![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I had almost an emotional breakdown at that point because I had nothing. "I was sitting at home and trying to find a way to decompress and not being able to decompress. "The hardest moment was coming homeā¦," he said in an interview Wednesday. He couldn't say a word to anyone in his closely-knit family about the stress he shouldered hearing several witnesses testify about watching George Floyd die under Chauvin's knee and re-watching bystander and police body camera videos of the incident. He tried to relax in his downtown Minneapolis apartment one weekend and found himself unable to turn on the TV for fear of seeing news about the highly publicized case, which was also prohibited by the court. Brandon Mitchell was ready to call it quits two weeks into jury duty in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, overwhelmed by the brutality of the evidence and plunged into isolation as he was prohibited by the court from revealing his role to friends or family. ![]()
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