What you are missing is that Arbery recognized McMichael as Law Enforcement from his previous brushes with the law and imagined his only hope of staying out of prison was to murder both McMichaels, thus preventing anyone from being able to identify him.
That is why he didn't stop and wait for the police to question him as you or I would have done.
That is why he didn’t stop and wait for the police to question him as you or I would have done.
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I have talked to the police.
I called them for a problem at my neighborhood.
They interrogated me as a suspect before listening to the problem.
So . . . My demeanor is not to wait for the police to question me. My local Public Defender advised to not to talk to law enforcement, you will only end up arrested. And he gave me multiple local examples.
McMichael never had any intention of killing Arbery,
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Why did he carry a loaded shotgun?
WHy did his dad carry a loaded pistol?
To wave it around and scare him? Or shoot him to wound him?
What you are missing is that Arbery recognized McMichael as Law Enforcement from his previous brushes with the law and imagined his only hope of staying out of prison was to murder both McMichaels, thus preventing anyone from being able to identify him.
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What was the crime that Arbery was afraid of facing? Trespassing into a house under construction? That would send him to prison?
Murder? both? McMichaels? You know this, how?
Identify him? He was on camera?
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I will wait for the court system to play out.
I do not expect real truth or justice to prevail.
I will live with that, and conduct my actions accordingly.
I expect that we will never know Arbery’s mind/motive.
Maybe we might find out McMichael(s plural) motives.
Meanwhile, This whole series of diatribes is interesting as a case study in human responses.
I would hope, as this evolves, that we ALL would be able to discern truth and facts (in spite of the final outcome and the ‘news’) and see the correct picture of who is ‘hyping’ this event, and why.