The mother and father of Ahmaud Arbery spoke publicly after the jury delivered guilty verdicts Wednesday in his killers’ murder trial
Three white men were found guilty of murder Wednesday in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black manTheawanza Brooks, one of Arbery’s aunts, sobbed and rocked back and forth in an overflow room in the courthouse as Travis McMichael was declared guilty.
Speaking after the verdict, civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton portrayed it as a victory against racism. The verdict came less than a week after a jury in Kenosha, Wis., delivered a not guilty verdict in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, a teenager who shot and killed two men and wounded another last year at violent protests against police brutality — another case surrounded by questions of vigilantism and race.
But in contrast to that case, jurors were able to watch the Arbery killing for themselves. The most important evidence presented during the trial was grainy cellphone video shot by Bryan as he drove his pickup in pursuit of Arbery. The jury was also presented with security camera videos showing Arbery entering a home under construction in the neighborhood multiple times in the months leading up to Feb. 23 — the last time just minutes before he was shot dead.
Prosecutors said the three men made “assumptions” about Arbery, had no evidence he had committed a crime and gave chase “because he was a Black man running down the street.”
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