Ahmaud Arbery’s killers found guilty of federal hate crimes
Posted February 22, 2022 9:20 am.
Last Updated February 22, 2022 11:27 am.
Three Georgia men convicted of murder in the February 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery have been found guilty of federal hate crimes.
The jury decided that father and son Greg and Travis McMichael, and their neighbour William “Roddie” Bryan, violated Arbery’s civil rights and targeted him because he was Black.
This photo combo shows, from left, Travis McMichael, William “Roddie” Bryan, and Gregory McMichael during their trial at at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. The men were convicted of murder in November 2021 for chasing Ahmaud Arbery in pickup trucks when he was out for a jog, cutting off the Black man’s escape and fatally blasting him with a shotgun. (Pool, file)
The McMichaels grabbed guns and jumped in a pickup truck to pursue Arbery after seeing him running in their neighbourhood and Bryan joined the pursuit in his own pickup.
He recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael fatally shooting Arbery.
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No charges were laid until the graphic video of the 25-year-old’s killing was leaked online two months after his death.
During the trial, prosecutors showed roughly two dozen text messages and social media posts in which Travis McMichael and Bryan used racist slurs and made derogatory comments about Black people.
FILE- In this May 16, 2020, file photo, Ahmaud Arbery’s aunt Theawanza Brooks, center left, joins other family members and supporters in a march from the Glynn County Courthouse to a police station after a rally to protest the shooting of Arbery, in Brunswick, Ga. Arbery was shot and killed in February by two men who told police they thought he was a burglar. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)
The McMichaels and Bryan had pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charges.
The three White men were found guilty of murder in November.
