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BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) Hundreds of people were ordered to report for jury duty Monday in Georgia for what could be a long, laborious effort to find jurors to hear the trial of three white men charged with fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery as he was running in their neighborhood.
The slaying of the 25-year-old Black man sparked a national outcry fueled by graphic video of the shooting. Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor William Roddie Bryan are charged with murder and other crimes in Arberys death on Feb. 23, 2020, just outside the port city of Brunswick.
Jury selection could last two weeks or more. Arberys father said hes praying for an impartial panel and a fair trial, saying Black crime victims too often have been denied justice.
This is 2021, and its time for a change, Marcus Arbery Sr. said in an interview. We need to be treated equally and get fair justice as human beings, because weve been treated wrong so long.
https://apnews.com/article/crime-shootings-georgia-brunswick-ahmaud-arbery-32a1fd8576d95764faa3600ed8133276
WHITT
(2,868 posts)that the two defendants who were armed with a shotgun and a handgun are claiming self-defense against the innocent unarmed person they hunted-down and murdered.
Probatim
(2,455 posts)And the third idiot filmed it.
You'd think filming a lynching would have immediate consequences.
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(82,849 posts)I want a fair trial of the defendants with the best legal representation they can get. So that when they're found guilty, the state doesn't have to waste any time worrying that these three fuckheads didn't get a fair trial.