“ The man who pursued Ahmaud Arbery and recorded his fatal shooting told a responding officer that he blocked the 25-year-old Black man with his car “five times” before the young man’s alleged murder, an officer who interviewed him testified on the second day of trial.”
Blocking is not murder, and if he’d been blocked five times, it didn’t seem to have worked very well because in the final video there’s Arbery again, running down the road. That time too there was room to get by. Arbery ran to the right side of the parked truck without being shot at by either Greg or Travis, but then — with nobody blocking him and an open path ahead of him — he chose to turn sharply to the left, and cross over and attack Travis. That irrationally aggressive act cost him his life.