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    The Savannah News showed a more up close video of the person in white walking through the unfinished house.
    My brother wants me to take him to where Ahmaud was killed. I've been kind of curious, but it's out of my way.
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    Georgia man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery shooting arrested on murder charge

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    The Georgia man who filmed the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery has been arrested on murder charges, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Thursday.

    William “Roddie” Bryan, 50, was charged with felony murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment, in Arbery’s Feb. 23 shooting death by two white men.

    Arbery, 25, who is black, was unarmed as he jogged through the Brunswick neighborhood when Bryan, who is also white, and the two other men, Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis McMichael, 34, chased him for more than four minutes before he was confronted by the McMichaels and shot dead.

    Travis McMichael shot Arbery dead at close range with a shotgun. He and his father, a former Glynn County police officer, were not charged in the case for 74 days, until the GBI took over the case.

    Bryan’s cellphone video of the shooting was made public this month and sparked national outrage.

    He claimed he was a good Samaritan, but an expanded version of his video, released by S. Lee Merritt, Arbery’s family’s attorney, showed that he got into his vehicle and also chased Arbery, then filmed while he was shot dead.

    Bryan is to be held at the Glynn County Jail.

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    Quote Originally Posted by up2trouble View Post
    He claimed he was a good Samaritan, but an expanded version of his video, released by S. Lee Merritt, Arbery’s family’s attorney, showed that he got into his vehicle and also chased Arbery, then filmed while he was shot dead.

    Bryan is to be held at the Glynn County Jail.
    He must be kicking himself in the arse for sticking his nose where it doesn't belong.
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    Not surprising at all. Ugh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mydeathspace View Post
    Not surprising at all. Ugh.
    Only surprised it took this long to come out.


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    Interesting, it suggests to me he is going to testify against the McMichaels.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KimTisha View Post
    Interesting, it suggests to me he is going to testify against the McMichaels.
    He probably is so he can try to get less jail time.

    I don't know him personally, but he seems like a follower.
    He wants to do whatever sounds cool and makes him appear to be a hero.
    He thought when the McMichaels told him to get in his truck and follow them, he was going to help them capture a local punk. He was going to go tell his buddies later at the local watering hole how he helped capture a dangerous fugitive.
    He didn't think things were going to go terribly wrong and now instead of being a hero, he'll be lumped in with murderers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by curiouscat View Post
    He probably is so he can try to get less jail time.

    I don't know him personally, but he seems like a follower.
    He wants to do whatever sounds cool and makes him appear to be a hero.
    He thought when the McMichaels told him to get in his truck and follow them, he was going to help them capture a local punk. He was going to go tell his buddies later at the local watering hole how he helped capture a dangerous fugitive.
    He didn't think things were going to go terribly wrong and now instead of being a hero, he'll be lumped in with murderers.
    Exactly. It makes no sense to me that he would have offered that information (the racial slur) unless it could provide some benefit to him.
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    https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/mc...ery/index.html

    The key piece to take away from this article is the fact that Ahmaud was hit by Bryan's truck as he tried to flee.

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    https://www.11alive.com/article/news...4-3d4f49c3fffb

    ATLANTA ? Georgia is now one step closer to having a hate crime law in place, after it was passed in both chambers of the statehouse Tuesday afternoon. It now goes to Gov. Brian Kemp to sign into law.

    The state Senate passed hate crimes legislation deemed essential by state leaders after lawmakers struck a deal to remove language protecting police.

    The bill, HB 426, was passed in that chamber Tuesday by a vote of 47-6. It was sent back to the state House for debate of Senate changes, which include data collection and reporting requirements and the addition of sex as a protected factor. It passed that chamber, as well.

    lties for crimes motivated by a victim?s race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender or disability.

    Bipartisan support had been thrown in doubt after Republicans added protections for first reponders, but those protections were put in another bill that also passed.

    Gov. Brian Kemp would have to sign the bill in order for it to become law. It's unclear at this time when that would happen, but Kemp?s office said in a statement that intends to sign it, pending a legal review.

    Georgia was only one of four states in the country without a hate crime law. If Kemp signs the bill, only South Carolina, Arkansas ad Wyoming would be remain.

    Calls for a law surrounding hate crimes in Georgia were renewed in the wake of the death of Ahmaud Arbery. The south Georgia man, who was Black, was shot and killed while jogging after being confronted by father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, who are White. The McMichaels told authorities they followed Arbery because they believed he was a burglary suspect and they wanted to make a citizens arrest.

    In a statement through the Georgia NAACP, Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, said she was thankful for the bill's passage.

    "My family thanks everyone for not letting my son's death be in vain," Cooper-Jones said. "I know he is still with us and this law is evidence of that and I look forward to being present when it is signed."

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    https://www.11alive.com/article/news...2-78e969b20863

    BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Cobb County District Attorney Joyette Holmes, the specially-appointed prosecutor in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case, said the three men who are facing charges in his death have now been indicted.

    Holmes said a Glynn County Grand Jury indicted Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William R. Bryan on malice and felony murder charges.

    It comes following the passing of a landmark hate crimes law by the Georgia General Assembly on Tuesday. Georgia had been one of only four states without such legislation.

    Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed while on a run through a Brunswick neighborhood in February by two White men. The suspects, a father and son, claimed there had been burglaries in the area and confronted Arbery. The shooting has been decried by activists as a vigilante murder.

    There is no evidence Arbery was ever connected to any kind of burglary.

    RELATED: Ahmaud Arbery’s mom on hate crimes bill passing in Georgia: ‘His name will live on forever.’

    "This is another step forward in seeking justice for Ahmaud. Our team from the Cobb Judicial Circuit has been committed to effectively bringing forward the evidence in this case, and today was no exception," Holmes said.

    "It has been an effort of many agencies including the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice who have worked together to get to this point. We will continue to be intentional in the pursuit of justice for this family and the community at large as the prosecution of this case continues," Holmes added.

    The indictment formally charges the three defendants with nine counts: malice murder; felony murder (four counts); aggravated assault (two counts); false imprisonment; and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment, Holmes said.

    The national outcry that followed Arbery's killing, dovetailing with nationwide protests in the wake of George Floyd's death, led in part to the political momentum that saw Georgia pass the hate crime law this week.

    “I’m happy that Ahmaud’s name will be a part of such a big change," Arbery's mother Wanda Cooper-Jones told 11Alive's Hope Ford.
    "At the same time I have to snap back into reality that Ahmaud is gone," she added. "But his name will live forever I think."

    In the February killing, a surveillance video showed Arbery stopped inside a house under construction and looked around before resuming his run. Subsequent surveillance videos from the property showed it was not uncommon for passersby to take a look around. The owner of the unfinished home said nothing was ever taken.

    There were no charges or arrests in the case until video of the killing leaked in early May, with civil rights activists and groups like the NAACP contending the men who killed Arbery avoided accountability because of the father's ties to law enforcement.

    After the case passed through two district attorneys who recused themselves, and are now both under investigation for prosecutorial misconduct, it went to a third who brought the murder charges, after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was brought into the case.

    The case was then handed by appointment of state Attorney General Chris Carr to Holmes.



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    https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/gov...-bill-into-law

    ATLANTA - Georgia has joined the list of states that have hate crime legislation on the books.

    Gov. Brian Kemp signed House Bill 426 into law Friday afternoon at the State capitol in Atlanta. The law goes into effect July 1, 2020.

    Before signing the bill, Kemp said that it “does not fix every problem or right every wrong. But this bipartisan legislation is a powerful step forward. It’s a sign of progress, and it’s a milestone worth applauding.”

    State lawmakers acted with haste to pass the legislation, which had previously been stalled, following the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, as well as recent nationwide protests against racial injustice and police brutality. Arbery was a 25-year-old Black man pursued and fatally shot while running near Brunswick, Georgia, in February. Three white men, including a father and son, are charged with murder in his death.

    Lawmakers approved the hate crimes legislation after legislators struck a deal to remove language protecting police and first responders.

    The law will allow additional penalties to be imposed for certain crimes when motivated by a victim’s race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender or disability. It also mandates the collection and reporting of data on hate crimes investigated by law enforcement.

    The Senate also added a requirement that law enforcement report suspected hate crimes to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation so the GBI can track where these crimes occur.

    Georgia joins 46 other states and the District of Columbia which have statutes criminalizing various types of bias-motivated violence or intimidation.

    The state's previous hate crime statute was struck down by the Georgia Supreme Court in 2004.

    Arkansas, South Carolina, and Wyoming are now the only states in the U.S. without hate crime legislation.

    This comes as Georgia responds to both Ahmaud Arbery and Rayshard Brooks deaths.

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    A hearing is underway for the killers of Ahmaud Arbery.


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    GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. — The Glynn County Police Department requested that the GBI initiate a sex crime investigation based on allegations made against William “Roddie” Bryan, Jr.

    According to the GBI, the investigation is active and ongoing.
    Bryan is one of the 3 suspects in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Bryan apparently recorded the whole thing and plead not guilty Wednesday.
    https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/l...JJ6PKXTB3KK2Y/

    New allegation on one of the killers of Ahmaud Arbery. William “Roddie” Bryan, Jr. Is under investigation for Sex Crimes in Georgia.

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    https://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...hky-story.html

    The suspect accused of recording and helping his neighbors attack Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man out for a run at the time, is now at the center of sex crime investigation.

    The Georgia Bureau of Investigation in a statement on Friday they were contacted earlier this week to ?initiate a sex crimes? probe against William ?Roddie? Bryan, Jr.

    ?The investigation is active and ongoing,? the statement reads.

    The GBI later said the alleged crimes happened in Camden County, Ga., did not provide additional details about the nature of the allegations raised against Bryan, NBC News reported.

    Earlier on Friday, Bryan entered a not guilty plea to one count of felony murder and attempt to illegally confine or detain. The father and son also charged, Gregory and Travis McMichael, also pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them in Arbery?s death.

    A prosecutor mentioned the GBI sex-crimes probe in passing during Bryan?s bail hearing late Friday afternoon, but his defense lawyer did not address the investigation in court, 11 Alive reported.

    They were indicted in June on nine felony charges, including one count of malice murder, four counts felony murder, two counts aggravated assault, one count false imprisonment and one count criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment.

    Arbery was out for a run in Glynn County on Feb. 23 when he was attacked by Gregory and Travis McMichael, who armed themselves ahead of the chase. The elder McMichael initially told authorities he suspected the young runner was a wanted burglar and that he attacked Travis before he was fatally shot.

    No arrests were made in the case until months later, sparking national outrage that was only fueled by video of the incident, which went viral on May 5.

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    https://abcnews.go.com/US/father-son...ry?id=72232824

    NoOOOOOOO


    The white father and son accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, who was Black and was jogging down a Georgia street, are looking to have bond set and two charges dropped, according to new court documents.

    Attorneys for the son, Travis McMichael, 34, called him an "excellent candidate for low bond."

    He was never charged with a crime until this case, according to court documents filed Thursday.

    Travis McMichael has a 3-year-old son who lived with him every other week until his arrest, the documents said.

    "Travis is an extremely devoted father who dotes" on his son, the defense attorneys wrote.

    Travis McMichael has lived all of his life in the Brunswick, Georgia, area and was living with his parents at the time of his arrest, the documents said.

    His attorneys said he isn't a flight risk because he doesn't have a passport "and most importantly, his family, including his parents and three-year-old son are here in Georgia," the documents said.
    MORE: Grand jury indicts 3 men arrested for murder of Ahmaud Arbery

    Travis McMichael's father and fellow defendant, former police officer Gregory McMichael, also "meets the conditions for pretrial release on reasonable bond," his attorneys said in documents filed Thursday.

    Gregory McMichael's attorneys asked the court to set a hearing within 20 days.

    Gregory and Travis McMichael were arrested in May and face charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment.

    A third suspect, neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan, faces the same charges as the McMichaels. Bryan's bail was denied last month.

    All three have pleaded not guilty.

    Arbery was on a jog in Brunswick when he was shot and killed on Feb. 23. Prosecutors claim that 25-year-old Arbery tried to run for his life before he was struck by a car, gunned down and then called a racial slur by one of the suspects.

    The three arrested told police they thought Arbery was a suspect in a series of break-ins. They were charged after video showing the deadly struggle appeared online.
    MORE: Ahmaud Arbery was struck by vehicle before he was shot dead; suspect yelled racial slur: Investigator

    The McMichaels and Bryan also want the charges of malice murder and criminal attempt to commit a felony dropped.

    The malice murder count "charges two crimes in one count, making it duplicitous," the McMichaels' attorneys claimed. "It does so by trading on vague and uncertain allegation regarding 'unlawfully chasing' in pickup trucks, which inserts an unspecified separate crime from malice murder, namely, 'unlawfully chasing [Ahmaud Arbery] through the public roadways.'"

    The McMichael's attorneys argued that the criminal attempt to commit a felony count is also duplicitous because the count "alleges both a completed crime?'unlawfully chase Ahmaud Arbery in pickup trucks' and an attempted crime 'attempt to confine and detain Ahmaud Arbery without legal authority on Burford Road using Ford F150 pickup truck and Chevy Silverado pickup truck.'"

    Bryan's attorney filed a motion Thursday looking to adopt the claims made by the McMichael's attorneys to also get those two charges dropped.

    The Cobb County District Attorney's office declined to comment on Thursday's motions.

    ABC News' Bill Hutchinson contributed to this report.

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    https://www.cbs46.com/news/hundreds-...d45df9a74.html

    Atlanta, GA. (CBS46) ? The calls for two district attorneys initially involved in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case to resign ? are growing louder.

    In an open letter to the Georgia State Bar Thursday, more than 300 Georgia attorneys joined with several civil rights groups demanding Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson and Waycross District Attorney George Barnhill step down from their positions.

    "It shocked me to see that there were two district attorneys in South Georgia - in Waycross and Brunswick - who I felt weren't doing what they took their oath to do," said attorney Chris Richardson, a managing partner at the firm, Cooper Richardson, who signed the letter.

    In February, 25-year-old Arbery, who was black, was chased by three white men and shot dead ? as he jogged in a Brunswick neighborhood.

    But it would take nearly three months, for them to arrested and charged in his murder.

    Gregory McMichael, and his son Travis, along with William Roddie Bryan were charged with malice murder and several other counts, including aggravated assault and false imprisonment. Bryan recording the shooting that would later go viral sparking national outrage and weeks of protests throughout Georgia.

    Both Johnson and Barnhill didn't pursue criminal charges and eventually recused themselves from the case.

    The letter calls for the Georgia State Bar to investigate to the two prosecutors for conflict of interest and misconduct.

    Gregory McMichael worked as an investigator for Johnson's office prior to retiring. Barnhill?s son is an assistant district attorney in Johnson?s office and had previously worked with McMichael.

    Richardson said Johnson and Barnhill?s handling of the case resulted in delays in justice for Arbery?s family.

    ?There were a lot of issues in both the actions ? in both Barnhill and Jackie Johnson ? that we as attorneys needed to speak up and say something about it. And not only that but the fact that George Barnhill wrote this letter prematurely exonerating the McMichael?s and in that letter he offered factually incorrect, and legally unsound information,? said Richardson. ?What I wanted to say with 313 other attorneys across Georgia was enough was enough.?

    Since May, civil rights organizations including Just Georgia and the Georgia NAACP have been holding rallies and press conferences calling for the two prosecutors to resign.

    "We are pursuing any and every avenue of approach to hold these people accountable because their in-action in not only the Ahmaud Arbery case - and let's be very clear - this is not related to just one case, this is a series and pattern of practice that concerns us and should concern us all,? said president of the Georgia NAACP Rev. James Woodall.

    Cobb County District Attorney Joyette Holmes was appointed as a special prosecutor in the case.

    Attorney General Chris Carr?s office continues to review a federal investigation into Barnhill and Johnson.

    Copyright 2020 WGCL-TV (Meredith Corporation). All rights reserved.

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    The Georgia Bureau of Investigation in a statement on Friday they were contacted earlier this week to "initiate a sex crimes" probe against William ?Roddie? Bryan, Jr.
    This case just gets worse and worse. I am somewhat suspect about the timing of the sex abuse allegation though, the guy has been in jail since what, March?

    Attorneys for the son, Travis McMichael, 34, called him an "excellent candidate for low bond."
    Technically, the eighth amendment prohibits setting excessive bail as punishment or to keep a suspect confined before trial. But this guy is on video committing the murder, he's clearly a danger to society - just ask the Arbery family. Sorry, I don't think he should even be eligible for bail.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KimTisha View Post
    This case just gets worse and worse. I am somewhat suspect about the timing of the sex abuse allegation though, the guy has been in jail since what, March?



    Technically, the eighth amendment prohibits setting excessive bail as punishment or to keep a suspect confined before trial. But this guy is on video committing the murder, he's clearly a danger to society - just ask the Arbery family. Sorry, I don't think he should even be eligible for bail.
    I'm sure the sexual abuse happened before the whole Arbery shooting. I guess someone came forward, because they felt safe enough to speak or they're seeking publicity.

    If that's true, the 8th Amendment clearly doesn't work. I believe many suspects are confined until their trial.


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    Video of 2017 shoplifting incident by Ahmaud.
    https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/new...ifting-attempt
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    https://www.kget.com/news/national/a...rbery-slaying/

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    ATLANTA (AP) — Attorneys for a white father and son charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery say their clients weren’t motivated by race when they armed themselves, chased after the young Black man and shot him in the street after a confrontation, according to interviews published Friday.

    Gregory and Travis McMichael have been jailed since they were arrested on murder chargesin May, more than two months after 25-year-old Arbery was fatally shot while running in their neighborhood outside the port city of Brunswick.

    Cellphone video of Travis McMichael shooting Arbery three times at close range with a shotgun further fueled a national outcry over racial injustice. Gregory McMichael told police after the shooting that he and his son pursued Arbery because they suspected him of being a burglar.

    “This case is not about race,” Bob Rubin, one of Travis McMichael’s defense attorneys, told The Atlanta Journal Constitution in a storypublished Friday. “Mr. Arbery was not targeted because he was Black.”

    Travis McMichael grabbed a shotgun and his father armed himself with a handgun when they saw Arbery run past their home Feb. 23. The men pursued Arbery in a pickup truck. They stopped in the road in front of Arbery, who kept running until he came face-to-face with Travis McMichael. The video shows Arbery punching and trying to grab the gun before he’s shot.

    Attorney Franklin Hogue, who represents Gregory McMichael, was quoted by the newspaper as saying the McMichaels went after Arbery because he had previously been recorded by security cameras inside a nearby home under construction.

    “This is what was in their head,” Hogue said. “Not the narrative you’re hearing: `Ah, there’s a Black man running in our neighborhood. Let’s go track him down and shoot him.′ It’s far from that.”

    Authorities have said there’s no evidence Arbery stole from the construction site or that he committed any other crimes. An attorney for the homeowner has said it’s possible Arbery stopped at the site for water while he was jogging.

    During a preliminary court hearing in June, Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent Richard Dial testified that a third man charged in Arbery’s killing told police he overheard Travis McMichael utter aracist slur as he stood over the body right after the shooting.

    Rubin said he believes William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., who shot the video and was also charged with murder for joining the pursuit, made up the account of the slur in hopes of cutting a deal with investigators.

    “You could feel the world gasping” when the investigator in court first accused Travis McMichael of using the slur, Rubin said. “We gasped. But when you look at what’s actually happening it can’t be true and I don’t think it’s true.”

    Both McMichaels filed legal motions last month asking a judge to grant them bond so they can be released from jail pending trial. They’re still awaiting a decision.

    Rubin called Travis McMichael “a man who’s lived a very good life, a life helping others,” not a caricature of “Southern vigilante racism.”

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    Ahmaud Arbery's mom says her son's death has become a full-blown business for one of her son's friends, a former coach and others -- and she's blasting all of them for profiting off tragedy.

    Wanda Cooper-Jones says she's alarmed by the "I RUN WITH MAUD" social media pages, which were initially started as a memorial to her son. She says Ahmaud's friend, Akeem Baker, came to her with the idea and she was on board at first, but doesn't like the fact the page is now being run like a business.

    She also says she's being denied administrative access to the page.



    Wanda claims Akeem even started a GoFundMe page for her son -- which she never asked him to do -- and it's raised nearly $2 million. The page says the money's going to Wanda, but she's already back to work.

    Ahmaud's mother is also incensed someone filed for an "I Run With Maud" trademark. She doesn't say who did it, but does say the applicant never even knew Ahmaud.

    Next on her list is Foundation 2.23 ... which refers to the date Ahmaud was killed. Wanda says it was founded by Jason Vaughn, a local high school coach who did not have a close relationship with Ahmaud. She says the org held a big fundraiser, but wants to make it clear the foundation is not affiliated with her family.

    She says she's could not stay silent in the face of what she sees as injustice. Wanda's bottom line is ... she's not asking for any money, because no amount of cash can change the fact she had to bury her son.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...h/?arc404=true

    BRUNSWICK, Ga. ? Jason Vaughn stepped out of the locker room, and already his phone was buzzing again, another citizen-turned-activist calling about another young Black man who had died in police custody.

    ?All of these people are calling about cases,? Vaughn said, and even though he wanted to help bring exposure to all of them, first he needed to deliver a speech to the players on his high school football team.

    They had already dedicated their season to the memory of Ahmaud Arbery, who like them had worn the blue and gold of Brunswick High, but that would never be enough. So they waited in the school?s auxiliary gym before practice, as they did every Tuesday, to hear Vaughn speak about the injustices surrounding Arbery?s death. Vaughn arrived and took off his Nikes before walking to the middle of the gym in his socks. Today?s lesson: leadership.

    ?Who is going to be that lawyer, when somebody is accused of a crime they didn?t do?? Vaughn asked his players. ?Who is going to be the next police chief to make sure the police handle business correctly??

    He was now always challenging them with ideas such as this, because over the past six months, Vaughn has become much more than a football coach in his hometown. He has emerged as a leading advocate for justice for Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man ? and his former linebacker ? who was shot and killed after being chased by armed White men while jogging in a local neighborhood in February.

    As some local leaders and institutions fell silent after Arbery?s death ? no arrests were made for more than two months ? Vaughn, a longtime assistant coach at Brunswick, helped amplify exposure around the case, which led to wider recognition and eventually the arrests of three men on murder charges. Arbery?s case would go on to become one of the focal points of the broader nationwide reckoning on systemic racism and police brutality, which was again reignited in recent days following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis.

    Vaughn, 39, has been racially profiled himself as a Black man in Brunswick, he said, and now he often wonders about his future in the community as a teacher and coach, because some in this small coastal town have warned him to tone it down. Yet even with outside interest in him ? he said schools in Atlanta and Savannah recently have approached him about administrator jobs ? he refuses to leave the kids.

    ?People on the low have told me I could lose my job for this. A lot of people told me not to do it. People told me to stop stirring trouble. I became an agitator in my hometown, for talking about a guy who was murdered in his community,? he said. ?But one of the great things about coaching: I got more support from the community than I got threats.?

    That support has deepened his resolve as a leading advocate for Arbery and victims of racial violence and as a mentor to teens at his school who represent a chance to change the town?s leadership that he believes failed Arbery.

    ?What people don?t realize is, I still lost my player,? Vaughn said. ?I?m still dealing with grief. I?m doing something a football coach shouldn?t have to do.?
    TOP: Vaughn coaches offensive linemen on blocking technique during practice last month. ?People told me to stop stirring trouble,? Vaughn says. ?I became an agitator in my hometown, for talking about a guy who was murdered in his community. But one of the great things about coaching: I got more support from the community than I got threats.? (Stephen B. Morton for The Washington Post) BOTTOM LEFT: Vaughn explains a scheme to his offensive linemen during a practice last month. ?What people don?t realize is, I still lost my player,? Vaughn says of Ahmaud Arbery. ?I?m still dealing with grief.? (Stephen B. Morton for The Washington Post) BOTTOM RIGHT: A mural of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Ga. (Yolanda Richardson for The Washington Post)
    ?He latched on and wouldn?t let go?

    The last time Vaughn saw Arbery was on a Friday morning in November. Vaughn was stressed the morning before a big game, so he went for a run in his neighborhood. A few minutes into the workout, he saw Arbery running in the distance. Vaughn called out for him and tried to catch up with his former player, but Arbery was running too fast. He turned the corner of a block and disappeared.

    ?He moved with great speed,? Vaughn said.

    Vaughn knew Arbery loved to run. Arbery lived in the neighborhood of Fancy Bluff, and his route would often take him about two miles across U.S. Route 17 ? a bustling four-lane highway connecting Brunswick and the sandy-beach resorts of Jekyll Island on the Atlantic Ocean. He would cross into Satilla Shores, a small subdivision composed mostly of 20th-century ranch homes nestled beneath towering oak trees cloaked in thick Spanish moss.

    That?s where Arbery was the afternoon of Feb. 23 when he was shot and killed after being chased through the neighborhood by three White men.

    After spotting Arbery from his front yard, Gregory McMichael, 64, alerted his son, Travis McMichael, 34, according to the police report. The men armed themselves with a .357 magnum and a shotgun and hopped into a white truck to give chase. Gregory McMichael told police that a third man from their neighborhood, William ?Roddie? Bryan Jr., had also attempted to block Arbery with his vehicle as the men gave chase.

    Gregory McMichael, a former investigator in the local district attorney?s office, told police that he and his son believed Arbery was a suspected burglar in the neighborhood and that Arbery attacked his son before he was shot and killed. A surveillance video later showed a man believed to be Arbery entering a house under construction in Satilla Shores moments before the shooting, though the property owner said nothing was taken.

    The Glynn County district attorney?s office did not bring charges against the McMichaels or Bryan.

    None of it made sense to Vaughn. As an African American studies teacher, he had long taught his classes that the killings of unarmed Black men rarely resulted in justice. He made up his mind to be a crusader for Arbery.

    ?This small guy had a huge heart,? Vaughn said of his former player. ?We had built a bond.?

    Vaughn had little idea of where to start. He had heard about Arbery?s death through social media that night. He read the initial story in the local newspaper, the Brunswick News, which cast Arbery as a burglary suspect, and Vaughn cut and pasted the story into his own feed so people could read it. Within an hour, more than 100 of his followers had commented. Vaughn?s brother, John Richards, a pastor and lawyer based in Little Rock, called and told him ?they were set up to get away with it.?

    The case, from the beginning, had been plagued by conflicts of interest through multiple district attorney?s offices. It had been under the jurisdiction of prosecutor Jackie Johnson, who four days after Arbery?s death requested to recuse herself from the case because she had worked with Gregory McMichael.

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    GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. (WSAV) – The next hearing in the Ahmaud Arbery case has been set for Nov. 12.

    According to the Superior Court of Glynn County, a hearing for Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael, and William Bryan will be held at 10 a.m. in front of Judge Timothy Walmsley in Brunswick.

    The following matters will be addressed:

    Petitions for Bond (Travis McMichaeI and Greg McMichaeI)
    Special Demurrers Nos. 1-8
    Joint Motion for Deposition of Larry English
    State’s Motion for Ex—Parte Hearing
    Motion to Enjoin the State

    The McMichaels and Bryan are currently charged with nine counts each, including felony murder and malice murder. All three pleaded not guilty.

    Authorities say Travis McMichael fatally shot 25-year-old Arbery on Feb. 23, after he and his father chased him in a pickup truck, armed, as he was jogging in the Satilla Shores subdivision.

    Travis McMichael claimed Arbery matched the description of a burglary suspect. Bryan is said to have followed in another vehicle, trapping Arbery on the road and filming the shooting.

    Learn more and see the latest updates in the case, here.
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    BRUNSWICK, Ga. – New court filings in the Ahmaud Arbery case show state attorneys want “racial” text messages and Facebook posts from the men facing murder charges in Arbery’s death to be considered at trial.

    The death of Arbery, 25, has sparked nationwide outrage after cellphone video of the teen being chased down and shot to death in a neighborhood near Brunswick, Georgia, was published online.

    Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael, a father and son, have been charged with murder and aggravated assault. William ‘Roddie’ Bryan, the Georgia man whose cellphone video captured the shooting, has also been charged in Arbery’s death.

    In early October, the special prosecutor’s office handling the case notified the court it intends to bring to trial evidence of racial slurs posted on social media and sent in text messages by all three men. The messages and post are all dated from 2019, including a racial highway video and racial messages extracted from William “Roddie” Bryan’s phone.

    The state also notified the court that it intends to bring up Greg McMichael’s police accreditation suspensions. Records revealed back in May the retired district attorney investigator spent eight years of his career in law enforcement without police powers.

    The court document says the admission of the other acts of evidence is “intrinsic evidence” and is submitted for "the purpose of showing proof of motive and/or lack of motive, intent, to explain conduct, and/or absence of mistake, accident, justification, good character or racial goodwill.

    Jacksonville Attorney Gene Nichols, who is not affiliated with the case, explained that special prosecutors will next have to convince a judge to allow the evidence to be presented at trial.

    “The interesting part about what they are seeking to present, if they’re not required to show any sort of racial element as to the basis for their homicide charges in this case or any other charge, then the court is going to have to weigh: Does this evidence tend to prove some form of intent or motive in order to get it in? Or, on the contrary, is it’s so prejudicial to the defendant, that it should not be admitted into evidence?” Nichols said.

    Richard Dial, a special agent with GBI and the lead investigator in the case, testified at the preliminary hearing on June 4 that Travis McMichael was overheard using a racial slur moments after shooting Arbery.

    Dial said in court Roddie Bryan told law enforcement he heard McMichael say “f****** n*****” after shooting Ahmaud Arbery three times and prior to police arriving on the scene.

    Dial was asked if there is evidence Travis McMichael used the N-word before and he responded, “Yes, sir, many times.”

    “One particular one that comes to mind was he made the statement that he loved his job because he’s out on a boat and there aren’t any N-words anywhere,” Dial testified June 4.

    Dial also said McMichael responded it would have been better if someone had “blown the f****** n****** head off” in response to an unspecified Instagram post.

    The attorney for Travis McMichael said he could not provide a comment at this time. The next hearing in the case is set to happen in November.

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    The Georgia father and son charged in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery are back in court Friday to argue for their release on bond.

    It is the second day of arguments in a lengthy hearing that began Thursday, when defense attorneys brought several witnesses to testify on behalf of the suspects, arguing the pair poses no flight risk or threat to public safety.

    But prosecutors are fighting to keep the two white men in jail as they await trial on the February killing of 25-year-old Arbery, an unarmed Black man who was chased and shot while running in a residential area outside Brunswick.

    In the courtroom Friday, prosecutor Jesse Evans argued that ex-cop Gregory McMichaels and his son Travis pose a “significant danger” to the community and should not be released. He also said the elder McMichael has “vigilante views” and could potentially try obstructing the ongoing investigation.

    This photo combo of images taken Thursday, May 7, 2020, and provided by the Glynn County Detention Center, in Georgia, show Gregory McMichael, left, and his son Travis McMichael.

    Prosecutors and racial justice activists believe racism played a key role in the killing, with critics describing the caught-on-video incident as an example of modern-day lynching.

    Evans on Thursday cited a series of online communications attributed to Travis McMichael, who fired the three fatal shots, as evidence of racism, including a 2019 text message in which he allegedly wrote about shooting “a crackhead c--n with gold teeth” and a year-old Facebook comment featuring an offensive term for Asians. Longtime friend Zachary Langford, who was part of those exchanges, denied that his buddy was being racist.

    The two suspects avoided jail for more than two months and were arrested only after cellphone video of the shooting leaked on social media. The footage helped fuel a wave of protests against system racism across the country.

    The two men claim they were trying to question Arbery that day because he fit the description of a suspect in a string of burglaries in the neighborhood.

    Prosecutors and Arbery’s family dispute that argument, saying the victim was simply jogging 2 miles from his home when the father and son “chased, hunted down and ultimately executed” him with the help of a neighbor, co-defendant William “Roddie” Bryan Jr.

    “These men are proud of what they have done,” Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, told the court on Thursday. “They want to go home because they think in their selfish minds that they are the good guys.”

    Surveillance footage shows the victim did go into a vacant construction site before the shooting, but there has been no evidence so far that he ever stole anything from the property and the homeowner said he never asked the McMichaels for any help.

    Bryan, who captured part of the incident on his cellphone, was denied bond in July. He’s accused of helping his neighbors chase and ambush Arbery by hitting the victim with his truck moments before the killing.

    Bryan also told police in an interview that he overheard Travis McMichael uttering a racial slur as he stood over Arbery’s dead body after shooting him.

    Ahmaud Arbery was shot to death in February.

    Family members and friends insisted on Thursday that the McMichaels are not racist and felt remorse after the shooting.

    “In no way, shape or form is Travis hateful towards any group of people, nor does he look down on anyone based on race, religion or beliefs,” Curt Hall, who was in the Coast Guard with Travis McMichael and described himself as “multiracial," said in a letter read in court Thursday.

    The three suspects are charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment.

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