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In his final days, Ahmaud Arbery's life was at a crossroads (pure hagiography)
news.yahoo.com ^ | Aaron Morrison

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.

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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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TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ahmaudarbery; arbery; autism; autistic; fakenews; joggingwhileblack; mythmaking; revisionisthistory; yahoobias; yellowjournalism
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To: Junk Silver

>> Did you know that CoVid-19 strikes black people disproportionately?

In Africa not so much.


21 posted on 05/25/2020 9:17:55 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: RoosterRedux
"legal troubles that cropped up after high school"

Those legal troubles just sprung up out of the ground near where he happened to be standing.

22 posted on 05/25/2020 9:18:07 AM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: caww

> He’d also be alive if local idiots didn’t chase after him with loaded guns like the wild west, but let the authorities handle the situation. <

Better prepare for flak. But yeah, that’s a good point. This incident is looking more and more like a criminal vs. a bunch of idiots.

Two questions remain. Was the criminal doing something seriously criminal on the day he was shot? And were the shotgun guys just stupid, or were they criminally stupid?

I’m now going to put my helmet on. Because I think some flak might be coming my way too.


23 posted on 05/25/2020 9:18:16 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I suspect that perhaps, his real troubles have just begun, standing in front of Jesus.


24 posted on 05/25/2020 9:18:25 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: caww

“let the authorities handle the situation”

That will sound more correct if you pinch your nose when you say it. Put on a dress and swish around for us.


25 posted on 05/25/2020 9:18:28 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: RoosterRedux

WTF EVER LOL!


26 posted on 05/25/2020 9:19:54 AM PDT by chris37 (China's Gift wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: Junk Silver

And somehow it’s white people’s fault, though no one can rationally explain why.


27 posted on 05/25/2020 9:20:01 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: caww

He might’ve still been shot the next time he entered someone’s house without permission.


28 posted on 05/25/2020 9:20:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: McGruff

He chose poorly. The blacks who live there in Saltilla Shores know better.


29 posted on 05/25/2020 9:20:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: RoosterRedux

The narrative machine is in high gear. I wonder if entering houses without permission was a violation of his probation.


30 posted on 05/25/2020 9:22:30 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: House Atreides

After watching the multiple videos of his interactions with police I honestly don’t believe he had the intellectual capacity to be an employable electrician.


31 posted on 05/25/2020 9:22:41 AM PDT by Josa
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To: RoosterRedux

His potential was unlimited! Once in college, he could have gone on to find a cure for the Corona virus and even cancer!
Now, I ask you, members of the jury, what sentence is too severe for men who killed the person that was destined to cure Corona virus and cancer?


32 posted on 05/25/2020 9:25:19 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: FreedomPoster

This would have sounded more realistic if he was going to study nuclear physics.


33 posted on 05/25/2020 9:25:41 AM PDT by Vehmgericht (12)
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To: RoosterRedux
He was a good boy. He brought home to his mama half of what he stole. The deification of Ahmaud Arbery begins.
34 posted on 05/25/2020 9:26:30 AM PDT by sport
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To: a fool in paradise

Well I went into construction houses when a kid and so did adults (uninvited) so that’s no indication he was a criminal. And frankly only the owners business not the neighbors. If the owners were concerned they could hire security.


35 posted on 05/25/2020 9:26:44 AM PDT by caww
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To: RoosterRedux
Killing Arbery was wrong.

Whites killing 500 blacks per year is wrong.

But shut up about all of that unless we’re also going to talk about how wrong it is for blacks to kill 900 whites per year.

36 posted on 05/25/2020 9:26:49 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: RoosterRedux
If Electrician didn't work out, he could of been a rapper.


37 posted on 05/25/2020 9:27:30 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC)
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To: McGruff

Exactly....They sure as hell weren’t going to shoot the unarmed runner in the back while filming besides.


38 posted on 05/25/2020 9:27:52 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: RoosterRedux
That's EXACTLY what the article says.

I've read that the price of copper is quite high and that,as a result,the theft of copper wiring and plumbing fixtures is pretty common.

39 posted on 05/25/2020 9:27:55 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Actually his past is “normal” in the black community. Guns and shoplifting is par usual.


40 posted on 05/25/2020 9:28:40 AM PDT by caww
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