Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Ahmaud Arbery verdict: three men found guilty of murdering Black man as he jogged

Travis McMicheal, Greg McMichael and William ‘Roddie’ Bryan were each convicted for murdering Arbery

The three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery have been found guilty of murder, following his 2020 shooting death in south Georgia, which led to a wave of racial justice protest and a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the US.

Travis McMicheal, his father, Greg McMichael, and their neighbour William “Roddie” Bryan were each convicted for murdering Arbery, who was unarmed, after pursuing him in February last year and claiming, without evidence, he had been involved in a spate of burglaries in their neighborhood.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3CNbnlq

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