"A Lynch Mob": After Months of Inaction, 2 White Men Are Charged with Murder of Ahmaud Arbery in GA

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The following is snippets of an article containing an Amy Goodman interview with Benjamin Crump. The interview is definitely worth reading in full.

The two white men caught on camera shooting and killing Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African American man, were arrested and charged Thursday with murder. The arrests came two days after video of the attack in February was shared with the public, sparking widespread outrage. Today would have been Arbery’s 26th birthday. We speak with civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who represents the Arbery family and formerly represented Trayvon Martin. [snip]

AMY GOODMAN: The disturbing video that emerged Tuesday shows Ahmaud Arbery jogging down a narrow road in Brunswick, Georgia, in broad daylight, when he’s confronted by the two armed men. As Arbery jogs, Travis McMichael can be seen waiting for him in the road with a shotgun while his father stands in the back of a pickup truck with a revolver. After a brief confrontation, Arbery is shot at three times. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations said in a news briefing Travis McMichael is the one who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery.

The video was filmed by a third White man, William Bryan. Journalist Shaun King said on Twitter Friday Bryan is also being charged but has not yet been arrested. The Brunswick police reportedly had a copy of the shocking video since February, but before Thursday no charges had been filed against the McMichaels, who claimed they chased Arbery because he looked like a burglary suspect. Gregory McMichael is a former officer with the Glynn County Police Department, who also worked as an investigator in the District Attorney’s Office there. [snip]

BENJAMIN CRUMP: Yes, ma’am. Apparently, a lawyer or a former lawyer associated with the McMichaels, the murderous father and son duo who executed Ahmaud Arbery, released the video. And apparently he said he released it because he felt that it would somehow exonerate these killers. And it makes no sense to me. It’s asinine how they feel this hunting party, this hunting posse, chasing this unarmed, young African American throughout that community was something that would exonerate them. [snip]

BENJAMIN CRUMP: And that’s why we want a special prosecutor appointed, and we want to make sure that if these are individuals who currently work at the law enforcement agencies there in and around Brunswick, Georgia, who failed to arrest them either because of incompetence or intentional, they should not have anything at all to do with the prosecution of this case. [more]

[peacebuzzard]

1. Thanks for posting this info

I had a very hard time watching the video, it’s that horrific. I wondered how it was generated and this post explains it. The whole ignorant lot is astounding. Like Stacy Abrams stated, it was murder, and it has been recorded; what occurred before or after this video does not exonerate a damn thing.

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3. I could only get through the video once, and I did so watching through my fingers.

It's just awful.

I am gobsmacked that

1. The police have had the video all this time and were not convinced it was enough evidence for an arrest, and

2. One of the McMichaels' former lawyers released it because he thought it would exonerate them.

The mindset required for either is just unreal.

[Pantagruel]

2. Two major problems

I've seen zero evidence of either a burglary or Arbery fitting any criminal description?

Assuming the former can be proven, did the shooters first call police before initiating a confrontation?

[LizBeth]

4. I was wondering how the video got out. Of course they thought it would tell their story and why

it was released. And I can see in their arrogance that some innocent 25 yr old not following their commands to them, is a show that they were justified. This makes sense in their sick minds.

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5. Shameless kick for the evening crowd. nt