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struggle4progress

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Fri Aug 21, 2015, 05:02 PM Aug 2015

Jury Selection Concludes in Jewish Site Shootings Trial

Aug 21, 2015, 4:53 PM ET
By BILL DRAPER Associated Press

Eight women and nine men have been chosen from a pool of 200 to hear the case of a Missouri white supremacist accused of killing three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites.

Twelve of the 17 Johnson County, Kansas, residents picked Friday will serve as jurors and the other five will be alternates. They won't know which role they'll be given until after the capital murder trial has ended.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. of Aurora, Missouri, has admitted killing a 69-year-old man, his 14-year-old grandson and a 43-year-old woman in Overland Park, Kansas, on April 13, 2014. The 74-year-old says it was his duty to kill Jewish people because they're endangering the existence of the white race.

Opening statements are slated to begin Monday morning ...


http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jury-selection-concluding-jewish-site-shootings-trial-33220565

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Jury Selection Concludes in Jewish Site Shootings Trial (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2015 OP
How soon people forget... Behind the Aegis Aug 2015 #1
He should have said he did it for Syzygy321 Aug 2015 #2
 

Syzygy321

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2. He should have said he did it for
Fri Aug 21, 2015, 11:21 PM
Aug 2015

Palestinians. That would earn him plenty of sympathy from certain quarters.

Though I guess doing it for white people will earn him plenty of sympathy from the opposite corner.

It's a beautiful thing that people on all sides of politics and many different races and religions can all come together and agree on hating Jews.

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