Posted on 11/24/2021 7:44:19 PM PST by karpov
President Biden said Wednesday that the conviction of three men for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery “reflect our justice system doing its job,” but added “that alone is not enough.”
“Instead, we must recommit ourselves to building a future of unity and shared strength, where no one fears violence because of the color of their skin,” the president added in a statement released by the White House. “My administration will continue to do the hard work to ensure that equal justice under law is not just a phrase emblazoned in stone above the Supreme Court, but a reality for all Americans.”
A Georgia jury found Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan — all white — guilty on 23 of 27 counts in connection with the murder of Arbery, who was black.
Arbery, 25, was shot and killed in February 2020 after the McMichaels and Bryan chased him in a pickup truck while Arbery was on a run. The men claimed they were attempting to make a citizens’ arrest of Arbery as a suspect in a series of burglaries.
“Ahmaud Arbery’s killing – witnessed by the world on video – is a devastating reminder of how far we have to go in the fight for racial justice in this country. Mr. Arbery should be here today, celebrating the holidays with his mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, and his father, Marcus Arbery,” Biden said. “Nothing can bring Mr. Arbery back to his family and to his community, but the verdict ensures that those who committed this horrible crime will be punished.”
Shortly after Arbery’s death, then-candidate Biden compared the shooting to a lynching, calling it a “grave injustice.”
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Nothing will be until the killing starts. Then they'll receive more than they could possibly enjoy.
We need to see that the prosecutor who tried to bury these charges is disbarred.
Corn Pop
Criminal negligence: arguable.
Murder of any degree: no way.
“... “that alone is not enough.” “Instead, we must recommit ourselves to building a future of unity and shared strength, where no one fears violence because of the color of their skin,”.
Except white people.
I noticed that too. Tragedy, like it was an accident? It was murder.
Brandon is back to white shaming, even with the Thanksgiving parade terrorist attack still fresh in everyone’s minds except for the far left, the media and the social(ist) media platforms like FB and Twitter.
If I recall correctly, they went through three of them before they found one that was willing to take this phony mob driven case.
This is riot prevention, not justice.
Suicide. Stupid psychotic criminal who was off his meds and high on weed decided to attack a man holding a shotgun.
Being a juror, it had to weigh on one’s mind to have Al and Jesse and Benjamin staring at at you the whole time
Everybody in the country knows who they are and the problems they can bring
Sorry, but chasing down and killing a jogger because you’ve decided he just be fleeing a crime scene, when you have zero knowledge of their even having been a crime, is not self defense.
No it isn't, but it is a lie to say that is what happened here.
He wasn't a jogger. He wasn't "chased down". They didn't have "zero knowledge" they had quite a lot of knowledge.
And self defense is when someone tries to kill you with your own shotgun, which is what Arbery tried to do.
He is so vile.
27 counts?
How many times did they kill the guy?
He is nothing but a mouthpiece for the CCPUSA.
many grounds for appeal
i read that there will be federal charges including a hate crime charge
See tag line. Criminal trials are not about politics or race. They are at best illustrative of the attitudes of jurors, if that. If you don’t get that, Foe, I repeat, see my tag line.
3 defendants 9 charges each
4 felonies(assault, false imprisonment, etc.)
a person was killed so 4 felony murder charges. one for each felony plus the malice murder charge
only travis was found guilty of the malice murder.
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