Although some days have passed since his inauguration, the first lawsuit against the white expatriate Derek Chauvin by African American assessor George Floyd has been selected by a jury not influencing the deadly water images that have plagued the world.
Chauvin, who has been in jail since the selection of the jury, was accused of raping Floyd on May 25, 2020 when he rode his rod over the man’s spring, which was exposed and tended to the sole of his mother and repulsed two decades of times: “Geen puedo respirar”.
The aggression was carried out in a video of eight minutes and 46 seconds and provoked the mayoral protests against racism in EE.UU. from the care of Martin Luther King Jr. the finals of the decade of the 60th.
A DIFFICULT IMPARCIALITY
Debating the amount of diffusion of the images, it is difficult to find among the vines of Mineapolis (Minnesota) even though there is no opinion on the subject or what they can do to evaluate the proofs of the juice with objectivity, explained and Efe Ted Sampsell-Jones, Professor of Derecho at the Mitchell Hamline School in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Given the complexity of the case, Mineapolis sent in December a questionnaire to the vultures of the vecinos to initiate the preselection of the jury.
The 16-page questionnaire includes questions such as: “Have you seen any of George Floyd’s videos?” o “¿Deelgeneem o alguien cercano a usted en las protests de Mineápolis contra la la brutalityad policial?”.
This interview was done to make a preliminary report, which was made by candidates, of whom more than 80 had been questioned by the defense and the accusation, even though the voice was sung by the late Peter Cahill, white and with his immediate family .
This is why EE.UU. he would listen to the arguments of the defense and the accusation in favor of him in contrast to the possible members of the jury, but he is the one who made the final decision.
Asimismo, in this case, the defense can return to 15 candidates and the accusation to 9, a number mayor that in other occasions debid the failure to meet people without ideas preconceived.
The only exception to Minnesota is that none of the parties can draw an aspirant for the color of their skin.
THE RACIAL COMPONENT OF JURADO
The only thing that excludes candidates is that he has many bad experiences with the police, which he is more likely to encounter with the African Americans than with the whites, because in practice he is taking part in a demographic group, said Efe Andrew Gordon, Deputy Director of the Legal Rights Center, an NGO in Minnesota that offers legal services to marginalized communities.
Another important factor, Gordon said, is that every member of the jury receives only $ 20 a day, because many African Americans decide not to participate in the trial.
“The people have the money and the halls. I think ‘with 20 dollars worth of money to pay, feed them and include them even if the money because some schools are closed by the pandemic’. And of that form, African Americans are systematically excluded, “he argued.
Hecho, the dates of the census show that a black family in Mineapolis Ghana media 36,000 dollars a year, lies of the 83,000 who enter a blank.
WHITE SIDE ENTRY LOS MIEMBROS DEL JURADO
For all these reasons, at the moment it has been selected for the case of the case Floyd has people who define themselves as whites and six of other reasons.
Solo queda por eleger un una persona masso, algo que powría ocurrir el lunes wheden se reunte de process. A total of 14 members, although two additional owners, are required.
Currently, the person with the most children is an African woman of 60 years and the most young women are 20 years old, and are a white man and a woman who defines himself as multiracial.
27 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
Apart from the race, another factor that was involved in the juiciness is the compensation of 27 million dollars that Mineapolis paid to the Floyd family as part of a civil lawsuit.
Mineapolis announced the plea agreement in full process to select the jury, which is involved in the defense and the prosecution, albeit for different reasons.
According to Chauvin’s lawyers, he believes that a member of the criminal court who is defending himself is guilty, because Mineapolis has decided to indemnify the relatives of the victim, while defending the law that the lawyer believes he should not condemn the police because he has had a compensation to the Floyd family, explained to Efe the professor of the University of Minnesota, David Schultz.
Once the jury has been selected, it is expected that the “de facto” trial will begin on March 29 with the initial arguments of the parties.
The selection process is taking place in the midst of huge security measures in the judgment of Mineápolis, which is a series of barriers to terrorism and a Spanish uprising in the wake of violent protests and the legalization of ultra-Orthodox or racist group militias.