Amala Ekpunobi

Racial bias is going to be present for these people.

Yes, of course they do that in picking jurors for a case.

In fact, there were many black people presented in this pool of jurors, which I believe was like 500 to 600 people deep, okay?

As they went through these people trying to pick potential jurors, many of the black people present said that they in fact had racial bias, that they could not be impartial in this case because they would allow the skin tone

of both the perpetrator and the victim to influence their ruling, what they decided, okay?

So when you get a headline that stipulates there's no black people on the jury for this Carmelo Anthony case, one would be moved to think, oh, the court is racist.

This is the criminal justice system that is hating on Black people.

They're doing it again.

They're coming after this young Black boy who acted in self-defense, when in reality, they had Black people.

They interviewed those Black people.

They came forward and said, I have racial bias.

And guess what?

You're moved out of the jury.

And this is not an all-white jury.

You're also going to see articles and social media posts saying that it's an all-white jury.

It's not.

There is a racial mix within this jury.

And it's because Black people came forward and said, I have racial bias.

And others happened to be educators, which created a whole conflict of interest with them being jurors on this particular trial.

So it's just like, I look into half these things.