Oh my God. I didn't know there was actual video of the Ahmaud Arbery killing.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

I'm not going to show it here.

But it's out there.

And it's bad.

It's really, really bad.

[BSdetect]

1. It is horrific. Its plain murder.

[dawg day]

2. The prosecutor-- this will really make you sick--

refused to indict because he said that the guys in the pickup were performing a 'citizen's arrest'.

He had to then recuse because the one with the pistol had worked for his office.

[onecaliberal]

3. I can't watch it.

[DrToast]

8. Same

I feel like I should, but I just can't.

[Hav]

4. The video was already posted here yesterday

but I'm not the kind of person who can watch these kind of videos.
But a question, the perpetrators claim that there was a struggle for the weapon which allegedly caused one of the aholes to shoot. Can this be verified on the video or was it bs? They belong behind bars either way, I'm just wondering whether we could see a repeat of Zimmerman.

[dawg day]

9. Chasing someone with your truck surely must be a threat.

An attorney told me, "Stand Your Ground does not apply to the dead person. It's designed to be a defense for the person who survives the encounter."

So the young man getting chased by armed men in a truck doesn't get to "stand his ground" and defend himself.

That actually is what the country prosecutor immediately decided-- that the man being chased was the "aggressor" because at some point he turned around and confronted the armed men who were chasing him. In a pickup truck.

There were three shots, apparently. One "citizen" was carrying a shotgun (this was the one wrestling with the victim). The other was in the bed of the truck with a handgun.

The victim, of course, was unarmed, but the prosecutor decided it was all his fault.

After the video surfaced, the prosecutor in the next county was appointed to take over and will take it to a grand jury. We'll see what happens. A prosecutor has to want an indictment -- unlike, say, the one in the Michael Brown/Ferguson case-- to get the grand jury to indict usually.

[Mister Ed]

10. The victim struggled to keep the barrel pointed away from him.

He first tried to run and dodge, then tried to grab the barrel and keep it pointed away from him, then tried to pull the gun away from the gunman by the barrel.

[Hav]

15. Pushing the barrel away with a following escalation was pretty much what I thought happened

You just don't expect getting executed in public.
No idea why this kind of citizen arrest can have no consequences for those who provoked it. This will happen again and again. Maybe laws and perceptions would change if armed groups of people of color went around making "citizen arrests" and mowed everyone down who resisted.

[obamanut2012]

19. THere was also literally nothing to make a "citizen's arrest" for

No crime had happened. They just thought a gentleman taking a run was the guy who robbed construction stuff from an unfinished house two weeks prior, at night.But hey, the thief was a black guy, and this dude dressed in running clothes was a black guy running, so a criminal. JFC they called 911, then went a'hunting for escaped slaves.

[LastDemocratInSC]

12. When the victim wrestled to get the shotgun he had already been shot at

By the other guy. He was in genuine fear of his life.

[Hav]

16. Ok, so pretty much a group of racist aholes

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looking to execute someone. I hope the current prosecutor takes it more seriously than the previous one.

[TEB]

5. Pure evil

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. I saw it here yesterday.

It made me so angry!

There's no sugar-coating that video. It was straight-up murder.

[dawg day]

7. Can't help but think of Trayvon--

This really is the new form of lynching-- Some white guys decide that this black man (or teen-- remember the kid in the closed car listening to rap music "too loud" ) has committed a crime, chase him down to do a "citizen's arrest", and of course they're carrying guns, and he "attacks them" and he just somehow ends up getting shot by the "arresters" who are "defending themselves".

At least back in the lynching days, there would be a few hours between the "arrest" and the "verdict and execution." Now it's 20 seconds.

[Alex4Martinez]

11. It was murder, cold blooded. And while I wouldn't post a link directly to the video....

...I think a link to a story with the video may be helpful so that one can choose to view or not view.

https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/05/shooting-video-unarmed-black-man-killed-ahmaud-arbery-georgia-jogging/

We do ourselves no favors by not witnessing the evil that others do.

The man looked like a jogger, had no tools or bags and this truck rolled up on him and just took him out.

Fucking Georgia.

[Baked Potato]

13. Trump would just love a racial component to his division-quest right now.

His trash disciples know what their leader needs: diversion and division. Their extreme anger is flaring up because Trump is so incompetent he can’t even keep the racists happy. I really hope public outcry forces some justice here. Racism is their ultimate fallback position because it stokes fear, and fear is their goal.

[Moostache]

14. There are some things to know about the video...

1) There was no chase on the video, the pick-up and two armed men were waiting in ambush for the jogger, who was clearly just jogging with nothing in his hands or carrying - obviously unarmed.
2) The jogger at first appeared to be trying to simply run around the pick-up, then the video gets out of focus on the events and obstructed in the view for a crucial second or two.
3) When the video gets obstructed, the jogger had reached the front of the truck and was clearly being accosted by the shotgun wielding man, though no audio could be discerned.
4) There is not so much a 'struggle for the gun' as what appears to be a 'struggle to not be shot'. Multiple shots are heard on the tape and seen in the air as well.
5) The ending is as horrific a scene as Laquan McDonald's execution by CPD (20Oct2014).

There is absolutely no doubt that the two armed men should be in jail awaiting trial for murder and accessory to murder right fucking now. And there is virtually no doubt - beyond a completely racist bullshit tortured explanation - that they should be convicted, sentenced and executed in turn (at least the shooter for sure...the pistol wielding person in the bed of the pick-up should also be executed if he fired on the unarmed man too).

The mere fact that excuses are already made and floated for a crime this heinous is sickening. I won't say surprising, because in Trump's AmeriKKKa, we are THE shit-hole nation without a challenger to be seen.

[RoadRising]

17. Black guy equals suspicious equals shoot to kill

That’s the equation these murderers, George Zimmerman, racist cops and all of their apologists live by.

[mobeau69]

18. Cold blooded murder. Period. nt

[Celerity]

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

Link to tweet

[LizBeth]

21. I have it on my FB and yes, it is bad. It is murder. And it happened two months ago, I just read.

So these two murders have been living life for two months and only now may be held accountable for murder because of the video. And people watching it, clearly showing murder, and able to be outraged.

[bluestarone]

22. TWO FUCKING MONTHS!