{"id":475330,"date":"2021-05-05T17:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T21:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=475330"},"modified":"2021-05-05T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T21:36:07","slug":"walsh-the-chauvin-trial-has-been-exposed-as-a-ridiculous-sham-throw-out-the-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-the-chauvin-trial-has-been-exposed-as-a-ridiculous-sham-throw-out-the-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"WALSH: The Chauvin Trial Has Been Exposed As A Ridiculous Sham. Throw Out The Verdict.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fwalsh-the-chauvin-trial-has-been-exposed-as-a-ridiculous-sham-throw-out-the-verdict%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=475330&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1216590242.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>It was apparent from the beginning that Derek Chauvin was not going to be given a fair trial in front of an impartial jury of his peers. If there was ever a trial that should have been moved to a different location, this was the trial. But it was not moved. And if there was ever a jury that should have been sequestered for the duration, this was that jury. But it was not sequestered. Chauvin was being judged by Minneapolis locals, who lived through the protests and riots, and who were leaving the court each night and returning to that same community, likely driving past the angry crowds threatening to burn the city if a guilty verdict wasn\u2019t returned.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse and the trial an even more blatant sham, George Floyd\u2019s alleged drug dealer, who was present at the scene on the day of Floyd\u2019s death, was not required to testify. Most egregiously, there was no mistrial declared after a prominent congresswoman traveled from DC to Minneapolis to demand a guilty verdict in front of a frothing crowd and call for more \u201cconfrontation\u201d should the jury fail to give her what she wants. It is hard to imagine how a deck could be more unfairly stacked against a defendant. And that is before we have taken into account the apparent BLM activist who maneuvered his way onto the jury.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Juror #52, who we now know as Brandon Mitchell, has been all over the media in recent days. He is eager to tell his story and receive the applause he evidently feels entitled to. But the part of his story that he has not been so eager to discuss is his own recent experience as an activist for the BLM cause. As multiple outlets have reported, Mitchell was photographed in August of 2020 after attending a rally in DC. In the picture, he\u2019s wearing a \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d hat and a t-shirt that says \u201cGet Your Knee Off Our Necks.\u201d If this is impartiality, I\u2019d hate to see what partiality looks like.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mitchell now claims that he doesn\u2019t remember wearing the shirt and that he only attended the rally because he\u2019d \u201cnever been to DC\u201d and it was an opportunity \u201cto be around thousands and thousands of black people.\u201d He also claimed on his juror questionnaire that he never participated in any protests against police brutality. What about the event in DC? Well, he says that though he attended it in full BLM attire, and it was held in the middle of a summer when protests against alleged police brutality were raging across the country, and it featured speeches from George Floyd\u2019s family members, and there were people holding signs that literally said \u201cStop Police Brutality,\u201d still somehow the whole thing had nothing to do with police brutality. It was really just a commemoration and celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr, he claims. Anyone with any level of intelligence might feel that it has been insulted by this excuse.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet even if you buy the excuse, you still have Mitchell\u2019s own words to contend with. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/getuperica.com\/334572\/listen-black-juror-in-derek-chauvin-trial-speaks-out-exclusive\/\">interview<\/a> with the \u201cGet Up!\u201d morning show, the former juror #52 seems to admit, repeatedly, that he was far from an objective participant in the trial. Straining credulity, he says that he didn\u2019t know much of anything about the case prior to showing up for jury duty. Apparently he suffers from amnesia \u2014 at least amnesia about the George Floyd shirt he was pictured wearing \u2014 so perhaps this was another flare up. But he also says that he saw a small portion of the video depicting Floyd\u2019s death and that, after seeing it, he \u201cdidn\u2019t need to know much else.\u201d Is that the sort of attitude we want from jurors? How impartial can we expect them to be when they\u2019ve seen only a short sampling of the prosecution\u2019s evidence prior to the trial and have already decided that it\u2019s all they need to see?<\/p>\n<p>Later in the interview, Mitchell confesses that he went into the jury selection process cognizant that it was a \u201chistoric moment\u201d and a \u201cchance to make history.\u201d As if that wasn\u2019t clear enough, he says that he \u201cknew from the gate what it was, what it could be.\u201d Offering some closing thoughts to wrap up the conversation, Mitchell advocates jury duty as a chance to \u201cget out there and get into these avenues and get into these rooms to try to spark some change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To review, Brandon Mitchell, a juror on Derek Chauvin\u2019s murder trial, had previously attended BLM rallies wearing a George Floyd t-shirt and admits that he saw the jury as a \u201chistoric\u201d chance to bring about social change. He is an activist who used the jury as a forum to advance his agenda. In other words, this was not a fair trial. Not close. And that would be the case without the BLM activist on the jury. With the activist, it becomes one of the worst shams in the history of the modern American legal system.<\/p>\n<p>The case for a retrial is overwhelming, which does not mean that one will actually be granted. Chauvin was always going to be a sacrificial goat, made to pay not just for his own sins but for the sins of all of white America. New reports suggest that the Justice Department was standing by, ready to arrest Chauvin in the court room and charge him with civil rights violations should he have been acquitted. Even if you think Chauvin is guilty, how does this rise to the level of a federal crime? What evidence is there to support such a charge? Well, evidence only matters if you care about things like truth, fairness, and justice. This case has never had anything to do with any of those things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><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\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was apparent from the beginning that Derek Chauvin was not going to be given a fair trial in front of an impartial jury of his peers. 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