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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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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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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Monteria Robinson, standing before microphones assembled by local media outside of the Clayton County Police Department, is accompanied Aug. 4, 2022, by supporters of her son, Jamarion Robinson, who was killed by police in 2016.

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  • News

Victim's mother, family want answers from Clayton County PD on hiring of indicted officer

The mother of a man shot more than 100 times is calling for the firing of one of the law enforcement officers that was involved in her son’s death. 

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Donnell Suggs
16 students from Savannah State University stand outside the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick on Nov. 18, 2021.

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New photo exhibition chronicles rally of Black pastors amid trial of Ahmaud Arbery's murderers

Savannah State journalism professor Jason Miccolo Johnson and his students documented the demonstration outside the Glynn County Courthouse last November.

April 04, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Clarence Henderson (center), apprehended in 1948 for a murder he likely did not commit.

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  • News

Georgia Today: The three death sentences of Clarence Henderson

In 1948, a Black sharecropper in Georgia was sentenced to die for a murder he didn’t commit. What happened next tells us a lot about the legal system in the United States then — and now.

February 25, 2022
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Arbery Mother

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  • Law

After emotional testimony from Arbery's mother, federal judge rejects plea agreement

A federal judge on Monday rejected the terms of a proposed plea agreement in the federal hate crime case against Travis McMichael, one of the three men convicted in a separate state case of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, the Black jogger who McMichael fatally shot outside Brunswick two years ago.

January 31, 2022
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  • Benjamin Payne
Ahmaud Arbery's father Marcus Arbery, center, is hugged by his attorney Benjamin Crump after the jury convicted Travis McMichael in the Glynn County Courthouse, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga. Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, and a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice.

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  • Race

Georgia Today: Reporter reflects on the Ahmaud Arbery trial and where Brunswick goes from here

On this week's Georgia Today podcast, we explore the emotional toll surrounding the Brunswick trial of the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery. During the trial, says Larry Hobbs from the Brunswick News, "Marcus Arbery and Wanda Cooper-Jones were the faces of courage — to see these images of their son over and over again, to hear what the defense said about their son — this was a grueling episode for them." After the guilty verdicts in the long-awaited trial, where do Brunswick and Glynn County go from here?  

 

December 03, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Arbery's mother

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  • Law

'He will now rest in peace.' Ahmaud Arbery's mother, activists and leaders react to guilty verdicts

Ahmaud Arbery's mother was one voice in a chorus celebrating the jury’s verdict. Civil rights activists and politicians praised the decision: all three defendants found guilty of felony murder.

November 24, 2021
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  • Riley Bunch
Defendant Travis McMichael stands as the jury enters the room at the Glynn County Courthouse on November 8, 2021 in Brunswick, Georgia.

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  • Law

Trio found guilty of Ahmaud Arbery's murder

The jury deliberating the fate of the three white men charged in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery has reached a verdict — all three guilty of murder.

November 24, 2021
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  • GPB News Staff
Theawanza Brooks prays

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Friends and family retrace Ahmaud Arbery’s final steps ahead of his killers' high-profile trial

While the coastal town of Brunswick is still waiting for ultimate closure in Ahmaud Arbery's death — which family and friends say would come with three guilty verdicts — the tragic incident sparked undeniable change not only for the small town but the entire state of Georgia.

October 18, 2021
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  • Riley Bunch
Mrs. King stands with her husband, Slater King and their three children who witnessed the police assault.

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  • Race

Children Of Civil Rights Activist Seek Justice Decades Later

The children of civil rights activist Marion King are seeking justice for their mother, who suffered police violence against her in 1962 that they say resulted in a miscarriage. 

September 15, 2021
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
three men address reporters in front of Savannah city hall

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  • Law

Five Savannah Officers Fired After Death In Custody

Two officers were fired for their role in the death of a 60-year-old Black man in police custody, and another three were fired for later sharing a meme about it.

June 14, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Jones
People gather to memorialize the life of George Floyd on the first anniversary of his death on Tuesday in Atlanta. America's corporations pledged to boost diversity soon after his death last year, but progress can be slow.

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  • Business

You Can Still Count The Number Of Black CEOs On One Hand

Executives pledged to make diversity a priority, but the past year has highlighted how difficult it is to implement change in corporate America.

May 27, 2021
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By:
  • David Gura
People march through the streets of Atlanta with a poster of George Floyd.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: One Year After Murder Of George Floyd, Georgia Grappling With Racial Justice

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Change is coming to Stone Mountain Park after the board approved a series of plans to begin reframing the park’s glorification of the Lost Cause. We mark the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. His death sent millions of Americans into the streets to march for racial justice and police accountability.

May 25, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
Federal law enforcement officers fire impact munitions and tear gas at protesters demonstrating against racism and police violence in front of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland, Ore., on July 16, 2020. Through the end of 2020, the majority of last year's federal civil disorder charges were filed in Oregon.

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  • National

DOJ Uses Civil Rights-Era Law To Charge Protesters And Insurrectionists

Racial justice protesters and many who stormed the U.S. Capitol are being charged with civil disorder, under the 1968 Civil Obedience Act. Some argue that the law is unconstitutional.

May 22, 2021
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  • Conrad Wilson
Arbery Case AP

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  • Law

Judge Weighs What Evidence To Allow In Arbery Case

In the first of two days of hearings on a long list of pretrial motions, the judge heard arguments on what evidence will be allowed in the trial for the three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery.

May 12, 2021
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  • Emily Jones
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