jackson. joey, we found in a statement from the presidency of the naacp saying this. two years ago today, none of us knew of ahmaud arbery but two years ago tomorrow, his story shook the conscience of our nation and world. ahmaud arbery was lynched in broad daylight and today s verdict brings us one step closer to justice. what s your reaction to the verdict, joey? there s no question about that. good to be with you, kate and jeffrey. this was a case, kate, that may not have happened. we should recall there was a 74 day delay. two and a half months which led ultimately to the arrest of the defendants in this case. this was a case that the first district attorney noted, nothing to see here, issued a letter indicating they were acting because of a citizens arrest law and acted in self-defense, another district attorney who is under herself indictment for failing to uphold her oath in office and then you look at this actual verdict and it s a case
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that doesn t often happen. joining me now is prosecutor jean peters-baker. prosecutor, thank you for joining me tonight. congratulations on an effort that you have undertaken along with others for some time. tell me what you re thinking tonight. a variety of things. i am grateful. it s that time of the year to be grateful, and i am so grateful that we proved, through a huge battle, but proved his innocence, so he s on the other side of prison walling tonight. so i m grateful for that. but also some dismay in so many failures in our system. well, let s talk about that. you worked to fix one of them. this wasn t just a case of a prosecutor looking at something their office had done decades earlier and trying to reverse it. but you argued for a law that allows judges to directly toss out a sentence.
all human beings. i tell you all, we we we, together, did this. we all together, black, white, activists, faith members, lawyers, prosecutors, we did this together! we said, america, we will make us better than what we saw in that video. we did this together. the naacp released a statement noting the generations of black people in this country, dating back to its founding, back to emancipation, back to the first citizen s arrest law, generations of black people without ever seeing anyone held accountable. the generations of loss that have fueled protest after protest after protest. the verdict in the trial over the killing of ahmaud arbery is long overdue. long overdue