“I do think that Ahmaud was murdered because he was Black. He was jogging through a predominantly White neighborhood and he was targeted. Everyone that has watched the video simply says that Ahmaud was not doing anything wrong. … I have my concerns, being that the jurors will be picked from this community. There has been lots of miscommunication in the beginning on what happened on that day, but I’m hopeful that we’ll get the right people in the right place to make the right decision,” Cooper-Jones told “CBS This Morning.”
Attorney Lee Merritt, who represents Cooper-Jones, accompanied her on CBS and added that the jury “should reflect the diversity of the Brunswick community near where this crime happened.”
“Just because you’ve heard about this case, just because you’ve developed an opinion of the case, doesn’t mean that you can’t set that opinion aside and say, ‘I can be fair.’ And that’s the legal standard,” he said.
Jury selection resumed on Tuesday and could take more than two weeks as more than 1,000 potential people have been summoned to be considered as jurors.
