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Call them rioters and looters, if the defense can prove that to be the case. one, how do they prove that? two, how rare is it to not be able to call someone who was shot and killed a victim? >> you know, it speaks to previously the control that judges have over cases with respect to what they admit into evidence, with regard to what they allow to be said. when you have a situation with a judge saying, you can't even refer to them, not only as victims but alleged victims, the judge is saying. that controls the narrative. it really controls the ability of what you have to say and do. ultimately,...

Follow him. >> reporter: in their opening statement, the lead prosecutor described arbery as under attack by the three defendants, who say they believed that he had committed a crime. >> in this case, all three of these defendants did everything they did based on assumptions. not on facts, not on evidence, on assumptions. and they made decisions in their driveways, based on those assumptions, that took a young man's life. >> reporter: travis mcmichael, his father gregory mcmichael and a neighbor, william "roddie" bryan jr. are facing life in prison on murder and other charges if convicted. it ...

Terrorizing it is to be black in america. >> and when you consider all the people who were complicit, really. so you're right, the aurora police lied to exonerate the five police officers and paramedics who respectively choked mcclain and gave him ketamine. so this is also the case as well, christina, in the arbery case. this attorney who was charged, she was basically favoring the vigilante people who shot them. she was able to find compassion for them while devaluing black life. it shows that you don't really have to pull the trigger to play a role in the harm and killing of black bodies. wh...