Prosecutors have rested their case in the trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery as the Black man ran in their neighborhood.
Race was always going to be at the forefront of the trial of three white men in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery. But a call by one defense attorney to kick two prominent Black pastors out of the courtroom added fresh agony to a wound that many in the community had hoped the trial could start healing.
The man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery has testified Arbery attacked him and grabbed his shotgun after he and two other white men pursued the 25-year-old Black man in their Georgia neighborhood. Travis McMichael's testimony came as defense attorneys in the murder trial for the three white men opened their case by building on arguments that their clients were lawfully trying to stop burglaries in their neighborhood.
The shotgun blasts that hit Ahmaud Arbery punched a gaping hole in his chest and unleashed massive bleeding. That's according to a medical examiner who testified Tuesday at the murder trial of the three white men accused of chasing Arbery down.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson has joined the parents of Ahmaud Arbery in court as testimony continues in the murder trial of three white men. Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley declined a request by defense attorney Kevin Gough to have Jackson leave the courtroom.
