Gregory & Travis McMichael have been arrested for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.

[Gothmog]

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Glynn County, GA (May 7, 2020) - On May 7th, 2020, the GBI arrested Gregory McMichael, age 64, and Travis McMichael, age 34, for the death of Ahmaud Arbery. They were both charged with murder and aggravated assault. The McMichaels were taken into custody and will be booked into the Glynn County Jail.

On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was in the Satilla Shores neighborhood in Brunswick, GA when both Gregory and Travis McMichael confronted Arbery with two firearms. During the encounter, Travis McMichael shot and killed Arbery.

This case is being investigated in partnership with District Attorney Tom Durden.

On May 5th, 2020, District Attorney Tom Durden formally requested the GBI investigate the death of Ahmaud Arbery. The Kingsland Office initiated an investigation on May 6th, 2020.

On April 29th, 2020, the Glynn County Police Department (GCPD) requested that the GBI investigate allegations of threats against GCPD and individuals involved in the active investigation.

On the morning of May 5th, 2020, GCPD requested the GBI investigate the public release of video related to Arbery's death.
These investigations are all active and ongoing. If anyone has information related to these cases, please contact the GBI at 1-800-597-TIPS (8477).

[Alex4Martinez]

1. Hallelujah!

This stone cold murder needs to be prosecuted, possibly by feds because the community is corrupt, plainly.

K/R

[ecstatic]

47. +1000. nt

[Alex4Martinez]

52. Let us not forget the third man who took the video, William "Roddie" Bryan.

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[CatMor]

2. Finally ...

can't believe it took that long.

[spike jones]

55. what explains that is Gregory McMichael is a former cop.

That will explain the outcome of the trial too.

[DURHAM D]

3. AFT ! nt

[crickets]

4. YES! About damned time. nt

[Leghorn21]

5. YES

[Guilded Lilly]

6. Throw away the key. Horrid , vile humans.

[Major Nikon]

29. They definitely look like a couple of dipshit rubes

[BigmanPigman]

37. Where is the Confederate Flag backdrop?

That's all that is missing besides the red MAGAT hats.

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[dweller]

8. i hope the trial is conducted

anytime after Jan 21, 21

✌🏼

[Gothmog]

10. State charges and so trump cannot pardon

When Biden is POTUS, there should be federal civil right charges

[cwydro]

9. Good!

About time.

[HipChick]

11. Not celebrating yet..

Step in right direction...

[enough]

17. Right. NT

[AdamGG]

43. Exactly, thinking George Zimmerman

Hope this turns out differently.

[Cosmocat]

61. Given how these turn out most times

Id be shocked if they are found guilty.

[HipChick]

66. Exactly..

[uponit7771]

69. +1

[Hoyt]

12. Good. They are in big trouble.

Even if the victim were a robber and was running down the street with a sack full stolen goods, vigilantes can’t just shoot someone down like that. The video — and resultant protests — sealed these armed killers’ fate. Hopefully, no George Zimmerman BS in this one.

[exboyfil]

41. Actually they would be within their rights to detain

someone who they witness committed a felony (Citizen's Arrest). Usually this is used by stores. Also you are allowed to hot pursue to recover property stolen from you.

In this case they had absolutely no justification to do anything. They could legally follow him (for what I really don't know given the shaky excuse they gave) and give his location to law enforcement. What they should never be able to do is brandish weapons (somehow laws need to be in place for slinging long guns - holding them in their hands is brandishing).

[Hoyt]

45. The video clearly indicates he was jogging, so they had no right to stop him,

pull a shotgun on him, and murder him because he fought back. Just like Trayvon Martin.

I’m sure until video surfaced, vigilantes were saying they thought he’d just robbed someone.

[certainot]

51. like trayvon and mike brown it should be expected that limbaugh will lead a national campaign

to prosecute the victims, justify the murder, and excuse the murderers. if it goes to trial 14 limbaugh stations endorsed by 3 ga universities can be used to excuse the killers and intimidate the juries

GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2

[Hoyt]

59. Would agree BEFORE the video was released Tuesday, but that changes things.

I think these gun-humping racists are going down, although it might not be First Degree Murder if lawyers aren’t effective.

[certainot]

71. they look worried for sure

[Blue_true]

57. If he was jogging and had no items on him other than stuff needed to jog,

what "right" do they have to follow him or stop him?

If they witnessed him doing something illegal earlier, using a cell to record it would have worked, just like a cell caught their assault on the jogger.

[skylucy]

13. Good!

[malaise]

14. About fucking time

Throw away the keys

[Gothmog]

15. Father and son charged with murder of unarmed black man Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia

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Two men have been arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault for the February shooting of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son, Travis McMichael, 34, were arrested on Thursday and will be booked into the Glynn County Jail.
Cellphone video showing the moment has prompted national outrage since surfacing online this week, but his mother said she can't bring herself to watch it.

"I don't think I'll ever be in a mental state where I can actually watch the video. I had others that watched it that shared what they saw and that just was enough," Wanda Cooper-Jones told ABC News in an interview that aired Thursday on "Good Morning America."

In the 28-second video, Arbery, who is black, can be seen jogging around a neighborhood just outside the port city of Brunswick on a sunny afternoon in late February. The footage ends with two loud gunshots.

[LisaL]

16. If that video wasn't released, it probably would have not happened.

I wonder who released the video (not that I want them publicly named).

[sop]

49. I'm curious why it took over two months for the video to be released.

It was obviously made by someone driving down the street, approaching the scene as the shooting happened. Did the police have the video all along? If so, why did the cops not make it public? Were they protecting an ex-cop? And did the witness release video on his/her own because the cops were covering up for the shooters and hadn't charged them?

[spudspud]

82. See post 52 for some more info.

[sop]

84. Thanks. I hadn't seen that information in any of the news accounts. Now it makes more sense.

Three armed white vigilantes, in two cars, hunting down a lone young black jogger, boxing him in then shotgunning him as he struggles to escape. The third guy captured the murder on his smartphone, probably to post it on Stormfront or some other Klan site to show how they deal with blacks in Brunswick. If as reported, this videographer is an accomplice and should also be arrested.

I'm assuming now the cops had this video all along. They didn't release it for obvious reasons and someone, another cop or investigator perhaps, leaked it, putting it up on social media whete it could not be ignored. The local police department should be investigated for a possible cover up.

[SoonerPride]

18. Now let's see if they get acquitted

But this is a necessary first step

[yonder]

19. This is excellent news.

With luck it will result in justice.

[mcar]

20. About damn time

[irisblue]

21. Without the video,... 😢

[Jamastiene]

22. It's about time.

It sure took them long enough. They should not have been allowed to be free this long after what they did.

[kairos12]

23. Put them under the jail.

[stillcool]

24. February 23rd he is murdered..

and May 5th, the request is made to investigate the release of the video. If it weren't for that video...so effing sad that if you're murdered while black, you need it filmed, just to have someone charged.

[Demsrule86]

31. They asked for a GBI investigation of the threats against the police in late April if you can

believe it. And my sis who lives in Georgia said the police asked the GBI for help about finding out who leaked the video...careful for what you ask for...

[G_j]

50. just

wow!

[Chemisse]

65. So the police had the video before this? Unfreakingbelievable!

Thank the gods it was released to the public or these bastards would've gotten away with murder. They still may, but at least there will be a chance for justice to be served.

[wnylib]

67. Police should be charged as accomplices.

[uponit7771]

70. +1

[Brother Mythos]

25. That was well overdue.

[knightmaar]

26. Will they go to trial?

Or will the DA throw a whole bunch of confusing charges at them and tell the grand jury to decide for themselves?

At which point, they will get away with everything.

Or will the DA demand a 1st degree murder charge, knowing the evidence doesn't support premeditation?

I've seen this shit before.

[Marthe48]

27. They might get a trial

Mr. Arbery won't. R.I.P.

[MyOwnPeace]

28. Oh, SHIT!!!!

Could we expect IQ45 to come out tomorrow to tell us that there were some "good people" on both sides?

Sorry, I'm losing faith in the entire system these days - wouldn't be surprised to see Billy Barr step in and say that there's been a "mistake" here........

[Paladin]

35. You and I are thinking alike, I'm sorry to say.

"Good people on both sides," Barr steps in, and these two scumbags get medals and a weekend at Mar-A-Fucko.

[exboyfil]

42. I doubt it National Review has been condemning

the County police and the DA for not filing charges.

[rateyes]

30. There needs to be one more MFer arrested.

There were 3 in on this.

[Cha]

32. Good.. Damn them to Hell.

[Chicagogrl1]

33. Finally, first step towards justice

This whole situation breaks my 💔. I thought we were better than this. I thought we had evolved. What kind of evil went through their minds that they thought is was ok to take a young mans life? I can not believe the country we live in.

[Jarqui]

34. Good. Bright media lights still having an effect on justice. nt

[BlancheSplanchnik]

36. Good, they are stone cold Klannists who were out to have themselves a little fun.

Let them rot. Or fry.

[flibbitygiblets]

38. It's about damn time.

I am so sick of this shit, I can't even.

[H2O Man]

39. Recommended.

This is good, although that is relative to the evil they did.

[MLAA]

40. AFT

About Fucking Time

[onecaliberal]

44. Better late than never. Now throw away the key.

[iluvtennis]

46. It's about time. It took over 60 days and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to get involved.

Justice for Ahmaud Arbrey!!!

[Gothmog]

48. Biden slams Arbery shooting as 'grave injustice,' demands investigation

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Joe Biden, the apparent Democratic presidential nominee, on Thursday addressed the brutal attack of black man in Georgia, who was chased and gunned down by two white men, saying the incident amounted to a lynching “before our very eyes” and demanding a “transparent investigation.”

Biden, in his first public comments about the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, called the attack a “grave injustice that claimed a life” and “that resonates in so many ways across threads of our history into the present day.”

No arrests have been made in Arbery’s shooting.

“By now many of us have seen that harrowing footage of Ahmaud Arbery out on a jog on a beautiful day in February in Florida, in Georgia, shot down in cold blood, essentially lynched before our very eyes, 2020 style,” Biden said during a virtual roundtable in Jacksonville, Fla., with local African-American lawmakers.

“This family and the country deserves justice and they deserve it now. They deserve a transparent investigation of this brutal murder. But our nation deserves it as well. We need to reckon with this, this goes on. These vicious acts call to mind the darkest chapters of our history,” Biden said.

[Yavin4]

53. We live in a country where White men can carry military weapons inside of state houses

But a Black man cannot go out for a jog in the middle of the day.

[SunSeeker]

54. Only because the video was released. That brought the pressure. nt

[Gothmog]

56. JUST IN: Mugshots released for Gregory and Travis McMichaels.

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[smirkymonkey]

63. Why do these racist fuckwits all look the same?

It's like they are all inbred. I hope these bastards end up in prison for the rest of their miserable, pointless lives. Which hopefully won't last very long.

[USALiberal]

64. I was waiting for an appearance insult! Nt

[smirkymonkey]

68. I'm sorry, but they do.

[USALiberal]

74. So no dems look like them. Seriously? Not one? Nt

[smirkymonkey]

77. Probably some, but almost ALL of them look like that.

Why are you sticking up for them? They are the dregs of society. And the ugliness of their souls shows up in their visage. Trump, his enablers in congress and almost all of his cult members are extremely ugly people inside and out. I'm sorry, but it's true.

[USALiberal]

78. I am not sticking up for them.........

I am sick of why people on DU make fun of appearance. Childish BS.

You think you can judge people by their appearance? From a photo? LOL!

These assholes need to be locked up for life.

[LanternWaste]

75. I was waiting for the self-righteous indignation! Nt

[USALiberal]

76. Yours? nt

[Gothmog]

72. They are father and son

The apple did not fall far from this tree

[smirkymonkey]

73. I mean, not just these two, but ALL of them.

They all seem to look the same.

[pwb]

83. Couple of shit for brains.

.

[mokawanis]

58. Waiting for Trump to stick his ugly face into the situation

and tell us all that the killers seem like good people.

[Sneederbunk]

60. A Trayvon Martin type case?

[Alex4Martinez]

62. Video of arrest of murdering dad, may he rot in jail with his son and the third accomplice.

It took the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to make this happen.

All the local agencies are corrupt, it seems.

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[Major Nikon]

79. They thought he was a suspect in a "series of robberies"

No robberies were reported in the area a month prior.

An unlocked vehicle outside the rubes' home had a pistol stolen from it on January 1. In other words, the rubes' precious was stolen and they went out hunting for a black man to lynch for it. What kind of moron leaves a pistol inside an unlocked vehicle?

[Alex4Martinez]

80. Full report, public document, see page two for associated incidents.

Nothing there, but if there was any black man would be suspected.

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/6915-arbery-shooting/b52fa09cdc974b970b79/optimized/full.pdf#page=1

[warmfeet]

81. Lock them the hell up.

Weld the lock shut.

This cannot be tolerated in civil society or in a just society. We have neither of these things now. Maybe someday.

[TheDemsshouldhireme]

85. Time to hire Mark O'mara

Have him argue Arbery was armed with asphalt and they feared for their lives.

[SergeStorms]

86. What took them so long?

That's what I want to know. Without that video surfacing and the public outcry following it, they probably would never have been arrested. What took them so long?

[Gothmog]

87. @JoeBiden Speaks Out on Ahmaud Arbery Killing:

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