Three Georgia men charged with federal hate crimes in killing of Ahmaud Arbery
Three Georgia men who’ve been charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury charged with hate crimes and attempted kidnapping according to NBC News.
Arbery was jogging last year in Brunswick, Georgia when Travis McMichael, 35, and his father Gregory McMichael, 65, pursued him in their truck and shot him dead on Feb. 23, 2020. William “Roddie” Bryan, 51, was driving behind the men in another truck, filmed the shooting. Gregory McMichael, a retired police officer, helped leak the video because he wanted “the public to know the truth,” his attorney said in May.
The Department of Justice claimed the men confronted Arbery “because of his race.”
The incident caused international attention to racism against Black runners, NBC News reported.
McMichaels were also charged with “carrying, and brandishing—and in Travis’s case, discharging—a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence,” the DOJ said in a press release. Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael were each charged with murder in May.
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