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Juror # 52 | Brandon Mitchell’s lie continues to unravel (thread)
Mitchell told the Star Tribune that last summer’s protest was “100% not” a march for Floyd. “It was directly related to MLK’s March on Washington from the ’60s. The date of the March on Washington is the date. It was literally called the anniversary of the March on Washington.”
It shows Mitchell standing with two cousins and wearing a T-shirt with a picture of King and the words, “GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS” and “BLM,” for Black Lives Matter.
Mitchell, 31, acknowledged being at the event and that his uncle posted the photo, but said he doesn’t recall wearing or owning the shirt.
According to the jury questionnaire’s own terms, Mitchell’s answers were later required to be submitted under oath. That requirement — as Mitchell’s own oath later indicated — could result in the triggering of Minnesota’s perjury statute.
He told another Minnesota publication that he felt “a calling” (to be a leader) when he received his jury summons. He also said he was able to put aside his feelings of being pulled over approximately 50 times by the Minneapolis Police Department while considering Chauvin’s fate
