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I visited #AhmaudArbery murder site today to pay my respects. I drove his route. Will post video shortly. I noticed some things not many have mentioned or concentrated on. After video uploads I'll point them out. #IrunwithMaud #BlackLivesMatter
I will say that as I turned down the street that he was killed on, I immediately recognized the scene from videos we've seen, & my heart immediately dropped & tears started flowing, thinking about what he must've been feeling as these men hunted him & he had no idea why.
Video of the path that #AhmaudArbery took as he was hunted down. As far as I know, there is no public video that shows this full route. Filmed at running speed to get accurate timing. #IrunwithMaud #BlackLivesMatter
A little over three months ago, I started questioning what, if anything, I was actually doing about racism. The answer was, "pretty much nothing". And while I may not be doing much more now, I'm trying to get better, a little at a time.
I like to run and changed my running habits this spring to start running every day. The murder of Ahmaud Arbery made me think about my running differently. I read this article: runnersworld.com/runners-storie… and decided that I was too comfortable out here in suburbia. I needed to change
Because I can pass as white (although I identify as Latino and white), no one thinks twice when I run in my suburban neighborhood, or anywhere else for that matter. Why can I do what I love to do wherever and whenever I want but Ahmaud couldn't? That is the tip of the iceberg.
Ahmaud Arbery in February. Almost Dameon Shepard just the other day. Let's call these little citizen interventions what they are: lynch mobs. nytimes.com/2020/05/10/us/…
This photo is from the movie To Kill a Mockingbird, which depicts a Jim Crow-era lynch mob in 1930s Alabama coming for Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused. What happened in North Carolina to Mr. Shepard just last week is way too close for comfort. 
That America today can so closely resemble 1930s Alabama is shameful. Good people - the vast majority of us - need to stand up to this latest rise in racial violence. Or more Dameons and Ahmauds will become victims of senseless hate as history repeats itself in the worst ways.
Several days ago, a disturbing video surfaced of the killing of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. Ahmaud was murdered over two months ago on February 23 in Georgia when he was chased and killed by two white men claiming they were conducting a citizen’s arrest for a burglary. 1/
Ahmaud was simply just going for a run, something he did frequently. I’m deeply saddened by Ahamaud’s murder and enraged by the amount of public pressure that was needed for the state of Georgia to act. 2/
How we move around has changed drastically due to COVID-19, and it has been abundantly clear that during a time of crisis, certain people are afforded much more privilege in how they can navigate spaces. 3/
A young black man, Ahmaud Arbery, was out for a jog. He was then chased by 2 white men with guns in a pickup truck. After trying to cut him off multiple times, they shot and killed him.
How the newspaper presents the story is exactly how racism works.
thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_new…
How the newspaper presents the story is exactly how racism works.
thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_new…
They start off by explaining how frustrated the men were with crime in their neighborhood, humanizing the murderers. They present "neutrally" using the police report, completely dehumanizing the victim. They present the killers words unchallenged, "citing the report"
They report that the police are testing the victims body for drugs, which is both irrelevant to his murder, but plants the seed about his character. They state the report didn't say whether a gun was found on the man murdered, while out for a run.
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On Feb 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was murdered in the streets of Brunswick, GA by a man and son duo who HUNTED him down. Literally hunted him down. Because they saw him running down their street. The street that this man has run several times for a workout.
On Feb 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was murdered in the streets of Brunswick, GA by a man and son duo who HUNTED him down. Literally hunted him down. Because they saw him running down their street. The street that this man has run several times for a workout.
They saw a black man running through their neighborhood and automatically suspected he was “the one who had been breaking into cars”. Why you ask? Because he was a black man. So they went inside, got their guns (one of them a shot gun) and started chasing him down the street.
They grabbed guns because they automatically assumed this man would be armed, while on a mid day run. They kept yelling at him to stop running and when he started running faster, they got in their truck and chased him with their guns. Cornering him.
