BREAKING: 3 Georgia Men Found Guilty of Murder in Killing of Ahmaud Arbery

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

McMichaels Ask Judge for Bail in Advance of Arbery Shooting Trial

From the Associated Press . . . A Georgia judge is scheduled to consider bond requests by a father and son jailed on murder charges in the February shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. Gregory McMichael and his adult son, Travis McMichael, were to appear Thursday morning before Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley. They also have asked … Read more

Man Who Filmed Arbery Shooting and Shared the Video is Charged With Murder

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

Entire Georgia US House Delegation Asks AG Barr to Have DOJ Investigate Abery Shooting

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

Video Shows Police Attempt to Use a Taser on Ahmaud Arbery

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

McMichael Law Enforcement Ties, Delay in Charging Complicate Ahmaud Abery Shooting Case

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

Brady Campaign Uses ‘Stand Your Ground’ Lies, Fearmongering And Falsehoods in Arbery Shooting Case

The Brady gun control operation (as they’re currently known; that name is subject to change without notice), is taking advantage of the death of Ahmaud Arbery to criticize a law that protects Georgians’ self-defense rights and to further attack the right to keep and bear arms. Yesterday they tweeted: Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers may walk away … Read more

Cobb: Fear of Blacks Is Now Motive Enough for a Self-Defense Shooting

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

Father and Son Arrested, Charged With Murder of Ahmaud Arbery by Georgia Bureau of Investigation

By Russ Bynum and Ben Nadler, AP Georgia authorities charged a father and son with murder and put them in jail in the February shooting death of a man they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood. The charges Thursday came more than two months after Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was … Read more