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Like he was 20, 30 yards out. its the frame of travis mcmichael lifting the shotgun to fire at ahmaud arbery, and you watch that with context. i want to say context, after hearing evidence in this case, thinking about a young man who had been running at that point for almost five minutes, and it is a chilling, truly disturbing scene. and we got there because travis mcmichaels father saw ahmaud arbery hauling down the street and calls out, lets go. at that point travis mcmichael, despite whatever...

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Barrel up here is full of some other kinds of people to which travis replies needs to change the name from cracker barrel to n word bucket. travis mcmichael in conversation talking about black people. he says they ruin everything. thats why i love what i do now. not a an n word in sight. i mention that marcus arbery senior had to lead the courtroom. he addressed what he heard and reacted to what he heard today. >> its a shame they got that much hate in them for african-american people. its reall...

Bryan and a friend and it quotes bryan saying happy bootlip day, here with me, nic valencia who was in the courtroom. nic, good evening to you. these messages are stomach turning. what was the reaction to the testimony in the courtroom from the defendants, the jurors, and the arbery family? >> yeah. i sat directly behind ahmaud arberys family, don, and they were noticeably disgusted by what they heard. a lot of us in the gallery were disgusted by what we heard but specifically, ahmaud arberys fa...

Disgust bid what we heard. but specifically ahmaud arberys family, they were occasionally shaking their heads as they heard this evidence presented that the mcmichaels and roddie bryan regularly used racist language. at one point marcus arbery senior got up he was so offended. i asked what was going through your mind? he said i was so sickened to know that someone like that lived around me, that lived around the children in this community. he said after today there should be no doubt in anyones ...

Children when our cameras arent on the incident. >> ebony, you were saying absolutely. >> absolutely, yes. i want their badges taken away. if theyll do it now, im sure theyve done it before -- what will they do in the future? if you do something, you can do it again. >> kye -- >> it might be worse. >> kye, youre going to be okay? >> yes. >> ben, before we go, you also represent wander cooper-jones, ahmaud arberys mother. i want your reaction to the testimony in the federal hate crimes trial and ...

Understanding its a high bar they always tell us. but race was the motivating -- for killing unjustly, we need to have it documented and have two bites of the apple. one in the state level and another on the federal level. and so i think this was historic for wanda and marcus. it was historic for georgia. but most important, it was historic for america and our children. >> its interesting because people, you know, like to hide their racism. they try to pretend it doesnt exist. ben, the jury was ...

In that trial? its a blind spot in our legal system because its so hard to prove a hate crime. >> back in georgia, back then the state did not have a hate crime. we were one of eight states that does not have hate crime protections or to be prosecuted. even while the racists said what happened was racist, there was no recourse for that district attorney to charge them with the hate crime, which is why its so important for the federal government to look into this under the hate crimes act to make...

Where these defendants were already convicted, serving life in prison now, because they were convicted of killing ahmaud arbery. this is about the why. so thats why this case is so important. marcus arbery, the father of ahmad came out today and said theres going to be new evidence. they will present social media posts, text messages that show the defendants using racial slurs and likening black people to monkeys and less than human. they believe that that is why, and they killed ahmaud arbery. ...

We would not be standing here today without each and every one of you. i want to address -- i now want to address the members of the doj. im very thankful that you guys brought these charges of hate crime, but back on january the 31st you guys entered a plea deal with these three murderers who took my sons life. marcus and two of ahmads aunties stood before the court and begged the judge not to -- to take a plea deal that the doj -- that the doj went before the judge and asked them to take a ple...