The Minnesota Supreme Court will not intervene in whether Derek Chauvin faces a 3rd-degree murder charge

• Five jurors have been selected to serve in the trial of fired Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin.
• Chauvin is charged with murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in May.
• On Wednesday, two men were added to three jurors selected a day earlier.

Two more jurors were selected Wednesday to serve on the trial of fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is charged with murder and manslaughter in the May 2020 death of George Floyd.

One of the men selected, who is Black, works in information technology, speaks several languages, and love sports. He said he believes in the Black Lives Matter movement, but disagrees with defunding the police because doing so would take away resources to keep neighborhoods safe.

The other man, who is white, told Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill he was scheduled to be married on May 1 in Florida, but was willing to push that off to hear the case.

"Go ahead and throw me under the bus with your fiancée," Cahill told him.

The two newly selected jurors will join two men and a woman who were chosen on Tuesday,

Cahill is looking to seat 12 jurors and two alternates.

They will reconvene at the start of the trial on March 29. It is expected to go as long as a month.

Chauvin, who appeared in the Hennepin County courthouse throughout this week is charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter in the killing of Floyd.

The video showing Chauvin, a white officer, pinning Floyd's neck with his knee for nearly nine minutes as the Black man begged for help sparked protests in the US and an international movement to end racial inequality. Floyd's death also reignited the anti-police brutality movement.

In October, Cahill had dismissed a third-degree murder charge that had also been brought against Chauvin, but a state appeals court recently ruled the dismissal was improper. Chauvin's attorney Eric Nelson asked the state's Supreme Court to intervene, and late in the afternoon on Wednesday, the high court said it would not hear the appeal.

Cahill and the attorneys will address what the high court's decision means for the trial on Thursday morning when the case reconvenes at 9 a.m. CT. Jury selection will continue after that.