Posted on 05/24/2020 10:32:19 AM PDT by conservative98
The former high school football player with the lightning speed often jogged for miles near the southeastern Georgia enclave where he grew up.
Ahmaud Arbery's runs set him free from the blue-collar coastal city of Brunswick, where 56% of its 16,000 residents are black and more than a third of the population lives in poverty.
In high school, Arbery was so fast coaches had him slow down during practices. Now 25, his athletic gait delivered him beyond the arbitrary borders of his community. Wanda Cooper, Arbery's mother, may have occasionally worried about him but never about his running.
On February 23, the young black jogger was passing through the predominantly white Satilla Shores section on the other side of four-lane US Route 17. Just miles from where Arbery lived with his mother, the quiet waterfront neighborhood is speckled with ranch houses tucked between oak-shaded lawns and backyard boat slips.
His final run ended there.
Arbery stopped in front of a still-unfinished home. He went inside briefly before resuming his run. A former police officer and his son -- both residents on the street -- had become preoccupied with young men caught on security cameras trespassing on the site. Some of the video was posted on the neighborhood's Facebook page.
Armed with a shotgun and a handgun, father and son later followed Arbery in their truck. One of them shot him to death during a confrontation. Arbery's family called it a modern-day lynching.
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Yeh, stop right there, Ray. I'm a middle aged white woman, and presumably as privileged as a cow in India. I live in West Hollywood. Guess what I don't do? I don't go into construction sites and wander around in them as if I own them. There are plenty of them around here, too. I don't set one foot on them without an invitation from someone who is authorized to be there. Because that is trespassing, and I have no business doing that.
“. . . grips an anxious America.”
Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiight!
Why, CNN, should we be anxious about this sad event?
Why are YOU anxious?
Or are you just keeping the “fear-mongering” narrative alive?
‘attempts to disarm an armed man who was trying to detain him for the police...’
for what reason were they ‘detaining’ him for the cops...? they had not witnessed him committing any sort of crime...
And you apparently missed my point, which is that more of the country is watching this than you may think. Not just blacks, or other people of color. And not just liberals, either.
I am with you. This story is number 2,222 on my give a Shiite list.
No, it doesn’t. And haven’t you wrung just about all the juice you can out of this story, CNN?
NONSENSE. More racist drivel from a Communist newspaper that has been thoroughly discredited by everyone but hardcore leftist liars.
Not really. Just another thug.
‘Because that is trespassing, and I have no business doing that.’
please...millions of people do exactly that, and don’t hear a peep from cops or site construction personnel...looking at the framework of an unfinished house does not constitute any kin of a crime in a free country...
That grips me about as much as the murder trial of his killers does. Which is to say not at all.
Because he was working closely with the McMichaels and was part of the team. Under the law if someone is killed in the commission of a felony then everyone involved can be charged with murder. That's what happened.
His shorts look darker too. Did he steal them from the worksite as well?
Guess what I don’t do? I don’t go into construction sites and wander
A perfect lady, If you don’t wander in construction sites then you ain’t black!
/s
CNN sees the trial as months worth of ratings.
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I anxiously await the evidence that the camera guy was part of a team that set out to murder this “jogger.”
Trying to cheer us up are you?
That he was part of the team following Arbery has been established. That they murdered Arbery will be estabished by trial.
Just attempting to put the drama queens on notice.
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