > Mitchell told the Star Tribune that last summer’s protest was “100%   
   not” a   
   > march for Floyd.   
   >   
   > “It was directly related to MLK’s March on Washington from the ’60s   
   … The   
   > date of the March on Washington is the date … It was literally called the   
   > anniversary of the March on Washington,” he said.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Trump won.   
   >   
   Dig that hole deeper and deeper, the trial should be expunged and no   
   record of it left in any file.   
      
   --   
   That's karma   
      
   Keeping the insane...  insane.   
      
   Or making the FRUIT LOOPS... fruitier, doesn't seem like a great   
   solution to the delusion they're enveloped in.   
      
   Happy is relative, so hiding from reality might work for a while but,   
   happiness is also fleeting....   
      
   Hiding from reality to find happiness is almost the "text book"   
   definition of mental illness.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)