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.
This is *NOT* comparable with the Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown case.
That is an interesting comment. The larger narrative is that the two white men hunted down an innocent jogger (who had committed no crime) because he was black, cornered him, and shot him to death.
If police had hunted down an innocent jogger because he was black and killed him under the same circumstances, wouldn't that have been murder too?
I have been told police do this every day in America.
I agree, this is a bad situation. Nothing warranted the armed encounter.
There were plenty of people on this site who thought Zimmerman was the aggressor, and there were plenty of people who thought Wilson was just another jack-booted thug shooting down an innocent civilian. I bought some are posting on here right now.