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Bill Press: George Floyd trial: We are all jurors now

In this age of Facebook and around-the-clock social media, we’ve been pummeled with video of every possible form of human misery: from tornadoes, to mass shootings, to COVID-19 victims dying alone with no family members allowed at their bedside. But never have we experienced such gut-wrenching video as we’ve seen so far in the George Floyd trial.

Count every second of the most compelling video. Five hundred and 69 seconds. Nine minutes and 29 seconds of a black man, George

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