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Demovictory9

(32,449 posts)
Sat May 9, 2020, 03:10 AM May 2020

police were ready to arrest killers of Arbery, DA Jackie Johnson would not allow arrest of friend




https://www.ajc.com/news/local/watch-gbi-updates-following-arrests-ahmaud-arbery-shooting/1aJbZe2uL9HrndjyWYjB2L/

BRUNSWICK —
Two Glynn County commissioners say District Attorney Jackie Johnson’s office refused to allow the Glynn County Police Department to make arrests immediately after the Feb. 23 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery.


The GBI announced the arrests of Travis McMichael, 34, and his father Greg McMichael, 64, on Thursday - more than two months after the fatal shooting. They were denied bond Friday afternoon.“The police at the scene went to her, saying they were ready to arrest both of them. These were the police at the scene who had done the investigation,” Commissioner Allen Booker, who has spoken with Glynn County police, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “She shut them down to protect her friend McMichael.”


Greg McMichael, now retired, once worked as an investigator in Johnson’s office. Commissioner Peter Murphy, who also said he spoke directly to Glynn County police about the incident, said officers at the scene concluded they had probable cause to make arrests and contacted Johnson’s office to inform the prosecutor of their decision. “They were told not to make the arrest,” Murphy said.
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police were ready to arrest killers of Arbery, DA Jackie Johnson would not allow arrest of friend (Original Post) Demovictory9 May 2020 OP
I'm wondering how many more people have they murdered Solly Mack May 2020 #1
Every unsolved murder needs to be reopened and investigated by the GBI ecstatic May 2020 #3
You know the murderer's gun was stolen ...only crime...no burglaries...is it possible this gun was Demsrule86 May 2020 #18
Take them both down. Murder and Aiding & Abetting. rickyhall May 2020 #2
The face of White Power! I hope they both get life. Celerity May 2020 #4
Or worse oswaldactedalone May 2020 #5
Death Penalty Fan? nt USALiberal May 2020 #7
There's absolutely no doubt oswaldactedalone May 2020 #12
Revenge! Great logic. The GOP feels the same. nt USALiberal May 2020 #15
Then you will also have to be executed, right? obamanut2012 May 2020 #16
+1000! nt USALiberal May 2020 #20
This message was self-deleted by its author mokawanis May 2020 #17
I do not support the death penalty. Demsrule86 May 2020 #19
Weird how they have the same eyes. Ok, maybe it's just the squinting, but looks the same. dameatball May 2020 #6
Makes one wonder what else she has covered up. brer cat May 2020 #8
+1 dalton99a May 2020 #11
Ugh. How did Jackie Johnson keep her job after what happened to Caroline Small? crickets May 2020 #14
Are those 2 in the photo brother and sister? COLGATE4 May 2020 #9
Kick dalton99a May 2020 #10
KICK! bluestarone May 2020 #13

ecstatic

(32,685 posts)
3. Every unsolved murder needs to be reopened and investigated by the GBI
Sat May 9, 2020, 06:09 AM
May 2020

or possibly the FBI (under Biden).

Demsrule86

(68,552 posts)
18. You know the murderer's gun was stolen ...only crime...no burglaries...is it possible this gun was
Sat May 9, 2020, 01:16 PM
May 2020

used in a different murder (hunt)?

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)
2. Take them both down. Murder and Aiding & Abetting.
Sat May 9, 2020, 06:06 AM
May 2020

Even if takes the governor. Same for William Fucking Barr.

oswaldactedalone

(3,490 posts)
12. There's absolutely no doubt
Sat May 9, 2020, 10:46 AM
May 2020

of their guilt. When it’s this obvious, I’ll be happy to assist with the injections.

obamanut2012

(26,068 posts)
16. Then you will also have to be executed, right?
Sat May 9, 2020, 11:40 AM
May 2020

By your logic, you will 100% also be guilty of killing someone. You can contort it all you want, but that is literally your logic, and the logic of every single person who is also pro DP.

It is literally revenge and emotion, not justice. If you are okay with the DP, that's totally your right to, but that also makes you as pro death as any murderer.

Response to oswaldactedalone (Reply #12)

dalton99a

(81,451 posts)
11. +1
Sat May 9, 2020, 09:48 AM
May 2020


Johnson is the prosecutor who helped a couple of trigger-happy Glynn County cops avoid prosecution in the sickening 2010 shooting death of Caroline Small, an unarmed mother trapped in her car after a slow-speed chase.

https://www.ajc.com/news/local/torpy-large-something-stinks-brunswick-and-ain-paper-mills/kHAdn8AY94VuWMEGWrEb4I/

For more than a month, her office has known of new DNA evidence that, the Georgia Innocence Project says, proves Dennis Perry, a man who’s been in prison 20 years for murder, is innocent. Johnson hasn’t acted to free Perry -- even though four legal experts say she should do so immediately.

https://www.ajc.com/news/local/watch-gbi-updates-following-arrests-ahmaud-arbery-shooting/1aJbZe2uL9HrndjyWYjB2L/

crickets

(25,962 posts)
14. Ugh. How did Jackie Johnson keep her job after what happened to Caroline Small?
Sat May 9, 2020, 11:18 AM
May 2020

How many other bad cops has she been covering for? Revolting.

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