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Fascinating.

Good video but deserving of a caveat. Where she describes 4 people as educators and treats the 4 as equivalent outside of race, the significant difference was three educators who worked in public schools k-12 situation versus the one she described as a “white educator” who only worked with adults in a non public trade school situation thus having nothing to do with the public school age of the victim and the accused as well as nothing to do with the public school event and physical setting where the crime took place.

But this really made me think of my own experience with the way jury duty works.

I sat on a jury a few years ago that had 11 of us willing (and initially trying) to have some reasonable and valuable discussion when it was time to deliberate. There was one man who simply told the rest of us that he would never convict because it’s not right to convict a man for physical assault against his wife because “things happen between man and wife and we all know how it is in families and you can’t put a man in jail for that.”

Just to add a few details: there was no racial difference between the alleged attacker and the victim. There was a mix of races among us in the room. And there had been cultural differences present in the courtroom in at least 3 different ways. As for the victim and the accused attacker: There were separate living situations at separate addresses. The attack, if the entire story was true was premeditated, and was conducted after entering the victims residence, hiding, and lying in wait. The defense never did much to go after any of those details as separate issues but mainly went after the victim’s story on what I might call a sort of narrative level without denying the defendant’s presence waiting for her when she got home from a very late shift or the fact that they were estranged. Etc. Etc. Etc. what 11 of us thought we could and should discuss was literally just the photos of the marks on the victim and what they showed.

The victim was not a citizen and had not entered the country legally and apparently was in the terrible situation that she could only be kept in because of her lack of speaking English and her husband’s apparent arrogance and belief that he could control her in her situation having her legal status to hold against her. There were varying level of sympathy and concern both for her safety and for realizing she might be lying and that her legal status made her look bad. But for 11 jurors these things were all balancing out to normal levels and decent discussion about the various valid concerns needing to be considered. As such potentially politically charged issues were showing up in the case, the far more devastating thing impacting me and my views was the 12th juror and his cultural beliefs in allowing for wife beating as a norm that our justice system could not convict and punish.

We ended as a hung jury after a pretty brief period of time once he started speaking up.

As I’m sure you can guess this was not a lifelong American citizen who hung this jury. He seem utterly astonished that the rest of us did not understand the things he was explaining to us as he repeated to us several times that he was lawyer (It seemed he meant where he came from) and that he listened and took notes and that none of the rest of us did our duty and listened to the case as it was presented. I have no clue why he would make such false accusations. It simply seemed like he was a person who leapt to wild assumptions based only on his own point of view without regard to reality. It seemed as if each and every point he tried to “explain” was proof that he had zero understanding or respect for our laws here and was projecting his beliefs and his paradigm over it all in the way that is an arising current controversy of whether the law of the land stands or sharia is a legal system that takes precedence over our laws. With the touchy and insane political side of such things and the wild back and forth pretending no one can criticize that, I’d say peremptory strikes would end up having a place sometimes to protect against that type of problem juror while evil forces try to force all of us to accept slanders against us such as Islamophobia and racism if we dare to criticize a religion. I wish the prosecutor had seen the potential for the problem and had struck him!

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I miss the Iron Lady. Too bad Britain turned on her successes and chose the decline. It’s awful watching it now at the point in their demise where it appears they may never be able turn it around. I never wanted to have to witness the fall of Britain. But even now, even within earshot of the death rattle, they still have a significant political contingent who have no idea what time it is.

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Don't look away. This is what happens when the world enables, legitimizes and encourages diplomacy with the Muslim Nazi terrorists occupying

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