Thursday, March 28, 2024

EUR Video News: Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers’ Text Messages Contained Racist Slurs

Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael
clockwise: Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael, Ahmaud Arbery and William ‘Roddy’ Bryan

*The three white men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery had histories of making racist comments or using slurs in text messages that stunned their friends and colleagues, a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday as the trio stood trial on hate crime charges in the 25-year-old Black man’s death.

During opening statements in the case, defense attorneys admitted their clients had each expressed offensive and indefensible opinions about Black people. But they insisted the trio’s pursuit of Arbery as he ran in their neighborhood was prompted by honest, though erroneous, suspicion that he had committed crimes — not by his race

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