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B-News: Georgia Killers Arrested

 
Casper 2020-05-08 00:51:11 

This happened tonight.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation charged a father and son with murder Thursday evening in the death of a black jogger who they suspected was a burglar running through their neighborhood, eventually shooting him on the street and touching off racial outcry throughout the country.

Gregory McMichael, 64, a former police officer, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, were both charged with murder and aggravated assault in the Feb. 23 shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. Local prosecutors had initially refused to charge the pair.

A viral video taken by another man in the neighborhood has sparked outrage because it appears to show two white men laying in wait for Aubery as he jogs down the street in broad daylight.

The McMichaels, who still maintain that they believed Arbery was a possible burglary suspect, were taken into custody Thursday and were being booked into the Glynn County Jail.

 
johndom90 2020-05-08 01:00:33 

In reply to Casper

and it only took little less than 3 months. evil

when the cops initially investigated ...what were they thinking?

that Police deptalso needs to be held accountable.

 
Curtis 2020-05-08 01:11:55 

Greatest Country in the World

 
dayne 2020-05-08 01:23:59 

The power of phone technology, a few years ago the killers would have gotten away without a bother.

 
Cheeks 2020-05-08 01:50:28 

Orangeman soon call them very good people.

 
birdseye 2020-05-08 02:31:04 

In reply to Cheeks

Orangeman soon call them very good people.
And his attorney general will file motion to drop the charges

 
TyTy35 2020-05-08 05:16:01 

In reply to Casper

With all that is happening now and it seems like the wicked will reign for ever “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

 
hotarobin 2020-05-08 05:40:41 

It will be interesting to see the outcome of this one...The DSA is inching closer and closer towards a civil war....

 
hubert 2020-05-08 06:29:27 

In reply to hotarobin
Interesting indeed. But my hunch is that they will get off lightly or totally..
The system works for whitey especially in the South and works against the Blackman everywhere.

We shall see.

 
Chrissy 2020-05-08 10:14:00 

In reply to Casper

About time

 
Norm 2020-05-08 10:16:48 

Amazing. Two months after the crime was committed, by an ex-cop - who would have gotten away with it.

It was also amazing that the person taking the video needed over two months to make it public.

 
hotarobin 2020-05-08 11:04:48 

In reply to Norm


It was also amazing that the person taking the video needed over two months to make it public

Possibly enough time for them to move to another state...

 
vsingh 2020-05-08 17:30:27 

The question I have is, how did this person knew when to video?

 
DukeStreet 2020-05-08 17:45:54 

In reply to vsingh & Norm

The person running the video was the 3rd armed person chasing down Ahmaud. His name is Brian Williams. So, truck in front with the father & son duo and Williams flanking from behind.

Apparently, they shared the video among their circle of family and friends and even bragged about the killing on FB. Then, someone anonymous leaked the vid to news sources and all hell broke loose. The 1st time the deceased family saw the video was several days ago when leaked.

 
carl0002 2020-05-08 18:04:22 

In reply to DukeStreet

Deh filmed their own crime. Can you imagine if they did not film it what would happen? They Hunt him down like an animal outflank him and execute him. I was wondering why the video just cut suddenly when the dude jump from the back of the pickup.

 
VIX 2020-05-08 18:05:41 

Guy should have known better than to be jogging in great murca

 
vsingh 2020-05-08 18:12:01 

In reply to DukeStreet

Good info thanks!

 
birdseye 2020-05-08 18:28:53 

In reply to DukeStreet

so is Brian Williams in legal jeopardy? He should be – he was covering up a murder - Aint that a bitch – what a bunch a MFs – and one a these guys is a retired police officer and DA investigator --- wonder what kind a treatment black suspects/defenders got from him

 
nitro 2020-05-08 18:51:34 

In reply to birdseye

They need to look at every case that excop was on relating to minorities.

 
DukeStreet 2020-05-08 19:19:18 

In reply to vsingh

Yes. Apparently Ahmaud's family knew a video existed and their legal team had requested it over and over but they never got it until it was leaked.

Can you imagine how devastated Ahmaud's family must have been to see him get blown away like that. Man, I can still hear the booming shots in my head.

 
googley 2020-05-08 19:28:50 

In reply to DukeStreet

Video was leaked by Alan Tucker

 
googley 2020-05-08 19:29:45 

This is Tucker's full statement to the media:

"Throughout my 39 year career as a criminal defense lawyer, I have rarely commented on or publicly explained any action I’ve taken in my capacity as an attorney. There are times when it is warranted and necessary and this is one of those times.

I released the video of the shooting on February 23 in Satilla Shores. There had been very little information provided by the police department or the district attorney’s office, but there was entirely too much speculation, rumor, false narratives, and outright lies surrounding this event. I didn’t release this to “show that they did nothing wrong” as is being circulated. I was raised in this community. I love this community and have spent my career helping people in this community. My sole purpose in releasing the video was absolute transparency because my community was being ripped apart by erroneous accusations and assumptions.

 
Larr Pullo 2020-05-08 19:30:04 

Gotta get the Black Panthers back together. Did y'all see the legislator in Michigan who got some armed brothers to escort her to work. WIPEEPO need to know that they aren't the only ones with guns.

 
StumpCam 2020-05-08 19:38:59 

In reply to Larr Pullo

This is why these cowards care so much about their 2nd amendment rights! So they can feel powerful with a gun!

 
DukeStreet 2020-05-08 20:11:41 

In reply to googley

Thanks. Without this video and evidence, they woulda swept this under the rug again. This is Trayvon Martin II all over again.

 
hotarobin 2020-05-08 20:17:47 

...this continues to be very concerning...we are all reflecting on how this would have gone completely unnoticed had this video not been leaked and I am sure we are all questioning how much of this is actually going on in the DSA...

 
carl0002 2020-05-08 20:24:23 

Not sure if I completely understand the dude Tucker statement though. He released it so that there is full transparency cuz his community was being torn apart? Or he released it cuz he is a lawyer and if they found out he had evidence that can throw light on a case he very well know that he could be disbarred. Not sure if I get him.

 
DukeStreet 2020-05-08 20:31:23 

In reply to carl0002
Yep, either way that video was hot, hot, hot. It was known to exist so he had to release it.

 
birdseye 2020-05-08 21:07:35 

In reply to nitro

They need to look at every case that excop was on relating to minorities.

karma catching up wid his ass – he got away with stuff all his life – he figure he was invulnerable --- well he may find out that he isent.

 
jacksparrow 2020-05-08 21:12:42 

Devastating to the victim's family, murder it is.Just despicable human beings

 
vsingh 2020-05-08 21:40:36 

In reply to DukeStreet

This is Trayvon Martin II all over again.


Except with video evidence and they were following the guy including the man with the camera.

 
Larr Pullo 2020-05-08 22:02:50 

Georgia is the home of the Klan...

 
VIX 2020-05-08 22:04:45 

In the caribbean and other developed countries, folks can jog wherever they please without getting shot.

 
Maispwi 2020-05-08 22:56:35 

What ah cyah figure out the video ah have seen is why does the jogger divert around one side of the vehicle and end up scuffling and being shot on the other side? Was the video manipulated?

 
Drapsey 2020-05-08 23:22:24 

In reply to Maispwi

Do you reside in the Richmond, VA area?

 
VIX 2020-05-08 23:27:08 

In reply to Maispwi

The cameraman was an accomplice

 
JahJah 2020-05-09 01:48:37 

In reply to Maispwi

Maybe he decided to take his chances and disarm the man trying to kill him rather than continue running into open space only to get a few in the back.

I mean, he wasn't going to be able to outrun the truck and/or the bullets.

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2020-05-09 02:41:38 

In reply to VIX

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In the caribbean and other developed countries, folks can jog wherever they please without getting shot.


In Kingston?

Must be the nice part

 
Tryangle 2020-05-09 02:42:51 

In reply to JahJah

That;s my thoughts as well.

I read some right-winger suggest that its a bad look for the "BLM crowd" as it suggests Arbery was the instigator in the confrontation and that they can claim self defense (if Arbery was able to take control of the first guy's weapon, yadda yadda yadda).

Seriously. You're a black man alone in the road with two guys with guns trying to 'detain' you, and a third guy some ways back (probably with his own gun) filming the confrontation. You run, you're dead. You 'submit', they probably gonna tie you up and drag your death out.

This killing is totally despicable.

 
hotarobin 2020-05-09 02:43:08 

In reply to Maispwi

what I read somewhere is that they drove in front of him a tried to cut him off thrice but he just moved around them and kept on jogging each time...he probably knew how it was likely going to end and thought it best to just keep moving...thereafter it seems that they cut him off and forced a confrontation which is when he tried to take the gun from the attacker or defend himself and the other shot him...I will try to find the article...

 
JahJah 2020-05-09 02:43:14 

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan

Yes, coz Kingston makes up a large chunk of Jamaica, and Jamaica is the only Caribbean country with crime and violence.

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2020-05-09 02:53:39 

In reply to JahJah

Not the only. Don’t be ignorant. It is the most violent


10 Of The Most Dangerous Cities In The Caribbean
8 San Juan, Puerto Rico.
7 Laventille, Trinidad & Tobago.
6 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
5 San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
4 Basse Terre, St. Kitts & Nevis.
3 Kingston, Jamaica.
2 Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
1 Caracas, Venezuela.


We talking English speaking

 
JahJah 2020-05-09 04:14:19 

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan

It is the most violent. We talking English speaking


We who? You alone is a 'we'?

Don’t be ignorant.


No one can defeat you in those stakes.

 
Dukes 2020-05-09 04:22:58 

In reply to TyTy35

With all that is happening now and it seems like the wicked will reign for ever “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”


It just doesn't bend by itself.We have to bend it ourselves!!!!!

 
Dukes 2020-05-09 04:34:51 

In reply to Maispwi

What ah cyah figure out the video ah have seen is why does the jogger divert around one side of the vehicle and end up scuffling and being shot on the other side? Was the video manipulated?


Trying to figure out such details is not necessary.

BOTTOM LINE

1. A black man is jogging

2. A black man is unarmed

3.At least 3 white men,2 of them at least are armed and in a vehicle that apparently can go faster than the black man can jog..

4..The black man ends up shot dead.

5.The gun causing the black man's death is owned by the white men.

6.There is no evidence that the black man took the gun away from the white men and shot himself.

 
Cheeks 2020-05-09 05:44:51 

In reply to nitro

Look. You need to stay outta this. You support a jackass who enables and supports that sorta behaviour for votes.

Kindly fuck off.

I dont know what it will take for you to realize that this shit is not funny.

 
Casper 2020-05-09 09:27:09 

Did you realize that in the initial decision by the prosecutors, it was deemed self-defense for the attackers following the black jogger?

As this case proceeds, will the defense continue to pursue this strategy? What defense would they think the jogger had as he struggled with a man, who probably first pointed a gun at him?


Man who took video of Ahmaud Arbery's shooting will also be investigated, Georgia official says


The director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Friday it will continue investigating the death of Ahmaud Arbery, including the man who filmed the incident in a video.

Director Vic Reynolds said that video, which has spread widely on social media, was a key piece of evidence in the case in which two white men are seen chasing Arbery down on a residential street in southern Georgia.

He said it took 36 hours from the time the bureau began assisting in the probe to arrest the father and son, Gregory and Travis McMichael, who are accused of shooting Arbery, who was black. There were "some things that needed to be done" in the investigation that had been led by Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tom Durden since April 14, he said.

 
StumpCam 2020-05-09 09:41:08 

In reply to Casper

Can you imagine the original DA said that there was nothing illegal about their(perpetrators) actions! As reported by the TV news!

 
DukeStreet 2020-05-09 11:57:14 

In reply to JahJah

There was speculation the shooter was actually the dad and he supposedly shot from atop the truck. Not sure if the prosecutors are prosecuting from that angle...or maybe it doesn't matter cuz both of dem going down.

 
DukeStreet 2020-05-09 11:58:18 

In reply to StumpCam

They need to do an internal investigation of that whole department.

 
Maispwi 2020-05-09 19:17:10 

In reply to Dukes

Be that as it may, all the points you raised, Trayvon Martin's killer got away by claiming he was attacked and feared for his life. So there is some precedent especially with the liberal stand your ground and citizens arrest laws on Georgia's books

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2020-05-09 19:42:02 

In reply to JahJah

Maybe he decided to take his chances and disarm the man trying to kill him rather than continue running into open space only to get a few in the back.


Which one of your ass did you get that analysis?
The one above your neck?

Do me a favor and go take a jog in Orangeville

Just a short drive from you

 
JahJah 2020-05-09 21:29:49 

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan

Your post makes no sense. No surprise there.

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2020-05-09 22:34:34 

In reply to JahJah

Basic logic is a detriment to your comprehension

 
Norm 2020-05-10 01:15:42 

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan and JahJah

Come on, fellas. No need for this.

 
Norm 2020-05-10 02:50:59 

Fox News story: "If he had just froze ... he wouldn't have gotten shot."

The LAWYER released the video to HELP the shooters! He was trying to stop riots, such as in Baltimore and Charleston. The neighbor of the shooters shot the video.

These people, in their extremely twisted world, believed that the rest of the world was just as twisted, and accepting of their depraved reasoning. The riots that may have followed would have been a real annoyance to their "caring" consciences!

Fox News has begun its defense of murderous white racists, because of who they are likely to support.

It is utterly amazing, and shocking, that no one in the shooters' community thought the shooters were wrong to confront that particular jogger for no other reason than his skin color. The reasons why the lawyer released the video are also utterly mind-blowing in their depravity.

"Know a tree by its fruit," a certain very wise man said.

 
DukeStreet 2020-05-10 04:19:20 

In reply to Norm

Hmmm. It crazy but I was telling my sister and theorizing the same thing the other day. I told her he decided to release the video cuz he was probably hearing loud voices from the community and Ahmaud's folks already knew a video existed and the lawyer got scared not because of fear for what would happen to the men but for his own ass if he didn't release it. The clock was ticking on him and he knew it.

 
JahJah 2020-05-10 04:26:54 

In reply to Norm

Me? The only person needed talking to was that jackass. We here talking about something serious and he come here with the foolishness.

 
Norm 2020-05-10 07:05:59 

In reply to JahJah

We here talking about something serious ...

I hear you.

 
VIX 2020-05-10 19:51:46 

Another typical day in murca.

Latched on to by murca obsessed backroom. rolleyes

 
Ewart 2020-05-10 20:29:58 

In reply to Maispwi

...

stand your ground
law is in Florida.



Is it also in Georgia?

//

 
cricket_jumbie 2020-05-10 20:40:45 

In reply to Ewart
similarities and differences explained here

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2020-05-10 21:48:57 

In reply to JahJah

Maybe he decided to take his chances and disarm the man trying to kill him



What is that foolishness u wrote there mule?

 
Ewart 2020-05-10 22:02:56 

In reply to cricket_jumbie

Thanks!

//

 
Tryangle 2020-05-10 23:48:14 

In reply to Norm

Fox News story: "If he had just froze ... he wouldn't have gotten shot."


Screw Fox News for such a ludicrous take.

And screw Candace Owens who took the opportunity today to lambaste African-Americans. Exceptionally low, mean-spirited and deliberately antagonising. David Duke doesn't have to do a thing, she's pretty much his twin.

 
Cheeks 2020-05-11 00:22:16 

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan

What is that foolishness u wrote there mule?


What is wrong with his perspective???

Its plausible the guy realized that he couldn't outrun the trucks and eventually decided to take his chances with fighting back. Anybody who follows the news knows that black folk struggle to get restraint from the police....its reasonable to think that that he was in trouble with Billy Bob and his pickney and when he came face to face with a rifle..he had no choice but to fight back.

The guy was between a rock and a hard place.

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2020-05-11 01:37:58 

In reply to Cheeks

Teach you kids to come home alive and NOT to be right with the constitution on their side.

Live to fight another day.

Some ref

Survive in america as a Minority

 
Casper 2020-05-11 01:44:23 

In reply to nitro

They need to look at every case that excop was on relating to minorities.



And what about any minorities-involved cases the prosecutors worked on?

 
Norm 2020-05-11 01:58:37 

In reply to Tryangle

Screw Fox News for such a ludicrous take.

It is very disappointing that so many humans knowingly embrace inequality as a way of life - even the mouthpieces of large political entities. There is a lot of work for all of us to do, to move past that.

 
JahJah 2020-05-11 04:57:46 

In reply to Cheeks

You see the response to your post? That should tell you all you need to know.

Me done.

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2020-05-11 22:41:14 

In reply to JahJah

You will be a statistic one day and no one will come on tv repping

Mr youwancometest. Mr useemee

Handle my response. You might learn something

Highly unlikely but

 
JahJah 2020-05-12 02:11:00 

It's not right to laugh at the mentally ill, but I'll make exception just for Dan.

lol.

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2020-05-12 12:49:32 

In reply to JahJah

Look in the mirror dudley

 
Casper 2020-05-12 12:58:33 

The case gets another prosecutor, this time a black Atlanta woman.


Cobb DA appointed to prosecute murder suspects in Ahmaud Arbery case. She’s held the position for only about 10 months. But Joyette Holmes, Cobb County’s first black district attorney, was thrust into the spotlight quickly when she was selected to prosecute the suspects charged in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a racially charged case that is drawing national attention.

State leaders hailed Holmes, a former chief magistrate court judge, as the best choice for the job, while others noted the decision once again links Glynn and Cobb counties and their prosecutors. On Monday, Holmes — also a former defense attorney — became the third prosecutor assigned to the Arbery case when Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced he was appointing her.




Attorney General Chris Carr appointed Ms. Holmes as the public pressure evolved from pushing for criminal charges to broader scrutiny of the way the case had been handled by prosecutors and the police. On Sunday, Mr. Carr, a Republican, urged the Justice Department to initiate a sweeping investigation into the case.

 
JahJah 2020-05-12 16:59:10 

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan

Like I said before, your post made no sense. Feel free to keep digging though.

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2020-05-13 00:12:30 

Link Text

Investigators reviewing additional video in death of south Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery

 
hotarobin 2020-05-13 03:14:11 

In reply to Dan_De_Lyan

typical irrelevant distraction that they will bring to the argument.....

 
JahJah 2020-05-13 11:49:09 

In reply to hotarobin

That video has been out for a while now, and already known, and the dudes were still arrested.

Also note that Dan justified the guy's murder, so make of that what you will.

Tell him what is under investigation as well. Can of worms opening up? Let's hope for Dan's and his sake that he didn't corrupt any past cases and stitched up folks.

 
JahJah 2020-05-13 12:10:12 

Dan and his redneck friends can keep investigating. But they must not only seek out what is favourable to their lynching desires.

 
Dan_De_Lyan 2020-05-13 12:56:03 

In reply to JahJah

Also note that Dan justified the guy's murder, so make of that what you will.



That video was broadcasted by all media. cnn, Gayle king (she black) and the rest of the media houses. Where did I justify his murder fada ram! Go sum
With your attitude, Halton Region have your name carved on a projectile
It soon come

 
Cheeks 2020-05-13 13:57:29 

Man….as people have said...its very common practice at least in Grenada for people to look at houses under construction ..sometimes just to be nosey to find fault and sometimes to get ideas for their own projects.

I remember being on my site a few times and all sorts of weird people...rich, poor and in between would drive by stop..and have a look. Sometimes when they see me they would beat a hasty retreat because they don't want to get caught being nosey.

 
Casper 2020-05-15 06:01:32 

Looks like Aubrey May have visited the construction site to check out the house

No evidence that he took anything; no reason to be killed, except some two or more Georgia residents deciding to take the laws into their hands and executing their own form of quick justice.


Security camera footage from a home under construction in the neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was shot to death in February shows a person who appears to be the same young man entering the property several times since last fall.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has reviewed video footage and police reports involving five dates where the young man appeared on the property and tripped the motion-sensor videos that sent an alert to property owner Larry English’s phone. The footage is part of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s case as agents try to piece together what happened before Arbery’s Feb. 23 death in a suburb outside Brunswick. Investigators are still trying to determine if the young man in the videos is Arbery, but his family’s legal team said a video of a figure entering the property on the day of the killing appears to be him.

 
Casper 2020-05-15 07:38:42 

Gregory McMichael lost his power of arrest, except for the citizen arrest and murder of a black man.


Gregory McMichael, the white retired law enforcement officer who helped chase down and kill Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old African American man, failed to complete sufficient basic law enforcement training for years, a deficiency that led to him losing his power of arrest.

McMichael, who worked as an investigator in the Brunswick judicial circuit district attorney’s office from 1995 to 2019, lost his power of arrest in January 2006 for failing to complete the required 20 hours of training the previous year, according to personnel records obtained by the Guardian.

He continued to be deficient in his training for the years that followed and didn’t get the waiver required to reinstate his power of arrest authority. Some of the training McMichael lacked included required courses on use of force and firearms.

The personnel records, which have been reported by local media, come to light as McMichael faces murder charges for chasing down Arbery, who was jogging through a residential neighborhood. McMichael and his son Travis claimed they believed Arbery looked like a suspect in a string of neighborhood break-ins.

The records also shed light on McMichael’s close relationship with Jackie Johnson, the district attorney for the Brunswick judicial circuit, who recused herself from the case and is now subject to a state investigation of how the case was handled.


When is Jackie Johnson going to resign?