Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Convicted of Hate Crimes
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⚖️ The three men sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 25-year-old Black man Ahmaud Arbery were found guilty of federal hate crimes and attempted kidnapping by a jury yesterday.
- The guilty verdict means jurors found the three white men acted “because of Mr. Arbery’s race and color” when they chased and shot him while he was jogging through their neighborhood near Brunswick, GA, exactly two years ago today.
- The three men were convicted last November for Arbery’s murder. Father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael were sentenced to life in prison without parole, and their neighbor William Bryan was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.
- Prosecutors initially declined to pursue the case, but eventually brought charges after a video of the killing went viral in May 2020. Last fall, Georgia’s AG indicted the local DA for misconduct related to Arbery’s murder.
- The case also inspired the passage of a new hate-crime law in Georgia for incidents where the victim was selected based on their race, religion, sexual identification or other bias.
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