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    Also on Wednesday, Johnson turned herself in to officials after a grand jury indicted her for violating her oath of office and obstructing police, saying she used her position to discourage law enforcement officers from arresting the McMichaels.
    Remarkable.

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    The sentencing hearing for the three White men who chased and murdered Ahmaud Arbery has started.


    Travis McMichael, 35, his father, Gregory McMichael, 66, and neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, were convicted on a raft of charges, including felony murder, in the 2020 slaying of the 25-year-old Black jogger.


    What we expect from today's hearing: Though murder is punishable by death in Georgia, prosecutors have said they'd seek life without parole. According to Georgia law, even if Judge Timothy Walmsley permits parole, it won't be considered for 30 years.


    Arbery's family will be able to deliver statements aimed at yielding stiffer sentences, while the McMichaels' and Bryan's supporters can present character witnesses to press for lighter sentences. Wanda Cooper-Jones, Arbery's mother, intends to deliver a statement, her lawyer, S. Lee Merritt, said.


    Live updates: Ahmaud Arbery'''s convicted killers Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. to be sentenced

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    the 25-year-old Black jogger
    Surprised to see that in the report. Was he actually known as a jogger to friends/family/colleagues (presuming he had a job)?

    I doubt I'd be described as a jogger and I go jogging probably twice a week on average.

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    ^ If you were shot while you were out jogging you probably would be described that way.

    If a hunter were out hunting when he got shot, he’d probably be described as a hunter and not a used car salesman or whatever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    If you were shot while you were out jogging you probably would be described that way.

    If a hunter were out hunting when he got shot, he’d probably be described as a hunter and not a used car salesman or whatever.
    What's with the need for a description?

    "The 25 year old victim"


    The 'black/white/Asian jogger' makes it look like a report looking to stir up some sheeet.

    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    If you were shot while you were out jogging you probably would be described that way.
    I'd probably be described as a farang that jogged into the side of a quick turning pickup truck, opened the door, found a gun, then committed suicide with it via multiple shots from the driver's seat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    I'd probably be described as a farang that jogged into the side of a quick turning pickup truck, opened the door, found a gun, then committed suicide with it via multiple shots from the driver's seat.
    While wearing a plastic bag over your head which was tied at the neck.




    Americans, in general, have a bad habit of including peoples race when it shouldn’t matter. Irks me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Americans, in general, have a bad habit of including peoples race when it shouldn’t matter. Irks me.
    It very much matters to this case.

    Do you think these fat ignorant racist fucks would have done it had he been white?

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    It very much matters to this case.
    They've already been convicted.

    Reporting 'the 25 year old victim' would be perfectly apt.


    Anything else is just shit-stirring.


    Nobody likes shit-stirring.

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    Life for all three.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond View Post
    They've already been convicted.

    Reporting 'the 25 year old victim' would be perfectly apt.


    Anything else is just shit-stirring.


    Nobody likes shit-stirring.
    Bullshit. The consequences of this racial-motivated murder need to be publicised far and wide.

    It will give pause to all the other racist rednecks wankers that might think they can still get away with lynching.

    Two of them will die in prison, which is fucking great. Hopefully they will spend every waking minute looking over their shoulders.

    The three men convicted in Ahmaud Arbery's murder were sentenced Friday to life in prison. Travis McMichael, 35, and his father Gregory McMichael, 66, were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
    Their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, will have to serve 30 years of his life sentence before he's eligible for parole. The three men, all of whom are White, were convicted in November for the killing of Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, in Georgia in February 2020.
    Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley noted how the McMichaels went after Arbery after Gregory McMichael saw him running in a street and said, "Let's go." The judge said, "Ahmaud Arbery was then hunted down and shot, and he was killed because individuals here in this courtroom took the law into their own hands."
    Walmsley said Arbery was chased for roughly five minutes and "gunned down." The judge sat in silence for one minute to give a sense of that amount of time. The shooting was captured on cellphone video, which the jury viewed during the trial.
    Ahmaud Arbery's killers get life sentences; no possibility of parole for Travis and Gregory McMichael
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    And this is important too, because it will show them states with racist legislatures cannot protect the racist c u n t s.

    The McMichaels and Bryan are also facing federal hate crime charges. A separate trial in the federal case is scheduled to begin on February 7.

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    Ahmaud Arbery Murderers Are Officially Guilty of Hate Crimes

    The three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, in the streets of Satilla Shores near Brunswick, Georgia, two years ago were found guilty in a federal hate-crime trial on Tuesday.

    The federal case against Travis McMichael, his father Gregory, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, centered on what drove them to commit the murder—a crime they were previously convicted of in state court. Specifically, federal prosecutors sought to prove they were motivated by racial animus when they used pick-up trucks to chase, cut off, and gun down Arbery on Feb. 23, 2020.

    Already looking at life in prison for felony murder at the state level, the men faced federal charges of interfering with Arbery’s right to use a public street because of his race, as well as attempted kidnapping. The McMichaels were also charged with firearm offenses related to the fatal shooting; Travis McMichael fired the shots that killed Arbery.

    The verdict—all three men guilty on all counts—was reached in less than four hours, and left no doubt that this was no mere cold-blooded murder, but an act fueled by racism in the Deep South. It marked one of the final chapters in a horrific saga that began with violent vigilantism in the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic and appeared at one point like it might be swept under the rug.

    Multiple local prosecutors—one of whom had previously employed Greg McMichael, an ex-cop, as an investigator—passed off the investigation, including an ex-district attorney now facing her own indictment. Meanwhile, the frenzied initial weeks of pandemic lockdown may have limited media exposure for the case, which emerged months before George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis, spurring national protests.

    After a state trial that made little mention of race, the federal prosecution produced voluminous evidence of vile racism by the men, including repeated use of the n-word in the weeks before the shooting.

    Federal prosecutors were previously set to ink a plea deal with the McMichaels on the hate-crime charges. That would have guaranteed them lengthy prison bids in addition to their state sentences, which could theoretically be overturned on appeal. But the Arbery family objected, apparently convinced federal lockup represented too generous a site of detention for the murderers, who would otherwise reside in state prison.

    In the end, a federal jury had no problem concluding this case was exactly what it looked like: lethal racism. Still, Wanda Cooper-Jones, Arbery’s mother, ripped federal prosecutors and the Department of Justice (DOJ) once again on Tuesday for trying to reach plea deals in the case. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ahmaud...rimes?ref=home
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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    But the Arbery family objected, apparently convinced federal lockup represented too generous a site of detention for the murderers, who would otherwise reside in state prison.
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    their state sentences, which could theoretically be overturned on appeal.

    I think they missed the point.

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