LeBron James has joined the calls for justice for Ahmaud Arbery.
Lee Merritt, the attorney for Arbery’s mother Wanda Cooper, told FirstCoast News that the McMichaels are claiming a citizen’s arrest statute in GeorgiaAccording to police records obtained by AP, Gregory McMichael told police that they pursued Arbery because they believed he matched the description of someone accused of a recent break-in in the neighborhood.
“We have no reason to believe that either actor here, Travis or Gregory observed a crime,” Merritt told FirstCoast News. “These men were vigilantes, they were a posse, and they performed a modern lynching in the middle of the day,” he told AP.Gregory McMichael has ties to the local law enforcement, having worked for several years for the Brunswick Police Department before working as an investigator in the town’s district attorney’s office, according to FirstCoast News.
According to police reports obtained by AP, Gregory McMichael claimed that Arbery “began to violently attack” his son when he got out of the truck holding his shotgun.“The runner crosses the road to pass the pickup on the passenger side, then crosses back in front of the truck. A gunshot sounds, and the video shows the runner grappling with a man in the street over what appears to be a shotgun or rifle. A second shot can be heard, and the runner can be seen punching the man.
AP attempted to reach out to the McMichaels, but reports that a phone number of Gregory’s has been disconnected and that it couldn’t find an active listing for Travis.
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