This Ahmaud Arbery case sounds like a near Xerox copy of the Trayvon Martin case.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Except that the victim was a young man as opposed to a teenager and there were two jackasses with guns, not one.

Unbelievable.

Hopefully justice will be kinder to Mr. Arbery than it was to Mr. Martin.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-shooting-georgia.html?smid=tw-share

Mr. Arbery was running in the Satilla Shores neighborhood when a man standing in his front yard saw him go by. The man, Gregory McMichael, 64, thought Mr. Arbery looked like a man suspected of several break-ins in the area and called to his son, Travis McMichael, 34.

According to a police report, the men grabbed a .357 magnum and a shotgun, got into a pickup truck and chased Mr. Arbery, trying unsuccessfully to cut him off. A third man was also involved in the pursuit, according to the police report and other documents.

In a recording of a 911 call, which appears to have been made moments before the chase began, a neighbor told a dispatcher that a black man was inside a house that was under construction on the McMichaels’ block.

During the chase, the McMichaels yelled, “Stop, stop, we want to talk to you,” according to Gregory McMichael’s account in the police report. They then pulled up to Mr. Arbery, and Travis McMichael got out of the truck with the shotgun.


“[Gregory] McMichael stated the unidentified male began to violently attack Travis and the two men then started fighting over the shotgun at which point Travis fired a shot and then a second later there was a second shot,” the report states.

[Celerity]

1. the 2 killers, who look exactly like one would assume they would

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