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‘Black Panic Defence’: a White person of privilege, in the mere course of their daily routine activities, holds the Right to murder a Black person, for any reason, for no reason.
The concept is similar to Trans Panic Defence, where the CisHet person of privilege holds the Right to murder a Trans person, for any reason, for no reason.
These persons of privilege are invariably White, Republi-con, Christian Con-servative, male. The Black person, the Trans person, is an affront, an insult in the presence of the person of privilege.
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Sharon Nichols
7 May 2020
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This is Amerikan life under the bigotry and hatred that Crooked Drumpf spawns.
You murdered Ahmaud same as the shooters when you support Crooked Drumpf, Republi-cons, Christian Con-servatives, Drumpfians, Deplorables.
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Rob Barge
(6 May 2020)
Like everyone, I have things to do today. Pressing obligations that require my attention. But first I have something to say and I cannot proceed with this day until I’ve said it.
By now you should be aware that on the afternoon of Sunday, February 23, 2020, a young black man named Ahmaud Arbery was out jogging near his home in Brunswick, Georgia when two white men, a father and son, saw him, got their guns, jumped in a truck, chased him down, pulled up next to him and fired three shots, killing him on the spot. Ahmaud uwas unarmed and had broken no laws. He had done nothing wrong when he was murdered in the street. Nothing.
I watched a video yesterday of the final seconds of this young man’s life. I didn’t want to watch it, but having closely followed this story for weeks I felt obligated to confirm with my own eyes what I already knew I would witness. I know evil when I see it and what I saw in Ahmaud’s cruel, calculated murder was evil in its most naked and horrific form. This was a bloodthirsty public lynching in broad daylight and it was soul-crushing to observe.
The attackers were Gregory McMichael, a former police officer and retired investigator for the district attorney’s office, and his son Travis. The initial police report shows an appalling lack of investigation into the case, citing only Gregory McMichael’s account of the case. Ahmaud’s family was first informed by local police that he had been killed during a burglary. That was a lie.
Presently, neither Gregory or Travis McMichael have been arrested, claiming they acted out of self-defense and their actions fell within Georgia’s citizen arrest laws. On 911 calls the dispatcher asked the men what Arbery was doing that was of criminal concern. They had no specific answer beyond, “He’s a black man running down our road.”
In their minds, that was his crime and their justification for Ahmaud’s murder. Being black and running down a road.
So here’s the thing. Here’s the the thing that hangs me up and stops me in my tracks today and on so many days. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting it is really cooperating with it.” He also had much to say about the response of moderate Christians who through their silence are complicit in the daily indignity and brutalization imposed on their black neighbors.
Yesterday a close friend wrote, “Please know your Black friends and acquaintances live in abject fear of being murdered for no reason EVERY GODDAMN DAY OF OUR LIVES… And if you are not a person of color – stop denying you were born with the privilege of not living in fear of being killed for simply existing. My soul is so, so weary.”
She should know. My friend speaks the truth and I hear her.
Another dear friend writes, “I don’t have to stop being black for you to stop being racist.”
And again my heart breaks.
According to The Rev. John D. Perry II, president of the local NAACP in Brunswick, “It is clearly evident that this young man (had) to fight for his life. In this situation it’s either fight or flight. I don’t know what was in their hearts, but that was an overzealous act on their behalf. They put him in a situation where he had to fight for his life. They created the circumstances for that to happen, and they have to be held accountable.”
“This outrageous case shows just how dangerous it is to be black in America,” says Ben Crump, an attorney representing Ahmaud’s family, “A black man can’t jog through a neighborhood without being chased and gunned down execution style. We will not rest until we see justice for this family.”
To date, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery has largely escaped public attention, but the case is ongoing and reportedly will eventually be presented to a grand jury in coastal Georgia. The FBI and Georgia Bureau of Investigation must get involved in this case which demands thorough disclosure of the facts and truth. Meanwhile I wonder where all this ends. If ever. With so much happening in the world to provoke our outrage and stoke our selfish concerns, when will we finally confront the racism, inequality, and injustice that festers like a cancer on our nation. Do we really want to live in a society where the mere suspicion of a possible property crime prompts citizens to form an armed posse to chase down, confront, and end the very life a suspect? The image of a group of white men in pickup trucks armed with shotguns and handguns casually chasing down and murdering a young black man should not be the profile of justice in 2020 that any of us wants to share with the world.
Dr. King reminds us, “The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.” Today I grieve for young Ahmaud Arbery and his hurting family. I grieve for a society that blithely accepts Ahmaud’s death, or any such assault on the innocent, through complacency and inaction. I grieve the resounding silence that allows injustice and racism to continue. If we cannot change, if we can’t do better than this for each other, if we can’t speak out about this curse on our brothers and ourselves, I wonder if we are deserving of any better than the hottest place in hell.
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Michael Moore
(6 May 2020)
I will not accept the inconceivable position trump is now pushing…”People will die, but the country has to get back to work”. It is beyond disrespectful to the people who have lost their lives and is a clear indication that he puts optics ahead of human life.
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Video Leaks of Unarmed Black Man Gunned Down on Street by White Father-Son Duo: ‘They Literally Hunted This Poor Man Down’
By Ashleigh Atwell – May 5, 202005603
A video showing the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery has emerged more than two months after the incident occurred.
The video begins with Arbery jogging down a Brunswick, Georgia, street wearing a white T-shirt and shorts. Seconds later, a struggle ensues after the 25-year-old tries to wrestle a shotgun from Travis McMichael, who had pulled up next to Arbery and gotten out of his vehicle armed with the weapon to confront the Black man. Gregory McMichael, Travis’ father, watched from the back of a pickup truck.
Video footage shows jogger Ahmaud Arbery tried to defend himself before he was gunned down in a Brunswick, Georgia, street.
The men fought over the gun until shots rang out. Arbery took a couple of steps before he dropped to the ground.
The source of the video is unclear. Activist Shaun King posted it on his Twitter page, but it is unclear how he acquired the footage, WGIG Radio also shared it online and credited an anonymous source before it was deleted.
The duo claimed they pursued Arbery because they witnessed him running through the neighborhood. Gregory McMichael told police after the shooting that he suspected Arbery was responsible for a string of break-ins in the neighborhood. When the senior McMichael spotted Arbery around 1 p.m. on Feb. 23, he alerted his son, and both men armed themselves — the son with the shotgun, the father with a .357 handgun — before taking off after Arbery in the pickup.
“McMichael stated he then ran inside his house and called to Travis [McMichael] and said, ‘Travis, the guy is running down the street, let’s go,’” a police report stated.
After chasing in their truck and attempting to get Arbery’s attention twice, Travis McMichael pulled up next to him and said he wanted to talk, the father told police.
“[Gregory] McMichael stated he saw [Arbery] begin” to “violently attack Travis and the two men then started fighting over the shotgun, at which point Travis fired a shot and then a second later there was a second shot,” the police report continued. “McMichael stated the male fell face down on the pavement with his hand under his body.” The leaked video footage seems to indicate three shots actually were fired.
Ahmaud Arbery died on Feb. 23 in Brunswick, Georgia, following an altercation with Travis and Gregory McMichael.
Neither McMichael has been charged for the death. The previous DA on the case was preparing to invoke Georgia’s citizen’s arrest statute to absolve the men of culpability in the slaying. Attorney Lee Merritt, who is representing Arbery’s family, argued the law does not apply to this case because the deceased was not committing a crime when he was approached.
“According to that law, you actually have to be observing the crime or be in the immediate knowledge of the crime,” Merritt told CNN on Sunday. “The only thing they have ever said is … that Ahmaud stopped by a house that was under construction and he looked through the window. We don’t know if that happened or not, but even if that did happen that is not a felony that would invoke the citizen’s arrest statute that would make this allowable.”
Arbery’s death has sparked outcry from people who see it as a modern-day lynching by two white men.
“This type of hatred is taught and handed down for generations. This will never end. This is Amerikkka,” tweeted one viewer.
“I’m traumatized. I just witnessed a murder of a young man who was clearly in danger. They just shot him in broad daylight in the middle of the street,” lamented another person.
“This is just disgusting! I’m sooo triggered they literally hunted this poor man down,” noted another tweeter.
Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tom Durden said he wants a grand jury to examine the case but the process might be delayed due to the pandemic.
“I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery,” Durden said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I have no control over the suspensions due to the pandemic,” he added. “However, I do intend to present the case to the next available grand jury in Glynn County.”
Durden began investigating the case after two prosecutors recused themselves due to conflicts of interest. George McMichael is a former investigator for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.
Merritt told CNN the family hopes for an indictment soon.
“We expect action this week,” the lawyer declared.
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Ahmaud Arbery Shooting: Video of Georgia Man’s Death Leaks on YouTube
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, while jogging in a neighborhood on February 25 after he was chased down by two men, a father and son. The men, Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael, have not been charged. Video of the shooting was posted online on May 5, the same day that prosecutors said a grand jury will hear evidence in the case and decide if the McMichaels will face charges.
The 25-year-old Arbery was black. The McMichaels are white. Gregory McMichael, a 64-year-old former police officer and investigator for a local district attorney’s office, told police after the shooting that he and his 34-year-old son suspected Arbery was involved in burglaries that had occurred in the neighborhood, according to a police report released by the Glynn County Police Department. They chased him down in their pickup truck while armed with a handgun and shotgun. Travis McMichael shot Arbery because he believed he was being “violently attacked,” Gregory McMichael told police.
Arbery’s family and friends say he was not involved in any burglaries and it was a case of mistaken identity. Jason Vaughn, Arbery’s high school football coach, told WJXT-TV, “People are known for jogging in that area all the time and we all know Maud likes to jog the area. He would stop and, sometimes in the middle of his workout, he’d play basketball with the younger kids and at the game, he’d go back to jogging. That’s the kind of person he was.”
Here’s what you need to know about the video and the shooting:
The Video, Recorded by a Third Man Who Was in ‘Hot Pursuit’ With the McMichaels, Shows Arbery Running in the Street Before Before He Was Shot by Travis McMichael–
The video of the shooting was leaked online and posted to YouTube on May 5. According to the New York Times, the video was recorded by a third man who had joined the McMichaels in “hot pursuit” of Arbery. The video had previously been turned over to investigators before it was made public.
In the video, which can be watched above, Arbery can be seen running down the middle of the road behind the McMichaels’ white pickup truck. The camera moves for two seconds and Arbery cannot be seen. Yelling can then be heard as Arbery runs around the right side of the truck and toward Travis McMichael, who was armed with a shotgun. A shot is fired and Arbery and Travis McMichael begin struggling over the shotgun while Gregory McMichael, who can be seen standing in the bed of the truck, draws his handgun.
A second gunshot can be heard while Arbery and Travis McMichael are outside of the video frame. The two men come back into the video and a third shot is heard. Arbery then stumbles away from Travis McMichael and collapses to the ground as the video ends.
Gregory McMichael Called 911 & Said ‘There’s a Black Man Running Down the Street’–
The Glynn County Police Department incident report can be read here. According to the report, police were called about 1 p.m. on Sunday, February 23, to the area of Satilla Drive and Holmes Drive for shots fired. The responding officer said Arbery was found on the ground “bleeding out,” and he later died at the scene.
Gregory McMichael told the officer there had been several break-ins in the neighborhood where the burglar was caught on surveillance video. Gregory McMichael told the officer he was in his front yard and saw a man be believed to be a suspect in the burglaries “hauling ass” down Satilla Drive toward Buford Drive. According to the report:
McMichael stated he then ran inside his house and called to Travis (McMichael) and said, ‘Travis the guy is running down the street lets go.’ McMichael stated he then went to his bedroom and grabbed his .357 Magnum and Travis grabbed his shotgun because they ‘didn’t know if the male was armed or not.’ McMichael stated, ‘the other night’ they saw the same male and he stuck his hand down his pants which lead them to believe the male was armed.
Gregory McMichael told the officer he and his son got in their truck and drove down Satilla Drive toward Buford Drive when they saw the man, later identified as Arbery, running down the street. McMichael said his son drove down the street and tried to cut off Arbery. According to the report, McMichael said Arbery tried to turn around and run the other direction, where the man in the other truck, “Roddy,” tried to block him, but he was not successful.
McMichael told police he got into the bed of his truck and his son began driving after Arbery again. They saw him running again and shouted, “Stop, stop, we want to talk to you,” Gregory McMichael told police. He said his son pulled their truck alongside Arbery and again told him to stop. McMichael said his son then got out of the truck with his shotgun. According to McMichael, Arbery then began to “violently attack Travis,” and they began fighting over the shotgun.
McMichael told police his son fired a shot and a second shot before Arbery fell down to the street. McMichael said he went to check to see if Arbery had a gun. Arbery was not armed, according to police.
A transcript of a 911 call made by Gregory McMichael was obtained by WJXT-TV. In the call, McMichael said, “I’m out here at Satilla Shores and there’s a black man running down the street.”
The 911 dispatcher replied, “I just need to know what he was doing wrong, was he just on the premises and not supposed to be?” McMichael answered, “And he’s been caught on the camera a bunch before at night. It’s an ongoing thing out here.”
An Attorney for Arbery’s Family Says the Video Shows ‘This Is Murder’–
Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney who is representing Arbery’s family, said in a statement after the video surfaced online, “The series of events captured in this video confirms what all the evidence indicated prior to its release— Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by three white men that targeted him solely because of his race and murdered him without justification. This is murder.”
Merritt said the McMichaels, whom he called “armed assailants,” tried to block Arbery’s path with their truck while he was running and then confronted him with the shotgun. Merritt said the video shows Arbery trying to avoid the “armed strangers” before the first shot is fired.
“Mr. Arbery then appears to collide with the attacking gunman, now known to be Travis McMichael,” Merritt said. “Mr. Arbery then struggles for the gun and in defense of his life. At this point, Travis McMichael shoots Mr. Arbery two additional times with shotgun at point-blank range. Mr. Arbery collapses to the ground while still trying to escape his attackers.”
Merritt added, “Mr. Arbery had not committed any crime and there was no reason for these men to believe they had the right to stop him with weapons or to use deadly force in furtherance of their unlawful attempted stop. This is murder.”
Arbery’s Father Says His Son Ran Every Day–
Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper told CNN her son jogged and ran everyday and she never worried about him because he wasn’t bothering anyone. Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “My kid was murdered. That’s all I can say. He ran like that every day – all his life. He ran in his neighborhood and that one too. That’s the only place he ever had a problem.”
A Facebook page, “I Run With Maud,” has been started to organize support for Arbery and his family and to call for charges to be brought against the McMichaels.
Arbery’s friend, Demetris Frazier, told WJXT-TV, “It’s not about one race. We are all a community and we see this as a tragedy to the community. It’s not about black about white. We can’t make this about race. It’s about what’s right and wrong and what happened.”
The Case Has Been Passed Between Multiple Agencies Because of Gregory McMichael’s Ties to Law Enforcement–
The case has been passed among multiple law enforcement agencies and prosecutor’s offices because of Gregory McMichael’s ties to law enforcement. He recently retired as an investigator with the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s office and he was previously a Glynn County Police Department officer.
Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson recused herself from the case and it was given to Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Barnhill. He also recused himself because his son works in the Brunswick prosecutor’s office. Tom Durden, the prosecutor for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, is now handling the case.
Durden issued a statement on May 5 he plans to present the case to a grand jury in Glynn County when courts reopen.
Before recusing himself, Barnhill said in a letter there was no probable cause for charges because the McMichaels were legally carrying their firearms under Georgia’s open carry law, according to The New York Times. He also said the father and son were within their rights to pursue a “burglary suspect” and attempt to make a citizen’s arrest. He wrote, according to The Times, Georgia law says, “a private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge.”
Barnhill also said Travis McMichael was “allowed to use deadly force to protect himself.” The letter also mentions that Arbery has prior convictions and mental health issues. The family’s attorney, Merritt, told CNN, “The reference to … alleged conduct from high school or shoplifting is absurd and has nothing to do with his murder.”
Merritt said in a statement, “There is no reasonable argument justifying the murder of Mr. Arbery.” Merritt said the Brunswick Police Department’s failure to arrest the McMichaels after seeing the video “violated their duty to the people of Brunswick, Georgia.” He added:
While this video was withheld, a false narrative was constructed where the victim was slandered as a criminal with mental health concerns. The Glynn County Police Department has both the authority and the legal imperative to make an arrest today pending the presentation of this case to a grand jury. The newly assigned DA, Tom Durden, has concluded this case must be brought before a grand jury for a criminal indictment. Due to (the) Georgia Supreme Court decision to suspended grand juries temporarily due to the pandemic, these men must be taken into custody pending their indictment.
Officials have not commented about the video. It is not clear if the McMichaels have hired attorneys and they have not commented about the shooting or the video footage.
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Date Posted: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 , Total Page Views: 2784
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Video: Armed White Supremacists, Chased Down And Lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
This is the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. That’s not hyperbole. These armed white supremacists, led by Gregory and Travis McMichael, chased down and lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
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I am trembling with anger over what I just witnessed. CLICK OR SWIPE AWAY if you need to.
🚨🆘We need ALL HANDS ON DECK 🆘🚨
This is the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. That’s not hyperbole.
These armed white supremacists, led by Gregory and Travis McMichael, chased down and lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
It’s one of the worst things I’ve seen in my entire life. 🆘GO NOW to RunWithMaud.com or click the link in my bio to join us as we fight for justice. I need you to do this.
Call 770.800.0689. I’ll be there on the line to talk you through it.
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I am sorry, from the bottom of my heart, for living in a nation that is forcing me to share this, just to get justice for Ahmaud, but the police and prosecutors in Georgia will not budge. So here we are.
I love you all.
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“This is an ongoing investigation,” the Glynn County Police Department said in a statement April 28, adding that it “continues to gather and provide information to the District Attorney’s Office that the case has been assigned to.”
Georgia prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to present evidence to a grand jury for possible charges against the two men.
“I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery,” said Tom Durden, District Attorney Pro Tempore for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, who started investigating the incident on April 13.
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Ahmaud Arbery: Biden demands justice for Georgia killing of black jogger
BBCMay 6, 2020
The Democrats’ likely presidential candidate Joe Biden has demanded justice over the killing of an unarmed black man in the US state of Georgia.
Mr Biden said his heart went out to the family of Ahmaud Arbery.
Mr Arbery, 25, was jogging in February when confronted by an ex-policeman and his son. Video purported to show the shooting emerged online on Tuesday.
A district attorney in Georgia has now ruled that a grand jury should decide whether charges should be brought.
An earlier decision by a prosecutor in the Brunswick jurisdiction argued there was no probable cause to arrest Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34.
More than 100 people took part in a protest in Brunswick on Tuesday night, demanding justice for Mr Arbery.
How did Arbery die?
Mr Arbery was out running in the Satilla Shores neighbourhood of Brunswick in Georgia’s Glynn County early in the afternoon on 23 February.
In a police report, Gregory McMichael says he saw Mr Arbery and believed he resembled the suspect in a series of break-ins.
He and his son armed themselves and pursued him in a pick-up truck.
In the police report, Gregory McMichael says he and his son had said “stop, stop, we want to talk to you” and that Mr Arbery had attacked his son. Shots were fired, with Mr Arbery falling to the street.
Mr Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, said police told her her son had been involved in a burglary before the incident, but the family say they do not believe the keen jogger had committed a crime and he was unarmed.
A number of calls were made to the emergency services around the time of the confrontation, CBS reports. In one 911 call, a neighbour said a black man was seen at a home under construction in the area.
When asked what the man was doing now, the caller said “running down the street”.
What does the video show?
The 36-second video is shot from a vehicle following the pick-up truck said to be involved in the incident.
It shows a man jogging and then approaching the stationary pick-up from behind. He tries to bypass the truck and then is seen struggling with a man carrying a shotgun. There is muffled shouting and shotgun shots are heard.
A second man is standing in the bed of the pick-up. The second man is then shown with a pistol standing alongside the other armed man with the jogger no longer in view.
Mr Arbery’s mother told CBS on Wednesday that the video was too painful for her to watch immediately, but that she hoped the video “proves that my son was not committing a crime. He was out for his daily jog and he was hunted down like an animal and killed.”
What have Mr Biden and other officials said?
Joe Biden sent out a tweet saying: “The video is clear: Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood. My heart goes out to his family, who deserve justice and deserve it now. It is time for a swift, full, and transparent investigation into his murder.”
A statement from Lee Merritt, a lawyer for Mr Arbery’s family, said: “This is murder. The series of events captured in this video confirm what all the evidence indicated prior to its release.”
Tom Durden, the district attorney for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, decided on Tuesday that a grand jury should be involved.
“After careful review of the evidence,” he wrote in a statement, “I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges.”
Governor Brian Kemp tweeted that “Georgians deserve answers”.
The McMichaels have not been charged and have so far declined to comment. They have not responded to the video.
The New York Times said it had obtained a letter in which a prosecutor had earlier argued there was not sufficient probable cause for arrest because the pursuers were legally carrying firearms, were within their rights to follow “a burglary suspect” and were able as private persons to “arrest an offender if the offence is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge”.
Mr Merritt told CNN: “The only thing they have ever said is … that Ahmaud stopped by a house that was under construction and he looked through the window. We don’t know if that happened or not, but even if that did happen that is not a felony that would invoke the citizen’s arrest statute that would make this allowable.”
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Shocking Video Shows White Men Chasing and Killing Black Jogger in Georgia
HEADLINEMAY 06, 2020
In Georgia, disturbing video has emerged showing two white men shooting dead an unarmed 25-year-old African American man named Ahmaud Arbery in February while he was jogging. The video shows Arbery running down a narrow road in Brunswick, Georgia, when he was confronted by the armed men — a former police officer, Gregory McMichael, and his son Travis. Travis was waiting for him in the road with a shotgun while his father stood in the back of the pickup truck with a revolver. After a brief confrontation, Arbery was shot at three times.
The video appeared to have been taken by a third person who was following Arbery. Brunswick police have reportedly had a copy of the shocking video since February, but no charges have been filed against the McMichaels, who claimed they chased Arbery because he looked like a burglary suspect. On Tuesday, a local prosecutor announced he would bring the case to a grand jury.
The Arbery family’s attorney, Lee Merritt, said Tuesday, “The series of events captured in this video confirm what all the evidence indicated prior to its release — Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by three white men that targeted him solely because of his race and murdered him without justification. This is murder.”
TOPICS:GeorgiaBlack Lives MatterRace in AmericaGun Control
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DA blocked cops from making arrests in Ahmaud Arbery shooting: commissioner
By Laura Italiano May 8, 2020 | 2:21pm
Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery shooting a ‘lynching,’ blames Trump
Georgia DA called Ahmaud Arbery shooting a ‘justifiable homicide’
Ahmaud Arbery’s dad reacts to new footage of son right before his death
New video emerges of the minutes before Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting death
The local district attorney blocked police from making arrests immediately after the Feb. 23 shooting death of unarmed jogger Ahmaud Arbery, two county commissioners said Friday — with one accusing the two of being in cohoots because they were friends.
Cops at the scene of the Georgia shooting had believed they had probable cause to make arrests, Glynn County Commissioner Peter Murphy told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — but were told to stand down by the DA’s office.
“They spoke to an assistant, who relayed their request to [Glynn County District Attorney] Jackie Johnson,” Murphy told the paper of the cops at the scene.
“They were told not to make the arrest.”
“She shut them down to protect her friend McMichael,” a second county commissioner, Allen Booker, told the paper.
Johnson recused herself from the case entirely a few days after the shooting, Booker said.
Travis McMichael, 34, and his father, Greg, 64, were arrested Thursday, more than two months after Arbery was shot.
The chilling 911 calls made before unarmed black jogger was killed
The father is a former cop who had worked as an investigator for the DA’s office, the paper reported earlier Friday. He had helped prosecute Arbery in the past, when he was in high school, on a weapons charge.
Johnson’s office did not respond to the Journal-Constitution’s request for comment on Murphy’s account.
Arbery’s 26th birthday would have been today.
“I saw the tape and it’s very, very disturbing,” President Trump said Friday of a video that emerged Tuesday showing the pair scuffling with the unarmed Arbery before he is shot and falls to the ground.
He ran 2 miles carrying a TV to prove ‘looking like a suspect’ is no excuse for murder
Tod Perry 05.11.20
via Richard Desmick / TikTok
Over the weekend, an estimated thousands of people ran 2.23 miles to show their support for Ahmaud Arbery, a former high school football player and avid jogger. Arbery was shot and killed in February near Brunswick, Georgia after being pursued in a truck by a former policeman and his son who claimed he resembled someone responsible for break-ins in the neighborhood
The incident is seen by many as another in a long list of instances of black people’s lives being threatened while engaging in normal, everyday activities that wouldn’t arise any suspicions if done by a white person.
Richard Desmick, a 34-year-old former pastor living in Vero Beach, Florida, showed his support for Arbery by running 2.23 miles and doing so in a way that exposes racial disparity in America.
“I just started crying when I just saw this poor young man running – as I have thousands of times in my life – get shot down,” Demsick told Business Insider. He said he thought “maybe I should run with a TV to show that being a suspicious character isn’t enough that someone should be shot down. Being a white person, that’s just not going to happen to me.”
Since Demsick posted the video on Saturday, it has already received over 279,000 likes.
“Alright, I figured it out. I’ve got my hat on backwards, I’m shirtless like I’m on some episode of ‘Cops,’ I’m running with a TV,” he said in a video posted to TikTok. “Someone’s going to stop me now, for sure. Cause, if not, what was the problem with Ahmaud?”
The video has received an overwhelmingly positive response on social media, with many praising Demsick for engaging in activism that proves a significant point about race in America: a white man can run through the streets looking like he just stole a TV and no one bats an eye.
A black man minding his own business and jogging has to worry about being murdered.
“People have been incredibly kind, undeservedly kind,” Demsick said about the response to his video. “There are people who are daily working trying to correct the injustice, I just made a video.”
Demisck’s passion for social justice stems from his life growing up in Detroit. He was raised in the suburbs and attended dance competitions where most of his friends were black. It was through his interaction with the black community that he learned of the struggles they face.
Demsick was also a pastor at what he calls a primarily upper-class conservative church in Florida. He later moved on to start an outreach program for individuals experiencing homelessness.
He made a follow-up video on Mother’s Day where he asked his mom if she’d be worried for him if he went running with a television in his hand.
“No, of course not,” she said.
“Huh, I wonder why that is,” he responded.
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A Facebook ‘Memories’ from last year.
No flapping my gums. Ya got plenty to read.
Thank you.
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This is Amerikan life under the bigotry and hatred that Crooked Drumpf spawns.
You murdered Ahmaud same as the shooters when you support Crooked Drumpf, Republi-cons, Drumpfians, Deplorables.
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Rob Barge
(6 May 2020)
Like everyone, I have things to do today. Pressing obligations that require my attention. But first I have something to say and I cannot proceed with this day until I’ve said it.
By now you should be aware that on the afternoon of Sunday, February 23, 2020, a young black man named Ahmaud Arbery was out jogging near his home in Brunswick, Georgia when two white men, a father and son, saw him, got their guns, jumped in a truck, chased him down, pulled up next to him and fired three shots, killing him on the spot. Ahmaud uwas unarmed and had broken no laws. He had done nothing wrong when he was murdered in the street. Nothing.
I watched a video yesterday of the final seconds of this young man’s life. I didn’t want to watch it, but having closely followed this story for weeks I felt obligated to confirm with my own eyes what I already knew I would witness. I know evil when I see it and what I saw in Ahmaud’s cruel, calculated murder was evil in its most naked and horrific form. This was a bloodthirsty public lynching in broad daylight and it was soul-crushing to observe.
The attackers were Gregory McMichael, a former police officer and retired investigator for the district attorney’s office, and his son Travis. The initial police report shows an appalling lack of investigation into the case, citing only Gregory McMichael’s account of the case. Ahmaud’s family was first informed by local police that he had been killed during a burglary. That was a lie.
Presently, neither Gregory or Travis McMichael have been arrested, claiming they acted out of self-defense and their actions fell within Georgia’s citizen arrest laws. On 911 calls the dispatcher asked the men what Arbery was doing that was of criminal concern. They had no specific answer beyond, “He’s a black man running down our road.”
In their minds, that was his crime and their justification for Ahmaud’s murder. Being black and running down a road.
So here’s the thing. Here’s the the thing that hangs me up and stops me in my tracks today and on so many days. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting it is really cooperating with it.” He also had much to say about the response of moderate Christians who through their silence are complicit in the daily indignity and brutalization imposed on their black neighbors.
Yesterday a close friend wrote, “Please know your Black friends and acquaintances live in abject fear of being murdered for no reason EVERY GODDAMN DAY OF OUR LIVES… And if you are not a person of color – stop denying you were born with the privilege of not living in fear of being killed for simply existing. My soul is so, so weary.”
She should know. My friend speaks the truth and I hear her.
Another dear friend writes, “I don’t have to stop being black for you to stop being racist.”
And again my heart breaks.
According to The Rev. John D. Perry II, president of the local NAACP in Brunswick, “It is clearly evident that this young man (had) to fight for his life. In this situation it’s either fight or flight. I don’t know what was in their hearts, but that was an overzealous act on their behalf. They put him in a situation where he had to fight for his life. They created the circumstances for that to happen, and they have to be held accountable.”
“This outrageous case shows just how dangerous it is to be black in America,” says Ben Crump, an attorney representing Ahmaud’s family, “A black man can’t jog through a neighborhood without being chased and gunned down execution style. We will not rest until we see justice for this family.”
To date, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery has largely escaped public attention, but the case is ongoing and reportedly will eventually be presented to a grand jury in coastal Georgia. The FBI and Georgia Bureau of Investigation must get involved in this case which demands thorough disclosure of the facts and truth. Meanwhile I wonder where all this ends. If ever. With so much happening in the world to provoke our outrage and stoke our selfish concerns, when will we finally confront the racism, inequality, and injustice that festers like a cancer on our nation. Do we really want to live in a society where the mere suspicion of a possible property crime prompts citizens to form an armed posse to chase down, confront, and end the very life a suspect? The image of a group of white men in pickup trucks armed with shotguns and handguns casually chasing down and murdering a young black man should not be the profile of justice in 2020 that any of us wants to share with the world.
Dr. King reminds us, “The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.” Today I grieve for young Ahmaud Arbery and his hurting family. I grieve for a society that blithely accepts Ahmaud’s death, or any such assault on the innocent, through complacency and inaction. I grieve the resounding silence that allows injustice and racism to continue. If we cannot change, if we can’t do better than this for each other, if we can’t speak out about this curse on our brothers and ourselves, I wonder if we are deserving of any better than the hottest place in hell.
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Michael Moore
(6 May 2020)
I will not accept the inconceivable position trump is now pushing…”People will die, but the country has to get back to work”. It is beyond disrespectful to the people who have lost their lives and is a clear indication that he puts optics ahead of human life.
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Video Leaks of Unarmed Black Man Gunned Down on Street by White Father-Son Duo: ‘They Literally Hunted This Poor Man Down’
By Ashleigh Atwell – May 5, 2020 05603
A video showing the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery has emerged more than two months after the incident occurred.
The video begins with Arbery jogging down a Brunswick, Georgia, street wearing a white T-shirt and shorts. Seconds later, a struggle ensues after the 25-year-old tries to wrestle a shotgun from Travis McMichael, who had pulled up next to Arbery and gotten out of his vehicle armed with the weapon to confront the Black man. Gregory McMichael, Travis’ father, watched from the back of a pickup truck.
Video footage shows jogger Ahmaud Arbery tried to defend himself before he was gunned down in a Brunswick, Georgia, street.
The men fought over the gun until shots rang out. Arbery took a couple of steps before he dropped to the ground.
The source of the video is unclear. Activist Shaun King posted it on his Twitter page, but it is unclear how he acquired the footage, WGIG Radio also shared it online and credited an anonymous source before it was deleted.
The duo claimed they pursued Arbery because they witnessed him running through the neighborhood. Gregory McMichael told police after the shooting that he suspected Arbery was responsible for a string of break-ins in the neighborhood. When the senior McMichael spotted Arbery around 1 p.m. on Feb. 23, he alerted his son, and both men armed themselves — the son with the shotgun, the father with a .357 handgun — before taking off after Arbery in the pickup.
“McMichael stated he then ran inside his house and called to Travis [McMichael] and said, ‘Travis, the guy is running down the street, let’s go,’” a police report stated.
After chasing in their truck and attempting to get Arbery’s attention twice, Travis McMichael pulled up next to him and said he wanted to talk, the father told police.
“[Gregory] McMichael stated he saw [Arbery] begin” to “violently attack Travis and the two men then started fighting over the shotgun, at which point Travis fired a shot and then a second later there was a second shot,” the police report continued. “McMichael stated the male fell face down on the pavement with his hand under his body.” The leaked video footage seems to indicate three shots actually were fired.
Ahmaud Arbery died on Feb. 23 in Brunswick, Georgia, following an altercation with Travis and Gregory McMichael.
Neither McMichael has been charged for the death. The previous DA on the case was preparing to invoke Georgia’s citizen’s arrest statute to absolve the men of culpability in the slaying. Attorney Lee Merritt, who is representing Arbery’s family, argued the law does not apply to this case because the deceased was not committing a crime when he was approached.
“According to that law, you actually have to be observing the crime or be in the immediate knowledge of the crime,” Merritt told CNN on Sunday. “The only thing they have ever said is … that Ahmaud stopped by a house that was under construction and he looked through the window. We don’t know if that happened or not, but even if that did happen that is not a felony that would invoke the citizen’s arrest statute that would make this allowable.”
Arbery’s death has sparked outcry from people who see it as a modern-day lynching by two white men.
“This type of hatred is taught and handed down for generations. This will never end. This is Amerikkka,” tweeted one viewer.
“I’m traumatized. I just witnessed a murder of a young man who was clearly in danger. They just shot him in broad daylight in the middle of the street,” lamented another person.
“This is just disgusting! I’m sooo triggered they literally hunted this poor man down,” noted another tweeter.
Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tom Durden said he wants a grand jury to examine the case but the process might be delayed due to the pandemic.
“I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery,” Durden said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I have no control over the suspensions due to the pandemic,” he added. “However, I do intend to present the case to the next available grand jury in Glynn County.”
Durden began investigating the case after two prosecutors recused themselves due to conflicts of interest. George McMichael is a former investigator for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.
Merritt told CNN the family hopes for an indictment soon.
“We expect action this week,” the lawyer declared.
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Ahmaud Arbery Shooting: Video of Georgia Man’s Death Leaks on YouTube
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, while jogging in a neighborhood on February 25 after he was chased down by two men, a father and son. The men, Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael, have not been charged. Video of the shooting was posted online on May 5, the same day that prosecutors said a grand jury will hear evidence in the case and decide if the McMichaels will face charges.
The 25-year-old Arbery was black. The McMichaels are white. Gregory McMichael, a 64-year-old former police officer and investigator for a local district attorney’s office, told police after the shooting that he and his 34-year-old son suspected Arbery was involved in burglaries that had occurred in the neighborhood, according to a police report released by the Glynn County Police Department. They chased him down in their pickup truck while armed with a handgun and shotgun. Travis McMichael shot Arbery because he believed he was being “violently attacked,” Gregory McMichael told police.
Arbery’s family and friends say he was not involved in any burglaries and it was a case of mistaken identity. Jason Vaughn, Arbery’s high school football coach, told WJXT-TV, “People are known for jogging in that area all the time and we all know Maud likes to jog the area. He would stop and, sometimes in the middle of his workout, he’d play basketball with the younger kids and at the game, he’d go back to jogging. That’s the kind of person he was.”
Here’s what you need to know about the video and the shooting:
The Video, Recorded by a Third Man Who Was in ‘Hot Pursuit’ With the McMichaels, Shows Arbery Running in the Street Before Before He Was Shot by Travis McMichael–
The video of the shooting was leaked online and posted to YouTube on May 5. According to the New York Times, the video was recorded by a third man who had joined the McMichaels in “hot pursuit” of Arbery. The video had previously been turned over to investigators before it was made public.
In the video, which can be watched above, Arbery can be seen running down the middle of the road behind the McMichaels’ white pickup truck. The camera moves for two seconds and Arbery cannot be seen. Yelling can then be heard as Arbery runs around the right side of the truck and toward Travis McMichael, who was armed with a shotgun. A shot is fired and Arbery and Travis McMichael begin struggling over the shotgun while Gregory McMichael, who can be seen standing in the bed of the truck, draws his handgun.
A second gunshot can be heard while Arbery and Travis McMichael are outside of the video frame. The two men come back into the video and a third shot is heard. Arbery then stumbles away from Travis McMichael and collapses to the ground as the video ends.
Gregory McMichael Called 911 & Said ‘There’s a Black Man Running Down the Street’–
The Glynn County Police Department incident report can be read here. According to the report, police were called about 1 p.m. on Sunday, February 23, to the area of Satilla Drive and Holmes Drive for shots fired. The responding officer said Arbery was found on the ground “bleeding out,” and he later died at the scene.
Gregory McMichael told the officer there had been several break-ins in the neighborhood where the burglar was caught on surveillance video. Gregory McMichael told the officer he was in his front yard and saw a man be believed to be a suspect in the burglaries “hauling ass” down Satilla Drive toward Buford Drive. According to the report:
McMichael stated he then ran inside his house and called to Travis (McMichael) and said, ‘Travis the guy is running down the street lets go.’ McMichael stated he then went to his bedroom and grabbed his .357 Magnum and Travis grabbed his shotgun because they ‘didn’t know if the male was armed or not.’ McMichael stated, ‘the other night’ they saw the same male and he stuck his hand down his pants which lead them to believe the male was armed.
Gregory McMichael told the officer he and his son got in their truck and drove down Satilla Drive toward Buford Drive when they saw the man, later identified as Arbery, running down the street. McMichael said his son drove down the street and tried to cut off Arbery. According to the report, McMichael said Arbery tried to turn around and run the other direction, where the man in the other truck, “Roddy,” tried to block him, but he was not successful.
McMichael told police he got into the bed of his truck and his son began driving after Arbery again. They saw him running again and shouted, “Stop, stop, we want to talk to you,” Gregory McMichael told police. He said his son pulled their truck alongside Arbery and again told him to stop. McMichael said his son then got out of the truck with his shotgun. According to McMichael, Arbery then began to “violently attack Travis,” and they began fighting over the shotgun.
McMichael told police his son fired a shot and a second shot before Arbery fell down to the street. McMichael said he went to check to see if Arbery had a gun. Arbery was not armed, according to police.
A transcript of a 911 call made by Gregory McMichael was obtained by WJXT-TV. In the call, McMichael said, “I’m out here at Satilla Shores and there’s a black man running down the street.”
The 911 dispatcher replied, “I just need to know what he was doing wrong, was he just on the premises and not supposed to be?” McMichael answered, “And he’s been caught on the camera a bunch before at night. It’s an ongoing thing out here.”
An Attorney for Arbery’s Family Says the Video Shows ‘This Is Murder’–
Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney who is representing Arbery’s family, said in a statement after the video surfaced online, “The series of events captured in this video confirms what all the evidence indicated prior to its release— Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by three white men that targeted him solely because of his race and murdered him without justification. This is murder.”
Merritt said the McMichaels, whom he called “armed assailants,” tried to block Arbery’s path with their truck while he was running and then confronted him with the shotgun. Merritt said the video shows Arbery trying to avoid the “armed strangers” before the first shot is fired.
“Mr. Arbery then appears to collide with the attacking gunman, now known to be Travis McMichael,” Merritt said. “Mr. Arbery then struggles for the gun and in defense of his life. At this point, Travis McMichael shoots Mr. Arbery two additional times with shotgun at point-blank range. Mr. Arbery collapses to the ground while still trying to escape his attackers.”
Merritt added, “Mr. Arbery had not committed any crime and there was no reason for these men to believe they had the right to stop him with weapons or to use deadly force in furtherance of their unlawful attempted stop. This is murder.”
Arbery’s Father Says His Son Ran Every Day–
Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper told CNN her son jogged and ran everyday and she never worried about him because he wasn’t bothering anyone. Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “My kid was murdered. That’s all I can say. He ran like that every day – all his life. He ran in his neighborhood and that one too. That’s the only place he ever had a problem.”
A Facebook page, “I Run With Maud,” has been started to organize support for Arbery and his family and to call for charges to be brought against the McMichaels.
Arbery’s friend, Demetris Frazier, told WJXT-TV, “It’s not about one race. We are all a community and we see this as a tragedy to the community. It’s not about black about white. We can’t make this about race. It’s about what’s right and wrong and what happened.”
The Case Has Been Passed Between Multiple Agencies Because of Gregory McMichael’s Ties to Law Enforcement–
The case has been passed among multiple law enforcement agencies and prosecutor’s offices because of Gregory McMichael’s ties to law enforcement. He recently retired as an investigator with the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s office and he was previously a Glynn County Police Department officer.
Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson recused herself from the case and it was given to Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Barnhill. He also recused himself because his son works in the Brunswick prosecutor’s office. Tom Durden, the prosecutor for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, is now handling the case.
Durden issued a statement on May 5 he plans to present the case to a grand jury in Glynn County when courts reopen.
Before recusing himself, Barnhill said in a letter there was no probable cause for charges because the McMichaels were legally carrying their firearms under Georgia’s open carry law, according to The New York Times. He also said the father and son were within their rights to pursue a “burglary suspect” and attempt to make a citizen’s arrest. He wrote, according to The Times, Georgia law says, “a private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge.”
Barnhill also said Travis McMichael was “allowed to use deadly force to protect himself.” The letter also mentions that Arbery has prior convictions and mental health issues. The family’s attorney, Merritt, told CNN, “The reference to … alleged conduct from high school or shoplifting is absurd and has nothing to do with his murder.”
Merritt said in a statement, “There is no reasonable argument justifying the murder of Mr. Arbery.” Merritt said the Brunswick Police Department’s failure to arrest the McMichaels after seeing the video “violated their duty to the people of Brunswick, Georgia.” He added:
While this video was withheld, a false narrative was constructed where the victim was slandered as a criminal with mental health concerns. The Glynn County Police Department has both the authority and the legal imperative to make an arrest today pending the presentation of this case to a grand jury. The newly assigned DA, Tom Durden, has concluded this case must be brought before a grand jury for a criminal indictment. Due to (the) Georgia Supreme Court decision to suspended grand juries temporarily due to the pandemic, these men must be taken into custody pending their indictment.
Officials have not commented about the video. It is not clear if the McMichaels have hired attorneys and they have not commented about the shooting or the video footage.
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Video: Armed White Supremacists, Chased Down And Lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
This is the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. That’s not hyperbole. These armed white supremacists, led by Gregory and Travis McMichael, chased down and lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
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I am trembling with anger over what I just witnessed. CLICK OR SWIPE AWAY if you need to.
🚨🆘We need ALL HANDS ON DECK 🆘🚨
This is the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. That’s not hyperbole.
These armed white supremacists, led by Gregory and Travis McMichael, chased down and lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
It’s one of the worst things I’ve seen in my entire life. 🆘GO NOW to RunWithMaud.com or click the link in my bio to join us as we fight for justice. I need you to do this.
Call 770.800.0689. I’ll be there on the line to talk you through it.
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I am sorry, from the bottom of my heart, for living in a nation that is forcing me to share this, just to get justice for Ahmaud, but the police and prosecutors in Georgia will not budge. So here we are.
I love you all.
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“This is an ongoing investigation,” the Glynn County Police Department said in a statement April 28, adding that it “continues to gather and provide information to the District Attorney’s Office that the case has been assigned to.”
Georgia prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to present evidence to a grand jury for possible charges against the two men.
“I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery,” said Tom Durden, District Attorney Pro Tempore for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, who started investigating the incident on April 13.
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Ahmaud Arbery: Biden demands justice for Georgia killing of black jogger
BBC
May 6, 2020
The Democrats’ likely presidential candidate Joe Biden has demanded justice over the killing of an unarmed black man in the US state of Georgia.
Mr Biden said his heart went out to the family of Ahmaud Arbery.
Mr Arbery, 25, was jogging in February when confronted by an ex-policeman and his son. Video purported to show the shooting emerged online on Tuesday.
A district attorney in Georgia has now ruled that a grand jury should decide whether charges should be brought.
An earlier decision by a prosecutor in the Brunswick jurisdiction argued there was no probable cause to arrest Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34.
More than 100 people took part in a protest in Brunswick on Tuesday night, demanding justice for Mr Arbery.
How did Arbery die?
Mr Arbery was out running in the Satilla Shores neighbourhood of Brunswick in Georgia’s Glynn County early in the afternoon on 23 February.
In a police report, Gregory McMichael says he saw Mr Arbery and believed he resembled the suspect in a series of break-ins.
He and his son armed themselves and pursued him in a pick-up truck.
In the police report, Gregory McMichael says he and his son had said “stop, stop, we want to talk to you” and that Mr Arbery had attacked his son. Shots were fired, with Mr Arbery falling to the street.
Mr Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, said police told her her son had been involved in a burglary before the incident, but the family say they do not believe the keen jogger had committed a crime and he was unarmed.
A number of calls were made to the emergency services around the time of the confrontation, CBS reports. In one 911 call, a neighbour said a black man was seen at a home under construction in the area.
When asked what the man was doing now, the caller said “running down the street”.
What does the video show?
The 36-second video is shot from a vehicle following the pick-up truck said to be involved in the incident.
It shows a man jogging and then approaching the stationary pick-up from behind. He tries to bypass the truck and then is seen struggling with a man carrying a shotgun. There is muffled shouting and shotgun shots are heard.
A second man is standing in the bed of the pick-up. The second man is then shown with a pistol standing alongside the other armed man with the jogger no longer in view.
Mr Arbery’s mother told CBS on Wednesday that the video was too painful for her to watch immediately, but that she hoped the video “proves that my son was not committing a crime. He was out for his daily jog and he was hunted down like an animal and killed.”
What have Mr Biden and other officials said?
Joe Biden sent out a tweet saying: “The video is clear: Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood. My heart goes out to his family, who deserve justice and deserve it now. It is time for a swift, full, and transparent investigation into his murder.”
A statement from Lee Merritt, a lawyer for Mr Arbery’s family, said: “This is murder. The series of events captured in this video confirm what all the evidence indicated prior to its release.”
Tom Durden, the district attorney for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, decided on Tuesday that a grand jury should be involved.
“After careful review of the evidence,” he wrote in a statement, “I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges.”
Governor Brian Kemp tweeted that “Georgians deserve answers”.
The McMichaels have not been charged and have so far declined to comment. They have not responded to the video.
The New York Times said it had obtained a letter in which a prosecutor had earlier argued there was not sufficient probable cause for arrest because the pursuers were legally carrying firearms, were within their rights to follow “a burglary suspect” and were able as private persons to “arrest an offender if the offence is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge”.
Mr Merritt told CNN: “The only thing they have ever said is … that Ahmaud stopped by a house that was under construction and he looked through the window. We don’t know if that happened or not, but even if that did happen that is not a felony that would invoke the citizen’s arrest statute that would make this allowable.”
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Shocking Video Shows White Men Chasing and Killing Black Jogger in Georgia
HEADLINE
MAY 06, 2020
In Georgia, disturbing video has emerged showing two white men shooting dead an unarmed 25-year-old African American man named Ahmaud Arbery in February while he was jogging. The video shows Arbery running down a narrow road in Brunswick, Georgia, when he was confronted by the armed men — a former police officer, Gregory McMichael, and his son Travis. Travis was waiting for him in the road with a shotgun while his father stood in the back of the pickup truck with a revolver. After a brief confrontation, Arbery was shot at three times.
The video appeared to have been taken by a third person who was following Arbery. Brunswick police have reportedly had a copy of the shocking video since February, but no charges have been filed against the McMichaels, who claimed they chased Arbery because he looked like a burglary suspect. On Tuesday, a local prosecutor announced he would bring the case to a grand jury.
The Arbery family’s attorney, Lee Merritt, said Tuesday, “The series of events captured in this video confirm what all the evidence indicated prior to its release — Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by three white men that targeted him solely because of his race and murdered him without justification. This is murder.”
TOPICS:GeorgiaBlack Lives MatterRace in AmericaGun Control
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DA blocked cops from making arrests in Ahmaud Arbery shooting: commissioner
By Laura Italiano May 8, 2020 | 2:21pm
Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery shooting a ‘lynching,’ blames Trump
Georgia DA called Ahmaud Arbery shooting a ‘justifiable homicide’
Ahmaud Arbery’s dad reacts to new footage of son right before his death
New video emerges of the minutes before Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting death
The local district attorney blocked police from making arrests immediately after the Feb. 23 shooting death of unarmed jogger Ahmaud Arbery, two county commissioners said Friday — with one accusing the two of being in cohoots because they were friends.
Cops at the scene of the Georgia shooting had believed they had probable cause to make arrests, Glynn County Commissioner Peter Murphy told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — but were told to stand down by the DA’s office.
“They spoke to an assistant, who relayed their request to [Glynn County District Attorney] Jackie Johnson,” Murphy told the paper of the cops at the scene.
“They were told not to make the arrest.”
“She shut them down to protect her friend McMichael,” a second county commissioner, Allen Booker, told the paper.
Johnson recused herself from the case entirely a few days after the shooting, Booker said.
Travis McMichael, 34, and his father, Greg, 64, were arrested Thursday, more than two months after Arbery was shot.
The chilling 911 calls made before unarmed black jogger was killed
The father is a former cop who had worked as an investigator for the DA’s office, the paper reported earlier Friday. He had helped prosecute Arbery in the past, when he was in high school, on a weapons charge.
Johnson’s office did not respond to the Journal-Constitution’s request for comment on Murphy’s account.
Arbery’s 26th birthday would have been today.
“I saw the tape and it’s very, very disturbing,” President Trump said Friday of a video that emerged Tuesday showing the pair scuffling with the unarmed Arbery before he is shot and falls to the ground.
He ran 2 miles carrying a TV to prove ‘looking like a suspect’ is no excuse for murder
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Over the weekend, an estimated thousands of people ran 2.23 miles to show their support for Ahmaud Arbery, a former high school football player and avid jogger. Arbery was shot and killed in February near Brunswick, Georgia after being pursued in a truck by a former policeman and his son who claimed he resembled someone responsible for break-ins in the neighborhood
The incident is seen by many as another in a long list of instances of black people’s lives being threatened while engaging in normal, everyday activities that wouldn’t arise any suspicions if done by a white person.
Richard Desmick, a 34-year-old former pastor living in Vero Beach, Florida, showed his support for Arbery by running 2.23 miles and doing so in a way that exposes racial disparity in America.
“I just started crying when I just saw this poor young man running – as I have thousands of times in my life – get shot down,” Demsick told Business Insider. He said he thought “maybe I should run with a TV to show that being a suspicious character isn’t enough that someone should be shot down. Being a white person, that’s just not going to happen to me.”
Since Demsick posted the video on Saturday, it has already received over 279,000 likes.
“Alright, I figured it out. I’ve got my hat on backwards, I’m shirtless like I’m on some episode of ‘Cops,’ I’m running with a TV,” he said in a video posted to TikTok. “Someone’s going to stop me now, for sure. Cause, if not, what was the problem with Ahmaud?”
The video has received an overwhelmingly positive response on social media, with many praising Demsick for engaging in activism that proves a significant point about race in America: a white man can run through the streets looking like he just stole a TV and no one bats an eye.
A black man minding his own business and jogging has to worry about being murdered.
“People have been incredibly kind, undeservedly kind,” Demsick said about the response to his video. “There are people who are daily working trying to correct the injustice, I just made a video.”
Demisck’s passion for social justice stems from his life growing up in Detroit. He was raised in the suburbs and attended dance competitions where most of his friends were black. It was through his interaction with the black community that he learned of the struggles they face.
Demsick was also a pastor at what he calls a primarily upper-class conservative church in Florida. He later moved on to start an outreach program for individuals experiencing homelessness.
He made a follow-up video on Mother’s Day where he asked his mom if she’d be worried for him if he went running with a television in his hand.
“No, of course not,” she said.
“Huh, I wonder why that is,” he responded.
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Video Leaks of Unarmed Black Man Gunned Down on Street by White Father-Son Duo: ‘They Literally Hunted This Poor Man Down’
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Video: Armed White Supremacists, Chased Down And Lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
This is the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. That’s not hyperbole. These armed white supremacists, led by Gregory and Travis McMichael, chased down and lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
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Ahmaud Arbery: Biden demands justice for Georgia killing of black jogger
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The Democrats’ likely presidential candidate Joe Biden has demanded justice over the killing of an unarmed black man in the US state of Georgia.
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Shocking Video Shows White Men Chasing and Killing Black Jogger in Georgia
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In Georgia, disturbing video has emerged showing two white men shooting dead an unarmed 25-year-old African American man named Ahmaud Arbery in February while he was jogging. The video shows Arbery running down a narrow road in Brunswick, Georgia, when he was confronted by the armed men — a former police officer, Gregory McMichael, and his son Travis. Travis was waiting for him in the road with a shotgun while his father stood in the back of the pickup truck with a revolver. After a brief confrontation, Arbery was shot at three times.
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Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery shooting a ‘lynching,’ blames Trump
Georgia DA called Ahmaud Arbery shooting a ‘justifiable homicide’
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Like everyone, I have things to do today. Pressing obligations that require my attention. But first I have something to say and I cannot proceed with this day until I’ve said it.
By now you should be aware that on the afternoon of Sunday, February 23, 2020, a young black man named Ahmaud Arbery was out jogging near his home in Brunswick, Georgia when two white men, a father and son, saw him, got their guns, jumped in a truck, chased him down, pulled up next to him and fired three shots, killing him on the spot. Ahmaud uwas unarmed and had broken no laws. He had done nothing wrong when he was murdered in the street. Nothing.
I watched a video yesterday of the final seconds of this young man’s life. I didn’t want to watch it, but having closely followed this story for weeks I felt obligated to confirm with my own eyes what I already knew I would witness. I know evil when I see it and what I saw in Ahmaud’s cruel, calculated murder was evil in its most naked and horrific form. This was a bloodthirsty public lynching in broad daylight and it was soul-crushing to observe.
The attackers were Gregory McMichael, a former police officer and retired investigator for the district attorney’s office, and his son Travis. The initial police report shows an appalling lack of investigation into the case, citing only Gregory McMichael’s account of the case. Ahmaud’s family was first informed by local police that he had been killed during a burglary. That was a lie.
Presently, neither Gregory or Travis McMichael have been arrested, claiming they acted out of self-defense and their actions fell within Georgia’s citizen arrest laws. On 911 calls the dispatcher asked the men what Arbery was doing that was of criminal concern. They had no specific answer beyond, “He’s a black man running down our road.”
In their minds, that was his crime and their justification for Ahmaud’s murder. Being black and running down a road.
So here’s the thing. Here’s the the thing that hangs me up and stops me in my tracks today and on so many days. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting it is really cooperating with it.” He also had much to say about the response of moderate Christians who through their silence are complicit in the daily indignity and brutalization imposed on their black neighbors.
Yesterday a close friend wrote, “Please know your Black friends and acquaintances live in abject fear of being murdered for no reason EVERY GODDAMN DAY OF OUR LIVES… And if you are not a person of color – stop denying you were born with the privilege of not living in fear of being killed for simply existing. My soul is so, so weary.”
She should know. My friend speaks the truth and I hear her.
Another dear friend writes, “I don’t have to stop being black for you to stop being racist.”
And again my heart breaks.
According to The Rev. John D. Perry II, president of the local NAACP in Brunswick, “It is clearly evident that this young man (had) to fight for his life. In this situation it’s either fight or flight. I don’t know what was in their hearts, but that was an overzealous act on their behalf. They put him in a situation where he had to fight for his life. They created the circumstances for that to happen, and they have to be held accountable.”
“This outrageous case shows just how dangerous it is to be black in America,” says Ben Crump, an attorney representing Ahmaud’s family, “A black man can’t jog through a neighborhood without being chased and gunned down execution style. We will not rest until we see justice for this family.”
To date, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery has largely escaped public attention, but the case is ongoing and reportedly will eventually be presented to a grand jury in coastal Georgia. The FBI and Georgia Bureau of Investigation must get involved in this case which demands thorough disclosure of the facts and truth. Meanwhile I wonder where all this ends. If ever. With so much happening in the world to provoke our outrage and stoke our selfish concerns, when will we finally confront the racism, inequality, and injustice that festers like a cancer on our nation. Do we really want to live in a society where the mere suspicion of a possible property crime prompts citizens to form an armed posse to chase down, confront, and end the very life a suspect? The image of a group of white men in pickup trucks armed with shotguns and handguns casually chasing down and murdering a young black man should not be the profile of justice in 2020 that any of us wants to share with the world.
Dr. King reminds us, “The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.” Today I grieve for young Ahmaud Arbery and his hurting family. I grieve for a society that blithely accepts Ahmaud’s death, or any such assault on the innocent, through complacency and inaction. I grieve the resounding silence that allows injustice and racism to continue. If we cannot change, if we can’t do better than this for each other, if we can’t speak out about this curse on our brothers and ourselves, I wonder if we are deserving of any better than the hottest place in hell.
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I will not accept the inconceivable position trump is now pushing…”People will die, but the country has to get back to work”. It is beyond disrespectful to the people who have lost their lives and is a clear indication that he puts optics ahead of human life.
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Video Leaks of Unarmed Black Man Gunned Down on Street by White Father-Son Duo: ‘They Literally Hunted This Poor Man Down’
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A video showing the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery has emerged more than two months after the incident occurred.
The video begins with Arbery jogging down a Brunswick, Georgia, street wearing a white T-shirt and shorts. Seconds later, a struggle ensues after the 25-year-old tries to wrestle a shotgun from Travis McMichael, who had pulled up next to Arbery and gotten out of his vehicle armed with the weapon to confront the Black man.
Gregory McMichael, Travis’ father, watched from the back of a pickup truck.
Video footage shows jogger Ahmaud Arbery tried to defend himself before he was gunned down in a Brunswick, Georgia, street.
The men fought over the gun until shots rang out. Arbery took a couple of steps before he dropped to the ground.
The source of the video is unclear. Activist Shaun King posted it on his Twitter page, but it is unclear how he acquired the footage, WGIG Radio also shared it online and credited an anonymous source before it was deleted.
The duo claimed they pursued Arbery because they witnessed him running through the neighborhood. Gregory McMichael told police after the shooting that he suspected Arbery was responsible for a string of break-ins in the neighborhood. When the senior McMichael spotted Arbery around 1 p.m. on Feb. 23, he alerted his son, and both men armed themselves — the son with the shotgun, the father with a .357 handgun — before taking off after Arbery in the pickup.
“McMichael stated he then ran inside his house and called to Travis [McMichael] and said, ‘Travis, the guy is running down the street, let’s go,’” a police report stated.
After chasing in their truck and attempting to get Arbery’s attention twice, Travis McMichael pulled up next to him and said he wanted to talk, the father told police.
“[Gregory] McMichael stated he saw [Arbery] begin” to “violently attack Travis and the two men then started fighting over the shotgun, at which point Travis fired a shot and then a second later there was a second shot,” the police report continued. “McMichael stated the male fell face down on the pavement with his hand under his body.” The leaked video footage seems to indicate three shots actually were fired.
Ahmaud Arbery died on Feb. 23 in Brunswick, Georgia, following an altercation with Travis and Gregory McMichael.
Neither McMichael has been charged for the death. The previous DA on the case was preparing to invoke Georgia’s citizen’s arrest statute to absolve the men of culpability in the slaying. Attorney Lee Merritt, who is representing Arbery’s family, argued the law does not apply to this case because the deceased was not committing a crime when he was approached.
“According to that law, you actually have to be observing the crime or be in the immediate knowledge of the crime,” Merritt told CNN on Sunday. “The only thing they have ever said is … that Ahmaud stopped by a house that was under construction and he looked through the window. We don’t know if that happened or not, but even if that did happen that is not a felony that would invoke the citizen’s arrest statute that would make this allowable.”
Arbery’s death has sparked outcry from people who see it as a modern-day lynching by two white men.
“This type of hatred is taught and handed down for generations. This will never end. This is Amerikkka,” tweeted one viewer.
“I’m traumatized. I just witnessed a murder of a young man who was clearly in danger. They just shot him in broad daylight in the middle of the street,” lamented another person.
“This is just disgusting! I’m sooo triggered they literally hunted this poor man down,” noted another tweeter.
Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tom Durden said he wants a grand jury to examine the case but the process might be delayed due to the pandemic.
“I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery,” Durden said in a statement on Tuesday.
“I have no control over the suspensions due to the pandemic,” he added. “However, I do intend to present the case to the next available grand jury in Glynn County.”
Durden began investigating the case after two prosecutors recused themselves due to conflicts of interest. George McMichael is a former investigator for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office.
Merritt told CNN the family hopes for an indictment soon.
“We expect action this week,” the lawyer declared.
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Ahmaud Arbery Shooting: Video of Georgia Man’s Death Leaks on YouTube
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, while jogging in a neighborhood on February 25 after he was chased down by two men, a father and son. The men, Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael, have not been charged. Video of the shooting was posted online on May 5, the same day that prosecutors said a grand jury will hear evidence in the case and decide if the McMichaels will face charges.
The 25-year-old Arbery was black. The McMichaels are white. Gregory McMichael, a 64-year-old former police officer and investigator for a local district attorney’s office, told police after the shooting that he and his 34-year-old son suspected Arbery was involved in burglaries that had occurred in the neighborhood, according to a police report released by the Glynn County Police Department. They chased him down in their pickup truck while armed with a handgun and shotgun. Travis McMichael shot Arbery because he believed he was being “violently attacked,” Gregory McMichael told police.
Arbery’s family and friends say he was not involved in any burglaries and it was a case of mistaken identity. Jason Vaughn, Arbery’s high school football coach, told WJXT-TV, “People are known for jogging in that area all the time and we all know Maud likes to jog the area. He would stop and, sometimes in the middle of his workout, he’d play basketball with the younger kids and at the game, he’d go back to jogging. That’s the kind of person he was.”
Here’s what you need to know about the video and the shooting:
The Video, Recorded by a Third Man Who Was in ‘Hot Pursuit’ With the McMichaels, Shows Arbery Running in the Street Before Before He Was Shot by Travis McMichael–
The video of the shooting was leaked online and posted to YouTube on May 5. According to the New York Times, the video was recorded by a third man who had joined the McMichaels in “hot pursuit” of Arbery. The video had previously been turned over to investigators before it was made public.
In the video, which can be watched above, Arbery can be seen running down the middle of the road behind the McMichaels’ white pickup truck. The camera moves for two seconds and Arbery cannot be seen. Yelling can then be heard as Arbery runs around the right side of the truck and toward Travis McMichael, who was armed with a shotgun. A shot is fired and Arbery and Travis McMichael begin struggling over the shotgun while Gregory McMichael, who can be seen standing in the bed of the truck, draws his handgun.
A second gunshot can be heard while Arbery and Travis McMichael are outside of the video frame. The two men come back into the video and a third shot is heard. Arbery then stumbles away from Travis McMichael and collapses to the ground as the video ends.
Gregory McMichael Called 911 & Said ‘There’s a Black Man Running Down the Street’–
The Glynn County Police Department incident report can be read here. According to the report, police were called about 1 p.m. on Sunday, February 23, to the area of Satilla Drive and Holmes Drive for shots fired. The responding officer said Arbery was found on the ground “bleeding out,” and he later died at the scene.
Gregory McMichael told the officer there had been several break-ins in the neighborhood where the burglar was caught on surveillance video. Gregory McMichael told the officer he was in his front yard and saw a man be believed to be a suspect in the burglaries “hauling ass” down Satilla Drive toward Buford Drive. According to the report:
McMichael stated he then ran inside his house and called to Travis (McMichael) and said, ‘Travis the guy is running down the street lets go.’ McMichael stated he then went to his bedroom and grabbed his .357 Magnum and Travis grabbed his shotgun because they ‘didn’t know if the male was armed or not.’ McMichael stated, ‘the other night’ they saw the same male and he stuck his hand down his pants which lead them to believe the male was armed.
Gregory McMichael told the officer he and his son got in their truck and drove down Satilla Drive toward Buford Drive when they saw the man, later identified as Arbery, running down the street. McMichael said his son drove down the street and tried to cut off Arbery. According to the report, McMichael said Arbery tried to turn around and run the other direction, where the man in the other truck, “Roddy,” tried to block him, but he was not successful.
McMichael told police he got into the bed of his truck and his son began driving after Arbery again. They saw him running again and shouted, “Stop, stop, we want to talk to you,” Gregory McMichael told police. He said his son pulled their truck alongside Arbery and again told him to stop. McMichael said his son then got out of the truck with his shotgun. According to McMichael, Arbery then began to “violently attack Travis,” and they began fighting over the shotgun.
McMichael told police his son fired a shot and a second shot before Arbery fell down to the street. McMichael said he went to check to see if Arbery had a gun. Arbery was not armed, according to police.
A transcript of a 911 call made by Gregory McMichael was obtained by WJXT-TV. In the call, McMichael said, “I’m out here at Satilla Shores and there’s a black man running down the street.”
The 911 dispatcher replied, “I just need to know what he was doing wrong, was he just on the premises and not supposed to be?” McMichael answered, “And he’s been caught on the camera a bunch before at night. It’s an ongoing thing out here.”
An Attorney for Arbery’s Family Says the Video Shows ‘This Is Murder’–
Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney who is representing Arbery’s family, said in a statement after the video surfaced online, “The series of events captured in this video confirms what all the evidence indicated prior to its release— Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by three white men that targeted him solely because of his race and murdered him without justification. This is murder.”
Merritt said the McMichaels, whom he called “armed assailants,” tried to block Arbery’s path with their truck while he was running and then confronted him with the shotgun. Merritt said the video shows Arbery trying to avoid the “armed strangers” before the first shot is fired.
“Mr. Arbery then appears to collide with the attacking gunman, now known to be Travis McMichael,” Merritt said. “Mr. Arbery then struggles for the gun and in defense of his life. At this point, Travis McMichael shoots Mr. Arbery two additional times with shotgun at point-blank range. Mr. Arbery collapses to the ground while still trying to escape his attackers.”
Merritt added, “Mr. Arbery had not committed any crime and there was no reason for these men to believe they had the right to stop him with weapons or to use deadly force in furtherance of their unlawful attempted stop. This is murder.”
Arbery’s Father Says His Son Ran Every Day–
Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper told CNN her son jogged and ran everyday and she never worried about him because he wasn’t bothering anyone. Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “My kid was murdered. That’s all I can say. He ran like that every day – all his life. He ran in his neighborhood and that one too. That’s the only place he ever had a problem.”
A Facebook page, “I Run With Maud,” has been started to organize support for Arbery and his family and to call for charges to be brought against the McMichaels.
Arbery’s friend, Demetris Frazier, told WJXT-TV, “It’s not about one race. We are all a community and we see this as a tragedy to the community. It’s not about black about white. We can’t make this about race. It’s about what’s right and wrong and what happened.”
The Case Has Been Passed Between Multiple Agencies Because of Gregory McMichael’s Ties to Law Enforcement–
The case has been passed among multiple law enforcement agencies and prosecutor’s offices because of Gregory McMichael’s ties to law enforcement. He recently retired as an investigator with the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s office and he was previously a Glynn County Police Department officer.
Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson recused herself from the case and it was given to Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Barnhill. He also recused himself because his son works in the Brunswick prosecutor’s office. Tom Durden, the prosecutor for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, is now handling
the case.
Durden issued a statement on May 5 he plans to present the case to a grand jury in Glynn County when courts reopen.
Before recusing himself, Barnhill said in a letter there was no probable cause for charges because the McMichaels were legally carrying their firearms under Georgia’s open carry law, according to The New York Times. He also said the father and son were within their rights to pursue a “burglary suspect” and attempt to make a citizen’s arrest. He wrote, according to The Times, Georgia law says, “a private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge.”
Barnhill also said Travis McMichael was “allowed to use deadly force to protect himself.” The letter also mentions that Arbery has prior convictions and mental health issues. The family’s attorney, Merritt, told CNN, “The reference to … alleged conduct from high school or shoplifting is absurd and has nothing to do with his murder.”
Merritt said in a statement, “There is no reasonable argument justifying the murder of Mr. Arbery.” Merritt said the Brunswick Police Department’s failure to arrest the McMichaels after seeing the video “violated their duty to the people of Brunswick, Georgia.” He added:
While this video was withheld, a false narrative was constructed where the victim was slandered as a criminal with mental health concerns. The Glynn County Police Department has both the authority and the legal imperative to make an arrest today pending the presentation of this case to a grand jury. The newly assigned DA, Tom Durden, has concluded this case must be brought before a grand jury for a criminal indictment. Due to (the) Georgia Supreme Court decision to suspended grand juries temporarily due to the pandemic, these men must be taken into custody pending their indictment.
Officials have not commented about the video. It is not clear if the McMichaels have hired attorneys and they have not commented about the shooting or the video footage.
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Video: Armed White Supremacists, Chased Down And Lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
This is the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. That’s not hyperbole. These armed white supremacists, led by Gregory and Travis McMichael, chased down and lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
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🚨🆘We need ALL HANDS ON DECK 🆘🚨
This is the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery. That’s not hyperbole.
These armed white supremacists, led by Gregory and Travis McMichael, chased down and lynched Ahmaud Arbery.
It’s one of the worst things I’ve seen in my entire life. 🆘GO NOW to RunWithMaud.com or click the link in my bio to join us as we fight for justice. I need you to do this.
Call 770.800.0689. I’ll be there on the line to talk you through it.
Then follow @grassrootslaw.
I am sorry, from the bottom of my heart, for living in a nation that is forcing me to share this, just to get justice for Ahmaud, but the police and prosecutors in Georgia will not budge. So here we are.
I love you all.
Shaun
“This is an ongoing investigation,” the Glynn County Police Department said in a statement April 28, adding that it “continues to gather and provide information to the District Attorney’s Office that the case has been assigned to.”
Georgia prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to present evidence to a grand jury for possible charges against the two men.
“I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery,” said Tom Durden, District Attorney Pro Tempore for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, who started investigating the incident on April 13.
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Ahmaud Arbery: Biden demands justice for Georgia killing of black jogger
BBCMay 6, 2020
The Democrats’ likely presidential candidate Joe Biden has demanded justice over the killing of an unarmed black man in the US state of Georgia.
Mr Biden said his heart went out to the family of Ahmaud Arbery.
Mr Arbery, 25, was jogging in February when confronted by an ex-policeman and his son. Video purported to show the shooting emerged online on Tuesday.
A district attorney in Georgia has now ruled that a grand jury should decide whether charges should be brought.
An earlier decision by a prosecutor in the Brunswick jurisdiction argued there was no probable cause to arrest Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34.
More than 100 people took part in a protest in Brunswick on Tuesday night, demanding justice for Mr Arbery.
How did Arbery die?
Mr Arbery was out running in the Satilla Shores neighbourhood of Brunswick in Georgia’s Glynn County early in the afternoon on 23 February.
In a police report, Gregory McMichael says he saw Mr Arbery and believed he resembled the suspect in a series of break-ins.
He and his son armed themselves and pursued him in a pick-up truck.
In the police report, Gregory McMichael says he and his son had said “stop, stop, we want to talk to you” and that Mr Arbery had attacked his son. Shots were fired, with Mr Arbery falling to the street.
Mr Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, said police told her her son had been involved in a burglary before the incident, but the family say they do not believe the keen jogger had committed a crime and he was unarmed.
A number of calls were made to the emergency services around the time of the confrontation, CBS reports. In one 911 call, a neighbour said a black man was seen at a home under construction in the area.
When asked what the man was doing now, the caller said “running down the street”.
What does the video show?
The 36-second video is shot from a vehicle following the pick-up truck said to be involved in the incident.
It shows a man jogging and then approaching the stationary pick-up from behind. He tries to bypass the truck and then is seen struggling with a man carrying a shotgun. There is muffled shouting and shotgun shots are heard.
A second man is standing in the bed of the pick-up. The second man is then shown with a pistol standing alongside the other armed man with the jogger no longer in view.
Mr Arbery’s mother told CBS on Wednesday that the video was too painful for her to watch immediately, but that she hoped the video “proves that my son was not committing a crime. He was out for his daily jog and he was hunted down like an animal and killed.”
What have Mr Biden and other officials said?
Joe Biden sent out a tweet saying: “The video is clear: Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood. My heart goes out to his family, who deserve justice and deserve it now. It is time for a swift, full, and transparent investigation into his murder.”
A statement from Lee Merritt, a lawyer for Mr Arbery’s family, said: “This is murder. The series of events captured in this video confirm what all the evidence indicated prior to its release.”
Tom Durden, the district attorney for the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, decided on Tuesday that a grand jury should be involved.
“After careful review of the evidence,” he wrote in a statement, “I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges.”
Governor Brian Kemp tweeted that “Georgians deserve answers”.
The McMichaels have not been charged and have so far declined to comment. They have not responded to the video.
The New York Times said it had obtained a letter in which a prosecutor had earlier argued there was not sufficient probable cause for arrest because the pursuers were legally carrying firearms, were within their rights to follow “a burglary suspect” and were able as private persons to “arrest an offender if the offence is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge”.
Mr Merritt told CNN: “The only thing they have ever said is … that Ahmaud stopped by a house that was under construction and he looked through the window. We don’t know if that happened or not, but even if that did happen that is not a felony that would invoke the citizen’s arrest statute that would make this allowable.”
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Shocking Video Shows White Men Chasing and Killing Black Jogger in Georgia
HEADLINEMAY 06, 2020
In Georgia, disturbing video has emerged showing two white men shooting dead an unarmed 25-year-old African American man named Ahmaud Arbery in February while he was jogging. The video shows Arbery running down a narrow road in Brunswick, Georgia, when he was confronted by the armed men — a former police officer, Gregory McMichael, and his son Travis. Travis was waiting for him in the road with a shotgun while his father stood in the back of the pickup truck with a revolver. After a brief confrontation, Arbery was shot at three times.
The video appeared to have been taken by a third person who was following Arbery. Brunswick police have reportedly had a copy of the shocking video since February, but no charges have been filed against the McMichaels, who claimed they chased Arbery because he looked like a burglary suspect. On Tuesday, a local prosecutor announced he would bring the case to a grand jury.
The Arbery family’s attorney, Lee Merritt, said Tuesday, “The series of events captured in this video confirm what all the evidence indicated prior to its release — Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by three white men that targeted him solely because of his race and murdered him without justification. This is murder.”
TOPICS:GeorgiaBlack Lives MatterRace in AmericaGun Control
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DA blocked cops from making arrests in Ahmaud Arbery shooting: commissioner
By Laura Italiano May 8, 2020 | 2:21pm
Atlanta mayor calls Ahmaud Arbery shooting a ‘lynching,’ blames Trump
Georgia DA called Ahmaud Arbery shooting a ‘justifiable homicide’
Ahmaud Arbery’s dad reacts to new footage of son right before his death
New video emerges of the minutes before Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting death
The local district attorney blocked police from making arrests immediately after the Feb. 23 shooting death of unarmed jogger Ahmaud Arbery, two county commissioners said Friday — with one accusing the two of being in cohoots because they were friends.
Cops at the scene of the Georgia shooting had believed they had probable cause to make arrests, Glynn County Commissioner Peter Murphy told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — but were told to stand down by the DA’s office.
“They spoke to an assistant, who relayed their request to [Glynn County District Attorney] Jackie Johnson,” Murphy told the paper of the cops at the scene.
“They were told not to make the arrest.”
“She shut them down to protect her friend McMichael,” a second county commissioner, Allen Booker, told the paper.
Johnson recused herself from the case entirely a few days after the shooting, Booker said.
Travis McMichael, 34, and his father, Greg, 64, were arrested Thursday, more than two months after Arbery was shot.
The chilling 911 calls made before unarmed black jogger was killed
The father is a former cop who had worked as an investigator for the DA’s office, the paper reported earlier Friday. He had helped prosecute Arbery in the past, when he was in high school, on a weapons charge.
Johnson’s office did not respond to the Journal-Constitution’s request for comment on Murphy’s account.
Arbery’s 26th birthday would have been today.
“I saw the tape and it’s very, very disturbing,” President Trump said Friday of a video that emerged Tuesday showing the pair scuffling with the unarmed Arbery before he is shot and falls to the ground.
He ran 2 miles carrying a TV to prove ‘looking like a suspect’ is no excuse for murder
Tod Perry 05.11.20
via Richard Desmick / TikTok
Over the weekend, an estimated thousands of people ran 2.23 miles to show their support for Ahmaud Arbery, a former high school football player and avid jogger. Arbery was shot and killed in February near Brunswick, Georgia after being pursued in a truck by a former policeman and his son who claimed he resembled
someone responsible for break-ins in the neighborhood
The incident is seen by many as another in a long list of instances of black people’s lives being threatened while engaging in normal, everyday activities that wouldn’t arise any suspicions if done by a white person.
Richard Desmick, a 34-year-old former pastor living in Vero Beach, Florida, showed his support for Arbery by running 2.23 miles and doing so in a way that exposes racial disparity in America.
“I just started crying when I just saw this poor young man running – as I have thousands of times in my life – get shot down,” Demsick told Business Insider. He said he thought “maybe I should run with a TV to show that being a suspicious character isn’t enough that someone should be shot down. Being a white person, that’s just not going to happen to me.”
Since Demsick posted the video on Saturday, it has already received over 279,000 likes.
“Alright, I figured it out. I’ve got my hat on backwards, I’m shirtless like I’m on some episode of ‘Cops,’ I’m running with a TV,” he said in a video posted to TikTok. “Someone’s going to stop me now, for sure. Cause, if not, what was the problem with Ahmaud?”
The video has received an overwhelmingly positive response on social media, with many praising Demsick for engaging in activism that proves a significant point about race in America: a white man can run through the streets looking like he just stole a TV and no one bats an eye.
A black man minding his own business and jogging has to worry about being murdered.
“People have been incredibly kind, undeservedly kind,” Demsick said about the response to his video. “There are people who are daily working trying to correct the injustice, I just made a video.”
Demisck’s passion for social justice stems from his life growing up in Detroit. He was raised in the suburbs and attended dance competitions where most of his friends were black. It was through his interaction with the black community that he learned of the struggles they face.
Demsick was also a pastor at what he calls a primarily upper-class conservative church in Florida. He later moved on to start an outreach program for individuals experiencing homelessness.
He made a follow-up video on Mother’s Day where he asked his mom if she’d be worried for him if he went running with a television in his hand.
“No, of course not,” she said.
“Huh, I wonder why that is,” he responded.
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‘Pure Evil’: Report On Trump Administration Draining Fund For FDNY’s 9/11 Responders Draws Outrage
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Updated Sep 12, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
TOPLINE A New York Daily News scoop published Thursday revealed that the Trump administration has siphoned around $4 million from the New York City Fire Department’s fund for its September 11 first responders, drawing outrage on the 19th anniversary of the attacks, but the U.S. Treasury says the money was diverted because of “delinquent debt” owed by New York City to the federal government.
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The funds are part of the FDNY World Trade Center Health Program, which was established by the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, a bill passed by Congress that provides healthcare to first responders who have suffered a range of illnesses from exposure to dust and smoke at Ground Zero.
“TRUMP DOESN’T ONLY HATE VETERANS, HE HATES FIRST RESPONDER HEROES,” tweeted actress Debra Messing in reaction to the Daily News report.
Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland school shooting victim Jamie Guttenberg, said he was “F—KING P—-ED” about the report, because his brother died of cancer from 9/11.
“From the administration whose identity is built on claims of honoring first responders,” Julie Cohen, director of the RBG documentary, wrote on Twitter.
“This doesn’t surprise me at all,” Army veteran and advocate Paul Rieckoff wrote on Twitter. “Trump did NOTHING to push for the extension of #Zadroga last year.”
“We are also working with Congressman King and others to examine any potential authorities to provide relief in this case to support our nation’s 9/11 heroes,” the Treasury spokesperson. told Forbes, but could not provide any examples of how they would do it, and did not have a timeline.
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“Here we have sick World Trade Center-exposed firefighters and EMS workers, at a time when the city is having difficult financial circumstances due to COVID-19, and we’re not getting the money we need to be able to treat these heroes,” FDNY Chief Medical Officer David Prezant told the Daily News.
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