A jury on Wednesday convicted three white men of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man they pursued through their Georgia neighborhood early last year
Wanda Cooper-Jones, Ahmaud Arbery’s mother, hugs 8-year-old Nevaeh Del Rio outside Glynn County Courthouse. Photo: Octavio Jones/REUTERS . The killing, captured on video, was likened to a modern-day lynching and set off national outrage, fueling the Black Lives Matter movement as it swelled America’s streets last spring.
Travis McMichael, who fired the fatal shot, was found guilty of murder and convicted on all counts. His father, Greg McMichael, and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, were also convicted on murder charges as well as a host of other counts. The three face potential life sentences. They will also go on trial in February to face federal hate crime and kidnapping charges.
Though race was inextricably bound up in the case, it was mostly left out of the courtroom’s arguments, where a predominantly white jury heard prosecutors accuse the trio of lawlessly chasing Arbery “because he was a Black man running down the street,” and that was only during closing arguments. Prosecutors presented no evidence of racial language ascribed to the defendants.
The men suspected Arbery had broken into a neighbor’s house under construction in Satilla Shores, based on descriptions given by the neighbor, and said they were trying to detain him. Arbery, said to have been an avid jogger, was seen running when the McMichaels pursued him in a pick-up truck, with Bryan following behind in another vehicle. For several minutes, the group tore through the neighborhood before the McMichaels finally cut Arbery off in the road.
Police who arrived at the scene of the killing believed the McMichaels’ version of events — it was a citizen’s arrest gone wrong — and did not arrest anyone. Nor did local prosecutors pursue charges. The case languished in virtual obscurity outside of the coastal Georgia town for months, until video that Bryan took from behind the wheel of his car that showed the brutal slaying was released.
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