The shit show continues…
In the latest developments in the George Floyd trial, the Minneapolis City council’s unanimous vote to award the deceased’s family and lawyers with a massive $27 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit continues to have reverberations.
On Wednesday, a frustrated Judge Peter Cahill dismissed two previously seated jurors when during questioning, it became clear that their perception of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who is being tried for murder in Floyd’s death had been tainted by news of the settlement engineered by the Black Lives Matter activist political leaders that include the radical son of former DNC deputy chairman Keith Ellison.
It was a blatant effort to poison the well and deprive Chauvin of the right to a fair trial, something that he is never going to get in Minneapolis, the once beautiful Midwestern city that has devolved into a third-world shithole due to demographic warfare and the socialist takeover of local government.
Two jurors total have been dismissed over the civil settlement issue. The City of Minnesota is DISGRACEFUL for blatantly trying to stack the deck for conviction.
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) March 17, 2021
Via The Minneapolis Star Tribune, “2 jurors dismissed in Derek Chauvin murder trial over hearing of $27M settlement; an 8th juror added”:
The influence of extensive publicity again took center stage at the murder trial of fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Wednesday, with two seated jurors dismissed amid an announcement that the city has agreed to pay George Floyd’s survivors $27 million.
The total number of jurors shrank to seven when Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill removed two who said they had heard about a federal lawsuit settlement reached last week and admitted it affected their ability to assure Chauvin of his constitutional right to be presumed innocent during the course of the trial.
That total was bumped up to eight by midafternoon Wednesday, when a Black suburban father was added to the panel.
Before questioning the recalled jurors, Cahill began the court session by warning journalists against reporting what is on notes and computers in courtroom, along with the security details on the 18th floor. He called it “extremely irresponsible” and said there would be sanctions if these disclosures continued.
One of the dismissed jurors was a Hispanic man in his 20s who said news of the settlement “kind of confirms opinions that I already have. … I think it will be hard to be impartial.”
The second dismissed juror, a white man in his 30s, said he was taken aback by the size of the settlement. “It sent a message that the city of Minneapolis felt something was wrong,” the man said. “That sticker price shocked me. It kind of swayed me, yes.”
The trial, which represents the slow-burning fuse to another destructive explosion of racial violence, burning and looting has been plagued by problems even at this early stage, not a good omen for what’s to come.
As of late Wednesday afternoon, Judge Cahill has yet to decide on whether the potential jury pool has become so polluted in Minneapolis that it may be necessary for a venue change to another city in Minnesota that isn’t a cop-hating hive of miscreants where no verdict is ever going to satisfy a mob that is ready to finish the job of burning the city down.
