Posted on 05/19/2020 12:34:28 PM PDT by tlozo
Newly released police bodycam video shows Georgia slay victim Ahmaud Arbery being handcuffed and arrested for shoplifting in 2017.
The video, dated Dec. 1, 2017, shows Arbery and three teenagers being confronted by police in the parking lot of a Walmart shopping center, according to the footage posted on YouTube on Tuesday.
“Tell me about the TV,” a police officer asks. “TV? What? We don’t have any TV,” Arbery, wearing shorts and a parka, responds. “What about the 65-inch TV?” the cop says. “Sixty-five inch TV?” Arbery says. “Do me a favor,” the cop replies. “All of you take a seat.” “Take a seat for what?” Arbery snaps back. “I don’t know nothing about no TV…. I don’t steal no TV.”
Another man, presumably a Walmart employee, then approaches and the police officer tells him, “it’s that one right there with the fur jacket” — suggesting Arbery — and the man nods. “What TV?” Arbery says. “The TV is in there,” motioning toward the store. Arbery then claims he has a receipt and tries to get up from the ground, but is placed in handcuffs and put into a squad car. He’s driven back to the store, where he and the three teenagers are seen walking into the back of the store and into a rear office, where the video eventually ends. The outcome of the shoplifting arrest is not clear. The release of the footage comes one day after another bodycam video shows a confrontation between Arbery a month earlier at a local park...
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Well a parka itself is fine, but a parka with shorts is a no-go. That’s like socks with sandals.
You argue like a leftist with a darkened mind. Why?
It seems something like this is always the case, and it almost always comes out after everyone has dug in.
the slow drip of his crap record is beginning.
I was arrested for shoplifting at KMart in 1977 at age 18.
His past troubles may in fact have a bearing on their defense.
I haven’t watched this video - but it appears that Arbery has an attitude when people confront him over stuff. Whether in situations like the shoplifting where it sounds like he was found guilty, or in cases like in the park where it sounds like he was minding his own business.
And whether he was just out for a jog, or was out looking for something to steal, he picked the wrong folks to cop an attitude with when it came to the guy with the shotgun.
A whole lot of stupid on all sides of this latest confrontation IMHO.
Question is what legal right did the redneck have to confront him with a shotgun in a street. Answer: none. Guilty. Period.
This can’t be...he’s a saint!!!
SIGH
“His past troubles may in fact have a bearing on their defense.”
I would think that the defense is going to be along the lines of when the two guys chased him down and confronted him, he charged at them or acted like he was charging them. He certainly came towards the first cop in the park video. Problem with that is going to be why they were confronting him with a shotgun (whether pointed at him or not)?
Yes, it cost Arbery his life. And it will cost the wannabe cop who shot him his freedom.
Most who live life this way end up dead or in prison. This part of our demographics and culture is destroying American society as Saint Jogger has always been a menace to society like millions of others. The other part that is eroding away is our justice system. The system seems to be a revolving door of degenerates like this seemingly career criminal. The man should not be dead,the trial should be well on its way and politics needs to stay out of it.
the redneck had a right, the second, to carry the shotgun... i hear it was not pointed at anyone... the redneck had a right to question why the jogger was trespassing, first amendment speech, the jogger had the right to walk away, fifth due process, but when the jogger approached the redneck and grabbed the shotgun, it was a fatal mistake. for both now that social justice has been enacted.
the redneck had a right, the second, to carry the shotgun... i hear it was not pointed at anyone... the redneck had a right to question why the jogger was trespassing, first amendment speech, the jogger had the right to walk away, fifth due process, but when the jogger approached the redneck and grabbed the shotgun, it was a fatal mistake. for both now that social justice has been enacted.
Please, who cares? He may have been a petty criminal, but these guys should not have taken the law into their own hands. The worst he could have been doing in the building was scoping it out to come back with a truck and take out the appliances or rip out some other building material, although it doesn’t seem to me that he had it together enough to do even that.
The guys who shot him should just have called the cops. It wasn’t a homicide in progress. I agree that he was shot by accident, and he probably did lunge for the gun (which is understandable) but they shouldn’t have been out there doing their own patrol anyway. Plus they seem to have had a grudge against him for earlier contacts, so that makes it even worse.
They didn’t intend for this to happen, but as an LE family member says, never carry a gun unless you’re ready to use it, and I think they probably didn’t intend to use it but the situation got away from them. Still, they should never have been there in the first place.
Parka, maybe, but No Capes!!
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