Posted on 05/20/2020 11:35:49 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Around 1 p.m. on Feb. 23, a warm Sunday afternoon a couple weeks after the Super Bowl, yet another unarmed black man was killed in the United States.
Ahmaud Arbery, an avid jogger, left Brunswick, a primarily black city in southeast Georgia. Running through the predominantly white neighbouring community of Santilla Shores, Arbery was chased down in a truck, confronted and fatally shot by George and Travis McMichael, a father and son who allegedly believed Arbery was responsible for burglaries in their neighborhood.
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Jumping out of your truck and blocking my path with a gun in your hand constitutes a threat in the State of Georgia.
The message: Hey look at me, I’m playing for a different team!
Agreed there’s nothing illegal about an armed man asking you a simple question. The problem is, we don’t know what his stance was, where the shotgun was pointed, what words were spoken, or what tone was used. The video at the moment of the actual encounter at the front of the truck is blocked by the truck and we have no audio of any words that were exchanged.
So if Arbery just rushed Travis McMichael and grabbed his gun, then Travis McMichael did what any reasonable person would do and defended his life by whatever means were necessary. If Travis McMichael pointed his shotgun at Arbery and/or said threatening things that would make a reasonable person fear for their lives, then Arbery did what any reasonable person would do and defended his life as best he could.
The McMichaels have their perspectives and their recollections on what took place and those are being shared with investigators. Arbery can’t share his because he’s dead. The evidence we have in front of us is very incomplete. We need a trial by impartial jury to establish the facts and apply Georgia law to those facts.
This story is nothing but lies.
And anybody who thinks that Arbery was a sweet innocent....well I got a bridge to sell....cheap. Got a couple of bad posts but it works.
Whatever happened when the son of the ex-cop confronted, or was confronted by, Arbery, is the only thing that might result in jail for somebody.
First, the ex-cop son shot Arbery three times. Three times? However, I feel pretty sure from my view of the video that Arbery tried to grab the shotgun.
Did the shotgun go off in the struggle and strike Arbery? If so, why did the ex-cop’s son shoot him two more times?
Did Arbery try to grab the gun and make threats like “Gimme this gun cause I’m gonna shoot you dead”? That would make the gun holder shoot to defend himself I suppose.
The local cops mishandled this case, the ex-cop knew there were problems in the neighborhood and told everyone he would handle it.
Arming the ex-cop’s son with a shotgun....I dunno....that was just dumb.
Yea it sends a powerful message.Avoid watching the National Felons league.
those two,I wouldnt take that bet
Dead on the money ZF. Remember that white Raiders QB that wasn’t on board with some or other ‘black cause’ a few years back? He got wiped out. Offensive line: “Oops, did we do that? Did we let those brothers on the defensive line waltz on thru ON PURPOSE!!!!? We bad!!!”
The problem with the grandma one is the guy was shot dead by the police. I suppose we could try to resurrect him and execute him again but that’s a stretch.
You mean protected by his black offensive linemen, defensive linemen do the opposite!
[You mean protected by his black offensive linemen, defensive linemen do the opposite!]
Your view is just like mine and that is.......
Me you and no one else can see anything that happened in front of that truck as the truck was blocking the view. Any one that says they can see and knows what happened at the front of that truck is delusional. Only Crappy X Cop Pappy saw it and I say he rolls on Jr to save his sorry ass
I noticed the lies too. This “black community” votes Republican in every election. This “jogger” was not hunted down and shot in cold blood on the side of the road, Santilla Shores is a subdivision, not a “community” and now we know what the leftist agenda looks like in a sports publication.
I have the same problem. This why I occasionally lament about how you can’t edit past posts.
Yet another unarmed black man gunned down..........but the difference in this story is it was a white man pulling the trigger, much different from the norm.
Even when an armed man asks, “Can I talk to you a minute”, that is not legally a threat. So, rushing the man and grabbing the gun, means this was a legal case of self defense.All 3 shots were fired during the struggle.
So, unless the white men committed a criminal act before Aubery rushed them, the law is on their side.
When they are holding firearms, it may be construed as a threat.
But as for the law...
What do you have against citing the actual Georgia laws, as opposed to some dude using a phony name blathering about who knows what?
2018 Georgia Code
Title 17 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 4 - Arrest of Persons
Article 4 - Arrest by Private Persons
§ 17-4-60. Grounds for arrest Universal Citation: GA Code § 17-4-60 (2018)A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge. If the offense is a felony and the offender is escaping or attempting to escape, a private person may arrest him upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion.
Were there reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion of the felony of second degree burglary? Felony second degree burglary does not require a taking, but requires an intent to commit theft. Suspicion does not require a firm belief.
2018 Georgia Code
Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses
Chapter 7 - Damage to and Intrusion Upon Property
Article 1 - Burglary
§ 16-7-1. Burglary
Universal Citation: GA Code § 16-7-1 (2018)(c) A person commits the offense of burglary in the second degree when, without authority and with the intent to commit a felony or theft therein, he or she enters or remains within an occupied, unoccupied, or vacant building, structure, railroad car, watercraft, or aircraft. A person who commits the offense of burglary in the second degree shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years. Upon the second and all subsequent convictions for burglary in the second degree, the defendant shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than eight years.
Were there reasonable and probable grounds to suspect second degree burglary, a felony?
Tom Brady backing justice for Ahmaud Arbery sends powerful message
The message is that he is an exceptional quarterback.
The "getting ugly" could go both ways.
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