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Parents, relatives and friends will gather around a tree in Borehamwood town centre to remember all of the babies who have passed away.

The Harvesting Hope for Hospice Quinte Charity Car Rally and Artisan Market raised over $25,700 in support of local hospice palliative care

The three men involved in the fatal shooting of Black man Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 were sentenced on Monday, with two individuals, the father and son McMichaels, being sentenced to life in prison. The defendants were all convicted of federal hate crimes for the attack.

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They said. we want real justice and this is it, an actual conviction by a jury in a federal court. >> and charles, a prosecutor during the case said that the men, quote, vigilantes who assumed the worst about arbery. defense attorneys admitted that their clients expressed offensive remarks, but they were in the form of private messages with like-minded people i think we have a little bit of our answer now, but how do you think the jury analyzed that information and those arguments? >> well, i th...

Clark, as i went to brunswick on that sunday afternoon, i spoke to kristen clark and the lead attorney, tara lyons, begging them to please not take this plea deal. they ignored my cry. i begged them. even after the family stood before the judge and asked them, asked the judge to not take this plea deal, the lead prosecutor, tara lyons, stood up and asked the judge to ignore the familys cry. thats not justice for ahmaud. what we got today, we would have gotten today if it wasnt for the fight that...

Her name, kristen clark. as i traveled to brunswick on that sunday afternoon i spoke to kristen clark and -- and the lead attorney tara lyons begging them to please not take this plea deal. they ignored my cry. i begged them, even after the family stood before the judge and asked them, asked the judge to not take this plea deal, the lead prosecutor tara lyons stood up and asked the judge to ignore the familys cry. thats not -- thats not justice for ahmad. what we got today we wouldnt have gotten...

Coleman, a former prosecutor, civil rights attorney and nbc news legal analyst, and david nakamura from "the washington post" will join us, too. hes covered this trial extensively. ron, take us through the charges. what does it mean for the men already convicted in state court? >> reporter: the jury reached their verdicts in about three hours or less. we were shocked this morning that they had just begun the deliberations and the next thing were hearing they had a verdict. they did this very qui...

Soon after a federal jury returned guilty verdicts Tuesday in the hate crimes trial of three white men who killed Ahmaud Arbery, his mother vented against the federal prosecutors who offered a plea deal as much as she expressed relief about the trial’s outcome.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The three white men convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting were found guilty of federal hate crimes Tuesday, Feb. 22 for violating Arbery’s civil rights