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Police initially investigated #AhmaudArbery's death as a burglary/self defense case
The 1st Prosecutor failed to charge the men who killed Arbery
Video was later released. Public outcry erupted
So Georgia's AG stepped in (1/4)
Police initially investigated #AhmaudArbery's death as a burglary/self defense case
The 1st Prosecutor failed to charge the men who killed Arbery
Video was later released. Public outcry erupted
So Georgia's AG stepped in (1/4)
The AG appoint another prosecutor
That prosecutor had to recuse himself
Allegedly he'd initially said he didn't see any grounds to arrest those "involved in Mr. Arbery’s death"
So a prosecutor from another county got the case
within weeks the video was made public 2/4
That prosecutor had to recuse himself
Allegedly he'd initially said he didn't see any grounds to arrest those "involved in Mr. Arbery’s death"
So a prosecutor from another county got the case
within weeks the video was made public 2/4
He called the GBI
Eventually a prosecutors from another part of the state took over
The case ended in a jury resoundingly convicting all three of Murder. BUT...
The case was not over.
Federal investigators said the men had violated #AhmadArbery’s Civil rights…
Eventually a prosecutors from another part of the state took over
The case ended in a jury resoundingly convicting all three of Murder. BUT...
The case was not over.
Federal investigators said the men had violated #AhmadArbery’s Civil rights…
Prosecution clearly shows the jury that trespassing is not a felony and therefore a citizen’s arrest is NOT applicable.
#AhmadArbery closing arguments
#AhmadArbery closing arguments
The defense tried to say that #AhmaudArbery could have gotten away by jumping into a swimming pool or climbing a tree. 🤦🏼♀️
“Did the defendants commit acts with their pick up trucks that placed #AhmaudArbery in REASONABLE FEAR of receiving serious bodily injury?” Prosecution to the jury.
The debate over the hate-crimes measure is now starting in the state Senate, and Republican Brian Strickland has asked that it be engrossed to restrict amendments that supporters fear could jeopardize a compromise. It prevailed. #gapol
Before a full debate on hate-crimes, Senate lawmakers took up House Bill 838, which was designed to protect first-responders like police officers from "bias motivated" crimes. It passed 33-20 on a party-line vote and is headed to the Georgia House. #gapol
"A knife's edge." "On the precipice." Veteran Capitol observers out in the hallway stress that hate-crimes measure is no done deal yet, especially with the Senate's passage of this measure now pending in the House. #gapol
Just got this email. Not sure if my writings/ appearances sparked it, or simply my existence as a black person. This is what we're fighting against. This is why people are rebelling across the nation. Stop pretending this mindset is rare and start realizing what's at stake
My colleagues in media, ESPECIALLY black women, get these emails every day. And phone calls, and letters. At least we get to respond on air, in print, online. The vast majority of black people subjected to verbal assault and wanton police and vigilante violence do not
Our pain pales in comparison to #BreonnaTaylor #GeorgeFloyd #AhmadArbery #BothamJean #AtatianaJefferson families. But let me be clear. This nation's inability to treat black people with basic decency and humanity doesn't change whether you are on the street in bed or on air
Bolstering the point I attempted to make tonight on @allinwithchris. For white Americans it is axiomatic that they are citizens; that in America: “every (European) man a king! Liberty is his birthright!” But nonwhite people were never meant to be citizens, but rather subjects.
For white Americans: Free, white and 21...” was even a common saying and showed up in numerous Hollywood films back in Hollywood’s golden era. This was not a hidden concept. Everybody understood this was the arrangement.
And in that arrangement, black, brown and Native people, Japanese Americans, Chinese railroad workers, Mexicans... But no one more than Black Men: the “Scariest Subjects of Them All...” and yes also Black women ... must be watched. Controlled. Policed. washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/…
1) In GEORGIA v. TRAVIS MCMICHAEL & GREGORY MCMICHAEL, defendants are charged with murder & assault of #AhmaudArbery committed on February 23, 2020.
With the help of the Glynn County DA's office & white-owned media outlets, defendants have already aserted self-defense claims.
With the help of the Glynn County DA's office & white-owned media outlets, defendants have already aserted self-defense claims.
2) To claim self-defense for murdering #AhmaudArbery the McMichaels assert the right to affect a citizen's arrest upon two facts:
- An alleged burglary of a gun from a truck owned by one of the defendants
- One defendant claims he saw the victim at a house under construction
- An alleged burglary of a gun from a truck owned by one of the defendants
- One defendant claims he saw the victim at a house under construction
3A.)
Georgia Code of Criminal Procedure 17-4-60. Grounds for arrest (Citizen's arrest):
A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed IN HIS PRESENCE or WITHIN HIS IMMEDIATE KNOWLEDGE.
Georgia Code of Criminal Procedure 17-4-60. Grounds for arrest (Citizen's arrest):
A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed IN HIS PRESENCE or WITHIN HIS IMMEDIATE KNOWLEDGE.
What happened to #AhmadArbery is horrifying. What makes it worse is that this is not a single event, but a systemic pattern of injustice & violence against POC tracing back to the Doctrine of Discovery & our nation's white supremacists Declaration of Independence & Constitution.
Biden will act outraged & Trump will say there were good people on both sides. But neither will address the root of the problem. US Constitution refers to black people as 3/5ths & 13th amendment doesn't abolish slavery. This is a foundational level problem. #JusticeForAhmaud
I am the only candidate working to fix our foundations. My vision is to build a nation where We the People truly means #AllThePeople. Which includes removing 3/5th compromise from Article 1 section II of US Constitution and actually abolishing slavery.
Biden will act outraged & Trump will say there were good people on both sides. But neither will address the root of the problem. US Constitution still refers to black people as 3/5ths & 13th amendment doesn't abolish slavery. This is a foundational level problem. #AhmadArbery
I am the only candidate working to fix our foundations. My vision is to build a nation where We the People truly means #AllThePeople. Which includes removing 3/5th compromise from Article 1 section II of US Constitution and actually abolishing slavery.
What happened to #AhmadArbery is horrifying. What makes it worse is that this is not a single event, but a systemic pattern of injustice & violence against POC tracing back to the Doctrine of Discovery & our nation's white supremacists Declaration of Independence & Constitution.
So many eerie haunts of the Trayvon Martin case; not just the date when it happened: 3 days before the anniversary of his 2012 killing-but also this Apartheidesque presumption that any black person can be stopped/questioned at any time, even by a civilian. nytimes.com/2020/04/26/us/…
That's just one reason the whingeing over the #1619Project and @nhannahjones winning the Pulitzer is so laughable. Looking at the grossly outsized death rates of black people from COVID19 due to structural racism-infused factors and the fact that black people still don't
experience the basic sense lf freedom to be in public spaces without fear of harassment or death, not just from police but even from our fellow citizens, who feel perfectly free to question our presence in even our own buildings, in parks or jogging around... how do you doubt
