OK....you were responsible for a series of felonies, burglaries, and there are five videos of you on the site of those thefts....and you know the police would like to question you.....
Take it from there.
But nothing was stolen. And Arbery was not a suspect in the handful of thefts in the neighborhood.
One example was the Defense hero. A guy who had a trailer stolen. But didn’t report it. How did Arbery steal a trailer while jogging? Nobody had seen him driving in the neighborhood. Nobody had seen him pulling a trailer. And if our defense Hero had reported it. Then maybe the police might have found the thriving redneck who had stolen it.
What could Arbery steal while wearing shorts and a t shirt? A handful of nails? A small screwdriver? At most misdemeanor petty theft. That is IF your assumption is correct and he was a thief.
The McMichaels had no Justification to set off in pursuit. None.
But I believe I know what happened. And this is using their statements and my knowledge of the type of person we are talking about.
Travis reported a gun stolen out of his truck. He decided that Arbery. The black guy jogging around had stolen it. It ate at him. It offended him. In his testimony he described two events where showing guns to Blacks had scared them. He viewed Blacks as you and others do. Criminals. Nothing but criminals. So of course Arbery was the thief.
It ate at him. And he knew if he could get the guy the cops could make him confess. Daddy told him about that. And he knew how scared Blacks were when you showed them a gun.
So finally opportunity and luck was with him. They saw the damned Black Criminal. They armed up. Everyone knows how dangerous Blacks are to poor defenseless White folks.
The insult of a Black Guy stealing from him was too much to endure. Travis couldn’t let it go.
So the two idiots set off. And began a crime spree of incredible proportions. And they knew they were in trouble. Greg activated the Good Old Boys network by calling Jackie Johnson to ask for help.
Now there we enter the political. Jackie wanted to help. And as the reports came in she realized it was a shit show and she wanted nothing to do with it. She had already gone way out on a limb to say they should not be arrested that weekend.
Now there is a procedure for recusing yourself. You call the Attorney General and tell him the problem. The Attorney General assigns the case to another DA. No problem. Conflict of interest is avoided.
Jackie didn’t. She handed the case of to a neighboring DA and informed the Attorney General. In doing so she made it seem like a simple self defense case. And the review was to check the proverbial block.
This DA sat on it for a while and then realized he didn’t want it either. He asked the Attorney General to give it to another and then wrote the famous memo saying it was self defense.
The hope was that the third DA would not look closely at it and just check the block. And honestly that might have happened.
Except Greg McMichaels decided to take matters into his own hands. He released the video to the press through an attorney. This showed everyone what happened.
This third DA realizing the shit had hit the fan asked for support from the GBI. The GBI showed up and started to read the files. They said it was a clear case of Murder. Here is the dirty little secret. Everyone knew it was. The cops said they wanted to arrest the McMichaels and were told no. At first Jackie Johnson denied this and swore she hadn’t talked to the police. A phone log was produced and showed she had called. Jackie shut the hell up. Finally.
The second DA said he had not studied the files and was going off of what Jackie had told him. This way he was lazy and incompetent. Not corrupt. He could claim his own cases were keeping him busy. That was why he didn’t study the files he had gotten. Overworked.
Every time there was a decision point. The McMichaels picked the wrong option. Seriously. They didn’t do anything right.
They decided to set off in pursuit while arming up. Bad choice. They tried to stop Arbery without saying the magic words that might give them some cover legally. Bad choice. They broke out the bang sticks and committed another Felony. Bad choice. Then the shooting.
Now. Somewhere in this nation is the worst lawyer in the country. He is so incompetent that he screws up personal injuries. That worst lawyer in the nation will tell you to say nothing to the cops. Wait and let a lawyer talk to them.
Greg and Travis along with Roddy decided to go with the other option. The good old boys network. Bad choice. It was a hot potato for the network and it was going to be tough. Probably too tough to bury easily.
But it seemed to be working. Sort of. And then Greg decided to release the video.
The thing about the Good Old Boys network is it will evaporate like fog in sunshine when it is in danger of being exposed.
And that is exactly what happened. Everyone who had been part of the don’t arrest them movement began waving their hands and saying it wasn’t their fault. Rodney Dangerfield didn’t look that uncomfortable doing his act.
At every single point where a choice had to be made. They picked the wrong one.
And this continued through the trial. The choice to put Travis on the stand was idiotic. The Prosecution clearly showed he went against the very training he claimed was the justification of his actions.
I mentioned the magic words. If you don’t say them. You are under arrest. Then you aren’t detaining to trying to legally. You are assaulting the person. You have to declare this in order for your actions to be legal. You have to inform the subject of the arrest what you are doing.
Every single choice they made was wrong.
