Is this comment in a George Floyd trial article by BBC really ethical?

[Judi Lynn]

Article:
George Floyd: Chauvin trial delayed over possible new charge
Published 4 hours ago

(scroll down just beyond half-way to this portion)

'I hope they find unbiased people'
Analysis by Tara McKelvey, BBC News, Minneapolis

Barbed wire surrounds the courthouse, and Forest McClarron, 34, an army veteran, walks past, looking up at the building.

He lives on Chicago Avenue, where George Floyd was pinned to the ground.

"I hope they find unbiased people," McClarron says, referring to the jury selection process. "Just honest, unbiased people."

Near him a woman walks with her husband to a vehicle parked on South Third Avenue. He has an assault rifle, and a paper cup sits on the bonnet of the vehicle.

He works in private security, and they are here to keep activists safe "from white supremacists," they say.

The mood is calm and the street smells like cannabis while people wait to see what happens with the jury, and with those who have gathered outside the courthouse.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56325773

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Does this seem appropriate?

[MadLinguist]

1. Please call it "the Derek Chauvin trial" George Floyd never got a trial

[Hortensis]

2. What am I missing? At a glance I don't see a problem. I feel the same way.

People incapable or unwilling, doesn't matter, to pursue truth and justice are a huge problem, no matter who they want to make bad trouble for.

[Judi Lynn]

3. I was thinking of the reporter's claim that the smell of marijuana was thick outside the building,

as if people who waited outside were getting high while they waited.

I think they would take the trial proceedings too seriously to be involved in smoking, too. I would think they would have been straining to be fully aware of what was happening.

It seemed to me as if the writer was trying to "color" those who came to hear first hand as something less than 100% focused on the information.

It's definitely not a casual event.

[moondust]

4. Context of global protests.

Reported on The Reid Out that questions for potential jurors include things like:

Did you protest/demonstrate last summer?
Did you carry a sign? If so, what did the sign say?