3 Men Convicted In Ahmaud Arbery's Murder Found Guilty Of Federal Hate Crimes
etonline.comThe jury was made up of eight white people, three Black people and one Hispanic person.Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, in February 2020.
Cellphone video of the incident showed the McMichaels chasing Arbery as he jogged through the neighborhood. The two men cornered the 25-year-old with their pickup truck before Travis McMichael shot Arbery with a shotgun.
Bryan helped chase Arbery and recorded the shooting on his cellphone. The incident sparked national outrage, as did the fact that the three suspects were not arrested until two months after Arbery's death.
In closing arguments Monday, the prosecution told the jury that the three defendants were driven by «racial assumptions, racial resentment and racial anger.» Defense lawyers argued that the pursuit of Arbery was not racially motivated, but a result of their belief he was involved in criminal activity.
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