WORLD / AMERICAS 3 Georgia men charged with hate crimes By Reuters Published: Apr 29, 2021 06:33 PM US prosecutors charged three white men in Georgia on Wednesday with federal hate crimes and attempted kidnapping in 2020's slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was gunned down as he was out jogging through a suburban neighborhood. This combination of handout photos created on June 24, 2020 using booking photos released by the Glynn County Sheriff's Office in Georgia shows (from left) William Roderick Bryan, Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael. Photo: AFPThe Justice Department said that former police officer Gregory McMichael, 65, his son Travis McMichael, 35, and William "Roddie" Bryan, 51, were each charged with one count of interference with rights and with one count of attempted kidnapping. Travis and Gregory McMichael were also each charged with using firearms to carry out acts of violence in the fatal shooting of Arbery on February 23, 2020, which lawyers for his family have condemned as vigilante murder tantamount to a lynching. US President Joe Biden's administration has since his inauguration three months ago stepped up enforcement of federal civil rights laws, which activists complained were neglected during his predecessor Donald Trump's presidency.