In a recent, fairly long, thread about the Arbery case, one could not walk away without feeling that far too many saw it as race central to the question of guilt or innocence.
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In today's National Review, the author makes the same argument.
1. "The Reality of Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder vs. the Race Obsession of Biden’s DOJ
Georgia’s successful state prosecution, which relied on hard evidence, not woke-left demagoguery, illustrates the politicized nature of the Justice Department’s civil-rights indictment.
The media-Democrat complex’s obsession notwithstanding, the killing of Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was not a case about race. It was a case about tragic mistakes of law, which led to an unjustifiable homicide.
2. The guilty verdicts are not only the appropriate resolution of this mournful case, they highlight the injustice — more specifically, the now-familiar racialized demagoguery — of the Biden Justice Department’s indictment of the same defendants on transparently political “civil rights” grounds.
3. There were real reasons to suspect that Arbery could have been involved in property theft at a lot under construction in Satilla Shores, a neighborhood in the coastal city of Brunswick, Ga. Police were aware that he had been caught on surveillance cameras trespassing on the site several times prior to his fateful appearance there on February 23, 2020. One of the defendants had seen him there late at night, acting furtively.
4. Still, Arbery was far from the only person who trespassed through the site, and there was no probable cause that he had stolen anything. Consequently, there was no basis for the three defendants — Travis McMichael, his father Greg McMichael, and their neighbor William “Roddy” Bryan — to assault and try to detain Arbery and to try to effect a citizen’s arrest by cornering him in their trucks as he tried to run away.
5. Given that Travis McMichael was thus provoking Arbery by this legally insupportable onslaught, he was not justified in using force — much less lethal force — in the final confrontation, shooting Arbery to death with his Remington rifle. Greg McMichael and Roddy Bryan clearly aided and abetted Travis. And the elder McMichael, a former cop and district attorney’s office investigator who instigated the improvident chase, acted shamefully in leaning on his law-enforcement connections to discourage a full investigation."
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This was the erudite post I would have wished for in the earlier thread, rather than the shrill cries of "Racist!!!!" aimed at any who didn't roll over and advance the Democrat propaganda, that whites simply wish to kill innocent black folks.
Facts About The Ahmaud Arbery Case: Racism? Seems Not.
1. We've all pretty much been appraised of the facts of the Rittenhouse case....but this HLN attorney discusses facts of which very few knew of the Arbery Trial.....begins at 6:30 of the vid. Before the Verdict: NYC Trial Attorney Misty Marris 2. Based on the (biased) news reporting, this...
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In today's National Review, the author makes the same argument.
1. "The Reality of Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder vs. the Race Obsession of Biden’s DOJ
Georgia’s successful state prosecution, which relied on hard evidence, not woke-left demagoguery, illustrates the politicized nature of the Justice Department’s civil-rights indictment.
The media-Democrat complex’s obsession notwithstanding, the killing of Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was not a case about race. It was a case about tragic mistakes of law, which led to an unjustifiable homicide.
2. The guilty verdicts are not only the appropriate resolution of this mournful case, they highlight the injustice — more specifically, the now-familiar racialized demagoguery — of the Biden Justice Department’s indictment of the same defendants on transparently political “civil rights” grounds.
3. There were real reasons to suspect that Arbery could have been involved in property theft at a lot under construction in Satilla Shores, a neighborhood in the coastal city of Brunswick, Ga. Police were aware that he had been caught on surveillance cameras trespassing on the site several times prior to his fateful appearance there on February 23, 2020. One of the defendants had seen him there late at night, acting furtively.
4. Still, Arbery was far from the only person who trespassed through the site, and there was no probable cause that he had stolen anything. Consequently, there was no basis for the three defendants — Travis McMichael, his father Greg McMichael, and their neighbor William “Roddy” Bryan — to assault and try to detain Arbery and to try to effect a citizen’s arrest by cornering him in their trucks as he tried to run away.
5. Given that Travis McMichael was thus provoking Arbery by this legally insupportable onslaught, he was not justified in using force — much less lethal force — in the final confrontation, shooting Arbery to death with his Remington rifle. Greg McMichael and Roddy Bryan clearly aided and abetted Travis. And the elder McMichael, a former cop and district attorney’s office investigator who instigated the improvident chase, acted shamefully in leaning on his law-enforcement connections to discourage a full investigation."
The Reality of Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder vs. the Race Obsession of Biden’s DOJ | National Review
Georgia’s successful state prosecution, which relied on hard evidence, not woke-left demagoguery, illustrates the politicized nature of the Justice Department’s civil-rights indictment.
www.nationalreview.com
This was the erudite post I would have wished for in the earlier thread, rather than the shrill cries of "Racist!!!!" aimed at any who didn't roll over and advance the Democrat propaganda, that whites simply wish to kill innocent black folks.
