From KARE11:
‘I wish it didn’t have to happen’: Alternate juror reflects on Derek Chauvin trial
A juror who didn’t know she was an alternate in Chauvin’s trial details why she supports the former Minneapolis officer being convicted in George Floyd’s murder.
A woman who sat as an alternate on the jury that found Derek Chauvin guilty in George Floyd’s murder is speaking out about what it was like to parse through nearly three weeks of testimony in the former Minneapolis officer’s high-profile trial.
Brooklyn Center resident Lisa Christensen told KARE 11’s Lou Raguse about her role on the jury, as another police killing unfolded in her neighborhood.
Raguse: Did you want to be a juror?
Christensen: I had mixed feelings. There was a question on the questionnaire about it and I put I did not know. The reason, at that time, was I did not know what the outcome was going to be, so I felt like either way you are going to disappoint one group or the other. I did not want to go through rioting and destruction again and I was concerned about people coming to my house if they were not happy with the verdict.
That is the basis of jury intimidation. One alternate juror admitted to it.
I am not a lawyer but I suspect that this news interview give an exceptional strong basis for appeal.
The mob was successfully in intimidating jurors, possibly enough to influence their verdict.
This was mob rule.
It sure was. I wouldn’t count on the courts in overturning this, though. The talk of court packing and judicial term limits will have the same effect on the courts that threats of losing their pensions has on the police:
They will go along to keep their jobs and their power.
As they used to say: “It doesn’t take a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing.”
If they do not exercise their power to protect and uphold their oaths of office, then in the words of their own former FLOTUS, “What difference does it make?”
The very act of turning sunfish to protect their power is an overt act of surrender of that power. The mob NEEDS no judges, no politicians, no rights, no morals, no ethics, no discipline, no law.
If judges, appointed bureaucrats, and elected officials will not do their jobs but instead acquiesce to mob demands for momentary convenience and expediency, then they are useless.
It is an odd position for a small-L libertarian like me to have to take, that of demanding government officials DEFEND their power, limited as it is and should be, but without it, anarchy rules the day.
And once anarchy takes over, despotism and tyranny are not far behind.
That, of course, is precisely the point. The goal if communist insurgencies is to cause the citizens to lose confidence in their government. They begin screaming for someone to come and save them. The commies then step in and provide the services that the government cannot. Classic protection racket.
This is what is happening. You allow BLM/Antifa to commit violence. The cops and courts are powerless to stop it. The public is largely disarmed. The people scream for help. The commies show up and put a stop to it. Nevermind that the uniformed commies stopping the violence are the same ones who were committing it just a week ago, all that people notice is that they are now ‘safe’ from the violence.
This is right out of the CIA insurgency manual, which BLM/Antifa have been following like a Bible.
“ The mob NEEDS no judges, no politicians, no rights, no morals, no ethics, no discipline, no law.“
But they need and should get, multiple lead injections for their insanity. Cures it instantly.
Never mind court packing and term limits… the mob knows, or can find out, where the judge lives, and the Party may just decide not to protect him.