Thread by @MissVWaters

Good morning! The first witness today (#5) in the federal hate crimes trial of #AhmaudArbery's killers is FBI Intelligence Analyst Amy Vaughan. She testifies hate crimes and terrorism crimes share similar characteristics: motivation. @wsbradio

@wsbradio As the Gov't delved into Vaughan's deep background probing terrorism, there was an objection by the defense; Judge LG Wood told jurors the defendants aren't on trial for terrorism-specific charges. Vaughan's testified in 3 trials about digital evidence. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

Vaughan started supervising review of the digital evidence in the #AhmaudArbery case. She reviewed the Satilla Shores Homeowners Group as well as the personal FB accounts for all three men and Travis McMichael's Instagram account. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio The FBI reviewed cell phones for Travis McM and Roddie Bryan; they couldn't break the encryption on Greg McMichael's phone but got some information from his iCloud. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio The SSHG has a July 2019 post telling neighbors there was a burglary on Holmes Rd around 5AM, targeting mostly unlocked cars. Cautioned people to lock up, be careful, report suspicious activity to law enforcement. Travis McMichael wrote, "Arm up." #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio A post about people going into a house under construction in Nov. 2019--Larry English had shown person video of a Black man, and a white male and white female, who'd gone onto the property. Travis McM wrote in part, "They are starting to play with fire." #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Vaughan shows a video Travis McMichael put up about going hunting, doing a little bushwhacking and scouting for pigs, bring home some bacon for mama. (Didn't catch it all.) There was a gunshot at the end. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio There was another post from R.H. about guns stolen from a vehicle. The accompanying photo/video does not appear to be of a Black man, testifies Vaughan. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Jury sees first of dozens of text messages/convos between Travis McMichael and others. March 2019, he asks H.B. Where did y'all end up last night? They exchange details; HB writes something that sounds like "niggs everywhere." #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Travis McMichael wrote in reply, "Damn. They ruin everything. That's why I love what I do. Not a nigger in sight." HB said, "Ha ha ha. What do you do?" TM said, "Government contractor driving boats for Navy & Marines. Love it. Zero niggers work with me." #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Jan 21, 2019 Travis McMichael talked w/someone about meeting at a Cracker Barrel restaurant. M.J. wrote they were parked and there were "hood rats" there... Travis wrote, "Need to change the name from Cracker Barrel to Nigger Bucket" #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio In a convo with J.M. and Travis McM, August 2019: JM wrote I thought the niggers in Saint Mary's were bad but nothing compared to this shit up here. Travis: They're bad. JM: Went in damn McDonald's on Glynn Ave. TM: Part of niggerville my friend #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Prosecutor asks Vaughan about Travis McMichael sending a video called "Alabama N-word" by Johnny Rebel, and they play it for the jury. "I'm an Alabama nigger and want to be free, to hell with the NAACP" #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio A convo Travis McM had with TJ or PJ (not sure) about getting a CDL complaining about "niggers" in the process; a text laughing about "Halloween winner" of a man in blackface with a red splotch on a hoodie--a crude reference to Trayvon Martin's killing #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Travis McMichael told someone, "The southern white male is the most discriminated human in the United States." #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Texts b/t Travis McMichael and C.M. in Feb 2019 in which they laugh as CM realizes "zoodles" Travis is eating are zucchini noodles. CM says, "White people." Travis: "I'd rather say zoodle every day the rest of my life than ever be a nigger." CM: Good point #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Travis McMichael texted his friend a photo of someone in a tee that said "At least I'm not a nigger." #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio They moved to Greg McMichael's FB account where he posted a meme: White Irish slaves are treated worse than any other race in the US When is the last time you heard the Irish bitching the world owes them? You won't, they're not looking for free shit #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio FBI's Vaughan testifies Roddie Bryan's accounts had evidence of racial animus and racial slurs: the n-word and the word "bootlip." She had to look it up as she'd never heard it. It's a derogatory phrase, refers to stereotypical look of Black person's face. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Roddie Bryan on WhatsApp with PT in 2019 on MLK Day. PT: Hope you took today off to resume your grand marshal position, haha. Vaughan testifies it was an inside joke between the pair--he would never do that b/c he doesn't care for Black people or MLK #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Roddie Bryan replied, "I'm working so all the niggers can take off. Happy milk day." Another convo on MLK Day 2020: I know you're busy with grand marshal duties. Bryan: I bet y'all are truly having a monkey parade over there. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio PT made some reference to not being different from Gloucester Street which Vaughan testifies was part of the MLK Day parade route in Brunswick (FYI, Vaughan detailed how WhatsApp is often used for international convos since it's free) #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Roddie Bryan texted J.C. on MLK Day 2020, Happy bootlip day. JC: Good to be working, happy coon day. Bryan: I worked like a nigger today #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio FBI's Vaughan says MLK Day is not the only day Roddie Bryan used racial slurs. In June 2019 he told someone about a breakup he'd had & the woman was staying w/ a white female relative who "doesn't have the one nigger baby daddy, but probably has another" #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio In Feb 19 2020 Roddie Bryan got forwarded a message his daughter had written; she was dating a new guy who loves her & cares about her education. He's Black and his parents are white but it's just a color, doesn't define him or make me love him less... #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Roddie Bryan tried to call PT, who sent the message. Texted back, are you coming to meet your future son-in-law? PT said, I chartered a plane so you can fly down with them. Bryan said, He'd fit right in with the monkeys. PT: LOL #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio PT said She must be done with me, this is the only thing I said I could never accept. Roddie Bryan texted someone else that day, "She has her a nigger now. I've been calling it for a while. Not surprised." #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Feb 24 2020--four days after #AhmaudArbery shooting, Roddie Bryan sent on WhatsApp to PT that he'd had an eventful day recently...and daughter doesn't give an f what she thinks. PT describes daughter "shunning" family @wsbradio

@wsbradio When Roddie Bryan's daughter & boyfriend made relationship public on Facebook in April 2020 PT shared a screenshot to RB on WhatsApp, said Thought you wanted to start your day with a good puke. Bryan said If she don't give a fk about herself why should we #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio FBI intelligence analyst Amy Vaughan is recognized by the Court as expert in digital forensics and Internet investigation. No objection by defense. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Vaughan details a FB comment on something by Travis McMichael: "Goddamn savages." Can't see what the post is. It's out of context so the FBI got a search warrant to see the posts on which he commented. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

Turns out the Travis McMichael "goddamn savages" comment was made on a post of grocery store surveillance video of a Black person who was a white woman's purse-snatcher. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Travis McMichael convo 2 months before #AhmaudArbery shooting has lots of "nigger" references describing a fight outside a business & a couple of robberies one night. "Full moon brings out the worst of those savages I guess. I hate those bastards. They ruin everything" @wsbradio

@wsbradio Travis McMichael also said some uncle's daughter was "knocked up by nigger boyfriend." Roddie Bryan also associated Black people with criminality, according to things on his phone, testifies FBI's Vaughan. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Roddie Bryan and LR discussing high cost of health insurance: Bryan: If you were Black you wouldn't pay for it. LR: I'll have it run on ancestry dot com. I must be part Black, my credit's f'ing terrible. Didn't get the big dick, just the bad credit. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

Roddie Bryan, noting LR's wife is 44: Other problems can start at that age. Try to get her on disability like the niggers. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Screenshot of a bike theft; friend wrote bike was recovered after we had to evacuate and someone broke into garage! Roddie Bryan wrote, in October 2016, What fine upstanding citizen was it? My money's on bootlips. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio A Facebook convo b/t Travis and LC. Jan 2019 about a suspected thief. LC says an example should be made of person; TM agrees. He says elsewhere he keeps his shotgun full of ammo that can "rip someone to shreds." #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Greg McMichael wrote on someone's meme, "Maybe I'll catch the sorry SOB in Georgia; we still hang horse thieves. Woe be unto the sticky-fingered bastard." There was also a reference to some meme that a criminal doesn't fear police, so must fear his victim. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio On a post about Black teens & a white teen being beaten by a mob, Vaughan shows Travis McMichael wrote, You know my thoughts on this. Mr. Taurus 38 says five would be taking a dirt nap. Guilty by association, shoot all of them. Fk those goddam monkeys #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Travis McMichael comments: We used to walk around committing hate crimes all day LOL. In 2019: Black dude tried to ram gate...I almost shot him. Then, "Pookie ain't did nothing. Latisha on ActionNewsJax." Vaughan says Latisha was a Black reporter there #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio The litany of Travis McMichael posts/texts continues: "Fucking nigger." About a prank video with a Black person in it: "I'd kill that fucking nigger." Video of Black women hit by a car: "Protesters blocking you? Mash on it and drive straight." #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

Facebook comment by Travis McMichael: "Subhuman savages." Referred to white mother & daughter assaulted by a pair of Black customers who complained their food was cold. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio On some video that depicted graphic violence, Travis McMichael had written "They'd be scraping brain matter off the pavement if anyone attacked my wife and child like that. ... I would beat those monkeys to death." #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Defense cross-exam: Amy Lee Copeland asked FBI's Vaughan if context was important; she said Yes. ALC: You can't hear voice inflection on FB. Played the video w/graphic violence, asks, Did you know this was over cold fried chicken & a small order of fries? #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

@wsbradio Re-direct, prosecutor noted that Black people online had expressed support of the white victims in the video who'd been hit by the Black perps; did Travis McMichael note/comment on that? No, said Vaughan #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio

Wanted to note the prosecutor pointed out with FBI's Vaughan: Travis McMichael asked if they had caught "him," #AhmaudArbery, but didn't ask/say anything about the white couple going into English's house. @wsbradio

Travis McMichael texted his friend a photo of someone in a tee that said "At least I'm not a nigger." The person in the tee appears to be disabled. #AhmaudArbery @wsbradio