In a trial that will scrutinise citizen’s arrest laws, jury will hear case of three white men accused of chasing and killing a Black jogger
People gather to demand justice for Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia on November 4 2021 in front of a mural honouring him. Picture: REUTERS/OCTAVIO JONES
Arbery’s relatives, some of whom have attended jury selection since the trial began in Glynn County Superior Court in Brunswick on October 18, have alleged that Arbery was targeted on the basis of his race. The McMichaels and Bryan chased Arbery in pickup trucks as he ran through the mainly white Satilla Shores neighbourhood on a Sunday afternoon before cornering and confronting him. Police say Travis McMichael fired a shotgun three times after Arbery initially grappled with the weapon and then turned to run.
Spurred by the shooting, state lawmakers repealed the law, contending it was overly broad. Governor Brian Kemp said it was a “Civil War-era law, ripe for abuse.” “It’s the intent of the underlying offences and the result,” Mawuli Davis, an Atlanta-based civil rights attorney, said in an interview. “Did someone die while they committed those offences? That makes it murder whether they meant to kill or not.”
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