Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old unarmed black man, was jogging through a neighborhood just outside Brunswick, Georgia when he was killed by two armed white men.
on the case Wednesday, saying his team would operate the investigation out of its headquarters and"bring to bear every resource and experience this agency has in resolving this matter."Arbery was shot after two men saw him running in their neighborhood and armed themselves with guns before getting in a truck to pursue him, according to an incident report filed by Glynn County police.
McMichael and his son, Travis, both grabbed guns because they"didn't know if the male was armed or not," accord to theMcMichael said Travis got out of the truck with a shotgun 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.Video of the event has been posted by several sites online, including CNN, which says that it has not independently verified the video.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.
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