“A juror in the Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial was dismissed Thursday morning after making a joke to a law enforcement official about the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. According to Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, the juror, an elderly white man who uses an electric scooter, said, ‘Why did the Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake seven times; they ran out of bullets.’ Binger asked the juror be dismissed. Judge Bruce Schroeder spoke to the juror and dismissed him. ‘I’ve talked quite a bit about public confidence in the result of the trial,’ Schroeder said after dismissing the juror. ‘It is clear the appearance of bias is present, and it would seriously undermine the results of the case.’ On his way out of court the man told Schroeder the joke ‘had nothing to do with the case'” – WPR.