Closing arguments continued Tuesday in the murder trial of three white men — Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. — who are accused of murdering 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, while he was out on a jog near his home town of Brunswick, Georgia, in February last year.
Georgia?
11 white jurors?
Fait accompli…
Dad was a cop, so, traditionally they both go home.
Ginning up Red’s Coast Guard Service was, to them, pushing plausibility far enough over the line.
“You can’t start it and claim self-defense,” she said. “And they started this.”
Instead of confronting him they should have shot him in the back as he was running away. That would have assured an acquittal.
I think the prosecution is doing a masterful job. Sadly…I’m afraid carefully constructed logic with loads of proof is beyond the 11 whites on the jury.
I hope to be proven wrong.
Words fail…
This bitch was on my last nerve yesterday. I didn’t hear her whole argument, so I missed this heinous piece of white fuckery.
3/4 of America can’t make proper change for a dollar out of a till.
But you need four quarters to make change.
The asshole’s rebel yell shit has not even been brought up…the Rebel flag license plate holder…that fact that the asshole used the N word.
It easy to defeat justice in Georgia. In fact it’s no feat at all.
FUCKERS. The assholes keep objecting and trying to say the prosecutor is giving the wrong reading of the law of citizen’s arrest.
The judge is getting annoyed. He keeps saying he will instruct the jury.
I heard one analyst say this is just to throw her off her game. It’s not something the judge would uphold.
O.C.G.A. 17-4-60 (2010)
17-4-60. Grounds for arrest
A private person may arrest an offender if the offense is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge. If the offense is a felony and the offender is escaping or attempting to escape, a private person may arrest him upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion.
I see no mention of “offense is committed within the overactive imagination of a rebel dumbshit”.
In the euphoria of the Second Reconstruction, many got complacent. Years ago, when the U.S. was positioning itself to react to this Second Reconstruction, I saw and heard people behaving casually about voting–and this was before the Roberts Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.
Those who wish to take away rights seldom let up. The Prize is too great.
Dehumanize the black victim, it’s what she thinks will work.
Well, of course. Look at our stupid system for coins… 1, 5, 10, 20 25…
Then compare that with bills… 1, 2, 5, 10, 20…
Who the fuck thought that it was the best idea for our nice hundredths setup to go differently when you grouped hundredths into a whole…
There doesn’t really seem to be much clarification of what the offense might be. Is there a specific crime for which they claim they were arresting him?
But it does give a break to white citizens in good standing that shoot black suspects with dirty toenails.
They assumed he committed a crime. That’s all. They had no knowledge of a crime that Ahmaud committed.
The prosecutor is good, the defense lawyers have been particularly loathsome, and most people on juries actually try to do the right thing. I predict guilty verdicts all around unless there is a racist holdout on the jury who gives them a hung jury. Certainly there will be no acquittal or anything resembling what happened with Rittenhouse.
The most surprising thing about all of this is the the GA legislature took the Citizen’s Arrest statute off the books right after this happened.