{"id":77602,"date":"2021-04-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77602"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T22:06:27","slug":"a-little-concerning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77602","title":{"rendered":"A Little Concerning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the alternate jurors from the Chauvin trial admits the flamingly obvious (in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/george-floyd\/derek-chauvin-trial-alternate-juror-lisa-christensen\/89-97b74eb1-c875-4ed5-93ad-5c72620b9f18\">an interview with KARE11&#8217;s Lou Raguse<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Raguse: Did you want to be a juror?<\/p><p>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. <strong>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.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So there&#8217;s your evidence that, by accident or design or pure social fact, the jury&#8217;s attitude was affected by the, er, social disruption of the past year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to say &#8220;It&#8217;d have been utterly impossible for Chauvin to get a fair trial under those circumstances&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to say we can see that state from here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the alternate jurors from the Chauvin trial admits the flamingly obvious (in an interview with KARE11&#8217;s Lou Raguse): 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-77602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","tag-chauvin-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77603,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77602\/revisions\/77603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}