Legal scholars hope the Arbery trial will place greater attention on the entire judicial process, not just policing: 'Most people don’t pay attention to judicial elections'
She also thanked community organizers for talking up Arbery’s name weeks prior to arrests being made in connection to his killing.
Arbery was killed on Feb. 23, 2020, but his death didn’t become part of the national consciousness until that May, when Bryan’s video was leaked and posted online. It was weeks before the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white officer, which sparked national and international protests about police brutality and systemic racism.
University of Georgia law professor Melissa Redmon is not ready to draw major conclusions about the outcome of the Arbery murder trial just yet. “You have a similar situation where a white person is confronting a Black person who is trying to get away and excessive force is used and that person dies,” Redmon said.She says given all that it took to get the Arbery case to trial, she hopes the public focuses more attention to“People have to pay attention to the players in the criminal justice system. Prosecutors are elected, judges are elected, [but] most people don’t pay attention to judicial elections.
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