‘This Was a Lynching’: Grief, Outrage Over Black Man Shot While Jogging

found online by Raymond

 

Ahmaud Arbery shot by pair who say they thought he was running because he must have committed a crime

From Tommy Christopher:

Prominent figures on social media reacted with grief and outrage to sickening video that has emerged of the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man, after being chased down by two white men in Georgia.

The crime occurred February 23 when by their own account, former police officer Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael saw Arbery jogging and chased him down in their pickup truck. They claimed to police that they wanted to question Arbery about recent burglaries in the area because they thought he resembled a “suspect” in the break-ins. They claimed Arbery “violently attacked” when they confronted him with firearms.

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