Chauvin jurors give first interview since guilty verdict
By Monique Beals - 11/01/21 06:39 PM EDT
In their first interview since convicting former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, seven jurors spoke to CNN about their experience during the trial.
"Race wasn't even ever mentioned in the three and a half weeks that we were in that courtroom, and it was never mentioned during deliberations, I don't believe," juror Sherri Belton Hardeman told host Don Lemon during the interview.
Another, Nicole Deters, added that the cause of the trial was ultimately "racism within the system."
"But when it came down to all three verdicts, it was based on the evidence and the facts 100 percent," Deters said.
The jurors recalled watching the gruesome video of Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck as Floyd called out for his mother and said he could not breathe.
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