RE: So the McMichaels reported only that they saw a black guy running, not that they saw him enter a house under construction?
It doesn’t matter. There’s no reason why the McMichaels should have confronted Arbery even if he’s guilty of everything they suspect him of. They’re not cops.
They didn’t personally witness him commit any crime. The risk that they would misidentify an innocent man as a criminal was perfectly foreseeable, especially to a former cop like McMichael.
They should have called the sheriff, who could have stopped Arbery lawfully and used the surveillance video mentioned in the police report to determine if he really was the burglary suspect they’re looking for.
Why didn’t they do that?
If they can get away with this then the “citizen’s arrest” statute is license for legalized vigilantism.
‘Why didn’t they do that?’
Because when seconds count, the police are only 5 minutes away? And this man had on boots, not good for jogging. And they found a hammer dropped on the road, back a ways. And the dad was a former investigator or something.
Not defending the men, but the ‘jogger’ did come at the younger man and wrestle with him for the gun. Just observations on the WHY.
That's right, because modern Americans hide under their blankets like p*sssies rather than confront f***ing thieves as actual men would do.
Probably because in rural Georgia, police response time is such that Arbery would be long gone before they arrived -- which is something Arbery may have been counting on.
Perhaps part of why "former" appears before "cop"?