Juror in Kyle Rittenhouse trial dismissed for telling joke about police shooting of Jacob Blake

[ruet]

Source: CNN

A juror was dismissed in Kyle Rittenhouse's homicide trial Thursday morning after he told a joke to a deputy earlier this week about the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

The incident occurred when a male juror being escorted to his car made a joke about the shooting, Judge Bruce Schroeder said.
"I'm going to summarize what I remember, what I was told," Schroeder said. "He was telling a joke ... he told the officer ... he made a reference about telling a joke about 'Why did it take seven shots to shoot Jacob Blake,' something to that effect."
Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger took particular issue with the incident.
"The joke is in bad taste, there are a plethora of bad jokes out there with everything to do with all this, this is one of them. But I think the rest of this joke, as it were, suggests some sort of racial bias which I think comes into play," he said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/04/us/kyle-rittenhouse-trial-thursday/index.html

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Broken clock and all that.

[orleans]

1. glad he was dismissed. broken clock reference is perfect nt

[Ray Bruns]

2. My bad. I am mixing up my trials. It was the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial.

11 white jurors and one African American. In a county that is 27% African American. They might as well shut this farce down and all go home and stop wasting everyone's time.

[Harker]

3. That's my thinking, too.

The judge is a boob.

[Paladin]

4. "It was nothing to do with KYLE" says the dismissed juror.

Not "Mr. Rittenhouse," not "the defendant"....but "Kyle."

Think that over for a while.

[Harker]

5. Good catch.

Being on a first name basis with the defendant, or seeing him as a poor waif, isn't impartial.

[Paladin]

6. Who else on that jury is referring to that murderous little prick as "Kyle"?

The whole trial appears to be a rotten joke, from the judge on down...

[Harker]

10. I'm guessing there won't be any more loose talk around that bailiff. n/t

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

7. Yeah ...

That caught my attention too.

I may be an old guy but I would not likely have referred to him so familiarly unless there was a prior relationship or that was how he had been referred to by others through out the process.

Neither are a good sign.

[hay rick]

9. Agree.

A couple years ago, in an egregious local stand your ground case, one of the arrest reports referred to the shooter as Michael (not Mr. Dacey). Story here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=journals&uid=213988&year=2018&month=12

[Bengus81]

12. Yup...what stood out the most to me when I read it

What Judge refers to a defendant by their first name? This is fucking BULLSHIT...........

[LiberalFighter]

13. It was the dismissed juror that referred to the kid by first name.

[Bengus81]

14. Your right...it was the Juror. My bad

[hay rick]

8. One consequence of the emergence of the Big Lie Party.

I think it will become increasingly hard to exclude jurors who are willing to ignore any and all evidence that implicates a white defendant when the victims are non-white.

[LiberatedUSA]

11. In the long run, that may not be far off.

This kind of thing takes time to build. If that happened on a massive scale, that would upend the rule of law and just throw another log onto the fire.

[LuckyLib]

15. What an inarticulate judge.

[maxsolomon]

16. Was this the Nullifier? Or are there more than 1?

Not expecting shit from this jury.