Smith interviews an anonymous man who served on the jury for Rodney King’s Simi Valley trial, in which the jury returned not guilty verdicts to all four officers involved in King’s beating. In his monologue, the juror talks about the negative impact serving on the jury has had on his life, describing the death threats and harassment he and the other jurors faced afterward. The juror describes feeling disillusioned by America’s justice system, feeling as though he and the other jurors were set up to deliver a not guilty verdict and then scapegoated when the public regarded their decision as racist and unjust.
Anonymous Male Juror Quotes in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
The Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 quotes below are all either spoken by Anonymous Male Juror or refer to Anonymous Male Juror. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Your Heads in Shame
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I mean, the jurors as a group, we tossed around:
was this a setup of some sort?
We just feel like we were pawns that were thrown away by the
system.
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Anonymous Male Juror Quotes in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
The Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 quotes below are all either spoken by Anonymous Male Juror or refer to Anonymous Male Juror. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Your Heads in Shame
Quotes
I mean, the jurors as a group, we tossed around:
was this a setup of some sort?
We just feel like we were pawns that were thrown away by the
system.
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