Amala Ekpunobi
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People get money for just about anything these days because they think
We are so fueled by our own opinions on things rather than the facts of what has taken place that maybe I'm wrong about that.
This is just so insane to me.
And now we're going to get to the jury.
Because you're gonna see a lot of articles coming up, a lot of statements being made about the fact that there are no black jurors for this particular trial.
In fact, People Magazine published this recently, no black jurors chosen for Carmelo Anthony trial in fatal Texas track meet stabbing.
You're gonna see a whole bunch of videos where people are coming forward and saying that this case is essentially rigged, that he's done for from the start because there are no black jurors and intentionally so,
for this trial now let me remind everybody both sides have to agree to the jury pool okay and they go through the jurors and they decide who they want to have on the jury and they are both both sides are accepting of that but we're getting tick tocks like this and let's follow here and see the argument made
You'd be curious to know whether or not they did any background checking as to whether or not
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 coming after this young Black boy who acted in self-defense, when in reality, they had Black people.