A judge is denying requests to declare a mistrial in the case of three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery. Defense attorneys said jurors could have been tainted when they heard weeping in the gallery and saw civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson sitting with Arbery's family.
An attorney for one of three white men standing trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia says he doesn't want "any more Black pastors" in the courtroom. Attorney Kevin Gough made the comment to the trial judge Thursday, a day after the Rev. Al Sharpton sat in back of the courtroom with Arbery's parents.
One of the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery told police they had the 25-year-old Black man "trapped like a rat" before he was fatally shot.
A patrol officer who interviewed Greg McMichael at the scene of the February 2020 shooting told a jury Tuesday that McMichael at first told him Arbery had been caught on video "breaking in all these houses out here." Later he said Arbery had been recorded entering a single home still under construction a few times.
