Three men indicted with murder of Black jogger in Georgia
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Three white men arrested last month in the slaying of a Black man who was gunned down as he jogged through a suburban neighborhood in Georgia four months ago were indicted on Wednesday on murder and other charges.
Video footage showing the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, in the coastal Georgia town of Brunswick emerged on social media and went viral in May, some 10 weeks after his death, stoking public outrage at the lack of arrests at that time.
Days later, the two men seen confronting Arbery in the video, former police officer George McMichael, 64, and his son, Travis McMichael, 34, were taken into custody and charged with murder. William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., 50, who videotaped the Feb. 23 shooting, was later arrested and also charged with murder.
On Wednesday, a grand jury returned a nine-count indictment against all three men, charging each with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment, the indictment shows. The three remain jailed without bond.
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Innocent till proven guilty......
If found guilty...... I think a public lynching would be appropriate.
It might be a lot more difficult to get the conviction than most people think due to Georgia Law.
Well laid out. Just the facts ma'am ....
Thank you for sharing this video. Based on the info he showed / provided, I thought [before he said it], "It's manslaughter based on Georgia Laws."
George had already called the police. He didn't need to persue just because he had the "right" to do so. I don't care if Arbery got away with some construction equipment, it doesn't justify persuing and killing him. I get that George felt that he was threatened, but after he called 911, he and his son should've pulled off the road, pulled out a camera to get a good face photo and submitted that to the police. There were so many other ways that this situation could have prevented a death and subsequent arrests.
This guy is very impressive and would make a great defense attorney.
Yep but that's for a duly appointed jury to decide after a legal trial.
Oh. I agree. It was just my first thought based on the video.
If the video didn't appear on social media these scum bags would have never faced justice. The whole damn bunch of asshatz in that county need to voted the hell out of office.
Yep..... make body cams mandatory equipment for law enforcement, and their video content property of the public.
Agreed, but they actually have to turn them on. That is the problem in many cases.
One look at these two inbred knuckle draggers and you just know they aren't playing with a full deck.
2 quarts low in the brain pan. 8 generations of finding a spouse at the annual family reunion.
2 quarts low in the brain pan. 8 generations of finding a spouse at the annual family reunion.
Sadly, there are members on this site that hold these individuals in high esteem.
Sadly there are members here who are already clearly prejudiced against them without knowing all the facts.
Very sad indeed.
Vs. those that killed a man out of prejudice, facts being unnecessary. Yeah..... that works to balance things./s
You don't know that since your aren't privy to all the facts in this case. Therefore your reaction is uninformed and emotional even. Neither play well in any court of law in this United States of America. You are clearly allowing your biases to negatively affect your judgement.
Funny, one would think a Naval Officer could easily grasp those concepts
Nope... Enlisted Puke.
When it is clear from the tape of this killing you can hear one of the defendants say after Ahmaud is down..... "F___in Ni__er" makes it hard to think that race didn't have something to do with this murder. But agreed, innocent until proven guilty. Let the courts do their work.
That's all i'm saying.
Too many folks these days allow themselves to be talked into a rushed judgement driven largely by a more ever present media.
The NASCAR debacle is proof of that.
What other "facts" do you need after watching the full video of then running him down and shooting him like some inbred hick version of Jurassic Park? Hunting black men from the back of a truck like he was some wild animal?
Are we supposed to ignore the video if it turns out that the racist white guys in the truck gunning him down had a "good reason"? What? Did the black man hit on their daughter/sister? Should we dismiss the video if it turns out the black man ever did anything wrong in his past? Does it justify that video even if just prior they witnessed the black man committing some crime? Of course not, but I suppose some racists think that might make a difference, but sane rational Americans would know that nothing justified what we saw in the video.
Facts that come from an actual trial and not a media kangaroo court. Otherwise you get goatfuks like the NASCAR noose debacle.
But, i suppose if it tracks with your preferred narrative, who cares right? Justice be damned
No rtb,
When one rushes to judgement, without all the facts, without a legal trial, there is no justice.
Ever
Was someone unjustly accused in that case? Or are you just standing up for "white folk" in general since it looked at first like it might have been some white racist racers? Why not use the example of the many, many young black men who are wrongly accused and convicted of crimes they didn't commit? To date, 367 people in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing, including 21 who served time on death row and the vast majority of those are black Americans. But no, you want to point out where someone dared to besmirch "whites" in general without getting all the facts first.
We had no video of someone intentionally trying and placing a noose as they said "F___in Ni__er", because if we did we'd be able to say that case was pretty much cut & dried, much like in this case. Yes, they will get a fair trial, but a fair trial includes playing that video for the jury and telling the jury that it doesn't matter one wit what these dumb fuck bigots imagined this black man to have done, they had NO right to run and gun him down like a wild animal.
Nah, people rushed to judgement without all the facts. Then the mass media and many people here had a good spaz out about it until the facts were in. Now they all have egg on their faces.
You might have noticed I did not weigh in on that seed because I knew the facts weren't all in and I had seen no pictures yet of the supposed offense. However, that was a very different case than this one where we all got to watch these dumb fucks run this man down and shoot an unarmed man who was simply trying to defend himself from a rabid racist attack.
And you might have notice i haven't judged anyones guilt or innocence but that doesn't change a damn thing with the foundational principle of our justice system.
Innocent until proven guilty.
That doesn't happen via the mass media or the internet. Only a legal trial can do that. And there hasn't been one of those yet in this case .....
The police were called, and those men had no right to kill Ahmaud Arbery. Furthermore, this is what the homeowner has said:
I'm glad that the English family [the owners of that property under construction] came out and made these statements. Like you... unless he was in the process of murdering someone else himself, Ahmaud should NEVER have even been approached to begin with, let alone with force. Trespassing was the only crime that we can see that Ahmaud committed, which certainly doesn't justify what happened. As I stated above, there's so many other ways this could've been handled without a senseless death and arrests.
Their trial will be very interesting indeed.
I can't imagine that they're going to be able to find very many, if at all, anyone that has NOT followed or heard of the case to fill the jury with non-biased jurors at this point.