The three white men tried for the murder last year of Ahmaud Arbery, an African-American who had gone for a run, “cornered him like a mouse” on “mere suspicion” before killing him, the prosecution said earlier in the judgment.
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The parties present their arguments to the twelve members of the jury, including just one black man, at the courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia.
On February 23, 2020, 25-year-old Arbery was running through an upscale neighborhood in the city when two pickup trucks began chasing him. In one were Gregory and Travis McMichael, a father and son with guns, and in the other one of their neighbors, William Bryan.
The three defendants, aged 65, 35 and 52 respectively, made impulsive decisions “from mere presumptions” and ended up killing the young man, declared prosecutor Linda Dunikoski in her introduction, in which she alluded to the racial dimension of the case.
“Greg McMichael sees him running really fast down the street and what does he do? He decides to get a weapon,” she said. “Think of the worst, that this stranger, this black man running down the street, has a gun.”
According to her, her son could have dissuaded him, but instead he takes a rifle and goes with him. “It is the second decision without reflection”, he pointed out.
Your neighbor is fixing something on the porch when he sees the scene. “He has no idea what’s going on, but joins the McMichaels in the chase.”
– “Blow your head” –
They “chase” Arbery, Bryan “throws at him,” Gregory McMichael yells, “Stop or I’ll blow your head!” So “he was trapped like a mouse,” added the prosecutor, quoting the words of one of the defendants.
“Arbery was attacked for five minutes and all he did was run away,” he said. Finally, Travis McMichael opens fire. The young runner “does not fall in the act, he tries to grab the rifle; a second shot comes out”.
All three men pleaded not guilty. They claim to have mistaken Ahmaud Arbery for a thief and invoke a Georgia law that at the time authorized citizens to carry out arrests.
The young black man had already entered a house under construction several times, but the defendants “knew that he had not stolen anything, that he had not committed any crime,” the prosecutor claimed.
During the trial, the issue of racism could be addressed because the judge authorized the prosecution to present a photo of Travis McMichael’s truck, whose license plate bears a Confederate flag, symbol of the southern slave states during the Civil War.
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