“It’s a lynch mob,” said Marcus Arbery, father of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old black man who was shot and killed by white men in Glynn County, Georgia on February 23. On Thursday, 75 days after the shooting, two men—64-year-old Gregory McMichael and his 34-year-old son Travis McMichael—were arrested and are facing charges of aggravated assault and murder.\n
“a local ‘rabble rouser’ has taken up this cause and begun publishing wild and factually incorrect and legally wrong accusations on Facebook and other social media formats calling for marches and physical affronts be made against the McMichaels at their homes, and my son’s home in Brunswick.
..”But none of this negates Barnhill’s belief that there were no “grounds for arrest” in the death of Ahmaud Arbery. Barnhill claimed that the McMichaels had “probable cause” to suspect Arbery of wrongdoing and were simply attempting to, “hold this criminal suspect until law enforcement arrived.”Worst yet was Barnhill’s assessment of the video of the Arbery shooting. In his letter, he noted that it appeared as if Arbery started the fight and that Travis McMichael was “allowed to use deadly force to protect himself” by law.“Arbery’s mental health records and prior convictions help explain his apparent aggressive nature and his possible thought pattern to attack an armed man,” Barnhill added., Arbery was “sentenced to five years probation as a first offender on charges of carrying a weapon on campus and several counts of obstructing a law enforcement officer.” Arbery was also convicted of a probation violation in 2018 for shoplifting. Given the fact that shoplifting is not a violent crime, that “obstructing a law enforcement officer” is a vague violation that includes everything from lying to an officer to hitting one, and that carrying a gun is considered a God-given right to millions of Americans, especially in theBut applying logic to this situation is fruitless. People like Barnhill are not swayed by celebrity Instagram posts, cable news chatter, or the traumatized black people in his community who are risking their lives amidst a pandemic to protest this injustice. While Ahmaud Abrey’s father and countless others watched the viral video and saw a modern-day lynching, Barnhill and countless others like him saw a white man defending himself from a black aggressor. This is about a lack of empathy for black lives, particularly from people like Barnhill whose value—or lack thereof—for black lives quite literally determines whether someone gets away with murder. And if Barnhill didn’t recuse himself in April, perhaps the case of Ahmaud Arbery would have ended up like that of many other black people killed by police and wannabe vigilantes: His hashtags fade away, his name is added to an ever-growing list of high-profile black deaths, his portrait added to the ever-expanding collage of unarmed black people killed in the name of self-defense.The McMichaels’ arrest may be a welcome surprise two months after they allegedly shot Arbery, but this ordeal acts as a sobering reminder that outcomes like this aren’t necessarily the result of collective rage, hurt, and dismay at a racist criminal justice system that makes jogging while black a crime. Those who believe otherwise have aOutrage followed the police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, an unarmed black boy playing with a toy gun in the park; it was caught on camera, a grand jury declined to indict the officers. Outrage followed the police shooting of Philand o Castile, who was shot and killed in his car; the shooting was captured by Castile’s horrified girlfriend, his killer was acquited. Eric Garner was strangled to death by officers during an arrest; the incident was captured on camera; the officer responsible was never indicted, but
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