3 men guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, Georgia jury finds

[Badenoch]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/arbery...dict-1.6259674

3 men guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, Georgia jury finds
CBC News Posted: Nov 24, 2021 1:58 PM ET | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

All three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was chased and shot in a Georgia neighbourhood in February 2020, were convicted of murder Wednesday.

The jury reached its decision after more than 10 hours of deliberations following a trial in which prosecutors argued that the defendants father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbour William "Roddie" Bryan, who are all white provoked a confrontation with Arbery.

Defence attorneys said their clients were acting in self-defence.

Arbery's killing became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice after a graphic video of his death leaked online two months later.

The case went to the jury Tuesday after a nearly two-week trial.

On Feb. 23, 2020, Greg and Travis McMichael armed themselves and pursued Arbery in a pickup truck as he ran in the Satilla Shores subdivision just outside the port city of Brunswick, Ga. Bryan joined the chase in his own truck and took cellphone video of Travis McMichael shooting Arbery three times with a shotgun.

No arrests were made until the graphic video of the shooting leaked online more than two months later.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation subsequently took over the case from local police and the McMichaels and Bryan were soon jailed on charges of murder and other felony counts.

The selection of 11 white jurors and one Black man to decide the fate of the three defendants had drawn complaints from prosecutors and the victim's family that jury selection process was blatantly unfair.

[trimmer21]

Now,all that remains is for the judge to determine how long they serve before parole eligibility. If I was the judge,it would be a no-brainer,25 years for starters. Those three clowns will have beards to their belt buckles.

[Gilroy]

Now,all that remains is for the judge to determine how long they serve before parole eligibility. If I was the judge,it would be a no-brainer,25 years for starters. Those three clowns will have beards to their belt buckles.

They still have to face Federal hate crime charges.

One of the two white prosecutors have been indicted by the grand jury on several charges, should be interesting

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=431607921589811

[trimmer21]

They still have to face Federal hate crime charges.

One of the two white prosecutors have been indicted by the grand jury on several charges, should be interesting

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=431607921589811

They could be facing the "big sleep" if they get convicted of the federal civil rights charges where death was the result. As for ther prosecutors,even though any US grand jury could indict a ham sandwich for too much mustard,they can kiss their careers good-bye........and good riddance.

[73hunter]

What did the prosecutors do to get themselves indicted ?