A jury heard dueling accounts of whether the three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery had any right to chase the unarmed Black man through their mostly white Georgia neighborhood as closing arguments in the murder trial began on Monday.
Gregory McMichael, 65; his son Travis McMichael, 35; and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, have pleaded not guilty to charges including murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment.Register now for FREE unlimited access to reuters.com"They made their decision to attack Ahmaud Arbery in their driveways because he was a Black man running down the street," she said.
Sheffield showed jurors parts of the widely seen cellphone video Bryan made of the shooting as he drove near in his own truck, freezing it at the moment Arbery runs towards Travis McMichael, who had just aimed his shotgun at Arbery. No evidence has emerged that Arbery took anything on his frequent runs through Satilla Shores. Arbery had nothing on him when he was killed but his running clothes and sneakers.
"A good neighborhood is always policing itself," Laura Hogue, a lawyer for the elder McMichael, told the jury. "The police can't be everywhere, and in a safe, secure neighborhood police are helped by those neighbors."
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