MSNBC Regular Frightened That 'Ignorant' Chauvin Jury Could Fail to Convict
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mar...jury-could-fail
Mark Finkelstein
April 11th, 2021 7:01 AM


Elie Mystal MSNBC Cross Connection 4-10-21George Floyd died in police custody with a knee on his neck. It's all on video. Now try finding a jury that can hear both sides of that case. Try being a juror knowing that Floyd's death caused a summer of rioting across America, and that how you rule in this case could cause more violence and destruction.

On Tiffany Cross's weekend MSNBC show, MSNBC regular Elie Mystal -- "justice correspondent" for The Nation -- apparently believes that former policeman Derek Chauvin's jury should be composed of people...who had already decided to convict him! He decried the "ignorance" of the Chauvin jury, saying it was chosen by people who either had not seen the video of the arrest of George Floyd, or maybe "saw the video and couldn’t decide if sometimes, maybe black people do need to be choked to death."

In other words, Mystal wanted a jury composed of people who had decided—in advance of seeing any evidence—that Chauvin had no valid defense. Or that anyone who hadn't seen the video are far too stupid or self-involved to be trustworthy jurors.

Mystal is so blindingly anti-police that he compared Floyd to the victims of 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombing. Police are domestic terrorists like al-Qaeda. Speaking of ignorance, Mystal also led viewers to believe that the three other police officers involved in the Floyd arrest were all white. He said:-- excerpt, rest at link above --