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nd I believe the murderer was apparently waiting for him, so it was a planned attack. It was an assassination, not a random thing. And he apparently did die. He was shot multiple times, and the attacker escaped on a bicycle. Yeah. So all right, maybe we need a little less of this in the comments. Go ahead. Maybe a little less of that. Okay, you know what I'm talking about. Just a little less of th…

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d you're sitting there trying to decide whether this guy goes to prison, and you can't decide, the 12 of you can't decide on the same definition of the word that is the most important word to the trial? I feel like that's somebody who's trying to hang the jury. In other words, I feel like somebody's stalling. It feels like a play by a patriot, as in somebody's going to make sure that there's something they can hold on to to claim reasonable doubt. I'm going to say hung jury. What do you say?

Because I think the people who want to convict him are never going to change their mind because they'd just be racists, and the people who think that the jury itself is racist are not going to change their mind because it's obviously a racist case. So I think that nobody's — you might find people who are willing to be flexible on the argument of wheth

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er somebody did a crime. I don't think you're going to find flexibility on whether to be a racist or not. The people who are racists are going to be racist, and that's going to be their vote. They're going to vote against him because he's white. And those in the trial who recognize it as a racial prosecution are going to say, I don't even care if he did that. I don't even care if he did murder him…

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