The big problem with how we pick juries

A legal loophole makes juries less diverse.
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Four years after the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, the police officer, Jason Van Dyke, faced his day in court. But in a trial where race became central to the case, there’s only one black person on the jury. And that’s in a county where nearly a quarter of people are black. How did this happen?
In jury selection, racial discrimination has historically been tricky. Discrimination isn’t allowed in jury selection, thanks to what’s called a “Batson challenge.” But the problem is - Batson has been widely regarded as a failure at keeping racism out of the jury box. Watch the video above to find out why that is, and why it complicates the prospect of a fair trial by jury.
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[@esmewayne318]

make it a blind selection. the jurors are behind a screen and the lawyers ask them questions but can't see them. When they started doing blind auditions for orchestras, the amount of women want from around 10% to 50%. The Judge can still see the jurors, and see if they are telling the truth or not, but the lawyers can't.

[@klalakomacoi]

In Chicago (and most places outside the south) it would be pretty easy to tell a black person by their voice.

[@AdeleiTeillana]

Yeah, although it doesn't hold true for every single person, it's pretty easy to tell if someone is African American from their voice. And it's not just the accent, it's something about the actual voice itself (sorry, I don't know the technical terms). I mean think about making phone calls, I can often tell when someone is African American without ever having met them. Putting potential jurors behind a screen might help a little bit, but it wouldn't completely solve the problem.

[@hans_jmh]

@@klalakomacoi Written answers maybe?

[@ashleyashleym2969]

@@klalakomacoi Voice disgusing software. But I like that idea Esme! That's a great idea!

[@ashleyashleym2969]

@@AdeleiTeillana Not always the case though

[@ARCH3RASSASS1N]

Emmet till was pistol whipped to death, his mom had an open casket funeral and invited the press to see and take pictures of what the men did. The pictures are pretty gruesome and graphic.

[@ikeekieeki]

he was just a kid and they were grown men. it was awful.

[@chubbycheekedassassins9854]

They should just have people who know the law

[@XboxUnitD77]

The men also confessed to the crime right outside the courthouse right after they were acquitted. Sold the story to the press on the courthouse steps. Couldnt be tried again because of double jeopardy.

[@udokafintelmann6803]

@@XboxUnitD77 yeah I just wrote that

[@udokafintelmann6803]

Also if you didn't know the people who killed emit actually wrote a book confessing that they killed him because of his race and made money and because they had already been convicted (at that time you could not be charged with the same crime twice) so they profited of the murder as well

[@kukicu]

And people say racism is a thing of the past.

[@leehaiko3999]

I don't see why the race of the jury matters. I guess by their facts, they're just saying blacks are willing to protect one of their own.

[@leehaiko3999]

@Asma Koshin If this is true of whites, it would be true of blacks as well.

[@joshbunyer9512]

Asma Koshin how can u back up the statement, that’s racist to assume that all white people would lock someone up solely based on their skin color

[@LosloTypical]

I’d say we live in a post-racist society in America where the majority speaks for anti-racism. However we do live in a race based society, as in we still live with prejudice and ideas of race in the back of our minds whether we like it or not. There is no person in America who is “colorblind,” we all see race and we all associate different races with different attributes and that’s where the problem in American lies. No one is willing to acknowledge the fact that Americans are being indoctrinated with ideas of stereotype and prejudice towards different peoples. Not only that, but many of these racist institutions of the past still exist today such as ghettos and over policing which actively work to prohibit POC from advancing in progress. I mean so long as their is a wealth divide, there will be a race divide as the history of America and white supremacy have made race and wealth a one on one link.

[@cap10zomb]

It is because its illegal. You can never change the way someone is tou shouldn't want to. But you can make laws to protect people from being physically hurt for no reason. There's lots of laws like that.

[@TheYasminarf]

The Till case was/is truly disturbing

[@xixiyang1662]

Bigbang is your bias’s bias and you know it heyyyyyy kpop fan

[@chaosinsurgency6636]

Wow a year later they care because of a video

[@Eric-ys8do]

Not just disturbing but disgusting

[@soynymphfaery]

And they even chose neighbors of the defendants to be the jury. Like??

[@zzzaytona]

you should see the pictures of him in his casket ,, truly horrible racism in this world.

[@lennydotdotdot5580]

Just a note that the reason for reducing the charge to 2nd degree is that 1st degree murder requires premeditation and thus a higher burden of proof. By reducing the charge, they guaranteed a conviction.

[@bunkertons]

@XZDrake Yea, I gotta agree with you there. This wasn't premeditated in the traditional sense but one can assume that when racist-slime-dog-cop-boy got the call regarding this young man he decided he would shoot first, ask questions later.

[@alizea5387]

Anne prove it lol

[@simonem.7385]

I still don't understand,what was he thinking when he was shooting the young man 16 times?? Even when his body fell to the ground he still kept shooting.

[@amdasaba]

His corpse might be resisting arrest. /s

[@batman_2004]

Inner hate against black because he is racist fell.

[@JasperCrowe]

He wasn't thinking.

[@eikukaan377]

@@shlomosilversteinberg5785 How was he a threat?

[@shafwandito4724]

@@shlomosilversteinberg5785 he only have a goddamn knife. He already walk away from the police with a knife. A KNIFE. IS HE A MOTHAFUKIN KNIFE THROWER?! Sorry. It just you seems like don't understand the story

[@realchrisgunter]

The saddest part about this is that the woman responsible for emmitt tills death is still alive and living out her golden years in Mississippi as if nothing happened.

[@iz2884]

@@misaelarvizu9616 that’s ignorant to say, I’m white and I say that. I know other white people who say that. That’s not a black motto and that was ignorant to say period

[@certitv1937]

@@misaelarvizu9616 like you said rap culture not black culture. They are not the same

[@misaelarvizu9616]

@@certitv1937 ok whatever

[@XXXTENTAClON227]

Idk if you meant this in past tense but she died ages ago, she only admitted lying prior to death

[@xaviotesharris891]

@@misaelarvizu9616 Pretty sure the idea of not snitching goes back to when terrible people starting collecting in groups and doing bad things, at least tens of thousands of years ago. But then, you likely know more about groups of terrible people than I do.

[@eve8372]

I learnt about the case of Emmett Till in school 11 years ago and it is still one of theost shocking and barbaric crimes I've ever heard of

[@georgeschnakenberg7808]

Dude Ted budy has a Netflix show 🤦

[@raybethel769]

Everyone seems to Acknowledge the PROBLEM but No one seems to know tha SOLUTION for the PROBLEM.

[@W.H.V.]

Same lol

[@riripari2042]

There are plenty of solutions. They just don't won't to implement them. They don't want change. Its why the justice system is still so F'd up.

[@cl8804]

It's very simple, Mr Fish Frog: You do away with juries.

[@justinrohrer9952]

The real problem isn't a lack of black jurors. It's people who don't have money. If you don't have money, you get a free lawyer that you talk to for 10 minutes the day before your trial. you will guaranteed to be convicted. Even if the accusations are false. Because your public defender doesnt have time to even tell you your rights. They just say "there's nothing I can do for you exept get your sentence reduced."

[@jusletursoulglobaby]

@@justinrohrer9952 the public defender does tell you your rights. if they didnt, most people convicted would be able to get out citing inadequate counsel. what they DO, however, is strongly encouraged you to accept a plea. over 90% of incarcerated folks accepted the plea regardless of guilt.

[@redsky4016]

A white Chicago police official shot a black teenager That didn’t age well

[@slowedsoundnetwork8288]

Yeah whenever police misconduct ends in a death it doesn’t age well, it wasn’t well in the first place

[@TrollingCat]

Except blm wasn't justified and was overly done

[@3lsibob426]

Strahinja Nikolic no

[@JesuisTheCunoAsthe]

@@TrollingCat no

[@TrollingCat]

@@JesuisTheCunoAsthe the idea of it was good, but what actually happened was outrages, but it's good to see an empire crumbling from it's own stupidity, the cycle repeats itself

[@sumikita22]

This week I was on jury duty. Initially, there were 50 of us. Only 18 selected to be interviewed as a potential juror for a jury of 12. So that if they excluded someone sitting on the jury box they already got 6 ppl as back up to fill any empty seat. It caught my attention that the 18 potential jurors selected "randomly" were all white or people with anglo last names. Not most but ALL. I truly believed in our judicial system until today.

[@antonhelsgaun]

So some of them were black?

[@lucyk8935]

Anton Helsgaun No, they said all of them were white.

[@DeRocco21]

and?

[@basedyoshi7253]

just because they were all white doesn't mean there is proof of any racism.

[@tatiana2133]

@@basedyoshi7253 it's a potential thing and it gives me pain

[@asparaguscheese5728]

This seems awfully familiar

[@sistersuperioraddie5547]

Madison Brendler-Kowal sadly

[@sugarkats21]

The Till Case reminds me of To Kill a Mockingbird... I was literally seething with anger in English class

[@squarerootof2]

Keep seething, weirdo.

[@kansascedar4298]

No, suh

[@angieemm]

I was a pre-AP English teacher in a very low-income, overwhelmingly-predominate African American district in a suburb of a major city in the South. TKAM was in our curriculum. It was a sensitive subject but, luckily, my AP kiddos were very nature and civil and it lent itself to really great discussions. As a white, (then) blond and blue-eyed woman, students were sometimes scared to use terminology or bring up a point but we got around it. Since this was going on during the "black boys in black hoodies" era, those conversations were essential and being able to connect the fiction to the present reality, work through anger, and talk about it with others outside of the classroom was a great step in improving relations with one another. I was so proud of those angry, angry children.

[@kejserrige]

@Minecart Rider You're not helping non-white people with that racist crap. You don't fight racism with more racism.

[@isaiahperez6044]

@@minecartrider7057 yeah listen to this guy ^^^

[@paTROLLINGxD]

Why not remodel the process so that the lawyers do not see the jurors until the choosing process is over? This can be done by questionnaire or by any question answer process that prevents the image or sound of the people being chosen from being seen while the challenges are being issued. Theres no intrinsic information that we agree should be used that is gained from seeing and hearing the juror. If they say an answer that is alarming to the lawyer it would still be true if the lawyer had to read it through an all text format. Or finally lawyers issue questions and a third mediating party asks them and sends the answers to the lawyer in a textual format without speaking to them. Easy fixes that are feasibly done if this issue REALLY mattered to people

[@anon8206]

Discrimination of the jury does not happen nearly enough to change the entire legal system, although I do support a change. I do think judges should be required to ask the same question to all of the jurors rather than a specific one, though. This would be fair.

[@elenagibbons4719]

I think the reason things haven’t been changed yet because it is a complicated and long process for a small* thing. *I say small but it’s all relative and compared to some very large issues it’s not top of the list

[@CubaColombianito]

This is genius.

[@nittygritty7034]

That's a great idea!!

[@anthonynorman7545]

+

[@hatednyc]

The ink is Black. The paper is White. Together we learn to Read and Write.

[@Aaron-ru6ld]

then the yellow is the lighter fluid uSED FOR BURNING THE BOOKS

[@kingsum4356]

Aaron the yellow is to make a area communist dumbass

[@hyperrrrrr]

@@inactive6200 You mean smurf blood?

[@ilikeeggs2696]

Tf what about Asians? Are we not there

[@McCaroni_Sup]

Is the pen asian?

[@sdrice2007]

Nearly all our systems in the U.S. are broken. We need to push past reform and establish entirely new systems of justice, equitablilty, peace, trustworthiness, truthfulness, and so forth!

[@cindyqueen7228]

They aren't broken, they are working as designed.

[@selah71]

Here's one: A defendant whose lawyer is appointed is given the same amount in funds as the state gives the prosecutors. All too often justice is based on the amount of money people have.

[@jusletursoulglobaby]

let me introduce a term coined by Derrick Bell that will put things in perspective for you: interest convergence the only way reform will be passed, is if the the people on the opposing side (whether it be an industry, individual, whatever) gets their palms greased. there is always some kind of economic benefit to laws and reform. it is never for justice

[@brandonezdoofenshmirtz2916]

Yeah we do. Women get sentenced a fraction as much jail time for the same crime

[@cindy846]

But for this, the citizens need to be open-minded, selfless, empathetic, and a little more turned towards science... Which a lot of Americans aren't. Just look at what's happening today in several states regarding covid.. But that's just an example.

[@litete2512]

The case of the murder of Emmet till was disgusting imo

[@nutboy93]

I agree with your opinion

[@zoeman7720]

@@squarerootof2 you see how you all of a sudden felt attacked hahah you must be a white male

[@thenewwistler6089]

Yeah sure, but it was the time of racist America, not happy time fun

[@Jimdog-ep1bb]

@@zoeman7720 I mean, he just comparing two equally disgusting cases and saying ones worse. You're the one who just attacked him.

[@demented9131]

@@squarerootof2 true. Black people do worse things to white people than vice versa.

[@kung-fukennyfamily]

Shout out to The chill White people that want unity/peace and stand with minorities. 💯💯

[@joaoserra3714]

This comment is amazing

[@anon8206]

I agree, let's push for a final unity between our people and ignore all of the racist politicians and political speakers who try to keep us separated.

[@ronnorhgih3265]

❤️

[@swaymj6792]

Whach my vid to see meme no one cares about your opinion

[@tiradudley4801]

Ok and your a walking resessive trait.

[@arranmc182]

I never understood judging people by a skin colour, this is not the medieval times

[@kdm1879]

Or the 60s

[@Literally-Brian]

Ironically enough racism wasnt really a thing in medieval times. But if a woman could read she would be burned at the stake. So it wasnt exactly any better than today

[@mookiecookie44]

Very different in the US than in Britain. Very very different, in many ways.

[@SnootchieBootchies27]

No, that's where you eat a hen while watching jousting

[@Literally-Brian]

Serge Fabre 77% of the Arab world can read. But please, feel free to continue believing in your islamophobic beliefs

[@KraitoKrombongus]

I find it odd to let "normal" citizens be a jury, how can you trust that they will do it just? I mean some dude can just decide he doesnt like one person and just ignore the facts and vote as he wants.

[@lorandliszkai7084]

Exactly, I always thought this was their actual job, I was so surprised to find out they are just regular people randomly selected. It’s weird to me

[@MattiaRighetti]

Decision must be unanimous, how high is the possibility that all the jurors will decide based on if they like the person or not? Also I would like to point out the fact that that can happen with people doing it as a job.

[@ngndnd]

especially the fact that you feel peer pressured to side with a certain side. If you disagree then you have no hope and you’ll just have to agree with them

[@AlliandoX]

@@lorandliszkai7084 if it was an actual job the jurors can be bribed by the accused’s family

[@siimtokke3461]

That's the way the USA has decided to go. There are positives and negatives to having a jury made up of "normal" civilians. And that's why they say "you don't argue law you argue emotions". Whichever side can convince the better emotion wins the case.

[@pinchyh]

RIP Emmett Till, we must never stop fighting the evils of racism

[@Redactedredacted5837]

MK I disagree. Racism isn't evil. It's irrational, based on unfounded principles, and generally self-harming. I do agree that it is a fundamentally bad practice but I question why you think only in terms of "good" and "evil" when those concepts are subjective to begin with.

[@jeremynewcombe3422]

Spikey Plant What are you trying to argue? Sounds like pointless excuse-making to me... 'Evil' is defined as profoundly immoral. Racism is to believe you are better than someone else based off their race. This is also known as pride. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins. Racism is inherently evil and immoral.

[@FayyaazAhmed]

Racism is evil when used as the motive for murder.

[@zmc6774]

MK You’re an idiot if you ever think racism can be stopped. For as long as humans walk on this planet, racism will exist, anywhere and everywhere.

[@davidmelgar1197]

@@zmc6774 The very concept of "race" did not exist as recently as the 1400s dude.

[@wigoow1206]

I'm not from the US. The concept of a jury deciding a case always felt to me like a modern form of trial by combat.

[@aleksanteri_r]

Don't give them ideas!

[@terrydeborah]

It is to prevent corruption

[@manuelmarrero5086]

I agree with deb on paper it sounds like an idea that would help combat corruption in that on paper it would be hard for the jury to be made corrupted if they are picked at random and are put through a process to figure out if the jury would be bias That only thing I think might need to change is the lawyers ability to take out members of the jury with made up reasons

[@FayyaazAhmed]

Well it fails miserably at that.

[@owenkendrick5454]

How do they do it in your country?

[@PacoOtis]

Wow! Thanks for the video! I'm a Vietnam vet and was often ashamed to be an American when I saw how our troops behaved. This video certainly brings back those feelings. We humans are often a dreadful lot! Best of luck to all of us!

[@fla576]

This is late but thank u for your service

[@maulerXX]

It's not complicated at all. Just get rid of peremptory challenges altogether. Peremptory challenges have no legitimate function.

[@merc_w0838]

So someone who's is a family friend of the prosecutor should get to be a juror? How do you think that will turn out?

[@bunnyofdeath8465]

Merc_W08 that’s cause. Dismiss with cause

[@amyperdue9015]

There is a reason to have peremptory challenges. It’s to allow the prosecutor and defense a chance to pick a jury in their favor. That’s the entire point of all of this. Not just to find an impartial jury, but to find a jury that will allow you to win. Courts are adversarial in nature so you can’t expect jury selection not to be also.

[@mookiecookie44]

Good luck with that.

[@paultran3756]

@@amyperdue9015 if that's a reason they exist, that's a better reason they shouldn't. Why should either guilty be able to give themselves a defense based on lies and falsehood? Or innocents getting charged because of the same?

[@kingjayded4752]

This comment section going to be wild

[@0IceGuy0]

Here come the police apologists

[@firstnamelastname7831]

Its better take all raceizm out her then in real life

[@toussaintthomas8015]

If that's all you took from the video then you might just be dumb bro, I dunno.

[@sicc9893]

@@toussaintthomas8015 they're not wrong. There's gonna be debates. I just saw one on here lol.

[@KazmirRunik]

Sometimes, I save my Word documents every eleven minutes instead of every ten minutes. #wild

[@Gamerroemer]

the original comment was made to proove that people will fight over literally anything this including a clear shitposting comment, thanks for your participation

[@Lukaswilms]

that is just false ! Have you ever seen a video of people attacking police? Some of them take 10 bullets and wont even stop. One bullet is just enough if you hit the heart or head, but in the stress of a situation like this, you cant aim at that. The human body is insane, especially under adrenalin. Yeah you will probably die after 5-6 hits, but after minutes. This is not what stops the threat immediately

[@3ipmoletroll]

And the person in the video was walking away from the officer...

[@aidanzima4368]

Gamer Roemer ok mate clearly you know nothing about guns.

[@starcherry6814]

You should've seen the video, after 2 shots he fell to the ground withering in pain. But the officer just continued to shoot him even after his body stopped moving

[@tamak9415]

It was excessive! The guy was walking away from the police officer, why shoot him 16 Times? He wasn’t even attacking...

[@jorgee3934]

Why do lawyers get to be a part of the choosing process in the first place?

[@barak363363]

Jorge E Maybe because they represent the interests of both sides in the case?

[@poker8086]

“Why does sauce have to be on pizza?”

[@noamemerson-fleming285]

Because they have an equal stake in the case, so they each get strikes

[@tipperzack]

Honestly was the defending lawyer can't get a better balanced jury its a failure on that lawyer's part.

[@fraudulentfem7322]

Checks and balances basically.

[@cookcountyrapper1382]

i can't believe that happened in my county and i didn't know about it

[@Meatwad787]

lamekidclub Surely you knew all these black people weren't angry for nothing. You knew tnere had to be some truth to what we've been saying.

[@selenageary9029]

@Tina Yael Severinova M. Yes! Thank you for mentioning George Stinney! People always seem to forget about him

[@kaiandpotatoes8463]

lamekidclub this is America we are talking about. The land of the racisim, in equality, murder, corruption, death, poverty, oH aNd tHe fReE

[@DonMarzzoni]

Why is this all new to you? It's called white privileged ignorance. It's not your fault, it's shows the racist system built by whites is working...

[@carolinemarie4654]

I feel like being a juror should be a profession, where you’re specially trained to hear cases. Like a judge but with less power and there are 12 of you

[@DavidKlausa]

Most European countries do something like that.

[@Togher01]

Shoot 16 times? Do the think black peolpe in the US have super powers?

[@RamdomView]

American police are not nationally trained. Local training programs emphasize threat and "threat" elimination almost exclusively over de-escalation. Also, if you have made the decision to shoot, you have also made the decision to kill, therefore one would empty their magazine. Bullets are cheap and police are trained to view their own lives above the lives of others, moreso than humans normally do. tldr: Locally training programs consider it cheaper to train killing than problem-solving.

[@user-bl4oq7fd8d]

@@RamdomView It is simply cheaper to execute criminals :P

[@ajt01]

@@RamdomView That is very true. Training de-escalation to normal guards is very time consuming so it is reserved for the swat team.

[@RamdomView]

@@user-bl4oq7fd8d- You mean to say "summarily execute criminals". Though easier for the police, it is much more harmful to society as a whole when we choose to not reform wayward citizens.

[@Togher01]

@@RamdomView The way society is run is going to cost you. Either economical or socially. I don't live in the States but it does seem that money is chosen over people.

[@CHR15718N]

Why are black juries not replaced with another black jurie that don't matches the reason for the exclusion? For example an unemployed black male could replaced with an employed black male if this was the problem for the attorney. Also why there is no rule that in every jurie, there have to be at least one black man, one black women, one white men and one white women, this would garantie at least some kind of diversification?

[@EricLing64]

It gets weird if you start having to include every race or something. Does 1 asian mean 1 chinese person and 1 japanese person and 1 korean, or just asian in general? Are indians asians? Should native Americans be in juries? I'm not even sure I care too much about the jury themselves, there's also sometimes whether actual truth is being presented or if by technicality or straight up dishonesty it is obscured, that may go either way too, a real piece of evidence proving a murder might not have been properly signed off for in a search warrant or some such, or certain segments of police body/dashcam footage is somehow inexplicably missing. Even if you have a proper honest and properly diverse jury of peers in a courtroom, are they actually getting the true full picture? Then of course there are the laws themselves, and the sentencing decisions, what constitutes particular crimes, why do minor drug get longer sentences than cheating out taxes in the millions and then continuing to lie to investigators?

[@ashleyashleym2969]

If you enforce that then you enforce racial discrimination though

[@techontrack4250]

Because whites and blacks are not the only 2 races in America. What about Asians for example? And in a town with say a

[@bluebug9725]

These racial inclusions are what's thickening the divide between races. It would be absurd to accuse someone of being biased purely because their hair colour doesn't match your own, yet it's different when it comes to skin colour? If you believe that you should be assessed and evaluated only by members of your own race/creed then you yourself are engaging in racism

[@Tokuijin]

Because that kind of throws a monkey wrench into it. The Ray Tensing thing was where they tried a little something like this. It ended in a mistrial because of that and other reasons

[@mandi17simo]

US of A. What a beautiful country. I would be genuinely scared of going on holiday there. And I'm white. I mean white white.

[@lucyk8935]

Simo_Simo I want to say that it's not so bad, really, but. I don't blame you.

[@mandagodin5075]

I’m Canadian. I want my own wall.

[@mandi17simo]

@@mandagodin5075 Come to Europe

[@Azknowledgethirsty]

@@mandi17simo yeah, here most people don't even care about race, it's forbidden for the government to even acknowledge race, thus in Paris racism is almost inexistant

[@browntown607]

@@Azknowledgethirsty and that's why Europe is dying

[@brandonallison7782]

Hey Vox. I appreciate what you do. Your videos are professionally made, interesting on many different levels, and I look forward to your next one. Just saying thanks for being here.

[@historymogul2867]

they're misinformation

[@norasullivanhorner4764]

It’s a left leaning news source. There are right leaning ones as well. Both have bias and skew evidence in their favor, so ultimately it’s up to the audience to think critically and without bias about the evidence presented

[@redgreenbloo]

+Mr Laughs What's misleading about this video?

[@billcipher779]

kaneki IQ isn’t a set in stone intelligence. I could score low on an IQ test when I’m 10 and score high when I’m 30.

[@mackenziehorse_girl1334]

kaneki You're a weeaboo, no wonder you're so dumb and uneducated. It doesn't matter which race you are. What affects your ability/want/need for violence is the environment in which you grow up.

[@jaridkeen123]

I hope more Cops go to Jail for breaking the law

[@nabilhacene5826]

good on you

[@tekkitsmashercast]

@@alejandromendez7185 but do you trust the people who broke the law to protect your life?

[@kasseen]

L

[@ZimmyFox]

Just put all cops in jail.

[@Jimdog-ep1bb]

and more of everyone.

[@badbunnyky]

DE-ESCALATION and STRESS TRAINING are a few of the only tactics proven to work. There is absolutely blame to be placed on the cop, no doubt. But a lot of the reason for these types of incidents has to do with unconscious bias- ie racially coded messages in our media and stereotypes. When cops are trained in simulations and learn how to deal with the stress response, they are able to react calmly and logically, not in stress mode. When we go in to a mode of extreme stress, our brain stops most higher logical and thought process- we rely on instinct. And if your instinct is rooted in stereotypes, well..... it's not hard to see the outcome.

[@angieemm]

100% agree. Emptying your magazine is more like something an untrained citizen would do with a home intruder. We trust that officers are trained better than anyone else. However, there were many allegations of lack of training or poor training with the Chicago PD at the time of Laquan's murder.

[@sbp4215]

Well said.

[@badbunnyky]

@Shawn Lawson it's written about in books such as Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink." I've also studied it at my college in classes concerning environmental politics and social studies.

[@nathanwan9021]

@Shawn Lawson unless you have a counter-argument or a rebuttal, you might want to start using other ways to persuade a nonexistent audience than ad hominem and "common sense".

[@phoenixhatt4805]

Shawn Lawson but she didn’t just read it in books she said she studied it in college

[@josephivernel2078]

United States be like : « come to our land. It is the land of freedom and equality of chances no matter what your race is » lol

[@jondabon6522]

joseph Ivernel and then when you get to the border they turn you away

[@jthb]

1. Why is he carrying a knife 2. Why so much shots 3.WUT

[@TheShapingSickness]

I want to know too

[@kimepps6153]

The man was mentally ill and the officer didn’t stop firing until his partner told him too

[@Pseudynom]

Maybe he was eating an apple.

[@kimepps6153]

Pseudynom I know right like damn

[@k.-flynn]

its not ironic, its the standard behavior. mentally ill people are at a far higher risk of danger than to be the cause of danger. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/half-people-killed-police-suffer-mental-disability-report-n538371

[@Mlu007M]

*JURY vs JUDGE* I sincerely believe the jury system is outdated. I like the fact that a judge is forced to give out an account of why they gave you a certain judgement, which you can then use to build a case if you choose to appeal. Jury just comes out and says 'guilty' without any account of why they don't believe certain evidence, etc.

[@jamesthemaniac3293]

Mlu007M until you get a judge paid off by private prisons like they had in Penn a few years back

[@josimes4496]

I personally prefer judges to juries because I would rather have a trained professional decide someone’s fate rather than 12 random people who, even with the best of intentions, are not trained and unqualified to hand out decisions like this.

[@robertjarman3703]

How do you want to provide a justice system that isn't based on them? How do you avoid a judge who is liable to corruption? Especially given that a huge number of American judges are elected, especially at trial court level?

[@Mlu007M]

There are flaws in both judge and jury system. But with the jury, when the decision is made, that is it. No one is allowed to question the members on how they came to the decision.

[@danielk5618]

But what about your due process rights?

[@Emmbunn]

I really do love vox and I think that this channel is super underrated. It brings so many things from our history that was hidden to bring awareness and teaching us thank you vox!

[@c4tac133]

100%

[@nate4912]

Underrated? It has millions of views for crying out loud.

[@gabrielegenota1480]

WAIT... how the heck did the officer have 16 bullets??? Did he like... reload three times while shooting an already dead boi??

[@rouge1ful]

One Clip can hold up to nearly 20 bullets so he nearly empty the entire thing

[@Mo-io2nx]

Gabriele Genota do you know nothing about guns?

[@birch_boi8323]

smok3d lmao

[@birch_boi8323]

smok3d he's prob thinking about the video game pistols lmao

[@gabrielegenota1480]

@@Mo-io2nx nope

[@JasmineAtlas]

It's interesting to learn about the process of picking Jurors in America. I'm Australian and I had Jury duty about 1 year ago. You're chosen at random, assigned a panel and a number and you just need to be there in case there is a trial that needs you otherwise you might go home early or back to work and once your two weeks is up you leave if your not still on a trial. My number got put on a trial and there were no interviews. Our names were called at random in court and each person that was called walked up to the front and if the defendant said no you didn't get on the trial no questions asked if they didn't say anything you swear you won't lie and then you're on. They give you the opportunity to opt out if you feel you will be biased (you have to explain why).

[@quindanning]

The trick in Australia is you wear a collared shirt with a suit and tie and bring in a copy of the Financial Review. You'll be challenged before you even enter the box.

[@alexderbez]

As an attorney Jury Selection is in my opinion the most difficult part of the trial. In California for misdemeanor trials we get less preemptory challenges than you get for felony trials. But, if there is unlimited "strikes for cause" but often times when a juror is clearly good/bad for your side of the argument you will try and eliminate them while the other side rehabilitates them and vice versa. I believe if more people (any race/gender/creed/belief) participated in jury selection and showed up the problem would not be as stark. Most people honestly cannot afford to be on a jury because taking a few days off unpaid to sit in court is a huge financial hit for many people. Many employers will not pay them to do jury duty so juries are composed of those who have the financial means to do so rather than a proportionate amount of members of the community.

[@GOFLuvr]

TY for your perspective. Given that finance is an issue, the cost for the working poor to have to serve on juries makes it difficult (if not, impossible) for a working poor person to be tried by a jury of their peers.

[@alexandersears8538]

You hit the nail on the head. It's more than a huge financial hit when you are living paycheck to paycheck, or depend on life saving medications that are costly. It can literally be life or death, being deprived of income for however long the trial lasts. Couple that with the courts racketeering scheme called "Filing for lost wages". I'll explain: In my state (Indiana), it costs $80 to file for a days lost wages. Which is more than a minimum wage days wages. The amount you MIGHT get is pre-rated AT minimum wage, and averaged to 40 hours a week. They can still deny you, and then you are out that $80 AND your jobs daily wage. It doesn't just effect the poor though, if you have a good job that pays well, you are still taking a hit, being reimbursed only at minimum wage, and even if you normally worked 60-80 hours a week, you are only being paid at the rate of minimum wage at 40 hours. It's a double edged sword that screws everyone, and once again, they can still deny you, then you lose the filing fee AND your jobs normal wage. I find it funny that ALL the people in the court room telling us jurors that we have the most important job, all share the same employer: the state, and are paid handsomely, while asking US to do that "most important job" for peanuts. You get what you pay for.

[@567secret]

The problem isn't how juries are picked, it's juries in general.

[@khadijahmuhammad4771]

How juries are picked is definitely an issue.

[@silentj624]

@ayy so it's better to let a single judge decide the fate each time?

[@An0niem4]

@ayy That's what many continental European countries have, and that isn't that great either. It creates a class lawyers that can protect itself by a barrier of study and is intrinsically linked to the rich part of society. If ideas become fashionable in that upper class of jurists, they can find their way into the justice system without the people being judged by the system having any say in that. It's exactly what the jury system is trying to prevent.

[@Magnulus76]

@ayy Juries aren't just randos with elementary school education, they come from all sectors of society. The jury verdict has to be unanimous.

[@GOFLuvr]

How are juries a problem? Do they keep delivering verdicts you disagree with?

[@annieblock]

Have you heard what happened to Curtis flowers? Please look him up, his story is horrible

[@cupcake3929]

How sad

[@johnnyhixx826]

There is a podcast that tells the story. Look it up its ridiculous what they done to him. Edit: its called in the dark and its season 2

[@phil7081]

The criminal trial law in the US seems really odd to me as European.

[@-anaamna5616]

It seems odd to everyone around the world.. I mean why use jury? Why not let judges decide what to do with alleged criminals??

[@squireob]

In overcoming the shortcomings of the English system, we invented new shortcomings.

[@caucasianinvasion2972]

It's pretty similar to most places around the world, these media companies try to blow things out of proportion to push their political agendas, the american trust in news media is the lowest it has ever been

[@t4squared]

Our judges and lawyers are racist and biased as well. Just go look at Kavanaugh who was just appointed to the Supreme Court. I’d take my chances with a jury in this country over them.

[@anon8206]

@@t4squared You're right, we should just punish people for allegations. We don't need proof! We don't need trial! We should just execute people because we don't like them.

[@Crick1952]

People, jury trials have their flaws, but they are WAY better than judge only trials. If you think the problem of 12 people being biased against you is bad, imagine if it was only one person? And that one person happens to see criminals all day everyday and wants to get home a little early to put his/her feet up. Best thing to solve this would be to take jury selection out of the hand of lawyers, thus making the jury composition as close to random as possible, like it was intended to be.

[@anon8206]

People don't trust themselves anymore. They would rather have someone dictate everything.

[@Crick1952]

@@anon8206 That's the course that leads to 1984 and Brave New World. The first thing they do is dumb the people down however they can, entertainment, exhaustion, ect.

[@tristanmoller9498]

If juries are totally random, how do you sort out inherent biases? Juries don't have to be random, they have to be unbiased, we just need a better way to accomplish that.

[@Crick1952]

@@tristanmoller9498 Every human on the earth has a bias of one kind or another and every system created by humans does as well. By making jury selection as random as possible you limit the ability of manipulation of the jurors biases to the benefit of one side. Everyone has the same chance of receiving jurors that are biased towards them or not. That's as fair as we can get.

[@superduperfreakyDj]

But what if by random chance a majority of the jury is biased against you?

[@cashminnn]

This is one of the few videos of yours that has kept me till the end. I am quite impressed with this video. You might not see this but i wish your team a good friday.

[@cassandradoyle3609]

I also feel like I need to State the fact that the monument built for Emmet till and the sign marking it is riddled with bullet holes

[@beepbop6542]

BASED

[@ashleyherrera4744]

The whole city was tense as we awaited the verdict that day

[@Andrews2490]

Thanks for airing this problem.

[@anikakoller8809]

Jurys celebrate ignorance. They want people with no life experience, not a single clue of the law system. This needs to change!! We need educated jurors!!

[@brenton9492]

Who would have guessed America is still racist

[@crozraven]

That's one hell of a rabbit hole through a very skewed justice system.

[@Jimdog-ep1bb]

yeah it is stupid. The jury should not be able to be changed.

[@pseudoschnitzel3505]

People be downvoting before watching again

[@BuzzLiteBeer]

Conservative hate-watch Vox the same way liberals hate-watch Fox. I wouldn't tak emuch stock in the up/down votes since people love to get outraged and seek out things they know they disagree with.

[@therambler3713]

to be fair, Vox are the one's to blame. They've given themselves a bad reputation.

[@r.b.4611]

Do you think there might be a reason people do this to Vox? (There is, it's because of some terrible PC-filled misinformation videos they've made)

[@dan8085]

"PC-filled misinformation" what does this even mean? Because it just sounds like a right-wing snowflake whining about nothing.

[@evanoc]

@@BuzzLiteBeer Liberals don't mass dislike Fox news tho, lol

[@Cacowninja]

"The big problem with how we pick juries" It's forced.

[@bymariainfante]

I worked downtown the day of the trial and when I found out that he was convicted on all counts I started to cry. For once, there was justice.

[@davidonfim2381]

Here's an idea, don't let a bunch of ignorant idiots more or less randomly sampled from the population decide the fate of another person's life. Instead, use highly trained people who have knowledge about the law, basic statistics, crime, and other relevant issues (forensic evidence, etc). What a craaaazy, earth-shattering thought, eh?

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

The idea of professional juries isn't a new one. The problem is you run the risk of those people developing biases overtime or getting burnt out from hearing so many cases. Also, professional juries aren't always going to be from the area where the trial is taking place.

[@davidonfim2381]

1) juries today already have countless biases. If professional juries reduce the biases (I don't see how they could possibly not, if they're trained for that purpose), then it's an improvement. 2) People get burnt out from lots of jobs, that doesn't prevent them from existing. People can move on to do other things or they can learn to deal with them better. We're not talking about creating slaves that are forced against their will to be professional jurors/judges. 3) Who cares where they're from? whether you committed a crime or not, or how severely you should be punished, shouldn't depend on whether the people who make the decision come from your town or not.

[@manuelmarrero5086]

I disagree I think a jury system helps deal with some of the potential bias or corruption that having the judge decide or a selected bunch of jury members could be capable of being I don’t think lawyers should be able to just eliminate so many people in the jury maybe just drop the number of people they each are allowed to take out

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

@@davidonfim2381 1. Good point. 2. If people get burn out in a trial, it's going to affect how they deliberate. We're talking about taking years away from people's lives here. 3. It's important that a jury is comprised of your peers, because someone from your area is more invested in the case than someone from a distant land. If I give you a pamphlet describing a court case that occurred in California, or China, or India, you're not going to see the people involved in the same way you would if I gave you a pamphlet describing a case from your county.

[@classifier1848]

So basically we should not hire the left?

[@daughter-of-sappho]

This is why we say "black lives matter" I might just some white boy who will rarely experience discrimination because of my race, but that doesn't mean I'm happy with it. Just because I don't often experience racism doesn't mean that others don't. And I will fight until no one will ever be treated differently for their sexuality, gender, and especially their race.

[@yolosock4459]

Your utopia will never exist

[@nutboy93]

Thank you brother.

[@hoesmad3054]

@@yolosock4459 Not in the US at least

[@daveyjones3016]

You're awesome 👍🏾

[@oskarik.653]

@Yolo Sock Do you actually know what utopia means? Utopias don't exist and they can't exist. It's a model of a ideal society in which direction you would want to improve the current system. Why are you so cynical? Don't you want to be treated equally and as a individual?

[@hamboogermember4232]

Black lives matter ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻

[@CatholicWeeb]

All lives matter! No matter the race!

[@hamboogermember4232]

MikeyGeess nobody denied that but were focusing on blm first because they’ve been treated like second class citizens for thousands of years

[@leoscar999]

@@hamboogermember4232 idk where you got those likes

[@claireindigo1200]

@Michael Gaudreau just say your racist and go

[@graced4844]

a jury should _always_ represent the local people accurately. it’s not a fair trial without a fair jury.

[@brandonchristopher9657]

But some people still don't understand why we say "Black lives matter"

[@GreasyBaconBro]

tough to understand why when you hear "black lives matter" but see violence

[@kellz1703]

Naori Musume violence where? Anyone can use a movement to try to hide their real motives.

[@anon8206]

The same movement that hates white people, lies about being veterans, raids shops like vikings, beats people up, and destroys buildings and vehicles by setting them on fire.... because sometimes they are discrimated against when being chosen for jury...... Makes sense. Also, black cops are just as likely to kill as white cops judging from statistics.

[@GreasyBaconBro]

@Michelle Appiah thats a load of bullshit. the majority of the "innocent black guy killed by evil white cop" shenanigans is all justified when you look at the entire picture. Be honest, you can't call someone "an innocent boy who does nothing wrong" when he causes trouble with the police

[@peter-johndejong9880]

Brandon Christopher i really dont understand why you say that, and not address black community

[@EvanBoyar]

What's with the FiveThirtyEight podcast music?

[@xandercorp6175]

I would be interested to know what the justification and reasoning behind peremptory strikes were when they were introduced, and what they are now, so I can think about how much sense it does or doesn't make.

[@TobiIsAGoodBoy1]

why didn't they arrested an tried the lady for manslaughter after she told the truth that it was a lie?

[@LoreEclectic]

Recanting doesn't necessarily mean she was lying

[@christinayates2496]

Laura Beth yes it does.. that’s exactly what it means. Her story was a major reason the murders walked free and a key piece of why they believed they killed him

[@sirrivet9557]

TobiIsAGoodBoy1 because she did not directly participate in the murder. She just said that emmet harrased her, and then her husband decided that a black kid flirting was super bad and went out to murder him. The wife did not tell him to murder emmet. Not saying they were in the right, but she did not commit a crime

[@saxs3351]

Sir Rivet wouldn’t it still count as obstruction of justice, although maybe the stature of limitations was up

[@Mickey-hf4bq]

she admitted it on her deathbed

[@laurencekuo4518]

The whole jury system is completedly flawed. Don't even get me started on social polarization and conformity.

[@cindy846]

Most underrated comment!

[@mal_ed]

There will always be positive and negative sides to the jury system. However, changes will come with time. Attitude changes should allow for a more diverse racial mix of juries.

[@harx5199]

Great video, very informative.

[@rav8149]

If you can't trust 12 people to decide a case, think about trusting 300 million deciding the fate of a country every 4 years

[@AEARArg]

Opinion from Argentina: "jury of peers" should translate into random draw sample of the population.

[@arvaborelius7269]

Officer1: shoots black guy 16 times. Officer2: think you got him?

[@Enyonam214]

DiverGaming you were almost funny

[@classifier1848]

Black guy 1: stabs officer 50 times until death Black guy 2: Think you got him?

[@OstriMonk]

Classifier _66 has that ever happened? No.

[@augustinedaudu9203]

@@classifier1848 actually answer the question. Since when has a "black guy" stabbed a police officer 50 + times

[@pepsusser]

@@classifier1848 evidence?

[@grim1860]

I hope y'all make a video going over what can be done to fix selection system!! Ps: if they have made it can someone link it to me?

[@jj-lukas]

Good video. I was thinking this would have also touched on how jury members are selected in the first place. How do they get into the pool where lawyers then question and strike potential jurors -- a lot of ground to cover there, but one example would be how they still use a selection system based on households with landline phones only in many counties.

[@alexmonroy4470]

I just learned this in school

[@DanielPierce]

I’ve lived my entire life in Chicago and can say that this was a massive deal for this city!

[@galleryg998]

Thanks! This was super interesting!

[@Monster12255]

I was summons to do jury duty today and this video pops up in my recommendation. What a coincidence 🤔

[@Splendidjosh]

Great job Ranjani! I can tell you did good research and didn't shy away from facts. I appreciate you bringing light to other instances of racial discrimination that might be out of most people's purviews. Finally, you used good examples that I think would keep many people interested. I look forward to other videos produced by you. ^__^

[@KaluArt]

This makes so much sense

[@raheimmundle3576]

thank you all so good content and it meant a lot to me as well it shows and I light the ills of society and what we need to do to fix it so once again I commend you thank you so much continue putting out good content and we will continue to subscribe and TuneIn

[@Robert_St-Preux]

I wonder if larger juries-and I mean way larger, one or two hundred or even more-chosen randomly, and with no opportunity for either counsel to bump any of them, would avoid these problems?

[@vietphuongbong3441]

That's an interesting proposal, indeed. A small problem however is that, people often dislike jury duty, being time consuming and elses, and the court often struggles to just find enough jurors that fit the criteria for the trials that we have. And vetting 100 jurors would be a small nightmare...

[@merchantfan]

Yes or only struck on transcribed statements with no visual or auditory info.

[@chickenman5137]

That be terrible

[@ziasmiles4136]

Okay let’s make a deal right now, let’s all be kind.

[@Aiden-zi3xf]

I'm like 99% sure the title was different this morning.

[@bfg2600]

I have never understood the jury selection process being called trail of peers, I was selected on a jury for a person that was 65 years old when I was only 18, how could I possibly be this guy's peer.

[@15saquic15]

Vox! Keep up the great work!

[@Hades-gt8ce]

Maybe, a good start would be to train cops to deescalate, and not shoot first ask questons later

[@zihenglao3591]

then you get cops who get shot trying to ask some questions

[@irishhockey1]

Guy Cardwell thank you! People on here are misinformed by the media.

[@aryaxz2255]

@@zihenglao3591 that nearly never happens less than 100 cops are killed yearly. and a larger number of them are due to accidents not murder by the offender . but if you are black and unarmed you are 3 times more likely to get killed .check your facts before supporting the murderer www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/01/09/are-black-or-white-offenders-more-likely-to-kill-police/?.8ad9cecf4d60

[@randomviewer7916]

That's how it's supposed to happen, hence why the officer was convicted of murder.

[@jackryan6523]

Wait, in America is the prison sentence determined by the jury and not the judge? Is it not just if they are guilty or innocent.

[@gavinsparks2468]

No, I'm pretty sure how long they are in jail or if they get probation/reduced jailtime, is determined by the judge, but the jury decides if they are guilty or innocent

[@barackobama6715]

Jack Ryan Minor cases only have judges, but a jury only states that they believe the defense is innocent, guilty, or jury nullification.

[@felixk56]

How can a country that calls itself United be so devided?

[@sascha1493]

the problem is that the american justice system uses a jury in general

[@sopherino5486]

I actually got the chance to hear Emmett's cousin talk about what happened the night of/after he was kidnapped. I was so angry that these men thought they could do this to a child because he was black. Now anytime I hear the name Emmett Till, I am filled with so much sorrow and I can barely hold back my tears.

[@qualthias8927]

"Don't judge people by their skin color." Followed by, "We needed more people of a certain skin color on this jury."

[@suchethreddy1380]

Deep respect to what you guys do. Great job vox

[@Adrian.E.M]

In Sweden, juries are uncommon. The public is represented in the courts by means of lay judges instead. Similar in Norway, Denmark and Finland. The French judicial system does not have recourse to juries except in assize courts. There is no such thing as a jury trial in Germany and judges take on a more active role in court proceedings. I believe Japan has a similar system as well.

[@savannarosess]

I just watched The Hate U Give, and wow this video most definitely made me think about everything, people died, and people get away with it.

[@siam9914]

Abolish the jury system. Always been flawed and massive waste of time & money

[@crowsight]

Are you able to post your research and findings?

[@hatednyc]

Vox Whoa! She’s a LOT younger than I expected her to be! Good for you! Great work!!

[@ca-ke9493]

Honestly, why have lawyers be able to take out jurors in the first place? The reason why there is 12 randomly selected jurors in first place is to reduce bias and truly reflect the general public's opinion. Having lawyers then be able to change out jurors is just calling for systematic biases and manipulation of results.

[@TheMoeHawk]

Stuff like this is the reason why I never became a lawyer after law school.

[@chipskylark5500]

Is the Tallahatchie river a different one than the Tallahassee river?

[@Magnulus76]

Yes. The languages of the various southeastern Indian tribes are related.

[@giantchamp415]

Great video I really enjoyed it.