Ahmaud Arbery case highlights disparity in outcomes of self-defense cases involving “stand your ground” claims.
are, for some, a point of pride. But it's also a place where the Ku Klux Klan bragged just last year on local radio about its efforts to infiltrate law enforcement.
"One of the many tragedies here is that we've known for sometime, something like this was possible, even probable,” said Robert Patillo, a lawyer and the executive director of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition's Peachtree Street Project in Georgia. "Let's say Arbery was a 19-year-old cheerleader named Lily White, running down the street," Patillo said."Two or three black men hopped in a pickup truck and the chase ended when they shot Lilly White down on tape.
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