Jurors in Derek Chauvin's trial were offered free counseling

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https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/12/07/jurors-in-derek-chauvins-trial-were-offered-free-counseling/

Before serving as a juror in the Derek Chauvin trial, Brandon Mitchell had never watched the full video of George Floyd dying under Chauvin’s knee on a Minneapolis street.

The Minneapolis North basketball coach had seen only part of the video that rocked the world and set his hometown ablaze. Mitchell tried to “avoid it at all costs.”

When he got on the Chauvin trial, he had to view the troubling video over and over as evidence.

The lengthy trial was potentially so traumatizing that when it ended, Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill took the unusual step of offering jurors free counseling, according to Mitchell and another juror.

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1. I hope they all took him up on the offer. It was traumatizing to those watching outside the

courtroom (at least those of us who are not sociopaths), so I can only imagine how much worse for them.

It is really really hard to maintain a balanced perspective when so much absolutely evil, malign, negative comes at us 24/7. All I can say is step away and let what remains "good" sustain us all. Pets absolutely help. As do friends/family. As does being in nature.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. The two who reported the therapy offer said neither have taken advantage of it, but both

acknowledged that they probably should. The article digs into what a traumatic experience being on a jury for a violent crime can be, and how there is no support for people who agree to be such an integral part of the process.

[marble falls]

3. Even the shots in the paper were hard to look at.