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Present mayor of new york city, the former governor, cuomo, not showing any sign of respect for the jury process. from the president of the united states, a signal just like that. take a look. >> i didnt watch the trial. so i -- >> do you stand by your past comment relating him to white supremacy? >> look, i stand by what the jury has concluded. the jury system works. we have to abide by it. >> neil: end of story. the most efficient way to look at it here, whether you like the outcome or didnt. ...

Self defense that allowed him to murder. the verdict is controversial. it is also the law. under rule of law, juries are respected not based on whether you agree with the individual outcome but based on a process being fair and valid. as a journalist and lawyer, im not here to undermine the legitimacy of the civic and nonviolent jury process that we use to deal with these kinds of disputes. this outcome, though, is controversial for a reason. lets be clear and honest about it here. the reason is...

Police killing george floyd on tape which the jury process ultimately ruled was a murder. but before that jury process, it led to waves of largely nonviolent protests trying to call out and stop police brutality and violence. and those were met. lets remember. in many parts of the country, the calls to stop police brutality were met with more police brutality on tape against people who did not look violent, it didnt look like justified use of force. we covered those stories at the time. if you w...

More tonight from nbcs ron allen. >> all rise for the jury, please. >> reporter: the trials first witness, the first police officer to arrive at the scene of the fatal encounter. prosecutors showing the jury graphic images of ahmaud arberys body, too graphic to show here, taken by police body and dash cameras. a day in court that began with arberys mother fighting back tears as prosecutors showed the jury video of what they say was her son being hunted down and killed. >> ladies and gentlemen, a...

Please. >> reporter: the trials first witness, the first police officer to arrive at the scene of the fatal encounter. prosecutors showing the jury graphic images of ahmaud arberys body, too graphic to show here, taken by police body and dash cameras. a day in court that began with arberys mother fighting back tears as prosecutors showed the jury video of what they say was her son being hunted down and killed. >> ladies and gentlemen, at this point in time, mr. arbery is under attack. >> i decid...

Probably 30%. but thats still much higher than what we ended up with on this jury. and even the number of african-american potential jurors that made through the lengthy two-and-a-half-week jury process, many of them were struck down by the defense. >> its interesting, because one of the attorneys for one of these accused, this is a mr. goff who represented earlier in the deposition, speaking of white men over 40 born in the south without a college education. they know the value of the racial ma...

There appears to be some bias, but what did the judge say after that? >> reporter: the judge indicated he had to act within the bounds of georgia law, and because the defense provided non-discriminatory reasons why they were striking these jurors, and of course, many of them were black potential jurors, they would still be allowed to be seated. despite his ruling, it was remarkable to listen to this judge, because as you said, it seemed like the judgestid i -- siding with the prosecutors when he...

>> and i want to just do a little criminal justice law one-on-one here for folks that are not familiar, because it can get obscure. the grand jury is differ from a regular jury, right? its a same group of people and often hearing a bunch of different cases. but theyre also there in the room and its basically not adversarial trial process, right? it has a different standard than the kind of jury process that we see in a normal criminal trial when actually goes to trial. >> right. the prosecutors ...

Proudly, quote, im not an impartial juror. im not impartial about this at all. this is an astonishing admission of partisanship. >> anybody taking an oath tomorrow can have an opinion. this is not a jury box. >> many do but this is something the founding fathers decided to put in a body susceptible to the winds of politics. >> i understand democrats saying this isnt apples-to-apples because there were more witnesses heard during the impeachment investigation and the trial. in one breath now hes ...

Can you be fair in the matter? well, he cant do that? it seems he has no business being on the jury. and i think that the corruption thats involved in this jury process spreads further. because we also have the president making contributions to key senators to buy off their vote for the purposes of the impeachment. there is no other way to look at it. it shouldnt surprise us that he would do know what he did wrong in ukraine and what he did before trying to obstruct other investigations. thats e...