Jury selection continues today for the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and four St. Thomas students have been named semifinalists for the U.S. Fulbright Student Program. Ad/PR Representative Gabi Bibeau has today’s News in :90.
The long process of jury selection for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death began Tuesday with two jurors picked and five dismissed, including some who said they would not be able to set aside their views on what happened.
A jury on Wednesday convicted a St. Thomas alum of assault for opening fire and wounding five men demonstrating against the fatal shooting of a black man by Minneapolis police officers.
On the sixth day of deliberations, the federal jury decided that the 2012 best-selling book defamed former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura in its description of a bar fight in 2006.
