The all white jury could completely relate to the white police officers, and be understanding of their actions on the videotape. They could not understand the point of view of a black man completely wasted on drugs and resisting arrest. The same principle applies when Judges sentence criminals. In Canada, statistically native Indians get longer jail than white people for similar crimes. So understanding can overcome strangeness, ignorance, even hatred and fear.
Understanding leads to love.
If you understand someone, it is impossible to hate them. If you think you truely understand someone from their deepest being, it is impossible not to love them. That, in fact, is our understanding of the love of God. God knows us entirely, everything that has ever happened to us and every thought that has passed through our minds. Thus, God loves us completely no matter what we do becuase God knows our story, and completely understands our intensions and reasons.