{"id":466721,"date":"2021-05-03T09:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=466721"},"modified":"2021-05-03T09:21:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T13:21:28","slug":"report-floyd-juror-wore-blm-shirt-referencing-floyd-in-july-challenging-what-he-told-defense-during-jury-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-floyd-juror-wore-blm-shirt-referencing-floyd-in-july-challenging-what-he-told-defense-during-jury-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Floyd Juror Wore BLM Shirt Referencing Floyd In July, Challenging What He Told Defense During Jury Selection \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-floyd-juror-wore-blm-shirt-referencing-floyd-in-july-challenging-what-he-told-defense-during-jury-selection%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=466721&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/George-Floyd.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>One of the jurors who served on the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin reportedly sported a Black Lives Matter T-shirt with a reference to the death of George Floyd, seemingly challenging what the juror told the Chauvin defense team during jury selection.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/chauvin-trial-juror-spark-some-change\">report<\/a> from The Post Millennial, now-public juror\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chauvin-juror-speaks-out-to-help-push-for-change-suggests-hes-been-pulled-over-by-cops-because-hes-black\">Brandon Mitchell<\/a>, 31, is seen in a Facebook post published in August 2020 wearing a hat that says \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d and a T-shirt that says \u201cBLM\u201d with the words, \u201cGet Your Knee Off Our Necks,\u201d a reference to the death of Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was posted by a Travis Mitchell with the caption, \u201cThe next Generation being socially active representing in DC my son Marzell, my nephew Brandon Rene Mitchell, and brotha Maurice Jauntiness Johnson.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.0810810810811\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here is Juror #52 who said he was impartial during jury questioning. Also runs a podcast. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JaYM8RTwDj\">https:\/\/t.co\/JaYM8RTwDj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LpmZ8bmD9L\">pic.twitter.com\/LpmZ8bmD9L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1388939550681182215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">However, when Mitchell was asked by Judge Peter Cahill on March 15, 2021, if he knew anything about the Chauvin\/Floyd case, he said no, according to FOX 9 reporter Paul Blume.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cJudge Cahill asked Juror #52, whether he heard anything about the <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">#GeorgeFloyd<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> civil case,\u201d Blume reported at the time. \u201cHe 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. <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">#ChauvinTrial.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.299065420561\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Judge Cahill asked Juror #52, whether he heard anything about the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GeorgeFloyd?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GeorgeFloyd<\/a> 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. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChauvinTrial?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ChauvinTrial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Blume (@PaulBlume_FOX9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulBlume_FOX9\/status\/1371473970357178372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On\u00a0April 20, after a little more than 10 hours of deliberation, the jury, including Mitchell, found Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter related to Floyd\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper\" data-testid=\"ad-wrapper\" readability=\"8\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-5586194-3\" class=\"ad-unit\" data-google-query-id=\"CODk8bzArfACFc86AQodmPQLRQ\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>Chauvin and three other officers arrested and detained Floyd last May after he allegedly gave counterfeit money to a clerk at a convenience store. Following a struggle to get Floyd into the back of a police cruiser, viral video shows that\u00a0Chauvin kneeled on Floyd\u2019s neck and back for nearly nine minutes to detain Floyd while reportedly waiting for paramedics to arrive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last week, Mitchell told The Wall Street Journal that he came forward to talk about the case so he could \u201chelp push for change.\u201d The jury was anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-juror-in-derek-chauvin-trial-lifts-the-curtain-on-deliberations-11619705799?mod=hp_lead_pos11\">reported<\/a> Thursday that Mitchell \u201csaid he decided to come forward because \u2018staying anonymous wouldn\u2019t help push for change&#8217;\u201d and claimed he had been pulled over by police officers \u201cdozens of times\u201d in the past for \u201cno reason,\u201d suggesting his identity as a black male made him suspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Mitchell said he was pulled over for no reason by Minneapolis police dozens of times in his early 20s, usually driving his mother\u2019s aging Chrysler Sebring,\u201d the paper reported. \u201cHe said he has always told his players to follow the checklist his mother gave him during these encounters. Take your hat off; announce what you\u2019re doing; be polite; do what you\u2019re told.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut serving on the jury has made him see how wrong it is that a person should be so afraid that a police officer could do them harm that they needed to change their behavior,\u201d the Journal noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s also part of the reason why I\u2019m speaking up now because that is a narrative that is horrible,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cSo somebody follows directions or not, they don\u2019t deserve to die. That\u2019s completely ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/chauvin-trial-juror-spark-some-change\">H\/t<\/a> The Post Millennial<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chauvin-juror-speaks-out-to-help-push-for-change-suggests-hes-been-pulled-over-by-cops-because-hes-black\">Chauvin Juror Speaks Out To \u2018Help Push For Change,\u2019 Suggests He\u2019s Been Pulled Over By Cops Because He\u2019s\u00a0Black<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the jurors who served on the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin reportedly sported a Black Lives Matter T-shirt with a reference to the death &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277185,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/George-Floyd.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Floyd Juror Wore BLM Shirt Referencing Floyd In July, Challenging What He Told Defense During Jury Selection \u00a0","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/George-Floyd.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Floyd Juror Wore BLM Shirt Referencing Floyd In July, Challenging What He Told Defense During Jury Selection \u00a0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}