Black armed militias rallied outside the Georgia courthouse Monday where three White men are on trial for the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man.
This combination of booking photos provided by the Glynn County, Ga., Detention Center, shows, from left, Travis McMichael, his father, Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr.
"The message is we won’t tolerate Black and Browns being murdered anymore, and we will pull up anywhere in the nation," he told Fox News.He said the groups have a shared goal of self defense for Black people. In closing statements, prosecutor Lind Dunikoski argued that the defendants pursued Arbery in pickup trucks for five minutes through the neighborhood Feb. 23, 2020, and shot him because he was a Black man who refused to talk to them.The defense told jurors that the McMichaels suspected Arbery of having committed a crime and were trying to detain him until police arrived.
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