Thursday, March 28, 2024

Fox News Host Asks Trump How to Prevent Ahmaud Arbery’s Death from Becoming a ‘Racial Situation’ [VIDEO]

*President Trump said on “Fox & Friends” last week that he watched the footage of Ahmaud Arbery being murdered by two suspected white supremacists in Georgia, calling his death “very disturbing,” “heartbreaking” and “very rough.”

Arbery is the 25-year-old Georgia man who was gunned down earlier this year by two suspected white supremacists near his hometown in Brunswick, Ga. He was unarmed when he was fatally shot in the Satilla Shores neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23.

Travis McMichael, 34, and his father, Gregory, 64, a retired cop, had seen Arbery running in the area and decided to arm themselves, chase him down in a pickup truck and kill him.

According to The Brunswick News, Travis and Gregory followed Ahmaud and demanded that he stop and talk to them, believing him to be a burglary suspect.  At some point, they got out of their truck, confronted him and after a struggle over the shotgun with Travis, Arbery was shot at least twice and killed.

Father and son have now been arrested and charged with murder.

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During his call on “Fox & Friends,” Trump did not appear to be aware that the father and son had been arrested on Thursday night.

“I looked at a picture of that young man,” Trump said of Arbery, lawandcrime.com reports. “That looks like a really good young guy, and it’s a very disturbing situation to me. And I just, my heart goes out to the parents and the family and the friends.”

Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade then followed up with a question about how (Trump and the media can spin) the tragedy doesn’t end up a “racial situation”

“In the past, when there’s been a black-white shooting, a lot of times things get — spiral out of control,” Kilmeade said. “What can you do to make sure justice is done and this doesn’t end up in a racial situation?”

Attorney George Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, fired back Kilmeade’s question on Saturday morning.

“Fox & Friends host concerned that murder of unarmed black jogger with shotgun in southeast Georgia by white former cop and son in pickup truck who were then let go by former cop’s ex-colleagues despite having victim’s blood on hands might be turned into one of them racial things,” he wrote on Twitter.

Texas attorney Garrick A. Farria posted a picture of the two shooters, writing, “This became a racial situation when these two race warriors decided to armor up.”

Below are additional reactions to Kilmeade’s comments:

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