A scholarship, a resolution and calls for accountability: How Ahmaud Arbery's family and community honored him two years after his murder
Wanda Cooper-Jones said she wanted guilty verdicts in the federal trial for her son's killers by the time she marked two years since Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down during a jog.
They came a day earlier. Jurors found Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William"Roddie" Bryan guilty of hate crimes on Tuesday, backing the prosecutors' case that the men chased the 25-year-old through the streets of Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23, 2020, because he was Black. The three men are already serving life sentences, with Bryan eligible for parole after 30 years, following their murder convictions in a state trial.
See moment Ahmaud Arbery's killers sentenced to life in prison 03:09What comes nextFor Cooper-Jones, the day drew to a close inside an Atlanta restaurant, where she sat for dinner surrounded by family and friends. It was around this time in 2020 that she received the call that her son had died, she told CNN."It was a very, very hard day. But today was very, very rewarding," Cooper-Jones said."He was celebrated today."Echoing Arbery Sr.
Ahmaud Arbery was out jogging when he was shot and killed 02:20Last September, Johnson was indicted on charges of violating her oath as a public officer and obstructing a police officer in connection to Arbery's fatal shooting. Johnson allegedly prevented two officers from exercising their rights by directing them not to place the younger McMichael under arrest, the indictment said.