I sincerely hope that they are able to get a conviction and that people's eyes are finally open to what's been happening all around them, even if they were unable of it.
April 28, 2021, 2:32 PM PDT / Updated April 28, 2021, 4:08 PM PDT
By Tim Fitzsimons
Three Georgia men previously charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury and charged with hate crimes and attempted kidnapping.
Ahmaud Arbery. Courtesy of Family
Arbery
was jogging in Brunswick, Georgia, when Travis McMichael, 35, and his father, Gregory McMichael, 65, pursued him in their truck and shot him dead on Feb. 23, 2020.
William "Roddie" Bryan, 51, who was driving behind them in a separate truck, filmed the shooting.
Later, Gregory McMichael, a retired police officer, leaked the video because he wanted "the public to know the truth,"
his attorney said in 2020.
The Department of Justice alleged on Wednesday that the men confronted Arbery "because of his race."
The incident sparked outrage and spurred an international movement to draw attention to racism against Black runners,
NBC News reported.
Travis and Gregory were also each charged with "carrying, and brandishing—and in Travis’s case, discharging—a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence,"
the DOJ said in a press release.
So now it’s a “hate crime” to confront thieves in your neighborhood. It’s a “hate crime” to defend yourself when they attack you and try to take your gun away.
If these men were police, they would had been 100% justified in shooting him. And there is no reason a citizen can’t make a citizens arrest when catching a criminal in the act.
We’ve seen the video evidence, we know he was guilty.
Oh good. We are starting this again. Ok. What crime was Arbury committing at the time the McMichaels chased him, confronted him, and killed him?
They saw him trespassing on that property. They also recognized him from before, he had been in the neighborhood and stole shit out of cars before.
He attacked the man with the shotgun, tried to take it from him, got blasted.
Nobody ever saw him stealing anything. There is no video of him stealing from the construction site. I repeat. What crime did he commit on the day?
Assault which is the essential element of this case.
Actually no. You might wish it was. But the reason for the pursuit is the root of the case. The McMichaels maintain they were trying to effect a citizens arrest. Since no crime took place that means the pursuit and effort to detain Arbury was criminal.
In Georgia when criminals pursue you we have stand your ground. It means Arbury’s actions under law were defensive. It also means the McMichaels committed murder.
No.....the Senior McMicharls had been designated as the go to guy for the problems with burglaries and trespassing in that neighborhood as he was a former policeman and investigator.
Chasing someone is not a crime......trying to talk to someone is not a crime....telling someone to stop is not an arrest....you remain coinfused.
I am actually thrilled that you are not their lawyer. Because if you were the appeal about your incompetence during the trial would guarantee them another one. This way they have a competent defense. One with a low probability of success. But a chance.
McMichaels claimed it on the day during interviews with police. His lawyer asked Dial the GBI investigator about it on the hearing I posted in this thread.
But you being right is not about truth or facts. It is about your short attention span and ignorance. You won’t read the links. You won’t watch the videos. I could post more but you have not read one yet.
The McMichaels are almost certainly going to be convicted. If convicted they will get 20 to life in prison. For Daddy that is life. Roddy might get out as an old man. Travis will never leave Prison alive.
Honestly the one with the best chance to avoid prison is Roddy. And his chances are not good. Say ten percent. The Jury might buy his argument that he was trying to help neighbors who he thought were in the right. Maybe. As I said. One chance in ten.
You of course being ignorant of the law, the facts, or anything will blame it on Liberals and all that.
You let your bias delude you.....your understanding of law is thus compromised.
Well a Defense attorney says so.
Another attorney. He says no too.
Odd isn’t it. All the actual legal people seem to be who I am quoting and you are quoting. Yourself and other right wing radicals. Not actual lawyers. You know. Who know the law. And make their living with the law. Ah. What do they know.
I repeat. I am happy the McMichaels are not represented by you. Your understanding of the law would get them the death penalty.
I wish he was representing them.
I love the Constitution so much I want them to have a competent and vigorous defense. Even though I believe they are murdering idiots I want every conviction no matter who the defendant is to be hard won. I want every defendant to have the best defense possible.
You said you watched the video of Ahmaud getting kilt........could you give us your take on it?
Are you black?
Oh For Fucks Sake.
Yes I saw the video. And as I already said the video showed them doing everything I was told not to do.
I started to read. News articles. Reports of court filings. I watched the hearing. I gathered information. And you know what? My initial impression was confirmed by the charges handed down by the Grand Jury. The blithering idiots did everything they were not supposed to do.
As more of the story and sequence of events came down it was confirmed. Then I spent some time considering why these two morons would do this?
Part of my training in the Army was to estimate what people would do. Enemy soldiers, but people. My Sergeants taught me and they stressed that people react according to their nature. You go with what you know. And what you believe.
It clicked. My estimation about what happened. When it was reported that they used derogatory words to describe Arbury online and in discussions with Roddy. I would guess that they felt about Blacks as you do. Generally speaking.
My Father and Mother worked with people from every imaginable background. During parties and such there were always what would be called Minorities around. I never heard my parents speak ill of a race. I was taught to treat every adult as someone important. Yes sir. No sir. All that sort of thing.
I had black, brown, and white friends growing up. My Confirmation Sponsor is a Hispanic man who is a first generation American. I hold him in the greatest esteem. A finer man I have rarely made the acquaintance of.
My focus is always the truth. And the first truth is that anyone who claims to be able to judge a people based upon skin color is a fool. Anyone who claims science backs up such nonsense is heir to the throne of the kingdom of fools.
You see a Black Man. I see a man. You see a race of criminals. I see people. You claim an advantage of IQ. I doubt you are smarter than most minorities. I doubt you are as smart as most to be honest.
It is said that you should be careful of what you hate. You become that which you hate. You become it.
I don’t hate you or any one. I would avoid associating myself with you as your outlook is intolerably offensive to good sense and logic.
And my IQ is 135. I maxed out several sections of the ASVAB and qualified for Nuclear Power if I had joined the Navy instead of the Army.
Color does not matter. And using another’s hate to justify your own is childish and petty. I was taught better than that.