All three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery — a 25-year-old Black man who was chased and shot in a Georgia neighbourhood in February 2020 — were convicted of murder Wednesday.
The jury reached its decision after more than 10 hours of deliberations following a trial in which prosecutors argued that the defendants — father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbour William “Roddie” Bryan, who are all white — provoked a confrontation with Arbery. Defence attorneys said their clients were acting in self-defence.
Arbery’s killing became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice after a graphic video of his death leaked
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