*Georgia attorney Alan Tucker is speaking out about the disturbing video of Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting death, which was leaked to the media by a friend of the murderers in an attempt to justify the actions of the shooters.
Tucker told the New York Times he obtained the footage from William Bryan, who captured the incident on his cellphone. Tucker said he then sent the video to a local radio station with the intention of preventing a riot on the streets, Complex reports.
“I was trying to stop a riot,” Tucker told Inside Edition. “Well, you saw what happened to Baltimore, you’ve seen what happened to Charleston, you saw what happened to Ferguson. I was trying to stop a riot.”
Tucker told the Times he was simply trying to dispel rumors about the Gregory and Travis McMichael.
“It wasn’t two men with a Confederate flag in the back of a truck going down the road and shooting a jogger in the back,” Tucker said. “It got the truth out there as to what you could see. My purpose was not to exonerate them or convict them.”
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Man who recorded Ahmaud Arbery shooting speaks out https://t.co/eoDz7vgE4L pic.twitter.com/fxdpFXprF2
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 11, 2020
The video surfaced online last week, about two months after Arbery was killed while jogging in a residential area of Georgia. 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 were not initially charged or arrested in connection with the killing because, in yet another example of “Because I’m white and I say so….” Brunswick prosecutor George E. Barnhill said Gregory and Travis acted within the state’s citizen’s arrest law and that Travis had the authority to fatally shoot Arbery out of self-defense.
Gregory McMichael, a former police officer, told authorities he and his son believed Arbery was a burglary suspect and decided to arm themselves before pursuing him in a truck.
“The video speaks for itself,” Tucker told Inside Edition. “What happened, happened. I don’t have an excuse for it. I can’t explain. Other than, we always say, ‘What if he had just froze and hadn’t done anything, he wouldn’t have gotten shot,'” he explained.
But how can Tucker be so sure these animals STILL would not have shot him?
Black Panthers teamed up with Black motorcycle club riders to protest against the racist murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
(Video by Derek Mack) pic.twitter.com/gww5tfYSwq
— redfish (@redfishstream) May 11, 2020
People are still posted up in the neighborhood where #ahmaudarbery was lynched pic.twitter.com/1GbqFXe9nB
— Tariq Nasheed ?? (@tariqnasheed) May 11, 2020
Glynn County Police Lt. Cheri Bashlor told CNN on Friday that there were no reports of a burglary at the time of Arbery’s death. The last known burglary was on Jan. 1.
The McMichaels were arrested Friday on aggravated assault and murder charges.
Georgia’s attorney general has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate how local authorities handled Arbery’s killing.
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