Anyone here watch the whole trial? It is said that only 1% of the public watched the 11 hour trial.
We watched all of it from the beginning to the end ,No good movies, plus we took a break from work.
Those who didn't watch the trail missed all kinds of things.
It was one of the worse trials of the decade.It wouldn't have been any worse if Jessy Jackson was the judge and Shabazz and Al Sharpton were the prosecutors.
I live in Georgia. I watched the preliminary, and the trial, delayed. I was working.
Let me clue you in on a few of your complaints. First, we don’t put victims on trial. Those days ended about 40 years ago. The public got outraged when Rapists claimed the woman was asking for it, and was loose, and all that sort of shit. So the admissible evidence was limited to the event in question.
Now, in this case, you can claim that Arbery was the incarnation of Al Capone, but it doesn’t matter. The only things that matter is what he was doing that day. And no crimes were committed by him THAT DAY!
The McMichaels claimed in public that they suspected him of a number of breakins and thefts. The problems is that the Police didn’t consider him a suspect. The why was that they knew who the suspects were, there was video of them stealing on two separate occasions. The actual suspects were, wait for it, white.
While focusing on what the Black Guy was doing, the McMichaels actually let the real criminals continue their crime spree. But hey, they were justified in thinking Arbery was a crook. Because, of. Um. I’ll get back to you. When I can think of a reason that isn’t based upon his skin color. Or you could.
The McMichaels had no justification to believe that Arbery had committed a crime. Citizens Arrest, as it was in Georgia, was intended to be used when there wasn’t time to wait for the police. The immediate detention of a suspect was required. There is a little problem however. You see, you sort of have to tell the suspect, he’s under arrest.
That is your authority. It is you stating that by the laws of the State, you are detaining that person, for the law. By the law, and for the law.
The McMichaels didn’t do that. They kept telling Arbery to stop, and then got more insistent when he did not stop. Finally Greg threatened to kill Arbery by his own statement to the police. His words to them were that he threatened to blow Arbery’s head off.
Now, in Georgia that’s against the law. I’m not sure what the laws are in your state. You could find out for me. Arm up, and walk over to someone and tell them you’re going to blow their fucking heads off. Let me know if it’s legal. I’m betting you won’t be posting the outcome for a few days while you are arraigned and arrange bail.
The McMichaels and Roddy both told the police, and this was confirmed by the presence of fingerprints on the cars, that they had tried to bump or ram Arbery into stopping. Now. In Georgia, this is illegal. I’m betting this is illegal in your state too. It’s frowned upon to bump people with cars.
Finally the standoff. When Travis exited the vehicle with the shotgun. There is a charge. Aggravated Assault. It is a felony.
Now, in Georgia, and I’m betting your state too, we don’t let people committing felonies claim Self defense. Let’s say someone is robbing a store, and they shoot the clerk who was coming over the counter at them. The actions of the clerk, while ill advised, were self defense. The actions of the robber, were not, and never will be considered self defense.
The Arbery’s committed several Felonies before Travis got out of the vehicle. That meant they were in the midst of a crime spree. That is what you call it when people commit a series of felonies. Felony defined as serious crimes where you will spend at least a year and a day in prison.
If Arbery had stopped, the McMichaels would still be going to prison. That’s the truth you don’t want to deal with.
None of these laws were created out of thin air, nor misapplied. They were applied for the McMichaels the same way they have been in the past. These were not new laws. Nor new readings. There were precedents for every single charge and those precedents were quoted by the Lawyers, and the Judge during the conviction and sentence. Precedents mean that these arguments were heard before, and there was already a standard determined by the courts previous to this date.
So other than victim blaming, and knowing he was a bad guy because he was Black, what else do you have? Because Georgia law doesn’t read like you think it does. In fact, nearly every Georgian I have talked to thinks that those three got what they deserved. And I live in a rural area, far from the cities, where conservative ideals are strong. None of them agree with you. The only people I have talked to is some Urban types who see themselves as saviors of the White Race, as if a million years of evolution had a single purpose, to create them.
So no, you’re not right, and no it wasn’t a travesty of justice. Sorry.