BREAKING: The three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, were found guilty of hate crimes on Tuesday
The federal case against, centered on what drove them to commit the murder—a crime they were previously convicted of in state court. Specifically, federal prosecutors sought to prove they were motivated by racial animus when they used pick-up trucks to chase, cut off, and gun down Arbery on Feb. 23, 2020.
The verdict—all three men guilty on all counts—was reached in less than four hours, and left no doubt that this was no mere cold-blooded murder, but an act fueled by racism in the Deep South. It marked one of the final chapters in a horrific saga that began with violent vigilantism in the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic and appeared at one point like it might be swept under the rug.
After a state trial that made little mention of race, the federal prosecution produced voluminous evidence of vile racism by the men, including repeated use of the n-word in the weeks before the shooting.
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