Ahmaud Arbery's Georgia community hoped the trial over his killing by three white men would help it heal. But an attorney's request to remove Black pastors from the courtroom brought fresh agony.
from the Glynn County courtroom intensified frustrations and added fresh agony to a lingering wound that many in the community had hoped the trial could start healing.
The request was especially offensive because pastors play an important role in comforting people who are hurting and demanding justice, said John Perry, a pastor and the former leader of Brunswick’s chapter of the NAACP. “We don’t want any more Black pastors coming in here ... sitting with the victim’s family, trying to influence the jurors in this case,” Gough said last week. The attorneys for the other two men on trial did not join Gough.
Arbery “wasn’t armed and wasn’t doing anything wrong,” Bagby said. “I think they’re trying to do whatever they can.” But each new point of racial division from the trial hurts her goal of bringing Black and white people together to solve other, more persistent problems. Danielle Brazell and other business owners worried last year when a protest outside the office of a local prosecutor who initially chose not to charge the men attracted national attention.
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