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January 1, Juror dismissed from Rittenhouse trial for joking about Jacob Blake shooting
Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed a juror in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial after a court deputy reported that the man told a joke about the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
“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.”
Prosecutor Thomas Binger said the remarks showed racial bias. Blake, who is Black, was shot by a white Kenosha police officer and left partially paralyzed.
“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,” Binger said.
Though the juror claimed the joke had “nothing to do with the case,” Schroeder disagreed.
“It is clear that the appearance to bias is present and it would seriously undermine the outcome of the case,” Schroeder said.
Rittenhouse, 17 at the time, killed two men and wounded another during the protests after police shot Blake seven times on August 23, 2020.
Rittenhouse, now 18, pled not guilty to seven charges, including first-degree intentional homicide, first-degree reckless homicide, and first-degree attempted intentional homicide.
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Juror in Kyle Rittenhouse trial dismissed for telling joke about police shooting of Jacob Blake
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ThomR
November 5, 2021 at 1:47 pm
All election have been tainted, let’s check CA. NY and NJ elections!
Fed up with this administration
November 5, 2021 at 2:07 pm
I saw the video of this kid being attacked by a mob that was out for blood and were destroying everything in sight and when they went after him he had no choice but to defend himself,it was him or them,self defense in my book