Lennon Edwards on Neely’s Family: These Are People Who Have Lived Through Injustices in the 50s and 60s

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Edwards: “The family is doing in a word, pain. Literally, I got phone calls as soon as the verdict came in from mildred, from clarence. Jordan’s great aunt, his uncle and grandfather. And you are talking about people who have lived through injustices during the 50s and the 60s and they have seen it before. So mildred sat in that jury room and in the courtroom and she watched the jury while pictures were going up and videos were going up. At a certain point she looked at me and said she felt this jury was not going to give Jordan justice. And that is exactly what happened. The last two dais of trial were the most difficult days because it seemed there was a downward spiral. The case went in well in terms of what the district attorney put on but the last two days when they dropped that higher charge of manslaughter 2 and a juror put down his head and shook it, that body language was telling. It meant something, maybe they were frustrated with the system, frustrated with how things were going. And when they came back with a verdict that did not make sense where they allowed a man to walk away after on video killing another civilian it was too much for the family to bear.”