A U.S. District Court judge sentenced Travis McMichael and his father Greg McMichael on Monday in Georgia. Both were previously sentenced to life without parole in a state court for Arbery’s murder.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The man who recorded cellphone video of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing was sentenced Monday to 35 years in prison after his role in the fatal chase was deemed a federal hate crime.
The McMichaels told police they suspected Arbery was a burglar. Investigators determined he was unarmed and had committed no crimes. Arbery's killing became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice and killings of unarmed Black people, including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. Like Floyd's case, Arbery's slaying was captured in a graphic cellphone video that sparked widespread outrage partly because local prosecutors had not initially filed criminal charges.
"It's so unfair, so unfair, so unfair that he was killed while he was not even committing a crime," she said."I'm sure my words mean very little to you but I want to assure you I never wanted any of this to happen," he said."There was no malice in my heart or my son's heart that day.""I think he realizes that he made some horrible decisions. Unfortunately, his apology doesn't bring back my son," she said.
During the February hate crimes trial, prosecutors fortified their case that Arbery's killing was motivated by racism by showing the jury roughly two dozen text messages and social media posts in which Travis McMichael and Bryan used racist slurs and made disparaging comments about Black people.
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