One of the McMichael's apologists here mentioned that they, the McMichaels, suspected Arbery of stealing a .38 caliber revolver out of Travis' truck, before it was pointed out to him that he had just admitted personal animus on their part and a motive for chasing him down like he had just done harm to someone.
Turns out the guy, who was no angel BTW nor was he a "jogger", had possibly swiped a hammer from the construction site. Probably doesn't even meet the Georgia standard of felony theft.
“”Probably doesn’t even meet the Georgia standard of felony theft.””
You’re probably right but he’d already committed felony burglary simply by entering a private residence. I personally think he grabbed the hammer as weapon. He knew he’d been spotted and took off running. I believe others have said he was a two timer and this would be a third. That I haven’t confirmed but could explain the extremes he took not to be stopped.
“Turns out the guy, who was no angel BTW nor was he a “jogger”, had possibly swiped a hammer from the construction site.”
If, as you say, he was no jogger then how did the idea he was a jogger get started? Who started that false narrative, and for what purpose?
Was the false narrative started and repeated to help the child of the neighborhood homeowner? Or to help some other party?
And wouldn’t a truthful narrative best serve the purpose of justice?
So let me ask you this. When you see someone running out of a house that had been burglarized numerous times, does your X-Ray vision tell you whether or not the items he may have stolen is over the threshold for felony?
I was just wondering, because it would seem to me that you cannot figure out whether he stole items worth enough to qualify as "felony theft" unless you can actually see the items he might have stolen.
So you see a guy running out of a burglarized house, you let him go because you don't know if he stole stuff worth a lot?
How does that work? It would seemingly make it very difficult to ever catch a criminal.