In some of the highest-profile cases, the zeal to send an anti-brutality message to law enforcement is not shared by the citizens who sit on juries. Take Steven Pohorence, accused of pushing a kneeling protester during a Black Lives Matter protest. The jury found him not guilty this week.
In some of the highest-profile cases, the zeal to send an anti-brutality message to law enforcement is not shared by the citizens who sit on juries. Take Steven Pohorence, accused of pushing a kneeling protester during a Black Lives Matter protest. The jury found him not guilty this week.
A Broward jury on Monday sided with Officer Steven Pohorence, 31, acquitting him of battery. He had been accused of shoving a kneeling protester, Jada Servance, during one of the protests that swept the nation following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020.
A Fort Lauderdale police officer is accused of battery on a Black Lives Matter protester in a May 31, 2020, demonstration, shortly after the George Floyd death in Minneapolis.
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