(Article by Ian Miles Cheong republished from ThePostMillenial.com)
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.
https://twitter.com/PaulBlume_FOX9/status/1371473970357178372
Mitchell is the first juror in the Chauvin trial to speak openly about the deliberations.
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."
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According to Minneapolis' FOX 9 reporter Paul Blume, who live-tweeted 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.
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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
In an interview with Mitchell on April 29, Mitchell told Law & Crime Network that the jury took "five or six hours" to determine the verdict.
https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetwork/status/1387791801088675842
He stated that the jury "definitely figured out manslaughter within the first hour, right away," adding that "third degree took maybe three and a half hours, second degree murder we figured out maybe thirty, forty-five minutes."
Mitchell added that he wasn't impressed by any of the witnesses Chauvin's defense called up.
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