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News Articles: Hate Crime

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
Attorney General Merrick Garland. visits the Tops Friendly Market grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, the site of a May mass shooting in which 10 Black people were killed.

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Buffalo shooting suspect says his motive was to prevent 'eliminating the white race'

Prosecutors release court documents in suspect Payton Gendron's first appearance in federal court on hate crime charges.

June 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Attorney General Merrick Garland. visits the Tops Friendly Market grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, the site of a May mass shooting in which 10 Black people were killed.

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  • National

Buffalo shooting suspect says his motive was to prevent 'eliminating the white race'

Prosecutors release court documents in suspect Payton Gendron's first appearance in federal court on hate crime charges.

June 16, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Miya Ponsetto has made a plea deal after she falsely accused a Black teen of stealing her phone and then attacking him in 2020.

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  • Law

Woman pleads guilty to hate crime for falsely accusing Black teen of taking her phone

The family of the teen has filed a lawsuit against a 23-year-old woman and the hotel, alleging racial profiling.

April 12, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A woman holds a sign in honor of Emmett Till during a protest on June 13, 2020, in Chicago. Protests erupted across the U.S. after George Floyd was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

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  • Politics

Lynching is now a federal hate crime after a century of blocked efforts

President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, the culmination of more than a century of efforts to designate lynching as a federal hate crime.

March 29, 2022
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By:
  • Eric McDaniel and
  • Elena Moore
Jussie Smollett talks to the media in 2019 before leaving the court in Cook County, Ill. The actor will face sentencing on Thursday.

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  • Law

Jussie Smollett will serve 150 days in jail for lying about an attack on him

The former Empire actor was convicted on five felony counts of lying to police, but he has maintained that he did not stage the 2019 attack in which he claimed to be the victim.

March 12, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram and
  • Jonathan Franklin
Travis McMichael listens to his attorney Robert Rubin before the start of his trial in the Glynn County Courthouse, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga.

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  • Law

McMichaels appeal federal convictions, saying Arbery killing didn't happen on a public street

Travis and Greg McMichael argue that they didn't violate Arbery's civil rights to use a public facility because the streets of Satilla Shores were not “provided or administered” by Glynn County.

March 09, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
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  • Politics

After more than a century of trying, Congress passes an anti-lynching bill

Passage of the legislation to make lynching a federal crime is a major milestone after more than 200 attempts to pass such legislation failed over the course of a century.

March 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Defendant Travis McMichael watches a video clip the jury asked to see as part of their deliberation during the trial of McMichael, his father Greg McMichael, and neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021, in the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga.

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  • Race

Jury foreman: Ahmaud Arbery killers showed 'so much hatred'

The Black man who served as foreman of the jury that returned hate crime convictions against the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery says he believes the verdicts show no one is above the law.

March 01, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Brunswick resident Dana Roberts Beckham poses next to a mural of Ahmaud Arbery on the side of a building in Brunswick. In the mural, Arbery is wearing a black tuxedo and a white collared shirt.

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  • Race

'You can't just throw your hate at me': Brunswick residents reflect on Ahmaud Arbery's legacy

Hear Brunswick residents share what the historic hate crimes verdict means to them moving forward.

February 25, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
The family and attorneys of the Ahmaud Aubery raise their arms in victory after all three men were found guilty of hates crimes at the federal courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan, the three men convicted of murder in Arbery’s fatal shooting have been found guilty of federal hate crimes.

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  • Law

“He will now begin to rest in power”: parents of Ahmaud Arbery celebrate verdict in hate crimes case

Wanda Cooper-Jones and Marcus Arbery praised the guilty verdict, while vowing to continue pursuing justice for their son and remembering his legacy.

February 22, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Ahmaud Arbery's father, Marcus Arbery, and civil rights lawyer Barbara Arnwhine address reporters outside the Brunswick federal courthouse on Feb. 14, 2022. Several news microphones are situated in front of them.

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  • News

Highlights from testimony in hate crimes trial of Ahmaud Arbery's murderers

Federal prosecutors on Friday called their final witnesses to the stand in the hate crimes trial against the three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery — finishing off a week of proceedings that saw hours of sworn testimony heard by a jury of 12 in the Brunswick federal courthouse.

February 18, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Defendant Gregory McMichael looks on during his trial and of William "Roddie" Bryan and Travis McMichael, charged with the February 2020 death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga., Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021.

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  • Race

FBI witness: Defendants in Arbery killing used racial slurs

An FBI intelligence analyst is going through dozens of text messages and social media posts in which two of the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs.

February 16, 2022
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  • Associated Press
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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Kemp flexes with appointments; Testimony heard in Brunswick; Redistricting woes

Wednesday on Political Rewind: Sonny Perdue will become the next chancellor of the state's university system. Meanwhile,  Dems are fuming at GOP maneuvers during redistricting. And on the coast, testimony is underway in the trial of the men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.

February 16, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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