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THE AHMAUD ARBERY CASE

In wake of federal hate crime convictions, family, supporters mark 2 years since Arbery’s murder

In wake of federal hate crime convictions, family, supporters mark 2 years since Arbery’s murder

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Wednesday marks two years since Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed while running in the Satilla Shores neighborhood just outside Brunswick. It’s also the day after a jury affirmed what Arbery’s family has been saying all along -- that he was chased down and killed because he was Black.

Almost 2 years to day of fatal shooting, 3 men convicted of hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery killing

Almost 2 years to day of fatal shooting, 3 men convicted of hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery killing

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Nearly two years to the day that their son was shot dead in the street while jogging through a neighborhood in Satilla Shores, the parents of Ahmaud Arbery embraced in a federal courthouse in Brunswick on Tuesday as the verdicts were read against the three men convicted of taking his life.

FILE - This combo of booking photos provided by the Glynn County, Ga., Detention Center, shows from left, Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. Legal experts say federal hate crimes charges in the 2020 chase and killing of Ahmaud Arbery could prove more difficult to prosecute than the fall murder trial that ended in convictions of three white men. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday, Feb. 7, 2022 in U.S. District Court in Brunswick, Georgia.(Glynn County Detention Center via AP, File)

`I felt guilty': Neighbors recall Arbery's killing in court

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Neighbors of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery testified at the trio's federal hate crime trial about the shock they felt when gunshots rang out in their neighborhood.

Court expects to question another 30 potential jurors in federal Arbery death trial

Judge in Ahmaud Arbery death federal trial to seat jury Monday

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The federal judge presiding over the hate crimes trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery said she will seat a jury Monday after a week spent asking potential jurors what they already know about the Black man’s death as well as their views on racism in America.

FILE - This May 17, 2020, file photo, shows a mural depicting Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Ga. Travis McMichael, the man convicted of murder for shooting Ahmaud Arbery is withdrawing his guilty plea on a federal hate crime charge. McMichael announced his decision Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan, File)

Arbery killers’ failed pleas may complicate hate crime trial

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Three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery are heading for a second trial in federal court, where jury selection could be complicated by failed plea bargains in the case.

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Defense for father, son convicted in murder of Ahmaud Arbery to present amended arguments Thursday in push for new trial

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The lawyers for the father, son and neighbor who are serving a life sentence for chasing down and killing 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia, will be back in court Thursday as they push to get a new trial.

FILE - 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, Sept. 8, 2021. (Glynn County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Ahmaud Arbery's family is still waiting for ex-prosecutor's misconduct trial after 3 years

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The family of Ahmaud Arbery is waiting for stalled court proceedings to resume in the case of a former Georgia prosecutor accused of interfering with the police investigation into the Black man's killing.

FILE - In this image from the body camera of Louisiana State Police Trooper Dakota DeMoss, his colleagues, Kory York, center left, and Chris Hollingsworth, center right, hold up Ronald Greene before paramedics arrived on May 10, 2019, outside of Monroe, La. An autopsy ordered by the FBI listed prone restraint among the other contributing factors in Greenes violent death, including neck compression, physical struggle and cocaine use. (Louisiana State Police via AP, File)

'Where's Ronald Greene's justice?': 5 years on, feds still silent on Black motorist's deadly arrest

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Ronald Greene’s deadly arrest on a rural Louisiana roadside in 2019 sparked outrage after The Associated Press published long-suppressed body-camera video showing white state troopers stunning, beating and dragging the Black motorist as he wailed, “I’m scared!”.

FILE - This combination of photos shows, from left, Travis McMichael, William "Roddie" Bryan and Gregory McMichael during their trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. The three white men are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out their hate crime convictions in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery. The 25-year-old Black man was chased by men driving pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a coastal Georgia subdivision. Oral arguments are scheduled for Wednesday, March 27, 2024 before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Pool, File)

Ahmaud Arbery's killers ask a US appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions

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3 men convicted of hate crime in fatal shooting of Arbery, 25, who was killed while jogging

Brunswick prayer vigil held for ‘Ahmaud Arbery Day,’ 4 years after deadly encounter in Georgia

Read full article: Brunswick prayer vigil held for ‘Ahmaud Arbery Day,’ 4 years after deadly encounter in Georgia

Four years after Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down while jogging in the Satilla Shores neighborhood, near Brunswick, a prayer vigil is planned to honor his memory on the day named for the 25-year-old.

Sharon McClendon says outside the Lincoln County Courthouse in Brookhaven, Miss., on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, that it has been difficult to watch the trial of two men charged in a 2022 incident in which her son, D'Monterrio Gibson, was shot at and chased after he delivered a FedEx package at a home in Brookhaven. She said her 25-year-old son is still traumatized. (AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus)

Mississippi judge declares mistrial in case of 2 white men charged in attack on Black FedEx driver

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Rayshun Bridges demonstrates outside the Lincoln County Courthouse in Brookhaven, Miss., on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, after a judge declared a mistrial for two white men charged in a 2022 attack on D'Monterrio Gibson, a Black employee of FedEx. Prosecutors said they will set a new trial for Gregory Case and his son, Brandon Case, who are accused of shooting at Gibson and chasing his delivery van after Gibson dropped of a package at a home. (AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus)

Mississippi judge declares mistrial for 2 white men charged in attack on Black FedEx driver

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A Mississippi judge has cited police errors in declaring a mistrial for two white men accused of chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx employee who was making a delivery.

FILE - FedEx driver D'Monterrio Gibson speaks at a news conference in Ridgeland, Miss., Feb. 10, 2022, about his experience where he alleges he was fired upon and chased by a white father and son while delivering packages on his route in Brookhaven, Miss. Gregory Charles Case and his son Brandon Case are set to go on trial starting Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, on charges of attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy and shooting into the vehicle. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Trial begins for 2 white Mississippi men charged with shooting at Black FedEx driver

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Attorneys made brief opening arguments Tuesday in the trial of two white men in Mississippi who are accused of chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx driver who had dropped off a package at a home.

District Attorney Tom Durden of Georgia's Atlantic Judicial Circuit speaks at a news conference, May 8, 2020, in Brunswick, Georgia, about the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Durden, the longtime prosecutor who won convictions in Georgia's infamous tomato patch killing and called in state investigators to build a case against the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery has died. Durden was 66. AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

Tom Durden, Georgia DA who ordered takeover of stalled Ahmaud Arbery investigation, dies at 66

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The longtime Georgia prosecutor who called in state investigators to build a case against the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery has died.

FILE - This combination of photos shows, from left, Travis McMichael, William "Roddie" Bryan, and Gregory McMichael during their trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. On Friday, March 3, 2023, the three white men serving prison sentences in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery asked an appeals court to throw out their federal hate crime convictions, with two of them arguing their histories of making racist comments do not prove they targeted Arbery because he was Black. (AP Photo/Pool, File)

Ahmaud Arbery's killers deny racist motives in appeals

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Three white men sentenced to prison in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery are asking an appeals court to throw out their federal hate crime convictions.

FILE - 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. One of the men convicted of murder in the street chase and fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery spoke with Johnson, his former boss, the local district attorney, several times by phone in the days and weeks following the 2020 killing, according to a court document filed Thursday, May 4, 2022.(Glynn County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Hearing delayed for ex-DA charged in wake of Ahmaud Arbery killing

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A judge has postponed a court hearing this week for a former Georgia prosecutor charged with meddling in the police investigation of the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a news conference about a jury's verdict against members of the Oath Keepers in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, at the Justice Department in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Garland: Justice Dept.'s civil rights work is key priority

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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says the early work of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division meant confronting white supremacists who were intimidating Black voters, and the division's work remains urgent 65 years later amid a surge of hate crimes.

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota on June 3, 2020, shows former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin has been relocated from the restrictive confines of a Minnesota state prison to a medium-security federal lockup in Arizona where he will likely be given a little more freedom and have a greater sense of autonomy despite his infamy for killing George Floyd. (Hennepin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Chauvin moved to Arizona federal pen in George Floyd killing

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Derek Chauvin has been moved from a Minnesota state prison where he was often held in solitary confinement to a medium-security federal prison in Arizona, where the former police officer convicted in George Floyd’s killing may be held under less restrictive conditions.

Brunswick mayor, advocacy group leader hope positive change will follow end of hate crime case

Brunswick mayor, advocacy group leader hope positive change will follow end of hate crime case

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The city of Brunswick is focusing on how to move forward and address racial inequalities in the community following the federal sentencing of the three men responsible in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

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. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

Brunswick honors Ahmaud Arbery day after end of hate crimes case

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A crowd of dozens chanted on a sweltering street corner Tuesday as Ahmaud Arbery’s hometown unveiled new street signs honoring the young Black man who was fatally shot after being chased by three white men in a nearby neighborhood — a crime local officials vowed to never forget.

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. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

Town honors Ahmaud Arbery day after end of hate crimes case

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Ahmaud Arbery is being honored by his hometown after stiff sentences for hate crimes against the white men who chased and killed him.