Comments by "Michele Long" (@michelelong3205) on "Juror 52 from the trial of Derek Chauvin says he went to the March on Washington | COURT TV" video.

  1.  Charlie Brown  Not at all! But someone who participated in BLM protests should have been up front about it. Stand TALL and proud, but should've then been excluded from the jury. I heard a potential juror get excused because she had connections to law enforcement. So is that fair and equal treatment. Man, the only race that counts is the human race. We all bleed red!
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  2.  @goose7574  Agreed. Nobody and I mean NOBODY should be able to profit off George Floyd's death. That $27 million civil settlement is absurd! I wonder if GF ever even paid child support for his kids. But I especially take issue with a juror OR a witness to make money from this case. Just my opinion.
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  3.  @goose7574  Now that it is a done deal, I honestly pray his kin folks use that money to better themselves. His drug dealer, Morries Hall, had an impromptu interview at a protest following the verdict and he said he planned to get his life together and do good. Everyone deserves a second chance. So I sure hope he follows through on that.
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  4.  @teresawicks9859  Ummm...I will have to find and review the interview, but I am pretty sure that he said that Derek Chauvin not testifying on his own behalf effected his decision making process. Not that it matters anyway. I think he went into it knowing for certain in his own mind that the officer was guilty. He had an agenda and won the jackpot on having the platform to help fulfill it. By the way, I think Chauvin is guilty of 2nd degree manslaughter. So don't go saying that I'm biased for the defense in this case.
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  5. Agreed! I felt the same listening to his answers under voir dire.
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  6. Yep!🙄
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  7. I watched every moment LIVE, too, and YES he 💯% had a BLM t-shirt showing through his dress shirt.
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  8.  @teresawicks9859  Well, I did go back and watch Brandon Mitchell's interviews. He is well spoken. He's made quite the circuit. I don't even pretend to know what it's like to have the life experiences of a Black man in America today! When I responded to your earlier comment, I had only seen two of his interviews. One with Gayle King on CBS This Morning and in that one, YOU are correct, he did NOT include himself when stating it might have an effect on some juror's opinion. But in the 2nd interview I watched on Good Morning America, he DID say people were curious and "it definitely did" make a difference. I knew I heard it somewhere. The one thing that bothered me about that interview was that he said George Floyd's " legacy was cemented in history." I disagree! GF did nothing honorable to create a legacy. His death caused a much needed conversation, but he wasn't some kind of saint. Because I looked it up, I decided to watch a couple more interviews. In the one he did for TODAY, he stated that there was curiosity for what DC had to say, but him not testifying did not change their verdict and he didn't know if it would've helped him if he did. I agree with him when he said he was waiting for the defense to have that "aww-ha moment" that explained what was going on. I was too and it never came! What bothered me in this interview is that he said he felt he had a "duty to represent his community" in this jury process. That leads me to strongly believe that he came into it feeling like he had to stand up for GF because he was a Black man. Right or wrong, that makes him a biased juror from the get-go in my opinion. Finally, I found an extended interview to KARE 11 that lasted 27 minutes. Again, he stated in this one that it made no difference to his vote of guilty that Chauvin didn't testify. However, he called Floyd a "martyr" and a "legend" which is absolutely absurd!!!! He obviously does not know the correct usage of those terms because GF did not die defending his beliefs. A legend CAN be someone famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed. So is that his legacy?
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