NEWS: Graphic video appears to show Ahmaud Arbery, 25 of GA., whose family says he was out for a run, confronted by 2 men who shot him dead saying they thought he was a burglar. A prosecutor wants a grand jury to decide whether the men should be charged. pic.twitter.com/kEYYJW7UlM
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) May 5, 2020
Courtesy of NBC News:
A white man and his son who are accused of killing an unarmed black man in Georgia in February have been arrested after video of the incident sparked widespread outrage.
Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34, were arrested in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced. Both men face charges of aggravated assault and murder.
Arbery, 25, was shot to death in Brunswick, a coastal city about midway between Savannah, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida, on Feb. 23 as he was running through the Satilla Shores neighborhood. His family says he was out jogging, while the McMichaels claimed that they thought he was a burglar.
According to a Glynn County police report, Gregory McMichael first spotted Arbery on foot “hauling ass” down Satilla Drive and immediately thought he was a burglar who had recently been targeting the neighborhood.
Gregory McMichael armed himself with a .357 Magnum, and his son grabbed a shotgun. They jumped into their pickup truck and chased Arbery. Police said a third man, identified as a neighbor, joined the chase and jumped into the McMichaels’ truck.
In the video, Arbery is seen running down a road as a white pickup truck is stopped in front of him. Arbery runs around the vehicle. The video then shows Arbery and another man appearing to tussle as shots are fired.
That is a very difficult video to sit through but I have watched it a couple of times now.
What is not at first clear is that Mr. Arbery was boxed in by at least two vehicles as they try to cut off his escape.
We cannot really hear what is being said but it appears to me that Mr. Arbrey was terrified that he was about to be shot and killed since he could clearly see that they were brandishing weapons.
That explains why Mr. Arbery appears to be attacking one of the assailants, he was simply fighting for his life.
And then they took it.
They had no right to chase that man, they had no right to confront him with their weapons on display, and they certainly did not have the right to murder him in cold blood.
Thee two animals need to be locked up for the rest of their natural lives.
The conservative base no doubt find the murder to be patriotic. This is the work of christians.
Beginning in August 2016, four random murders occurred in south Kansas City. All the victims were shot. All were middle-aged white men. And all were killed on or near the popular Indian Creek trail, a 26-mile concrete loop winding between green space and parks. Police charged Scott, a black man, in connection with one of those killings and said he is the prime suspect in the remaining three.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/01/kill-all-white-people-did-a-suspected-kansas-city-killer-target-middle-aged-white-men/
Your point?
anon 8;40
Are u back, mutherfucker? Done fucking yourself?
Probably should have another go at it. POS
Blacks murder white people at a staggeringly higher percentage than the other way around. You ready for that conversation and how this nation is going to deal with this on a national stage?
Ah, so you’re a white supremacist.( https://tinyurl.com/y8646n5v)
That explains a lot.
Ahhh always the fall back for all liberals when you have lost the argument, it must be racism!!
Lol. loser.
I live on a isolated dirt road in a rural town. My county is 97% white/hispanic (I have no idea why they are lumped together in the demo). Sometimes people sit in parked cars on the side of the road for hours on end. I really suspect that they are selling drugs but I really don’t know. Under these peoples’ logic I can demand that they get out of the car and/or just shoot them.
Muhammad, a black man was recorded by detectives on the day of his arrest in 2017.
“I didn’t want to do nothing to law enforcement so I just found some white men to kill,” Muhammad said to police.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/10/police-recording-california-killings-defendant-cites-racism/
Where is the outrage on this racist senseless murder of white people by black people?!
Do attempt to stay on topic, shithead.
The topic that is chosen for you and you are led around your noses by? If you haven’t noticed, this would be spot on ‘on topic’.
Wake up to the facts and reality. Bad things happen all over, the idiot box just tells you what you what you care about and you stupidly listen and obey. Open your brain and question why you are so easily led about by the media and obey.
You don’t think a black man purposely targeting and hunting and killing 4 white people, simply because they were white, is not on topic to the theme here? Open your eyes!
One again, go fuck urself. Asshole
Who filmed this? I’m curious. Where they in on it, or was it a curious onlooker who noticed them following Arbery and pulled out their phone?
the person who recorded this is a neighbor friend of the shooters. he is now being investigated by the police.
A neighbor. He’s now being investigated.
https://news.yahoo.com/neighbor-father-son-arrested-ahmaud-151231171.html
“A day after the arrests of father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, the head of a state law-enforcement agency said a neighbor who recorded a video of the fatal shooting is also being investigated.”
“The agency’s director, Vic Reynolds, said at a news conference Friday that a neighbor of the McMichaels, William Bryan, who took a video of the shooting is also being investigated but that any further arrests will depend on results of the probe.”
I do think it’s kinda a coincidence that the video was taken.
“Asked about the possibility that the McMichaels could be prosecuted for a hate crime, Reynolds noted that Georgia is one of few states without a hate-crime law. South Carolina, Arkansas and Wyoming also have no such laws, according to a U.S. Justice Department website.”
Well, isn’t that convenient. First thing the new president and Congress need to do is put in place a national hate crime law. Enough of this patchwork of states shit. Some things need to be universal for the country.
I read in the comment section of one of the news articles that there had been no burglaries in this neighborhood for the months of March and April. So not sure what burglary these two crackers were referring to. Likely Arbery was killed for “running while black.”
Why running? Well, he did used to play sports. Football. He apparently jogged to keep in shape. From the looks of them, something these two red necks could have benefitted from.
Oh, excuse me. Comments said no burglaries for the months of January and February in the neighborhood. I should have looked it up before relying on memory.
This was a snuff film. Sick fucks.
Maybe wait for the investigation and what led up to this before jumping to conclusions eh?
Fuck off. There is no reason to gun a person down in the street.
Hey, shitstain! The murder happened on February 23! It’s been investigated! McMichaels worked for the DAs office. His buddies were deliberately stalling the case! Wake up!
Might want to wait for the investigation and the facts.
What facts do you think are going to come out that they didn’t uncover in the TWO MONTHS SINCE THE MURDER OCCURRED???? FUCK OFF!!!!!!!
hope they like prison. make sure the African Americans know what they did.
Sarah Palin created this climate of violence.
It was there all along.
She just made it more than okay in the eyes of the God.
GEEZ.
She quit Alaska on July 3, 2009, which led to this pandemic. Damn you, Sarah.
I guess they took off their MAGA hats for the mugshots?
How fast do you think their social media accounts were scrubbed of pro-Trump postings…?
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/09/republican-candidate-john-james-willing-to-call-out-donald-trump-244989
Michigan Senate hopeful John James criticizes the president over his ‘shithole countries’ remark …
“I haven’t gotten any money from Donald Trump. I haven’t gotten any money from Betsy DeVos. I haven’t gotten any money — that’s political talking points. Very little of that is true,” James said during the appearance, a video of which was obtained by POLITICO. (While James hasn’t received funding from the education secretary, her family has contributed heavily to a super PAC supporting his candidacy.)
Trump has heavily promoted James, tweeting last month that James “will be a GREAT Senator for Michigan!”
James responded that his access to Trump as a Republican senator would be an asset to African Americans in the state.
“Look, Donald Trump doesn’t need less black folks around him, he needs more,”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/meth-murder-and-madness-the-system-that-buried-ahmaud-arbery
“When I went through the trial for my son, the last thing I said: ‘I don’t ever want to see another parent go through this.’ So that is why I am here,”
“On Feb. 28, Glynn County Police Chief John Powell was indicted, along with two officers and the police chief from nearby Vidalia, on charges of covering up crimes allegedly committed by members of the department’s drug task force. Former members of the since-disbanded task force were accused of suppressing evidence in a fatal police chase, sleeping and doing meth and cocaine with a confidential informant, carrying a handgun while drinking in a bar, coercing witnesses, and lying to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation about at least one of those instances of misconduct.
Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed five days prior to the indictment.”
https://news.yahoo.com/ahmaud-arbery-trump-says-disturbing-163311432.html
“My heart goes out to the parents and the family and friends,” Mr Trump told Fox News on Friday.
Mr Trump said the state’s governor and law enforcement would be looking at the case “very strongly”.
When asked about the racial issues at play in the case, the president said “justice getting done is the thing that solves that problem”.
“But it’s a heart-breaking thing.”
Can he not stop talking like an ID-10-T? “Very strongly?”
The authorities had access to the video from nearly day one. Crickets for two months until the attorney for the scumbags released it to the public because it was just so obvious what had happened.
They’ll probably claim that it shouldn’t have been released. Attorney / client white privilege, you know.
Is that the way you see it Mr. shitstain troll?
“Very Strongly” code word for good job!!!
These sewer rat POS’s need to be bitch slapped and put away in general prison population. Let us see how civic minded they are now . Let us see where this goes ? Outragous! Yep , home of the fucking brave and land of the free loaders . Bunch of ignorant, hateful. busy body inbred’s. Truly trailer low rent trash.