Before serving as a juror in the Derek Chauvin trial, Brandon Mitchell had never watched the full video of George Floyd dying under Chauvin’s knee on a Minneapolis street.

The Minneapolis North basketball coach had seen only part of the video that rocked the world and set his hometown ablaze. Mitchell tried to “avoid it at all costs.”

When he got on the Chauvin trial, he had to view the troubling video over and over as evidence.

The lengthy trial was potentially so traumatizing that when it ended, Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill took the unusual step of offering jurors free counseling, according to Mitchell and another juror.