Arbery Prosecutors Roast McMichael On Cross

[WHITT]

The prosecutor bluntly asked McMichael if Arbery ever threatened him or brandished a weapon.

"He did not threaten me verbally," McMichael told Dunikoski, adding that Arbery never drew a weapon on him.

“"He just ran?" Dunikoski questioned further.

"Yes, he was just running," McMichael responded.

The admission from McMichael that Arbery never threatened him could sink the defense’s self-defense rhetoric, Slobogin said.

"You can't argue self defense if you're the one that's started the series of events that led to the use of deadly force. If you provoked the person you eventually kill to attack you, you cannot assert self-defense in response to that attack," he explained.

When asked by Dunikoski about the last moments before Arbery was killed, he replied: "I was thinking that he was a threat, that he might go after myself, my father or the truck."

Dunikoski countered: "So you’re telling this jury that a man who has spent five minutes running away from you, you're now thinking is somehow going to want to continue to engage with you — someone with a shotgun — and your father — a man who's just said, 'stop or I'll blow your f-----g head off,' by trying to get in their truck?"

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/582264-arbery-prosecutors-grill-defendant-mcmichael-in-cross-examination


Bottom line, a black man failed to follow the orders of a Southern White Man, so he shot him.

[Duncanpup]

1. Murdered for jogging while black

[marble falls]

4. That's about the size and stench of it. They almost pulled it off, too.

[Duncanpup]

6. Absolutely

And did you hear about the black kid who crossed state lines shot two people then cops treated him with soft gloves people saying it was self defense I know neither did I.

[marble falls]

10. ...

[Hav]

2. May all of them die in prison

They hunted him down for around 5 minutes, admitted to blocking and cutting him off multiple times, threatened to kill him and then approached him with a shotgun. And then they claim self-defense.

I hope that the 12 jurors get it right. I assume one racist would be enough to cause a hung jury.

[Mister Ed]

3. Yours is the most concise summary of this tragedy I've seen. It bears repeating:

Bottom line, a Black man failed to follow the orders of a Southern White Man, so he shot him.

[EYESORE 9001]

8. I think it's even more simplistic than that

A Black man was going to be shot that morning - no matter what - but decided to present a moving target instead of standing still for it.

[Celerity]

20. +10000000000000000

[Rustynaerduwell]

5. Basically, "We chased him down and shot him in self defense"

Should be enough to convict him. But this is Georgia.

[LastDemocratInSC]

7. A genteel Southern lynching under the Spanish moss of coastal Georgia.

An elegant display of the grace and hospitality that defined the antebellum years, updated a bit for this modern era by the use a pickup truck.

[Beachnutt]

9. I wish they would have shown this

to the jury
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[WHITT]

11. I Saw Video Of The Prosecutor

asking McMichael if he had previously stopped any other strangers with his truck and demanded they answer his questions? He replied no.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. Did they not show the body cam to the jury?

[keithbvadu2]

12. Is it normal training that you get close enough that the suspect can grab your gun?

Is it normal training that you get close enough that the suspect can grab your gun?

[MagickMuffin]

13. If there are any unsolved murders of POC it wouldn't surprise me if . . .

these cretins did it and got away with it considering papa was an enforcer.

[LiberatedUSA]

14. Modern day lynching. I don't see how they will avoid a life sentence or death.

[llashram]

15. 300 years

of this shit from...

[brer cat]

17. K&R

[Sympthsical]

18. Yeah "might" isn't a defense

What someone might do isn't cause for physical self-defense.

What someone actually does do is where it all kicks in.

I've seen bits and pieces of the testimony of the accused.

These men do not seem so bright.

[Celerity]

19. Bottom line, a black man failed to follow the orders of a Southern White Man, so he shot him.

and

[Solly Mack]

21. Yep. (the bottom line)