Posted on 05/25/2020 8:57:20 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
He was at a crossroads, his life stretching out before him, his troubles largely behind him. He had enrolled at South Georgia Technical College, preparing to become an electrician, just like his uncles. But first, he decided, he would take a break. College could wait until the fall.
To help keep his head clear, he ran, just about every day. Off he’d go, out of the doors of his mother’s house, down the long street toward Fancy Bluff Road. Then would come the right turn onto the two-lane road lined by oak trees draped with Spanish moss.
About a mile and a half into his usual route, Ahmaud Arbery would cross the four lanes of Jekyll Island Causeway into the subdivision of Satilla Shores.
Three months ago, at the age of 25, he ran through Satilla Shores for the final time.
*snip*
Before Arbery’s name joined a litany of hashtags bearing young black men’s names, he was a skinny kid whose dreams of an NFL career didn’t pan out. Those who knew him speak of a seemingly bottomless reservoir of kindness he used to encourage others, of an easy smile and infectious laughter that could lighten just about any situation.
They also acknowledge the legal troubles that cropped up after high school — five years of probation for carrying a gun onto the high school campus in 2013, a year after graduation, and shoplifting from a Walmart store in 2017, a charge that extended that probation up until the time of his death.
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Once, at night, headlights were seen there and a couple neighbor men investigated, with shotguns.
2 guys were stealing building materials.
You do not tresspass on someone elses's private property.
Just because it is under construction doesn't give you the right to do that.
Construction sites are prime targets for theft and vandalism.
Hire security to watch a house that you are building as you get the money?
Unrealistic.
Arbery had been to the property other times, including at night to "study the wiring" and "get a drink of water".
He was also videoed at other occupied homes.
Effective police response is nonexistant where I live.
If it is a true emergency don't waste precious seconds calling 911.
“He was at a crossroads, his life stretching out before him, his troubles largely behind him. He had enrolled at South Georgia Technical College, preparing to become an electrician, just like his uncles.”
You can’t make this shizzle up! Oh wait, nevermind - turns out you can.
> Actually, the worst thing he did that day was attack a guy holding a loaded shotgun. <
Well, yes. But to fully assess the situation, you’ve got to hit the rewind button. Should shotgun guy have been in that position in the first place? Others might disagree, and I respect that. But I say that shotgun guy shouldn’t have been in that position in the first place.
I applaud shotgun guy for getting in his truck and following a suspected thief. And I applaud shotgun guy for calling 911, as I assume he did. But when he got out of a vehicle brandishing a weapon...uh, no. Shotgun guy turned a petty theft situation into a possible life-and-death situation. Over what? A hammer? A trespass?
Too much risk. Too little reward.
Shotgun guy chose poorly.
Yes, he had temporarily stopped.
Then he restarted running, and had almost completed a 1 mile loop back to the English house.
The timing shows he was going to run that mile in about 4.5 minutes.
That is the only way he could be running up Holmes before he was assaulted !
At that distance, trying to disarm the perp was the best move.
But he failed to control the perps gun. That failure cost him his life.
Wrong. Look at the posted map. He has a 5 mile circuit. Easy peasy route.
You are not reading it correctly.
No gun.
How about if he stole one of your handguns?”
He didn’t.
When did the police find the stolen handgun?
They didn’t
Was it on Arbury when he was killed?
No. Arbery has no gun.
Was the gun found in Arbury’s house or car?
No
Will the defense present the stolen gun as evidence in the trials?
The defense has no gun evidence.
1pm in the afternoon is nowhere near ‘at night’
Violent criminal? That is a massive leap.
The authorities were not called in a timely manner.
Good grief, get I out a map and use it!
If you were representing the McM your incompetence would send them straight to jail.
So there is no evidence that Arbury stole the gun that belonged to Travis and that lack of evidence can’t be used in the trials? That may be problematic for the defense teams.
They write the most flowery, stupid shit.
We don’t know all that the Brunswick PD knows...not do we know all that defense counsel knows.
“We don’t know all that the Brunswick PD knows...not do we know all that defense counsel knows.”
No, but had they found that gun on Arbury, that information would have been released or leaked.
Right. I don’t think they found the gun on Arbery...but that doesn’t mean they know nothing about the gun and who stole it.
Funny so many on this site wish to take sides with a career criminal invading another man’s home over the idiots with shotguns. Last I checked Georgia was an open carry state.
Better late then never, I could see that if he was enrolled and already started classes, but I don’t believe in any of this “he was going to start college 7 months from now BS.
Sorry, I don’t buy it.
What was Arbery’s job? Did he work?
What was Travis’s McMichaels job? Did he work as well?
Neither profession has been reported for either
Only one we know had a job was Gregory, retired DA Investigator with a sketchy employment history.
People murdering other people is wrong
Only racists, see race and that goes for everyone
“What was Travis’s McMichaels job? Did he work as well?”
From what has been presented, it would appear that both Arbery and Travis McMichael lived with a parent and neither of their jobs have been disclosed.
“does it tell us that Arbery went into the house to study the wiring and electric panel?”
Ding... ding... ding... you’ve solved the mystery. He was studying the wiring and electrical panel in that home in preparation for his electrician classes.
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