A federal jury is returning to court for the fourth day of proceedings in the hate crimes trial against three men previously convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.
Prosecutors were scheduled to continue calling witnesses in U.S. District Court in the port city of Brunswick. Arbery, 25, was fatally shot just outside the city limits nearly two years ago. The white men who pursued himFBI analyst Amy Vaughan testified Wednesday that Travis McMichael
and other racist slurs in text messages and social media in the months and years before the killing. They included posts describing violence against Black people.His father, Greg McMichael, posted a Facebook meme stating “Irish slaves” in American were mistreated more than any group in the nation's history, but investigators were unable to download evidence from his encrypted cellphone.
Fellow defendant William “Roddie” Bryan also used slurs in a number of electronic messages, including several sent on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that mocked the holiday devoted to the civil rights leader. The McMichaels armed themselves and chased Arbery in a pickup truck after spotting him running past their home Feb. 23, 2020. Bryan joined the pursuit and recorded video of Travis McMichael blasting Arbery with a shotgun.
No arrests were made until the graphic video leaked online two months later and Arbery's killing became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice.
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