In some of the highest-profile cases, the zeal to send an anti-brutality message to law enforcement is not shared by the citizens who sit on juries. Take Steven Pohorence, accused of pushing a kneeling protester during a Black Lives Matter protest. The jury found him not guilty this week.
A South Florida jury sided Monday with a white Florida police officer accused of shoving a kneeling Black woman to the ground during a protest more than two years ago.
A Broward jury on Monday sided with Officer Steven Pohorence, 31, acquitting him of battery. He had been accused of shoving a kneeling protester, Jada Servance, during one of the protests that swept the nation following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020.
A South Florida jury has sided with a white Florida police officer accused of shoving a kneeling Black woman to the ground during a protest more than two years ago.