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But god is good. i never thought this day would come. but god is good. we knew him as ahmaud. i knew him as friend, he will now rest in peace. >> we are all, so, hey, let's keep fighting. let's keep doing this. >> i have to say the guilty investigators didn't surprise me, nor that this verdict came today instead of extending beyond thanksgiving. what did police aptly surprise me was the nuance of the verdict. the jury process mounds of evidence and 27 pounds in the span of 11 hours. their conclusion suggests this was an outcome based on evidence and analysis, not emotion. why do i say that? we...

Span of 11 hours. their conclusion suggests this was an outcome based on evidence and analysis, not emotion. why do i say that? well, the case was pretty straight forward factually except for the final sequence when he shot and killed aubrey. only travis mcmichael was alive. he said aubrey lunged for his gun and he fired in self-defense. the jury rejected that testimony. the law was potentially complicated. in lay terms, the judge instructed the jury that under the then applicable georgia law, a person can make citizens arrest if a felony has been committed in their presence or within their im...

In lay terms, the judge instructed the jury that under the then applicable georgia law, a person can make citizens arrest if a felony has been committed in their presence or within their immediate knowledge or if they had reasonable ground of suspicion. what matters is whether they had reasonable suspicion, not whether he was actually committing a felony. someonesqueuateing a citizens arrest can't use excessive force, one asserting defense can't be the aggressor, the target of an unjustified citizens arrest can be used appropriate force on their own behalf and the prosecution must disprove the...

Which is somewhat broken but is it broken if you have people who can rise up, good people of goodwill and say you know what, something's wrong here. we have to take a closer look. then when you take a closer look, michael, you have a situation where you have a jury empanelled and a judge who says, this is intentional discrimination as it relates to 11 white jurors and one african-american. then you have that jury that processes through and render a verdict that speaks to facts as we know them to be, that speaks to the rule of law that we know it to be and speaks to the issue of humanity, which...

We'd love for that to change. but in the meantime, mr. strickland is resting on the kindness of strangers. so we set up a go fund me account for him in hopes of providing for him. he's not entitled to social security, for example, he didn't pay into it in all those years. so really it's the community that's going to be providing that support. >> mr. strekla strickland, how you feel? any sense of bitterness? obviously, you are relieved to be out. how would you sum up your emotions? >> well, i think i've created a few things that most people don't know about but frustration, disappointment, pati...