No, Black jurors aren’t ‘biased’ when it comes to shootings of Black people
11 November 2021
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11 November 2021
Jury service cannot only be for the white, the lucky and the obstinately stoic in the face of racial injustice. The jury seated in the trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery – a Black man who was shot and killed by three white men in Glynn county, Georgia – makes a mockery of the need for a randomly selected jury. Of the 12-person jury, 11 are white and just one is Black, in a county where more than 25% of the residents are Black. That Black jurors were dismissed because of the way they answered a series of questions ...
No, Black jurors aren’t ‘biased’ when it comes to shootings of Black people | Sonali Chakravarti
When Black jurors are eliminated from the jury pool, justice suffers
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