Posted on 05/09/2020 4:59:46 PM PDT by bort
This video was posted on the twitter account of Ahmaud Arbery's attorney, Lee Merritt. It shows Arbery stopping in front of the home. He then looks around and walks into the home, which is under construction. He walks out of the home and into the garage. He is in the house for at least 60 to 90 seconds. He then BOLTS out the front entrance of the house like Jesse Owens.
Guess it was a good thing to reserve judgment until more facts come out.
Homes under construction generally have lots of power tool$ and nice material laying around.
He obviously deserved to die. Like an Olympic sprinter.
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I stand corrected. Arbery was in the house for FOUR MINUTES. OMG, he took off like Jesse Owens out of this house, and he ran right in front of the McMichaels’ house. If that isn’t probable cause to believe he was committing a burglary, I don’t know what is.
OK, given that one doesn’t get to shoot a burglar running away from the scene of a crime, Arbery is no longer an innocent ‘jogger’. The fact that he brought a gun to a high school basketball game years earlier doesn’t help the shooters either, but Mr Arbery is starting to look more like Ferguson’s ‘gentle giant’ than say Rosa Parks.
To repeat from earlier, I saw this post on Mrs rktman’s FB from some miscreant:
“If we’d made an example of zimmerman, ahmaud arbery wouldn’t have happened.”
From ‘all black always’ or something
Blocked and deleted wherever it came from.
Cue Cleavon Little.
So...not an ivy league honor student going for a run?
The decedent thought he stop in a private home under construction to have a look, and when the neighbors get wise, he runs 60++ feet right at a neighbor holding a shotgun, physically attacks him and physically attempts to disarm the neighbor.
Just a wild guess, but these are not the actions of an innocent person out for a jog.
You are making a strawman argument. Obviously, even the POLICE can’t shoot a burglar running from the scene. The LEGAL issue is, did the McMichaels have a right to pursue a fleeing burglary suspect? Answer: Yes. Next, did they have a right to impede him, detain him, ask him to stop, and even arrest him? Yes. This video clearly shows:
1) Arbery was NOT jogging when he arrived in front of this home.
2) Arbery looked around to see “if the coast was clear” before entering the house.
3) Arbery went through, the garage door, side door, and front door and was in the house for four minutes.
4) Arbery, apparently seeing the neighbor on his phone, bolted down the street—I mean, you can barely SEE HIM he ran so fast.
This is PROBABLE CAUSE under any definition. And, btw, Arbery charged at younger McMichael and tried to grab his shotgun. Not guilty
Ping
And a related Post article reports a guy that video’d the event has received death threats by St Jogger’s supporters. And they report he is a person of interest and under investigation and an arrest is imminent.
Such nonsense makes one go “hmmmmm. . .”
I don’t understand, in these times, how anybody thinks it’s a good idea to go out with guns and attempt a ‘citizen’s arrest’.
And if someone were trying to ‘citizen arrest’ me with guns, I’d fight for my life, too.
If they had legitimate suspicions, why didn’t these two just call the cops, instead of making this intimidating show?
Wow, he took off out of that house at a dead run. If this was near the shooting scene around the same time, it shows WHY they were trying to get him to stop. Doesn’t make it right to have confronted him with the gun, but it does implicate Arbery in theft.
He is onto something, in a way.
If George Zimmerman had been lauded, and given the keys to the city for defending his neighborhood and overcoming a murderous attack, Ahmaud Arbery might not have happened.
The details are murkier so far with the Waycross case but Arbery merely tried to grab the shotgun. We need more information to make sense of this case.
good point.
regarding a house under construction, when it’s that close to completion, they generally have all the appliances in the house, which are expensive. So, there’s lots to steal from a house under construction.
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