white jury to ignore the law in the Rodney King case.

Reporter: It is a disgrace, I'm shocked.

Robert: Many white people felt that the largely Black Jury.

Reporter: I think it's absolutely appalling. Excuse me, no faith in the jury system whatsoever.

Robert: Then the same thing in acquitting OJ.

Reporter: I think he's guilty. I think he got off because the jury was mainly Black.

Jad: According to Jeffrey, these two cases together, they sparked a national conversation about jury nullification.

Jeffrey: The day after the OJ Simpson verdict, The Wall Street Journal a first-page story, essentially arguing that in inner cities throughout the country, Black jurors were remarkably acquittal prone.

Robert: In other words, according to the article, there was a spike in acquittals among Black jurors in cases where the defendant wasa time and a place, and so that Monday, he and his friend Mark did show up. Neither of them were armed. Neither of him r Mark.

Jad: Did any other people he'd been wanting to show up?

Tracy: No, it was just them. Nobody else showed up. The police say that somebody who works at the court told him that he had to leave, that he was trespassing. He refused to leave. A police officer didn't also came. He was shouting things about shooting police officers. At one point, apparently, he attempted to hit the court worker, but he actually didn't. He was charged with threatening public workers. Assault and trespassing.

Jad: What happened then?

Tracy: The charge for threatening public workers that was dropped, the prosecutors dropped that charge, but