*Information about the two white men involved in the killing of unarmed black jogger Ahmnaud Arbery is emerging and it straight up stinks. 🙁
One of the men seen in the video of the killing is a retired police detective and district attorney’s investigator and his connection to two prosecutors has caused them to recuse themselves from the controversial case.
As we reported earlier, Gregory McMichael, 64, and his 34-year-old son Travis were filmed on February 23 chasing Arbery in their white pick-up truck through Brunswick, Georgia, because they thought he was a burglar.
Arbery, 25, was out for a jog when the pair stopped their truck in front of him in a tree-lined street. Travis got out of the car, wielding a rifle, and shot him after a brief struggle while his former cop father watched, with his own gun primed, from the cargo bed of their truck.
The killing was filmed by a vehicle driving behind the McMichaels and has now spread on social media.
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The first prosecutor, Jackie Johnson, recused herself because Gregory McMichael worked in her office as an investigator until retiring a year ago. He previously served as a detective in the police department.
The second prosecutor, George Barnhill, said that he believed the McMichaels were within their rights to chase Arbery and arrest him, with guns, because citizens arrests are legal in Georgia.
Somehow, without knowing the actual facts of what happened (the beginning of the encounter is out of the video frame) Barnhill claims that Ahmaud “initiated” the fight and that he “clearly” tried to grab Travis’s weapon from him.
And because of that conclusion, he said Travis McMichael’s shooting of Arbery was justified because it constitutes a stand your ground killing.
In any event, a third prosecutor is insisting on convening a grand jury for the case. However, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, that stalls the justice process by months
Until then, Greg and Travis McMichael will remain free.
Damn.
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