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Im glad that cnns coverage focused on those in the community. that is why there was an indictment. that is why there was a trial. you had a judge in this case that recognized that the defense was engaged in intentional racial discrimination in the composition, in the selection of that jury, and so it was really remarkable that this jury was able to return the verdict that they did because jury diversity matters. there is no shortage of social science research that shows racially diverse juries, ...

Somebodys loved one, a human being, they will now serve the rest of their lives in jail. and, ana, this is not the end of it. they now will have a federal hate crime trial. and one more point if i can. a law was made about the racial composition of this jury. the idea theres only one black juror. many people thought in a county of 27% of black people and 25% from that pool to have only one black juror, to have the defense counsel refuse to want to allow black pastors in the courtroom, criticism ...

That top charge of the malice murder but guilty on so many other counts. >> makes perfect sense to me. in georgia, malice murder, you have an intent to kill someone. felony murder is you dont necessarily want to kill someone but youre committing a felony offense and someone dies as a result of it. what that shows to me, that was not a reaction from the jury. it was careful deliberation. lets put the facts together with the law and come up with what we feel is the right verdict, and i think it wa...

Them, he was unarmed, no evidence presented, but hed dashed no evidence that he had done anything, there was an altercation when he was shot and killed. now, the police reaction was something that cause some outrage in the coming weeks because no arrests were made until a video of the killing went viral. those arrests were made 74 days after the killing of ahmaud arbery. a lot was made of the composition of thejury, the a lot was made of the composition of the jury, the tactics used by the defen...

There, they will have to choose another jury pool, and so much was made out of the -- just the make up of this jury as well as who was dismissed by the defense attorneys, who were potential jurors and whether or not there would be able to be justice with 11 white people, men and women, and one black man on this juror. and as you heard from al sharpton say today that this jury of 11 white men and women, one black man in the state of georgia proves that all whites are not racist, all blacks are no...

Do you think too much was made of the racial composition? >> racial composition is extremely important when it comes to jury trials. each of us, we have different opinions, we have different life experiences and cultures, and its very important for all of those cultures to come into a trial. for example, in jefferson county, we had a former d.a. who would make fun of nicknames, and try to use it as a weapon in front of white juries which some whites do not understand that black people have nickn...

Ahmaud arbery, a 25 —year—old black man was running and just refused blocks from his home in february of last year when greg and travis mcmichael, a father and son decided to chase him in their trucks, they armed themselves and chased him saying later that he fit the description of a burglary suspect. a third man roddy bryantjoined them. they cornered it him, although he was unarmed, there was no evidence presented that he done anything illegal and yet there was an altercation and he was sho...

0 served as well as a country. in fact going into this holiday weekend i think it would have torn this country apart. thats how fragile our democracy is. thats how tired and exhausting it is for people of color. ive been talking to ben crump and lee merrick all day long. today weve had that accountability. but i will tell you this is just one day and finally we got it. tomorrow will come and hopefully more black people wont be killed because of the color of their skin. >> bakari sellers, thank y...

The musicians are practicing and the stage is set for The Ohio Valley Symphony’s annual Christmas Show on December 4 at the Lillian and Paul Wedge Auditorium in the Pt.