Guilty!
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — A jury found three white Georgia men guilty of murder and other charges in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery early last year.
Travis McMichael, who fired the shots, was found guilty on all nine counts, including malice murder and four counts of felony murder.
His father, Gregory McMichael, was found not guilty of malice murder but guilty of felony murder and all other charges.
Their neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, was found guilty of three counts felony murder, one count aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and criminal attempt to commit a felony. He was not convicted of malice murder, one count of felony murder and one count of aggravated assault.
Cheers erupted in the courtroom as the verdicts were read, and people were crying and embracing. Deputies called for order. In the hallway outside the courtroom, Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones sobbed.
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15 year old Chicago boy shot & killed waiting for Ride Share. His mother also grieving........
along with at least 11 other Chicago mothers who have lost their child to gun violence. No "Rev" Al. No Jesse Jackson. No blm. No New Black Panthers hanging around waiting for justice. No celebs mouthing off from their gated homes. No CBS,NBC,ABC,NPR, WaPo, NYT, MSNBC, CNN. Certain black lives matter. That's seems to be the message.
BLM is a terrorist organization. Truth
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And how do you feel about eliminating bail requirements now?
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Yep they are. Not even close.
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Rashida Tlaib wants them all released...within 10 years minimum.
She's a moron.
"Squad Game"?
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She was too stupid and ignorant to answer the questions about it.
Conner loves her.
The Squad is group of illiterates
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She is one ugly broad.
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There can be no disagreement on that
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Idiots should have plea bargained. It was an open and shut case. Now they will never get out alive.
The stereotypes of Southern bigotry are so so retarded... by decades.
Over half the population down there migrated recently or is under 40 years old.
Few of them have any idea what Jim Crow means.
It's northern/coastal media elitism that persists in looking down on deplorables in flyover country.
Oh! And this attitude derives from their insecurity and envy, as the South is the most "progressive" region of the country, in the broader meaning of the word.
Hell, Atlanta is as famous for rap as it is for country.
I believe they had tried to but the DA said no chance.
PS, the rest of your post is your invention.
Yes they are typically very enlightened and progressive in South Georgia.
Very jealous. Wants me some of that. Give me a break.
Just as they should be.
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Yup, as Jakers pointed out below. The system works.
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But for the media shining a light on the incident, it does not appear charges would have been filed.
So when you say "the system works," please credit the media.
Not sure that’s accurate…
Every shooting merits an police investigation. I’d be willing to bet that charges would have been filed without the media.
Per the attached article, had it not been for WaPo getting and posting the video, justice might not
have been served...sadly, this isn't the only case like that.
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/ahmaud-arbery-verdict-guilty/620817/
See Sandmann, Nick, regarding treatment by the MSM. Nice work Media
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And they continue. This is from last night.
How do you tell this story without mentioning who this guy is, his past arrest record and pure hatred?
Link: https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-rachel-maddow-darrell-brooks-waukesha-parade
She is really a disgusting POS
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Well, the media mislead the Left about Rittenhouse. Maybe they got one right this time.
Honestly, everything I'd heard about the Arbery case, these guys sounded very guilty.
But, the way the media treated Rittenhouse made me second guess that, and wonder if the Arbery murderers could actually be innocent.
If the media takes sides instead of reporting news impartially, they discredit themselves, and start to make the innocent look guilty, and the actually guilty look innocent.
Looks like the courts got both cases right...but the media makes people second guess that.
The game they are playing threatens the fabric of society.
Stop. Leave it alone. The system works, it has nothing to do with the media.
The media are the root of evil in this country, along with places like Facebook. You know this but are told differently on a daily basis. You keep telling us how smart you are. Statements like the one above says otherwise.
The media pressure made the difference, including drawing in the FBI to the case.
"On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Marquez "Quez" Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old Black man, was murdered in Satilla Shores, a neighborhood near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia, United States. Arbery had been pursued by three White residents – Travis McMichael and his father Gregory, who were armed and in one vehicle, and William "Roddie" Bryan, who was in another vehicle and videoed the pursuit and shooting. After Travis exited his vehicle and wielded a shotgun, Travis and Arbery engaged in a physical confrontation, during which Travis shot Arbery. Police interview transcripts detailed that Gregory initiated the chase after seeing Arbery running past his house, suspecting that Arbery had committed burglary or theft in Satilla Shores, but no evidence has emerged of Arbery doing so. According to police testimony, Bryan told police that he saw the chase and joined in independently, but was not sure if Arbery had done anything wrong. Arbery had entered an under-construction house with no doors five times in five months, including once shortly before the shooting, but security videos showed that he had not touched or taken anything.
The Glynn County Police Department (GCPD) said the Brunswick District Attorney's Office advised them on February 23 to make no arrests, while the Brunswick District Attorney's Office denied that its top officeholders gave such advice. Waycross District Attorney George Barnhill twice advised the GCPD to make no arrests, once on February 24, before he was assigned to the case on February 27, and a second time on April 2 while announcing his intention to recuse himself from the case due to connections between his son and Gregory McMichael. Barnhill requested recusal on April 7, and the case was sent to the Atlantic District Attorney's Office on April 13. At the behest of Gregory McMichael, a local attorney provided a copy of the video of the shooting to local radio station WGIG, who posted it to their website on May 5. The video went viral, having also been posted on YouTube and Twitter. Within hours, Atlantic District Attorney Tom Durden said a grand jury would decide whether charges would be brought, and accepted an offer from Governor Brian Kemp to have the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) investigate the case.
The GBI arrested the McMichaels on May 7 and Bryan on May 21, charging them with felony murder and other crimes. Meanwhile, the case was ultimately transferred to the Cobb County District Attorney's Office. On June 4, additional evidence was presented by the prosecutor to support the murder charges, including a statement to the GBI by William Bryan that Travis McMichael said "fucking nigger" as Arbery lay dying. A grand jury subsequently indicted each of the three men on charges of malice murder, felony murder (four counts), aggravated assault (two counts), false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. All three defendants were convicted with counts of felony murder among other charges including aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and criminal attempt to commit a felony. Travis McMichael was found guilty of the most serious charge of malice murder. All three convicted now face up to life imprisonnment.
The fact that the McMichaels were not arrested until 74 days after the killing, after the video went viral, sparked debates on racial profiling in the United States. Numerous religious leaders, politicians, athletes, and other celebrities condemned the incident. The GCPD and the Brunswick District Attorney's Office were nationally criticized for their handling of the case and the delayed arrests; Georgia Attorney General Christopher M. Carr formally requested the intervention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the case on May 10, 2020, which was granted the following day. In April 2021, all three men were indicted on federal charges of one count each of interference with rights (a hate crime) and one count each of attempted kidnapping, while the McMichaels were also charged with separate counts of using firearms during a crime of violence.'
Face it Conor. Most of the media are disgusting, plain and simple.
There are numerous examples of this. They love to divide people by race and you continue to swallow what they print and say. How come most the of left leaning media is downplaying what happened in Wisconsin? Calling it a “crash”, not telling people who the scumbag is and not showing his mugshot?
Blind squirrel, at best. Most of the time, the media works against the system.
I still wonder if they got this one right. Everything I heard indicates these guys are guilty. But, if the Rittenhouse trial taught me anything, you can't trust the media to tell you who is guilty of what. You just can't. They will lie to frame the guy they don't like. I hope they didn't do that in this case.
Quite the contrary, Ned.
The media is often the best vehicle, exposing miscarriages of justice of wrongly condemned inmates, police corruption, abuses of power, and shoddy prison environments.
The media has brought sunlight to juvenile justice, bail reform, sentencing disparities, rehabilitation programs, and a host of human stories that make the criminal justice system better and fairer.
As a defense lawyer, the media loves to sensationalize crime stories. Lawyers and judges work through it, and try the cases.
Jurors do their best to follow their oaths.
Have some faith in America, Ned.
It can be. It often is not. Most often not. Bail reform will be exposed soon, in Waukesha.
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Agree. Glad those pieces of shit will rot in prison.
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Now go after the bangers who shoot children in Chicago. "Rev" Al & Jesse, anybody home?
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Blacks killed by blacks don't matter to the Left.
But, they will use those deaths as justificaton to take guns from law abiding suburbanites.
100% Correct.
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