you will have to decide what justice looks like between the mcmichaels and mr. arbery, between the mcmichaels and the arbery family. but the reason that you can do so, the reason that we can have this trial is because of roddy bryan. roddy s decision to cooperate with law enforcement, to help them discover the truth about the events of february 23rd, 2020, is not the product of slick lawyering. roddy bryan had no lawyer on the side of the road in the minutes after ahmaud arbery was shot. it was not some lawyer, it was roddy bryan without any lawyer, without any help, without any assistance making that decision on his own. roddy bryan made the choice.
different story and a different truth. mr. bryan says, i m going to keep going. he s put the car in gear. but if you watch, you ll see mr. bryan isn t going back towards mr. arbery, he s not going back toward the mcmichaels, he s going in the opposite direction and he starts at a high rate of speed. you can hear the traction of the wheels. now, you can t see yet, but he s not moving towards mr. arbery, he s moving away, and you ll see why in a moment. now, here you can see the speedometer is at this point he slowed back down. he s at 4 miles an hour at the 51-second mark.
roddy bryan wished that he had hit mr. arbery. that s a reflection of regret that mr. arbery was hurt by the mcmichaels. that s certainly not a suggestion that he bore any ill will. and how many other instances of that do we have in this case? how many other times has the district attorney s office fired cheap shots at roddy bryan? how many times had the gbi taken cheap shots at mr. bryan? in the end, you may wish to ask yourself why. now, in the defense case, and we didn t do it, we promised we wouldn t, but it s clear that mr. bryan did not wish to strike mr. arbery, that he never had any intention of hurting mr. arbery. he never said anything to the contrary. the evidence will show that he had no knowledge, no reasonable belief, that anyone out there
so when mr. brian says on the side of the road on february 23rd to officer minshew, i was trying to record what happened, i don t know what i got. i think i got two or three. he only got one. but fortunately, he got the one that you need to figure out what justice is in this case. again, it s not for roddy brian. it s not for me to say what justice is here between the mcmichaels and mr. arbery and his family. that s not our call. that s your call. again, for mr. brian, whether you call it serendipity, luck, coincidence, or the hand of god here, not once or twice has someone who keeps to themselves, who never gets involved in anybody else s business, who is almost a stranger in his own neighborhood has now gone out and gotten a video which is the