Black man murdered while jogging in Georgia:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[In_The_Wind]

1. Charge them and convict them of murder.

[Demsrule86]

31. Why is a grand jury needed? It seems pretty clear.

[malaise]

2. Fucking racist murderers

What did we do to be so hated?

[Kingofalldems]

4. This is what Trumpism is all about.

His supporters have no idea of what conservatism is, they only know Trump hates black people. And they will always support him.

[raging moderate]

12. Nothing. You did nothing to earn this hatred.

These people are vicious sadistic murderers, eager for excuses to vent their spleen on somebody. Their families teach them that you are legitimate targets.

[roamer65]

15. These fucking scumbags murderers make me ashamed to be a European American.

I am ashamed that we were responsible for the death of millions of Native Americans, and then compounded it with the enslaving and murder of millions of Africans.

Our history is disgusting and reprehensible. God have mercy on our souls because we are going to need it.

[tblue37]

26. Beware of those who have committed unforgivable crimes against you, because to

maintain their own sense of righteousness, the must now destroy you.That's my "Armageddon School of Moral Philosophy."

[Mister Ed]

38. Built this nation.

Built this nation with the sweat of your brow and the strength of your soul and the love in your heart.

And it has earned you...this? This indescribable evil?

[Happy Hoosier]

3. What the fuck is going on?

Is there something with more context?

[LisaL]

6. This is apparently the case.

"Mr. Arbery was killed after the men pursued him while he was running in the Satilla Shores neighborhood just outside of Brunswick, in Glynn County. Neither man was arrested after the slaying, which occurred on Feb. 23 at about 1 p.m."


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/ahmaud-arbery-killing-georgia.html

[Happy Hoosier]

8. HOLY FUCK. NT

[Mister Ed]

35. Excerpt:

According to a police report, one of the men, Gregory McMichael, said that he saw Mr. Arbery running through his neighborhood and thought that he looked like the suspect in a rash of nearby break-ins. Mr. McMichael, 64, told the authorities that he and his son, Travis McMichael, 34, armed themselves and began chasing him in a truck.

Mr. Arbery’s family and friends said Mr. Arbery was an avid jogger, and they do not believe he committed a crime before being chased.

[Ilsa]

5. Glynn County, which is on the coast.

Brunswick is the largest city there, but I don't know if this happened there or some other Hell.

[Celerity]

14. Crooked coppers abound there: Grand jury indicts Glynn County police chief, 3 others

February 28, 2020

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/glynn-county/grand-jury-indicts-glynn-county-police-chief-3-others/227U627UOFBEHJPTGQUYROG7U4/



BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A Glynn County grand jury investigating a scandal involving a former police officer who allegedly had sex with a confidential informant has indicted four current or former police officers, including current Glynn County Police Chief John Powell.

Arrest warrants were issued Thursday for Powell, current Vidalia Police Chief Brian Scott, and former Glynn County police Officers David Haney and David Hassler, according to Mark Spaulding, of the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.

The jury found enough evidence to justify 20 charges, including violation of oath, attempt to commit a felony, influencing a witness, perjury and making false statements to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, according to court documents.

[octoberlib]

7. The guy who murdered him is an ex-cop. They'll be covering up for him.

Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper, told CNN that when she was notified of her son’s death, police told her he took part in a burglary and that there was a “confrontation between her son and the homeowner and a struggle over a gun.”

There have been no charges against the suspects, identified as former police officer Gregory McMichael and his son Travis. The men told police they believed Arbery had been involved in a neighborhood burglary.

“No one disputes that McMichael, son of Brunswick District Attorney’s Office investigator Greg McMichael, shot and killed Arbery, but he was not immediately charged because Travis McMichael claimed he was acting within the scope of a citizen’s arrest,” News4Jax.com reported.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/disturbing-video-emerges-of-modern-day-lynching-of-black-jogger-in-georgia-but-suspects-still-not-arrested/


NBC said Arbery was an ex- football player who jogged every day. These guys saw a Black man running through their neighborhood and decided to shoot him.

[raccoon]

55. You're absolutely right. Nt

[smirkymonkey]

9. WTF!

Those evil racist bastards should be locked up for the rest of their miserable lives! He was unarmed and helpless! God, that was just horrible.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

10. THIS IS COLD BLOODED MURDER.

[oswaldactedalone]

11. There is no evidence

of any burglary. The deceased was a regular jogger in the area. This is just like the Trayvon Martin murder which Zimmerman skated on.

[crickets]

59. "The deceased was a regular jogger in the area."

And that was his crime - running in an area that someone decided he had no right to exist in.

Horror and hot anger yesterday on first seeing that awful video I could barely watch through my fingers... today is just a tangle of emotions. I can't imagine the anguish Ahmaud Arbery's mother has been dealing with. That no one has even been charged in two months is absolutely unacceptable.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!

String up those two racist assholes!!

Edit: It was three of them, apparently, but I'd only seen two white fatties in the video.

[LisaL]

16. No, there are two of them, not three.

The article about police officers indicted is not about the case in the OP.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

18. I just read the third guy was the person who filmed it.

Don't know since it's all news to me.

[LisaL]

21. There are two men involved here.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

24. Okay.

That's what I saw, then later looked at the Twitter comments which were probably unreliable.

Good grief, that's so disturbing in this day and age.

I had some black coworkers in the past who seemed scared to venture out in the wilderness or rural areas, and now I wonder if this kind of crap explains it. Fewer witnesses out there, whereas I feel safe to camp in the middle of nowhere. (More comfortable than being in a big city, in fact.)

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. I didn't even know about this!

It happened on Feb. 23rd, but I never heard about it.

That video is so infuriating! I wish that I was part of the jury!

[Takket]

19. looks like he was ambushed to me........

they jumped out of the pickup at him!

burglary my ass. he wasn't even carrying anything, and if you burgled a house you wouldn't run down the middle of the street where everyone can see you!

nope, they saw a black man and decided to kill him.

and the cops covered it up. telling the mom there was a burglary!!!!!!

[bullwinkle428]

20. It won't even be 24 hours before the "HE WAS NO ANGEL" stories start to

get pushed by all of the Trump-humping scum via social media.

[LisaL]

22. This happened back in February.

[Kaleva]

29. Local news mentioned his arrest back in 2012 for carrying a firearm on campus

"Arbery was arrested in December of 2012 by Glynn County Schools Police for bringing a handgun into the Brunswick High gymnasium during a basketball game. When an officer spotted the .380 caliber handgun in his waistband, the then 19-year-old Arbery attempted to flee.

Arbery was sentenced to five years’ probation as a first offender on charges of carrying a weapon on campus and several counts of obstructing a law enforcement officer."

https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/police-report-sheds-more-light-on-satilla-shores-shooting/article_2d7c05c8-36d3-55b5-ae11-60ea763095b3.html

[bmpbmp]

23. String those two up by their fucking balls.

God I'm angry!

[standingtall]

25. Looks like cold blooded murder

I've seen no evidence of a burglary. The shooting did not occur on private property and even if there was a burglary the according to the context the shooters were not the ones who's home would've be allegedly broken into. They had no business pursuing this man and absolutely no business shooting him.

[Kaleva]

27. This article about the police report doesn't seem to match the video

"Travis McMichael pulled up beside Arbery and again made it known they wanted to talk, the report said. At this point, Travis McMichael exited the vehicle, shotgun in hand.

“McMichael stated he saw (Arbery) begin 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 stated. “McMichael stated the male fell face down on the pavement with his hand under his body.”"

https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/police-report-sheds-more-light-on-satilla-shores-shooting/article_2d7c05c8-36d3-55b5-ae11-60ea763095b3.html

[rockfordfile]

37. That's Klan type excuses. Say one thing when really the truth is another

[Ms. Toad]

28. Why was someone driving down the road videotaping? n/t

[Kaleva]

30. Dash cams are becoming more and more common

Occasionally I'll spend some down time in the evening watching dashcam videos of Russians playing demolition derby on their streets and highways.

[Ms. Toad]

32. Weird. n/t

[Kingofalldems]

34. So someone is shot and killed and you're concerned about the dashcam?

[Ms. Toad]

40. Take your hostility out on someone else.

It's an obvious question to ask.

[Kingofalldems]

41. Maybe you post an OP about dashcams.

This thread is about the killing of a black man.

[Ms. Toad]

51. Again, take your hostility out on someone else.

You posted the dashcam. If you didn't want it being discussed, perhaps you shouldn't have posted it.

Apparently the person making the video was - at best - duped by the murderers or - at worst - an accomplice. That's precisely the reason I asked the question. From the wobbles, it looked to me like a phone video - not a dash cam. People don't generally wander around on relatively deserted roads randomly taking videos of the drive - so it seems odd to me that the video existed at all.

[Polybius]

46. It's a cell phone camera

You can tell because it is vertical (dash cams are normal, which is horizontal), and not steady (even when the car is stopped).

[Ms. Toad]

52. Thanks. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

63. The concern was apparently warranted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=91&v=bMOXkb-eCCY&feature=emb_logo

At 5:00: The videographer was apparently attempting to block Arbery on the street, but was unsuccessful. He appears to be involved, as I suspected when I asked the question.

[Nature Man]

54. mask is slipping

my bad, it's already gone.

[Polybius]

45. It's not a dash cam, it's a cell phone

You can tell because it is vertical, and not steady (even when the car is stopped).

[Kaleva]

48. You are correct. The person filming may be the 3rd person the family lawyer was talking about.

[Kingofalldems]

33. Odd question.

[Ms. Toad]

39. Not if you have any curiousity at all.

Most of us don't drive around randomly filming a pretty boring drive. So when someone randomly filming just happens to capture a murder on video, it is pretty darn logical to wonder what prompted them to video it in the first place.

[Bettie]

43. I figured that

the driver got a look at the two guys jumping in the truck with guns and followed to see what they were up to.

[Ms. Toad]

50. That's a possibility -

But another response suggests something more sinister (that has apparently been reported on) - potential involvement by the person doing the video-taping (either relatively innocently - helping neighbors, or as an accomplice).

[Bettie]

53. I saw that after I posted

and it makes me sick to think about this. It makes it seem like this guy was targeted and they planned it.

[Ms. Toad]

57. What is even more sickening -

especially if the man doing the videotaping believed that he was helping catch a burglar - is that it has taken months for this videotape to appear.

It is very obvious from that video that the man is just a jogger, so when you come up onto what is clearly an execution scene you turn the evidence in to the police immediately.

[Bettie]

58. That is why I wonder if he was

involved in some way or knew that they were going to do it.

All the joggers I know are creatures of habit, so they tend to have a couple of routes they do regularly. So, this was probably not the first time he was jogging there. I think they were watching for him and planned this. Just my opinion.

[Mister Ed]

42. Your question is relevant, despite the hostile replies. Here's the likely answer:

From the New York Times article at
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/ahmaud-arbery-killing-georgia.htm

In a letter to the Police Department, Mr. Barnhill described a video made by a third man who had joined the McMichaels in “hot pursuit” of Mr. Arbery. Mr. Merritt, the lawyer for Mr. Arbery’s family, said he believed that the video disseminated on Tuesday was the same one Mr. Barnhill mentioned.

So, it appears that the videographer was, at best, a neighbor who believed the murderers when they told him they were chasing a burglar, and, at worst, an accomplice to the murder.

[Ms. Toad]

49. Thank you!

That is actually what I expected - that something (possibly being an accomplice) prompted the making of the video tape.

[vercetti2021]

36. That's just flat-out murderer

Find these 2 electrocute the fuck out of them

[budkin]

44. They "feared for their lives"

And... innocent.

[Thrill]

47. So why didn't they call the cops?

He's not breaking into their home. This is mind boggling

[Kingofalldems]

56. Update:

Link to tweet

[Buckeye_Democrat]

60. It's about time!

I hope they're right.

Holy shit, this story is maddening!

[crickets]

61. Yes, finally! It's about time someone was arrested.

Faith Abubéy
@ReporterFaith
#AhmaudArbery’s family attorney says he anticipates an arrest in the case today.
@11AliveNews

Odd the tweet only appears to involve one arrest. Hmm.

[sarisataka]

62. And... nothing?

I saw somewhere it said the earliest a GJ would convene is June 12