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Courthouse steps, can be heard in the courtroom, "no justice, no peace."abab the "no peace" part is meant to say if you don't convict, we are going to burn and pillage your city the same way we did 14 months ago. that, too, is jury intimidation. >> sean: you know, i'm worried, let me stay on the topic of jury intimidation. professor, i got to imagine that jury is hearing what is going on outside the courthouse. i've got to believe they are not sequestered, well, first of all we know they are keenly aware of what led up to this incident. they are keenly aware that the entire country is watching...

Emotion in the courthouse as well. the jury's decision came down, kyle rittenhouse, falling down on to the table,over come with emotion. just behind them, a few rows, his mother also being overcome with emotion as the verdict came down. we're also starting to get reaction from folks here in the community as well as on the state and the national level. we did get a reaction to the verdict from the kenosha district attorney's office. he said we respect the verdict of the jury after 3 1/2 days of deliberations. self-defense is highly contentious in our times. we ask that all members of the public...

>> i think he may be, martha. right now it looks like the deliberations have gone on, on what should be a fairly simple, straight forward case for three days. it is the kind of thing we want to see juries do a thorough, diligent job but there is only so long that you can go on looking at a simple question of was there self-defense or not. we're now in i guess the fourth day of deliberations and in the meantime what we otherwise know is that there are a great deal of outside pressures being exerted on this jury and there is a lot of reason to be concerned that what they are worried about at lea...

Confrontations august 25th 2020. while demonstrations on the courthouse steps have turned violent. what do you make of it? >> i don't know that i agree with the opinion but i will say that it will be disturbing. when it confronts the defendants right to a fair trial, the judge is been stepping in. judges make sure there is no interaction with jurors, with the protesters that are out there. it's bad enough -- they have to travel in a bus with windows that are blackened out. they understand the repercussions of what is going on here, this case should be about the facts and the law and not the co...

>> katy, when that verdict was read we saw a large group of people on the courthouse steps. this was something highly anticipated especially as the jury got into day four of deliberations. but then someone came out of the courthouse, told the crowd the news, and you heard the divide that's reflected not just here in kenosha but all across the country. some people cheered, saying the second amendment prevailed. self-defense was a principle they were defending. and some people were upset by this including the uncle of jacob blake, who was the man shot by a kenosha police officer last august that...