If you’re wondering why no charges were initially filed on the murderers of #AhmaudArbery, it’s because D.A. George Barnhill immediately concluded Arbery was a criminal & that he attacked the men who were hunting him.
This is letter Barnhill sent to the Brunswick authorities
This is letter Barnhill sent to the Brunswick authorities
Look how he assigns innocence to the McMichael duo saying they had “solid first hand probable cause” knowledge that #AhmaudArbery was a burglary suspect which makes their pursuit of Arbery justifiable under GA law (cited right below)
He just took their word for this, right?
He just took their word for this, right?
Here, the DA — George Barnhill — makes the victim the aggressor asserting that #AhmaudArbery “attacks Travis McMichael.”
The assumption of black criminality and the assumption of white innocence all for the purposes preemptively exhonerating the McMichael duo — and this from the man who was supposed to bring justice.
George Barnhill needs to be fired.
George Barnhill needs to be fired.
