Jury finds Travis McMichael, who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery, guilty on all 9 counts, including malice murder.
Someone in the courtroom immediately cheers. Judge Timothy Walmsley requests their removal.
Summary of today's verdicts:
• Travis McMichael: Guilty on all 9 counts, including malice murder
• Greg McMichael: Guilty on 8 of 9 counts, excluding malice murder
• William "Roddy" Bryan: Guilty on 6 of 9 counts, including three counts of felony murder
Ahmaud Arbery's mother Wanda Cooper-Jones reacts to the guilty verdicts.
"What do we want? Justice!"
"When did we get it? Today!"
Demonstrators outside the courthouse react to the guilty verdicts for the 3 men who killed Ahmaud Arbery.
“And let the word go forth all over the world, that a jury of 11 whites and 1 Black in the Deep South stood up in the courtroom and said that Black lives do matter.”
— @TheRevAl speaks after guilty verdicts in murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery.
“It’s been a long fight. It’s been a hard fight. But God is good … I never saw this day back in 2020.”
— Ahmaud Arbery’s mother Wanda Cooper-Jones, who Texas AG candidate @MerrittForTexas says “woke up a nation.”
Ahmaud Arbery's father Marcus Arbery, who cheered in the courtroom after the first guilty verdict in his son's murder trial:
"I don't want to see no daddy watch their kid get lynched and shot down like that ... Today is a good day."
Crowd gives lead prosecutor Linda Dunikoski a massive applause. She says the case was a “team effort.”
"The jury system works in this country, and when you present the truth to people and they can see it, they will do the right thing."
— Lead prosecutor Linda Dunikoski
President Biden: “Nothing can bring Mr. Arbery back to his family and to his community, but the verdict ensures that those who committed this horrible crime will be punished.”
Defense attorney Jason Sheffield says guilty verdict for Ahmaud Arbery’s killers will be appealed:
“I’ve looked into their souls ... These men are sorry for what happened to Ahmaud Arbery.”
Guilty verdicts don’t change history, but they can bring justice.
After a trial in which the defense team employed racist tropes, a jury has found Ahmaud Arbery’s killers guilty of murder.
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Waukesha, WI, Police Chief Daniel Thompson says SUV that drove through Christmas parade at 4:39PM "struck more than 20 individuals, some of the individuals were children."
Thompson adds that "there were some fatalities."
Waukesha, WI, Police Chief Daniel Thompson on SUV that drove through Christmas parade:
"We're no longer looking for a suspect vehicle. We do have a person of interest in custody at the moment."
“It’s unknown at this time whether the incident has any nexus to terrorism.”
— Waukesha, WI, Police Chief Daniel Thompson on SUV at Christmas parade
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) presses Biden’s pick for currency comptroller Saule Omarova about “you used to be a member of a group called The Young Communists.”
Omarova explains, because she was born in the Soviet Union, she was part of school youth programs mandated for students.
Kevin Gough, lawyer for 1 of 3 men accused of murdering 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, calls for mistrial.
Gough, who argued against Rev. Al Sharpton's presence in the court, cites the civil rights community calling the trial “a test case for civil rights” as a reason for mistrial.
“We ask that you deny that mistrial.”
— Prosecutor Linda Dunikoski responds to defense call for mistrial in case over killing of Ahmaud Arbery.
Judge Timothy Walmsley denies defense motion for mistrial in Ahmaud Arbery case.
Walmsley references “reprehensible” comments made by defense lawyer Kevin Gough, including a comment about Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Colonel Sanders.
"... When the issue at hand is the health of our planet and the world our children and our grandchildren will inherit, then you will have a hard time keeping me away.”
Obama slams Trump for pulling out of Paris Agreement: “I wasn’t real happy about that.”
He says “determination” of state and local governments and his own administration’s investment “allowed our country to keep moving forward, despite hostility from the White House.”
Obama on "the bad news" for leaders at the #COP26 climate summit:
“We are nowhere near where we need to be at … most countries have failed to meet the action plans that they set 6 years ago.”
"On this vote, the yeas are 228 and the nays are 206 — the motion is adopted."
Loud, sustained applause from the Democratic side of the aisle as the House passes the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
13 Republicans voted for it. 6 Dems voted against it.
Comprehensive breakdown of what's in this $1.2 bill:
• Funding for roads and bridges
• Money for transit and rail
• Broadband upgrade
• Upgrading airports, ports and waterways
• Electric vehicles
• Environmental remediation
& much more cnn.com/2021/07/28/pol…
$1.2 TRILLION*, sry, they didn't pass a $1.20 bill.