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Three white men were sentenced to life in prison in Georgia for murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, in 2020 in a case that sparked national outrage.
On November 22, 2021, McMichael appeared at the Glynn County Courthouse. The photo was taken by Octavio Jones- Pool.
The images are from the same company.
The McMichaels, along with a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, were all convicted of murder in a November trial.
Bryan was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, meaning he will spend at least 30 years in prison, while the McMichaels were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The men used pickup trucks to chase down and ram Arbery as he ran through a suburb of Georgia on February 23, 2020 and then confronted him and killed him.
Bryan showed that he hadgrave concerns that what had occurred should not have happened.
My son and his family have been attacked by these men. Wanda Cooper-Jones, Arbery's mother, said that they each have no remorse and do not deserve any leniency. The men deserve the maximum sentence for their crimes.
The key background.
The fitful investigation and prosecution of Arbery's murder helped fuel nationwide Black Lives Matter protests during the summer of 2020, with Arbery's killing coming just months before George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis police custody. Civil rights figures like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were in the courtroom for the trial. The jury's guilty verdicts in the case were widely praised as a victory in the fight against racial injustice in the American criminal justice system, with Sharpton saying after the trial ended: "Let the word go forth all over the world that a jury of 11 whites and one Black in
The video of Arbery's death, which Bryan shot, was made public 72 days after the murder. Bryan was taken into custody on May 21, 2020, two days after the McMichaels were arrested.
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The defense argued that the men thought Arbery was a criminal and that the killing was justified. Georgia repealed a law that was used to justify lynchings.
The defendants in the Arbery Killing have been found guilty.
The defense attorney in the Arbery trial is accusing black pastors of being public lynchings.
Mother says she never thought this day would come.
The law was repealed in the wake of the Ahmaud Arbery murder case.
