Georgia 'LYNCHING' citizen fatally shoots unarmed black man ... Video Emerges, Grand Jury to Convene

The fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery -- a 25-year-old black man out for a jog when he was chased and killed -- was caught on video, prompting a call for a grand jury to review the case.

Arbery's death is being referred to as a modern-day lynching, as he was unarmed when he was gunned down in Brunswick, GA on February 23 by a white citizen named Travis McMichael ... who has not been arrested or charged. He also happens to be the son of a former district attorney investigator.

As you can see in the video, Arbery was jogging when he was stopped by McMichael and his father in a white pickup truck. McMichael was armed with a shotgun. Arbery appears to attempt to run around the truck before he and McMichael start grappling.

After at least 2 shots, the men continued struggling over the gun ... until Arbery stumbles away, shot in the mid-section, and then collapses to the ground. He was later pronounced dead.

McMichael has not been charged in the shooting ... reportedly because he and his father, who was in the back of the truck, claim they were trying to make a citizen's arrest. They claim Ahmaud fit the description of a suspect in a string of recent break-ins in the area.

After the emergence of the video, D.A. Pro Tempore Tom Durden has decided the case "should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery.”

Ahmaud's family says the use of deadly force was unnecessary.

Video Shows Fatal Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, Unarmed Black Man in Georgia

The fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old unarmed black man, was caught on video and has prompted a grand jury investigation.

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Here's the statement from the district attorney who was brought in to oversee the case and decide how and whether the case should be prosecuted.

Attorney Lee Merritt, who represents Arberys mother, claims "The series of events captured in this video confirm what all the evidence indicated prior to its release— Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by three white men that targeted him solely because of his race and murdered him..."

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Imagine being hunted by two fat hillbillies in a truck.

 

[Wy4M]

Dood we get it you think black people should be killed. For being black, you are only sad you did not live back in the good old time where you could take part in the lynching's.

 

[MadStan]

The defense of the Hillbilly 3 by their defenders is a direct result of a picture of innocence and virtue of their actions - that the defenders were presented with; while at the same time, the actual events that really took place are presented as "misinterpretation". And like all first impressions it just sticks.

The evidence showed what the intent of the McMicheals actually was and the events shown properly reveal this with great clarity.

The McMicheals didn't have a bad day in Court, nor did they have a bad defense - their defense was pretty in-line with the narrative we see on here by their defenders and all in all, they presented the position of the the defendants in-line what they felt.

What the defenders of the McMicheals are really after is a change in law that allows them to not only take the law into there own hands when they feel they want to in the absence of police, but to extend their rights of defense to any public place and to allow them the right to rob the freedom of another person if they feel it is justified based on their own judgement.

Which I can understand - the only problem being "when they feel it is justified" is subject to interpretation and if they want to throw out the baseline established by law, then there is no longer any "judgement" required.

 

[The Last Stand]

This sounds to me that you lose the legal right to prevent someone committing a crime. Only the police get to stop criminals. Is that right? That sounds bad.

Somebody breaks into Crawford's place of abode. That's a crime. Crawford can defend herself with a gun. But wait, she cannot interfere in the scene of a crime. Just wait for the police.

 

[Secret Asshole]

His lawyer absolutely fucked him. If he’d gone to a separate trial or taken the plea deal to just get dinged for felony false imprisonment and aggravated assault, he’d be walking out of jail on parole after a few years. Instead his lawyer nearly got himself thrown out of court and nixed a really good plea deal he was without a doubt offered several times

Yeah, this is less about the trial and more about really bad defense. The sad part is that he's not really all that educated and didn't know any better. It'll probably be at least a decade, maybe longer, if he ever gets out or an appeal. It is INCREDIBLY difficult to overturn convictions by nature.

Watch 'White Boy Rick', a hitman with 30 bodies (who you think is in prison) got out of jail before Rick. And Rick got life for drug dealing. If the system wants you in, even when its obvious you shouldn't be, the system is going to keep you in. And if you're convicted, the system is going to do everything it can to keep you inside. Even if you are innocent. And then if you get out, the system will try to spite fuck you.

 

[Wy4M]

Yeah, this is less about the trial and more about really bad defense. The sad part is that he's not really all that educated and didn't know any better. It'll probably be at least a decade, maybe longer, if he ever gets out or an appeal. It is INCREDIBLY difficult to overturn convictions by nature.

If I recall correctly they also found Arbery's fingerprints and/or print of his palm on William Brian's car which means that he took part in the chase and probably tried to block Arbery too.

 

[What the shit]

I don't give a shit about the other two but he got completely fucked. Life in prison for recording the incident and actually helping the prosecution because without the video none of them would be in jail.

It makes you wonder what kind of precedent this sets? You can go to jail just for recording a crime. It’s fucking ridiculous and I really can’t wrap my head over how he got life with the chance of parole for recording something. If anybody needs to be mad at the justice system and call it unfair, this is the example.

 

[Secret Asshole]

If I recall correctly they also found Arbery's fingerprints and/or print of his palm on William Brian's car which means that he took part in the chase and probably tried to block Arbery too.

I mean, I'm not absolving him. He was offered a plea deal and it isn't clear if it was ever communicated properly to him. Which is why its particularly fucked, since the sentence was probably not life in prison that was offered. The prosecution was willing to let him face lesser charges, but his lawyer completely fucked him.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

What the defenders of the McMicheals are really after is a change in law that allows them to not only take the law into there own hands when they feel they want to in the absence of police, but to extend their rights of defense to any public place and to allow them the right to rob the freedom of another person if they feel it is justified based on their own judgement.

What gets me is how blindingly partisan they are. Like, you don't think this shit can't be used the other way?

Some middle aged white dude misgenders some troon and an antifa mob "citizen arrests" him to death. We're going to be playing this race-baiting game again, you really wanna let mobs of idiots have legal arrest powers like that? Kyle got off in part because those fucking retards had no right trying to mess with him.

 

[JohnDoe]

you really wanna let mobs of idiots have legal arrest powers

Fun fact, the Georgia citizens arrest law was written back in the 1860s and never updated. The fact that it was so creaky and antiquated made this case more complex (and might be the reason for an appeal regarding that law and jury instructions). Should it have been updated? Yes, certainly. That the legislature never did is on them, and as I said before - the State fucked up (by not updating their laws) and when the shit hit the fan because of their fuck up some citizens paid the price.

Further fun fact, because this was so racially politized the reactionary result was to simply strike the law entirely. No update, just complete repeal. So now if you, as a homeowner say, find some guy in your daughter's bedroom at 3am trying to yank her nightgown off your only option under law is to shoot him dead. If you try to restrain him in any way for the police to arrive and take him away, you're committing kidnapping or false imprisonment. Or you could let him rape your daughter and then run cackling into the night, I guess.

Will this change result in more dead criminals (mostly black)? Probably. Its almost like letting a bunch of race-grifters and media hysteria drive legislative change and prosecution decisions is bad or something.

 

[Dyn]

So now if you, as a homeowner say, find some guy in your daughter's bedroom at 3am trying to yank her nightgown off your only option under law is to shoot him dead.

If you caught a guy in your own home trying to rape your daughter, holding him down and waiting for the police would be absolutely covered by privilege of self-defense and you'd be far better off legally if you did that instead of just shooting him.

 

[Techpriest]

It makes you wonder what kind of precedent this se? You can go to jail just for recording a crime. It’s fucking ridiculous and I really can’t wrap my head over how he got life with the chance of parole for recording something. If anybody needs to be mad at the justice system and call it unfair, this is the example.

It’s a precedent that has been set before in this sort of case. Georgia kinda sucks like this.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

Further fun fact, because this was so racially politized the reactionary result was to simply strike the law entirely. No update, just complete repeal. So now if you, as a homeowner say, find some guy in your daughter's bedroom at 3am trying to yank her nightgown off your only option under law is to shoot him dead. If you try to restrain him in any way for the police to arrive and take him away, you're committing kidnapping or false imprisonment. Or you could let him rape your daughter and then run cackling into the night, I guess.

Or you can not create retarded hypotheticals. This didn't undo Castle Doctrine. Not even close.

If you were loss prevention at a walmart, yeah, this might mean something. But it has no impact on whatever home invasion daughter rape "fun fact" fantasy you have. You can use deadly physical force to stop imminent threats to yourself or others in your own home. It changes nothing.

What it does change is the use of force by a mob on some random guy on the street because you and your buddies suspect he done somethin' wrong.

Again, think about how this plays the other way. There are two sides to this coin. Make a wrong turn into a "peaceful protest" and the mob decides you violated some law? You really want them to have blanket citizen arrest powers here?

 

[What the shit]

What it does change is the use of force by a mob on some random guy on the street because you and your buddies suspect he done somethin' wrong.

And the thing was, they still were unsure if he was up to any criminal activity besides trespassing, so they got life for murder. They fucked up that badly.

 

[The Last Stand]

Meanwhile, the hammer is traumatized with no home.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Just a reminder that while people care so much about Ahmaud Arbery getting “justice”, one guy in Waukesha still ran over multiple amounts of people, killing six with his car.

We haven’t heard anything from that story since. Either way, getting life in prison was just another “don’t step out of line” threat to people who question whether or not there’s something wrong with our criminal justice system.

Though, then again, this is A&N.

 

[UselessIdiot]

Just a reminder that while people care so much about Ahmad Arbery getting “justice”, one guy in Waukesha still ran over multiple amounts of people, killing six with his car.

We haven’t heard anything from that story since. Either way, getting life in prison was just another “don’t step out of line” threat to people who question whether or not there’s something wrong with our criminal justice system.

Though, then again, this is A&N.

Waukesha has been sufficiently memory-holed. It wouldn't surprise me at all if that guy receives a lighter sentence than any of the guys involved in the Arbery case.

 

[Handyman]

That isn't how that works. "I'm too retarded to know you can't just detain someone at gunpoint on flimsy circumstantial bullshit" is not a reasonable belief.

Dood we get it you think black people should be killed. For being black, you are only sad you did not live back in the good old time where you could take part in the lynching's.

No, you only do not have the right to gun someone down because you think he committed a crime.

MAN white people can't even hunt down one black person that committed no crime and execute him. Man white people have no rights.

Dood we get it you think black people should be killed. For being black, you are only sad you did not live back in the good old time where you could take part in the lynching's.

No, you only do not have the right to gun someone down because you think he committed a crime.

MAN white people can't even hunt down one black person that committed no crime and execute him. Man white people have no rights.

The Innocent Jogger wasn’t gunned down on the suspicion that he had committed a crime. He was shot in self defense by the man carrying the shotgun that he tried to grab. This occurred shortly after Arbury had been caught trespassing on a property that he had “jogged into” multiple times. It was a pattern with the man, who had a history of committing petty crimes under the pretense of “jogging” and also reacting with hostility when he was caught.

Clearly, we were deprived of a future Nobel Prize winner in the field of medicine. But a lesser man might get the impression that Arbury died becaus ehe was a stereotypical low IQ Pavement Ape.

 

[Dyn]

He was shot in self defense by the man carrying the shotgun that he tried to grab.

You don't have the privilege of self-defense when somebody resists you illegally trying to kidnap them at gunpoint.

 

[Ser Prize]

Just a reminder that while people care so much about Ahmaud Arbery getting “justice”, one guy in Waukesha still ran over multiple amounts of people, killing six with his car.

We haven’t heard anything from that story since. Either way, getting life in prison was just another “don’t step out of line” threat to people who question whether or not there’s something wrong with our criminal justice system.

Though, then again, this is A&N.

It's only murder when a wh*toid murders a kang. When a kang mows down several wh*toid kids and elders it's just protesting.

 

[MadStan]

Fun fact, the Georgia citizens arrest law was written back in the 1860s and never updated. The fact that it was so creaky and antiquated made this case more complex (and might be the reason for an appeal regarding that law and jury instructions). Should it have been updated? Yes, certainly. That the legislature never did is on them, and as I said before - the State fucked up (by not updating their laws) and when the shit hit the fan because of their fuck up some citizens paid the price.

Further fun fact, because this was so racially politized the reactionary result was to simply strike the law entirely. No update, just complete repeal. So now if you, as a homeowner say, find some guy in your daughter's bedroom at 3am trying to yank her nightgown off your only option under law is to shoot him dead. If you try to restrain him in any way for the police to arrive and take him away, you're committing kidnapping or false imprisonment. Or you could let him rape your daughter and then run cackling into the night, I guess.

Will this change result in more dead criminals (mostly black)? Probably. Its almost like letting a bunch of race-grifters and media hysteria drive legislative change and prosecution decisions is bad or something.

I like your post, however "So now if you, as a homeowner say, find some guy in your daughter's bedroom at 3am trying to yank her nightgown off your only option under law is to shoot him dead. If you try to restrain him in any way for the police to arrive and take him away, you're committing kidnapping or false imprisonment." isn't true.

One has to understand in the above scenario you're outlined there is every reason under the law to restrain the man.