The murder convictions of the three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery may have been secured by their own words to investigators the day of the shooting.
The Associated Press
Greg McMichael, who was in the bed of a pickup truck when his son killed Arbery, told police the Black man "was trapped like a rat" and he told Arbery:"Stop, or I’ll blow your f---ing head off!” They told police they weren’t sure exactly what Arbery had done wrong, which would later be a big blow to their defense that they were making a citizen's arrest.
Bryan was on his front porch when he saw Arbery run past with the McMichaels’ truck close behind. He told police he didn’t recognize any of them, or know what prompted the chase, but still joined in after calling out: “Y’all got him?” Travis McMichael, testifying in his own defense, said he was in shock when he first spoke to police, calling the shooting the most traumatic event of his life.
It worked for a while. The men weren't charged for more than two months — only after the video of the shooting surfaced and the case was turned over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. State agents charged the men two days later.
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