Jury selection in the trial of Derek Chauvin begins on March 8.
Chauvin is the former police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. The process will include an interview of 12 potential jurors speaking to prosecutors and the defense.
In Minneapolis, community organizers are vowing to peacefully protest during the trial while fences, barbed wire and other barricades have been put up around public buildings.
BNC legal analyst Candace Kelley joined Start Your Day with Sharon Reed and Mike Hill to discuss the possibilities in the upcoming trial.
According to Kelley, potential jurors filled out a questionnaire, but the interview is important for the prosecutors and defense attorneys to read body language. She says prosecutors will be looking for Black jurors because they understand what it means to be Black in America.
“This is as much as it is about George Floyd’s death as it is about race and this type of reckoning that we’re having with race in America at this point,” she said. BNC will have special coverage of the trial on Monday.
Read the full story at https://bnc.tv/candace-kelley-talks-derek-chauvin-trial-reckoning-with-race-in-america/.
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