Video released that appears to show Ahmaud Arbery being shot to death by white vigilantes *GRAPHIC*

[Dennis Donovan]

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David Begnaud ✔@DavidBegnaud

NEWS: Graphic video appears to show Ahmaud Arbery, 25 of GA., whose family says he was out for a run, confronted by 2 men who shot him dead saying they thought he was a burglar. A prosecutor wants a grand jury to decide whether the men should be charged.

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2:21 PM - May 5, 2020

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. I ordinarily do not comment on videos, but if I were in any normal prosecutor's office,

I'd be thinking that the video supported charging the assailants with murder in the first degree.

I'm not sure what possessed these guys to film themselves doing this.

They'd better lawyer up.

[greenjar_01]

2. These two racist numbskulls are walking free, tra-la-la

Remember, there were many Zimmerman supporters here as well. They're going to come out of the woodwork supporting these two shitheel murderers.

The courage of that young man, fighting for his life against a coward with a gun. Fuck.

[Celerity]

11. Do you honestly think that there are going to be multiple DUers come out on here in support of

these two murderous thugs?

I think you are dead wrong, and I am hard pressed for a justifiable reason for you to make such a bomb-toss of a statement.

[greenjar_01]

12. OK

Time will tell.

[Celerity]

14. if I see any try and defend these murderous bastards, I will be the first to blast off

[Hortensis]

24. Not OK. Perhaps you thought you were

on a different forum. Is that it? The kind where some of the LW-RW populist types spout some of the white power garbage they're not allowed to here? Admit some do, or did!, come to rant about the need to destroy the ACA and replace it with more for less, just as they do on trumpster forums.

[greenjar_01]

26. I know exactly what forum I'm on

Thanks though.

[Hortensis]

32. Then I have to say I didn't see what you claim to be common here.

Even at their worst, when their candidate had some victories, the few aggressive white male populists who came here did not push that kind of racial hostility as you imply. They pushed anti-Democratic, anti-democracy, anti-ACA hostility. And those who did touch the third rail of white-on-black racism were gotten rid of.

[greenjar_01]

33. I appreciate your perspective

Time will tell. I'll bookmark this to reply when (not if) I see it.

Cheers!

[JonLP24]

34. There were Zimmerman defenders here

The are often defenders when racist incidents are open to interpretation. They weren't involved in the left-centrist fights at DU. Most of them hung out in the gun forum. I have been here since 2008.

[Disaffected]

17. Now there's a

non-sequitur if ever I heard one...

[Celerity]

18. I think you need to look up the definition of non sequitur

What I asked was completely germane to what the poster I replied to said.

them

Remember, there were many Zimmerman supporters here as well. They're going to come out of the woodwork supporting these two shitheel murderers.

me

Do you honestly think that there are going to be multiple DUers come out on here in support of these two murderous thugs?

[Disaffected]

25. Sorry, I misjudged.

I took the "...Zimmerman supporters 'here as well'." to refer to the locale where the murder took place rather than DU.

If so, I too would be v surprised to see any significant support expressed here for those loathsome dirt-bags.

[Celerity]

27. no problem!

[dewsgirl]

3. That is brutal.💔

[exboyfil]

4. An armed man moves to obstruct his path

after driving up with his buddies, also armed.

How is this not out and out murder? Brandishing itself is an overt act. He would have been justified in shooting at them if he had a gun.

[greenjar_01]

5. Conservative Lawyers Group arriving imminently

To tell us how the young man out for a run was in the wrong.

[cayugafalls]

6. I don't care what they THOUGHT. They need to be charged with Murder 1.

You don't get to play Judge, Jury and Executioner. That is not how it works.

Fuck them. They killed him in cold blood. They were stopped and waiting for him.

I need to step away from the PC...my blood is boiling and I am crying.

[Jarqui]

7. How can that be anything else other than murder?

How is it even a question?

It's brutal.

They did not have to kill him - even if they thought he was a burglar.
He was not armed. They were.
They had no legal excuse or authority to kill him.

[ecstatic]

8. Infuriating!

[jalan48]

9. I see two men who were just looking for an opportunity to kill a black person.

[Marrah_Goodman]

10. That is horrifying

[jacobfloyd]

13. This is murder

This isn't citizen's arrest, this is outright murder.

[crickets]

15. Oh my god. That is out and out murder.

We're back to lynching. This is trump's America and it cannot be allowed to stand.

[peggysue2]

16. Clear case of murder

Caught on video. Both of these low-lifes should be hung up by their ankles. And if a grand jury can't find cause to charge these two???

Willful blindness.

And no, I don't buy the story that they thought Aubery was a burglar. Unless we now sanction mindless vigilantism. A convenient excuse pressed against an inconvenient, chilling video.

[Demovictory9]

19. McMichael: "I'm out here at Satilla Shores and there's a black man running down the street."

The shooter’s father, former District Attorney investigator Greg McMichael, who was with his son at the time, called 911 at 1:08 p.m.

McMichael: “I’m out here at Satilla Shores and there’s a black man running down the street."

911 dispatcher: “I just need to know what he was doing wrong, was he just on the premises and not supposed to be?”

McMichael: “And he’s been caught on the camera a bunch before at night. It’s an ongoing thing out here.”

McMichael later told police he suspected that Arbery was burglarizing houses under construction at in the Brunswick neighborhood.

According to the police report, McMichael was calling called for his son, Travis, who “grabbed his shotgun because they didn’t know if the male was armed or not.”

Police said the elder McMichael armed himself with his .357 handgun and the two followed Arbery for two blocks before, according to the report, McMichael shouted: “Stop, stop we want to talk to you.” They pulled up next to him and police said the former investigator’s son “exited the truck with a shotgun.”

McMichael told police Arbery then “violently attacked his son, and the two men started fighting over the shotgun, Travis McMichael fired two shots, killing Arbery. Police said the McMichaels rolled Arbery over to see if he a weapon before. No weapon was found.


https://www.news4jax.com/news/georgia/2020/04/30/black-man-running-through-brunswick-neighborhood-shot-killed/

[Caliman73]

31. Just like that asshole Zimmerman.

911 Dispatch said, "No, don't get out of the car and go after him..." The dispatcher here said, "I just need to know what he is doing wrong.."

The answer to both: "Well, he's black and he is walking around breathing and stuff, and we can't abide by that".

How the hell did they know it was the same person (IF there was actually a person) burglarizing homes? Did they have him under surveillance?

At least Murder 2 if not Murder 1.

[roamer65]

20. Can I load up and inject the drugs at the execution?

I would very much like to do it. These 2 murderers deserve to die.

I volunteer.

[JDC]

21. Murder.

[Demovictory9]

22. the killers like to kill

Link to tweet

[Demovictory9]

23. Gregory McMichael making up lies as he went along. bad luck for him, there was video

Attorney Lee Merritt, who is representing the family, told CNN Sunday "the decision to rely on the citizen's arrest statute is really a recent invention, prior to that they just simply said it was self defense." Merritt says now the men are trying to use the law to say they were trying to stop a crime.
"According to that law, you actually have to be observing the crime or be in the immediate knowledge of the crime," Merritt said. "The only thing they have ever said is ... that Ahmaud stopped by a house that was under construction and he looked through the window. We don't know if that happened or not, but even if that did happen that is not a felony that would invoke the citizen's arrest statute that would make this allowable."
'We expect action this week'
After the shooting, Gregory McMichael told police he saw the same man "the other night" and that he stuck his hand down his pants on that occasion, leading McMichael to believe he was armed.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/us/ahmaud-arbery-jogging-georgia-shooting/index.html

[roamer65]

28. Execute him, GA.

Or else.

[Hortensis]

29. The prosecutor undoubtedly expects a grand jury of their peers

to recommend prosecution. A way of handling a racially explosive and (shocking that it should be so) politically divisive murder that's gone national.

I just looked. This little census-designated crossroads is 90% white in spite of being in south rural GA just north of the black belt. Apparently a white nest on the periphery of nearby larger Hazelhurst, which is nearly 30% black and 8% Hispanic.

I always snoop residential construction I walk by. Such a horrible tragedy.

[PufPuf23]

30. Murderers. nt