Chauvin trial juror says verdict could have been reached faster

Juror Brandon Mitchell said reaching a guilty verdict in the killing of George Floyd was ‘easy’ after a difficult trial.

A juror who cast one of the unanimous votes to convict a white former Minneapolis police officer in George Floyd’s death says deliberations were relaxed and methodical as he and 11 other jurors quickly talked their way to agreement. Brandon Mitchell is the first juror to come forward publicly since Derek Chauvin was convicted on April 20 of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May 2020 killing of Floyd, an unarmed Black man. An alternate juror, who was not part of deliberations, had previously spoken publicly.