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News Articles: Ahmaud Arbery

This jail booking photo provided by Glynn County Sheriff's Office, shows Jackie Johnson, the former district attorney for Georgia's Brunswick Judicial Circuit, after she turned herself in to the Glynn County jail in Brunswick, Ga, on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021.

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Georgia Today: Court postponed for a Georgia prosecutor, cold snap death toll, and 2022's best album

On the Thursday Dec. 29 edition of Georgia Today: Court has been postponed for a Georgia prosecutor accused of meddling in the Ahmaud Arbery case, the Christmas cold snap's death toll remains unclear, and a look at one of 2022's best albums.

December 29, 2022
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jeremy Powell

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Hurricane season is over, Mercer spotlights women's rights, and a former prosecutor has a court date

On the Wednesday, Nov. 30 edition of the Georgia Today podcast: Hurricane season is over, Mercer is putting a spotlight on women's rights, a former Georgia prosecutor charged with hindering the police investigation into the killing of Ahmaud Arbery has been ordered to appear before a judge 

November 30, 2022
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  • Peter Biello
Former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson

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Judge to arraign ex-DA charged in Arbery killing's aftermath

A former Georgia prosecutor charged with hindering the police investigation into the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery is scheduled to make her first court appearance in the case next month. A superior court judge on Tuesday ordered a Dec. 29 arraignment for former District Attorney Jackie Johnson.

November 30, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Reverend Julius Ceasar Hope mural after completion. Credit: Jeffery m. Glover/ The Current GA

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Trio of new murals spotlight change in Brunswick

On Saturday, Sept. 24, Brunswick celebrated the completion of three new public murals bringing awareness of local Black history and sociopolitical struggles. 

September 29, 2022
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  • The Current
Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael, Willam "Roddie" Bryan

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  • Law

Arbery’s three killers officially start life sentences in state prison

After more than 800 days in Glynn County jail, time during which Georgians protested racial inequality and juries found three men guilty of murder and hate crimes, Ahmaud Arbery’s killers have finally entered state custody to serve their life sentences.

August 24, 2022
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  • Jake Shore
GA TODAY

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Georgia Today: You likely won't get monkeypox on MARTA

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August 12, 2022
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  • Sarah Rose ,
  • Kristi York Wooten ,
  • and 1 more
A crowd gathers under a new sign designating a city roadway as Honorary Ahmaud Arbery Street on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Brunswick, Ga. City officials approved the honor for Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was fatally shot in February 2020 after being chased by three white men in pickup trucks who spotted him running in their neighborhood. All three men were later convicted of murder and federal hate crimes.

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Town honors Ahmaud Arbery after end of hate crimes case

Ahmaud Arbery is being honored by his hometown after stiff sentences for hate crimes against the white men who chased and killed him. Dozens of people joined Arbery's family on a sweltering street corner Tuesday as Brunswick city officials unveiled signs designating a 2.7-mile roadway as Honorary Ahmaud Arbery Street.

August 10, 2022
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  • Associated Press
The entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is shown, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump said in a lengthy statement that the FBI was conducting a search of his Mar-a-Lago estate and asserted that agents had broken open a safe. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Warrant served at Mar-a-Lago; State prison for Arbery's murderers; Monkeypox cases

Tuesday on Political Rewind: After the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, it's still unclear if findings could affect the Fulton County probe. Plus, the three men who murdered #AhmaudArbery will serve their time in state prison. And we'll take a look at where monkeypox cases stand across the state.

August 09, 2022
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  • Donna Lowry ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Travis McMichael

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Political Rewind: Inflation Reduction Act; McMichaels sentencing; ACLU abortion law challenge

Today on Political Rewind: The three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery will face a judge again today. Plus, Sen. Raphael Warnock's push to cap insulin at $35 monthly for everyone is blocked by Republicans. Also, the ACLU's challenge to Georgia's six-week abortion ban heads to court today.

August 08, 2022
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  • Donna Lowry and
  • Natalie Mendenhall
This photo combo shows, from left, Travis McMichael, William "Roddie" Bryan, and Gregory McMichael during their trial at at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. Jurors on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021 convicted the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and fatally shot while running through their neighborhood in an attack that became part of the larger national reckoning on racial injustice.

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Father, son get life for hate crime in Ahmaud Arbery’s death

The white father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting after they chased him through a Georgia neighborhood have been sentenced to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime. A U.S. District Court judge sentenced Travis McMichael and his father, Greg McMichael, on Monday in Brunswick. Neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, who recorded cellphone video of the slaying, was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

August 08, 2022
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  • Associated Press and
  • Benjamin Payne
Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan are set to stand trial on federal hate crime charges in February after being convicted the day before Thanksgiving in the Glynn County courthouse for the shooting death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery.

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  • Law

Ahmaud Arbery's murderers to be sentenced Monday for federal hate crimes

Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan are already serving life sentences for their state murder convictions as they await federal sentencing.

August 05, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Greg McMichael looks at the gallery during the testimony of his son, Travis McMichael’s in the trial of he, his son and William "Roddie" Bryan in the Glynn County Courthouse, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga.

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Ahmaud Arbery pursuer seeks leniency in hate crimes sentence

The man who initiated the neighborhood chase that resulted in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery is asking a federal judge to show leniency when he's sentenced for a federal hate crime conviction. Greg McMichael's defense attorney says his client should be spared a life sentence, though he has already been sentenced to life without parole on a separate murder conviction.

August 03, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Brunswick Confederate monument loaded on truck

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After two years of jockeying Brunswick's Confederate monument finally comes down

For almost two years, as Brunswick and Glynn County came to grips with the racially motivated murder of Ahmaud Arbery, community organizations have been lobbying for removal of the stark reminder of Coastal Georgia’s legacy of white supremacy and slavery. 

May 18, 2022
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  • Margaret Coker
A mural of Ahmaud Arbery is on display in Brunswick, Ga., where he was shot and killed in 2020.

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One of the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery spoke with the DA several times

The day after the shooting, then-District Attorney Jackie Johnson placed a call to Greg McMichael, a retired investigator for her office.

May 07, 2022
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  • Rina Torchinsky
A mural of Ahmaud Arbery.

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After Arbery killing, 16 calls between DA, shooter's dad

Georgia prosecutors say the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery was followed by 16 phone calls between the local district attorney and a former employee later convicted of murder in the shooting. Former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson was indicted last year on misconduct charges for her handling of Arbery's death.

May 05, 2022
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  • Associated Press
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