Chicago Sun-Times

THE JURY BREAKDOWN

Jury selection ended Thursday in the Jason Van Dyke murder trial. Here’s what we know about the 12 jurors and five alternates.

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Juror No. 1

A Hispanic woman with three children 10 and younger. On her juror questionna­ire, she wrote, “I respect police officers and I think they just do their job.”

Juror No. 7

A white man who told the judge he’s “just a big supporter of the Second Amendment, and I have a lot of respect for police officers.” On his questionna­ire he said he’d never heard of the Van Dyke case but, when pressed, he admitted he had.

Alternate No. 1

A black or Latina woman who works in Cook County Clerk David Orr’s office.

Juror No. 2

A white woman who works as a hospital record keeper and believes in hearing all the evidence before making a decision. Her significan­t other works for the Department of Children and Family Services.

Juror No. 8

A soft-spoken Latina woman in her 40s who has a young daughter and babysits for grandchild­ren.

Alternate No. 2

A young white woman. On her juror questionna­ire she wrote of police, “They know the law so they should abide by it too.”

Juror No. 3

An Asian-American man who looked to be in his 20s. A financial analyst, on his questionna­ire he said ‘‘everyone must abide by the law, including law enforcemen­t officers.”

Juror No. 9

A white woman in her 50s or 60s, who has family ties to Judge Vincent Gaughan: The judge’s brother is her sister’s godfather, and another Gaughan brother stood up in her parents’ wedding.

Alternate No. 3

A black man who is a retired security guard for the Art Institute.

Juror No. 4

A white woman whose husband retired from the Navy after 24 years and now works for the Department of Defense. She said she’s seen the video of the McDonald shooting but, “I don’t know why he was being stopped anyway.”

Juror No. 10

A Latina woman in her 20s who recently passed the first phase of joining the Chicago Police Department. The woman said she has wanted to be a cop since she was 12, but isn’t worried about the effect her vote on a verdict might have on her career.

Alternate No. 4

A Latino truck driver who immigrated from El Salvador in the 1980s. His son-in-law is a police officer on the Northwest Side.

Juror No. 5

A white man in his 50s or 60s. He said a black priest at his church had encouraged the congregati­on to “start listening to black people” about racial bias by police, but “I think this case is this case.”

Juror No. 11

A white man in his 30s with a degree in engineerin­g. He said he had seen the video of the shooting and that “I think the officer went too far,” but that he could set those opinions aside.

Alternate No. 5

A white woman who works for a large law firm, she said she knew about all the players in the case but felt she could be fair.

Juror No. 6

A black woman who works as a truck driver. She said she saw the shooting video and said, “I thought it was kind of, like, horrific to be on TV” — because kids could see it. She also said “That’s a lot of shots.”

Juror No. 12

A white woman in her 30s, who said she had never seen the video and knows no details of the case. Asked if cops should be punished for what they do in the course of their duties, she wrote “if you knowingly did something wrong, you should face consequenc­es.”

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