The verdict should already have been in (#4462)

      In my mind the verdict of guilty should have been given within the first hour of deliberations. I don't know what these jurors are doing but it doesn't have a lot in common with reality. Maybe they are being super cautious or don't want to appear to have already decided that the perpetrator was guilty before deliberating. But if I were the jury foreman I would have had an immediate vote as to where every one stands. For there not to be 12 guilty votes right off the bat doesn't portend well for justice. Our American jurisprudence system seems to bend over backwards to avoid the simple facts.
     I am all for both sides getting due process but not at the expense of the facts. The perpetrator killed the victim and nothing in the 9:29 second video disputes that despite the many ridiculous alternatives offered by the defense. That the perpetrator refused to testify in his own defense may also be construed that he had no defense for his kneeling that long on George's neck. This jury has already disappointed me and the longer it takes for a verdict of guilty to come out the greater the chance that there will be no unanimous verdict. All it takes is for one juror to vote against a guilty conviction to hang the jury and trigger a retrial.
     For too many reasons here for me to list a verdict less than guilty here would inflame not only the black and brown community but it will inflame many of we whites who are sick and tired of a system that continues to privilege and advantage white killers of blacks. If no verdict is available by this morning I fear that a tumult will be coming and there will be hell to pay for a lot of innocent folks who for every valid reason known cannot stand another white killer of black folks to be set free. It is my hope that the 12 jurors who took on this responsibility have the wherewithal to know that fudging facts to clear the perpetrator is not to be considered and if anything justice should be served with a swift and defiant early unanimous verdict!