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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | The three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia now face charges in federal court. Prosecutors say they killed Mr. Arbery because of his “race and color.”

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | The prosecution’s opening statement outlined the defendants’ use of racial slurs. A federal prosecutor opened the hate crimes trial Monday by describing racist views that the 3 men had previously expressed, in some cases by using the coarsest of slurs.

Ahmaud Arbery Murder | “At the end of the day, the evidence in this case will prove that if Ahmaud Arbery had been white, he would have gone for a jog, checked out a house under construction and been home in time for Sunday supper.

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | Instead he went out for a jog, and he ended up running for his life. Instead he ended up bleeding to death, alone and scared, in the middle of the street.”

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | The McMichaels, Bobbi Bernstein, a lawyer with the Justice Department’s civil rights division said, were operating on a number of false assumptions when they suspected Mr. Arbery of committing a series of break-ins in their neighborhood.

Ahmaud Arbery Murder | She noted that Gregory McMichael told police officers, shortly after the shooting, that Mr. Arbery had “broken into multiple houses over and over” & had probably stolen a gun from his son’s truck.

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | Ms. Bernstein also laid out some of the evidence of the men’s racist thinking — thinking that the prosecution will use to buttress the argument that the men chased Mr. Arbery because he was Black.

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | She said Travis McMichael referred to Black people as “animals,” “criminals,” “monkeys,” “subhuman savages” and “niggers,” including in an electronic exchange with a friend who had sent a video of a Black man sticking a firecracker up his nose.
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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | The prosecutor also said that Mr. Bryan, just days before the chase of Mr. Arbery, had used a racist slur when referring to a Black man that his daughter had been dating, and called him a monkey.
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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | She said that Mr. Bryan simply saw an unarmed Black man running down the street, being chased by men in a truck. His first thought, she said, was to help the pursuers. So he too gave chase.
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Gregory McMichael | A lawyer representing Gregory McMichael, charged with federal crimes in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, argued in his opening statement that racism against Black Americans was not at the heart of what happened on the day that Mr. Arbery was killed.
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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [Gregory McMichael] Instead, he said that Mr. McMichael was motivated by a legitimate concern about a rash of break-ins in his suburban neighborhood near Brunswick, Ga.

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [Gregory McMichael] A.J. Balbo, defense lawyer, argued that his client, Mr. McMichael, 66, did not racially profile Mr. Arbery or make assumptions based on his skin color.

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [Gregory McMichael] Mr. Balbo argued that Mr. McMichael chased Mr. Arbery “not because he was a Black man, but because he was the man” who had entered the construction site repeatedly while jogging through the neighborhood.

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [Gregory McMichael] Mr. Balbo acknowledged that the use of racial epithets by Mr. McMichael would make some “cringe,” but said that it had happened 15 to 20 years ago & did not play a role in Mr. Arbery’s death.

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [Travis McMichael] Travis McMichael’s lawyer argued that his racist statements were unconnected to his actions.

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [Travis McMichael] The lawyer for Travis McMichael, the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery, told a jury that despite some of the ugly things they would learn about her client — including his racist statement,

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [Travis McMichael] Mr. McMichael was nonetheless not guilty of the federal crimes with which he has been charged, including a hate crime count.

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [Travis McMichael] In her opening statement, the lawyer, Amy Lee Copeland, said that her client’s racist slurs were not words she used, and that his racist “opinions” were not thoughts she shared. She acknowledged that they were hard to hear.
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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [Travis McMichael] Ms. Copeland said that Mr. McMichael’s concern about crime in his neighborhood, as expressed on social media, showed that he was trying to be a “good neighbor” & help out — even, she said, if this effort to help had “disastrous results.”

Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [William Bryan] William Bryan joined the chase of Ahmaud Arbery assuming he had done something wrong, his lawyer said.

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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [William Bryan] William Bryan was not motivated by race when he joined Travis and Gregory McMichael in the chase of Ahmaud Arbery in February 2000, Mr. Bryan’s lawyer, J. Pete Theodocion, told a jury during opening statements on Monday.
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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [William Bryan] Rather, Mr. Theodocion said, his client assumed that Mr. Arbery might have done something “tremendously serious” to warrant being chased by the two men.
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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [William Bryan] “The natural assumption that he made, that anyone would make, was that they had to be chasing him for a reason,” Mr. Theodocion said.
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| [William Bryan] Theodocion said that Bryan, whom made a video of the moment when Travis McMichael fatally shot Mr. Arbery, had been trying to pull up alongside Arbery & get video evidence of the unarmed man, in case it turned out that he had committed a serious crime.
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Ahmaud Arbery Murder | [William Bryan] Mr. Bryan was just trying to help out, Mr. Theodocion said, & was not obsessed with race. Mr. Bryan, he said, would have chased Mr. Arbery “whether he was white, Hispanic or Asian.”
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