'There is a rarely discussed aspect to the Ahmaud Arbery shooting that should attract as much scrutiny: The citizen's arrest laws that make it possible for ordinary people across the US to stop any man they deem suspicious,' John Blake writes. | Analysis
A deserted Southern road. An open-carry state. And two armed white men chasing you in a pickup truck. That's the scenario Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old unarmed black man, faced when he went jogging in a Brunswick, Georgia, neighborhood and encountered two men who later said they thought he was a criminal. A newly surfaced video appears to show Arbery tussling with one of the men before a shot rings out, blood spreads on Arbery's white T-shirt and he staggers off before collapsing.
Why recent attacks in the US are modern-day lynchings"Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old child playing with a toy gun and they rolled up on him and shot him dead within two to three seconds," Anderson says, referring to a 2014 incident in which a Cleveland police officer fatally shot the boy. A grand jury declined to indict the officer. As a black man, I know from personal experience what it feels like to have armed white men detain you.
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