Most of us remember Ahmaud Arbery. He was a black jogger who was stopped by three men, then shot and killed. Two of the men who were convicted of murder got life sentences and a third got 35 years. The Democrat candidate for US Senate in Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, had a similar incident in his … Read more
By Russ Bynum, AP All three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice. The convictions for Greg McMichael, son Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan came after jurors deliberated for about 10 hours. … Read more
On Wednesday, a Cobb County, Georgia grand jury indicted three men in the death of Ahmaud Arbery. Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan face malice murder, felony murder and a host of other charges for their respective roles in the homicide of Mr. Arbery. Many have seen the video detailing the killing of … Read more
By Russ Bynum, AP The Georgia man whose cellphone video of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting helped reignite the case has been charged with murder, making him the third person arrested more than two months after the slaying. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said 50-year-old William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. was arrested Thursday on charges of felony … Read more
From the AP . . . All of Georgia’s lawmakers in the U.S. House asked Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday to involve the Justice Department in investigations of the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery as well as potential misconduct by local authorities who took more than two months to bring charges in the case. All 14 members … Read more
By Russ Bynum, AP A video released Monday shows police in Georgia attempting to search Ahmaud Arbery’s parked car in 2017 and when he refuses to let them and begins to walk back to the vehicle an officer tries to use a stun gun on him. The video, first obtained by The Guardian, shows Arbery … Read more
By Kate Brumback and Colleen Long, AP There was an abundance of evidence when officers arrived at the scene on a February afternoon in coastal Georgia: A man, apparently unarmed, lying on the street, soaked in blood. The suspected shooter, a shotgun, eyewitnesses. And video of the incident. But no arrests were made in the … Read more
By Russ Bynum, AP The Justice Department said Monday that federal prosecutors are weighing possible hate crime charges in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man gunned down after being pursued by two armed white men in a Georgia subdivision. Arbery was fatally shot Feb. 23 by a father and son who told police … Read more
The index of cases like [the Arbery shooting] seems to point to racial presumptions implicit in how we interpret the concept of self-defense. It is reminiscent of the “gay panic” defense of old, in which violence committed in the name of self-defense was acceptable based on a straight person’s allegedly rational fear that a presumably … Read more
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