Hundreds of pastors are rallying at the Georgia courthouse where three white men are on trial in the killing of Ahmed Arbery. Many carried signs that said "Black pastors matter," and some wore buttons with Arbery's picture.
The man who killed Ahmaud Arbery testified Thursday that Arbery did not speak, show a weapon or threaten him in any way before he raised his shotgun and pointed it at him. Travis McMichael said he was “under the impression” that Arbery could be a threat because he was running straight at him and he had seen the 25-year-old Black man trying to get into the truck of a neighbor who had joined in a pursuit of Arbery.
In Travis McMichael’s four-hour testimony, he repeated that he reacted to the “totality of circumstances” of Arbery being spotted several times at the construction site of a new home in the Satilla Shores neighborhood combined with concerns about property crime.
The trial of the three white men accused of felony murder in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery continues in Glynn County, with one of the defendants, Travis McMichael, speaking on his own behalf.
Savannah is the latest city in Georgia to pull back on mask mandates.
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 prosecution in the trial of three white men accused of murder in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery have rested their case.
Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr have filed another lawsuit over the Biden administration's COVID vaccine mandate, this time for health care workers.
All five of the inmates who escaped from the Pulaski County Jail on Friday are now back in custody.
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.
Tuesday on Political Rewind, defense lawyer Kevin Gough called for another Black pastor, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, to be removed from the Brunswick, Ga., courtroom in the trial of the three white men charged with murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a young Black man.
Monday on Political Rewind: Race continues to be a central theme in the case of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan — three men charged with murder in the Ahmaud Arbery shooting. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is scheduled to sign the long-awaited infrastructure bill.
Georgia prosecutors have focused on testimony from law enforcement and neighbors in the trial of Greg and Travis McMichael and Roddie Bryan, accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.
Friday on Political Rewind: In a trial already infused with questions about racism, a defense lawyer added fuel to the fire yesterday with comments about the presence of Black religious leaders in the courtroom. Meanwhile, Sen. Raphael Warnock acknowledges Democrats have to do a better job telling voters how their big-ticket legislative agenda will improve daily lives.
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.
