Juror in Kyle Rittenhouse trial dismissed for telling joke about police shooting of Jacob Blake
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By Eric Levenson and Carma Hassan, CNN A juror was dismissed in Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial Thursday morning after he told a joke to a deputy earlier this week about the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
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By Eric Levenson and Carma Hassan, CNN A juror was dismissed in Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial Thursday morning after he told a joke to a deputy earlier this week about the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Judge Bruce Schroeder talks about the juror who attempted to tell a joke to a bailiff during Kyle Rittenhouse's trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Thursday,
In dismissing the juror, the judge said it was “clear that the appearance of bias is present and it would seriously undermine the outcome of the case."
The juror, a retired white man, told a court police officer a joke about the Black man whose shooting by police in 2020 sparked the protests where Rittenhouse killed two and wounded a third.
A juror in Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial was dismissed Thursday after he made an inappropriate joke about the police shooting of Jacob Blake Jr., an incident triggering multiple days of unrest in the small Wisconsin city where Rittenhouse faces life in prison for fatally shooting two people and…
