“I am praying they get this right”: Chavin trial leaves cities across America on edge

Why? What does get it “right” mean?

This is where the quote comes from:
Meanwhile, in Charlotte, Kass Ottley, a 56-year-old grandmother and one of the city’s most prominent activists, has been dealing with stomach pains while watching the trial. She’s sure they’re from the stress.

“I am praying they get this right,” Ottley told Axios last week. “Because if not, the reaction is going to be like nothing we’ve ever seen before.”

So you mean Kass Ottley is the sole holder of truth in the world? She determines what is right and wrong? She is basically God the judge?

I don’t understand the justice system in the US. Everybody knows that the US courts are the most fickle in the world. You never know when a perfectly open-and-shut case will pop up in the news. All the most ridiculous judgments in the world are from this country called the US. Woman wins $3 million from Mcdonald’s for spilling hot coffee over herself. Only in the US. Which defined the term “frivolous lawsuit”. As in ones that no sane person on the street would have decided that way.

And I have read, been explained to, researched online and finally just told to take on blind faith that this is a good thing. That every trial in the US is somewhat like playing the lottery. Even though it may be a long shot it is still a possibility that this is that one that makes the news and the winner is someone wholly unexpected. Because that means each trial is evaluated on its own merits, regardless of what is happening in the rest of the US.

And I also understand that is why we have trials in the US. Because nothing is open-and-shut, black-and-white, but each side has to be able to present its argument and then the truth is able to be determined.

Which is why statements like “get it right” confuse me. How does Kass Ottley know what is “right”? Maybe she thinks this is right but someone else thinks it is wrong. How is it decided? Maybe they should fight it out, like in the past, and strongest one determines the truth (similar to how the victors write history). Or maybe they can flip a coin, another time-honoured tradition of settling disagreements?

If one single person, one group of people, can determine what is right or wrong, how does justice work? What is the difference between mob justice vigilantism and orderly due process? Would she prefer Derek Chauvin were just shot? Or imprisoned indefinitely? Would she say the same for a black man who was killed in the midst of holding up a bank teller? If one deserves an impartial trial doesn’t the other?