There have been no arrests, though a prosecutor recommended this week that a grand jury consider criminal charges.
"Mr. Arbery had not committed any crime and there was no reason for these men to believe they had the right to stop him with weapons or to use deadly force in furtherance of their unlawful attempted stop. This is murder," Merritt said.which appears to be shot from a moving vehicle behind the runner, shows a black man jogging on the left side of the two-lane road in broad daylight.
Gregory McMichael said he was in his front yard when he spotted Arbery. He told police that he and his adult son, Travis, thought the man matched someone caught on a security camera committing a recent break-in in the neighborhood, according to the police report. The police report says Gregory McMichael turned Arbery onto his back to see if he was armed – but the report doesn’t say whether he had a weapon or not.
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