Dershowitz claims KKK style intimidation

Alan Dershowitz Says Maxine Waters Used KKK Tactics to 'Intimidate the Jury' in Chauvin Trial
https://www.newsweek.com/alan-dersho...-trial-1585111

Quote:

Dershowitz said Waters' comments were "an attempt to intimidate the jury" so that it finds Chauvin guilty. "It's borrowed precisely from the Ku Klux Klan of the 1930s and 1920s when the Klan would march outside of courthouses and threatened all kinds of reprisals if the jury ever dared convict a white person or acquit a black person," he said. "And so, efforts to intimidate a jury should result in a mistrial.... The judge, of course, wouldn't grant a mistrial because then he'd be responsible for the riots that would ensue, even though it was Waters who was responsible," Dershowitz continued.

So, if the jury never heard these remarks, were they still intimidated? If they heard the remarks and are not a bunch of wimps or think that Maxine Waters is talking out her ass, are they still intimidated?

I think it's a stretch to claim actual intimidation.

Ranb

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