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City Then: Shooting Video Would Bias Potential Jurors. City Now: No, it Won’t.

Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman and others at one point argued that it’d be impossible to assemble an unbiased jury if video of a disputed police shooting was made public. Now that the video has been released, the city says the potential jury pool is fine – and is fighting the victim’s family’s attempt to move the trial.