Liberals melt down on social media after mainstream media reports on Chauvin juror’s bias

Author David Steele was among those who didn't think Mitchell's lack of impartiality was a concern.

The account of a self-described life-long Democrat had words for WaPo that they basically shouldn't have published the story at all.

Hundreds of comments flooded in saying that Mitchell's apparent bias was "truth."

Others seemed to think that a fair trial is not as important as other concerns, such as saying that calling out a juror's bias is actually white supremacist.

Some seemed to think that the very notion that a person could be impartial was just silly anyway, so it hardly matters if a juror says they are impartial or not.

Still others seemed to believe that the evidence was do damning a fair trial wasn't in order in the first place.

Jury selection in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd saw both defense attorneys and prosecutors weeding out those potential jurors who may have held biases against either the former officer or been unduly partial to the state's case.

But after the guilty verdict was disclosed, it was revealed that one of the jurors who served had been photographed in August 2020 wearing a shirt that read "Get your knee off our necks" and "BLM." In the wake of the trial, he said that he saw jury duty as a means to "spark some change."

The juror, Brandon Mitchell, told Judge Cahill during jury selection on March 15 that he had no prior knowledge of the case prior to being summoned for jury duty.

Speaking on a show called Get Up! Mornings with Erica Campbell on April 27, Mitchell said that people should say yes to jury duty as a means to promote societal change.

"I mean it's important if we wanna see some change, we wanna see some things going different, we gotta into these avenues, get into these rooms to try to spark some change," he said. "Jury duty is one of those things. Jury duty. Voting. All of those things we gotta do."