Ahmaud Arbery Hate Crimes Trial: Live Updates as Jury Deliberates
The jurors decided that the three men previously convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery were motivated by racism.
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The jurors decided that the three men previously convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery were motivated by racism.
Prosecutors will argue that the men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery pursued him because he was Black. The defense says that they suspected him of break-ins in their neighborhood.
Arbery's parents came out against the plea deal, which they called an 'unauthorized backroom deal' that 'is a huge accommodation to the men who hunted down and murdered' their son.
A judge has rejected a plea deals for Travis McMichael - and his father Gregory McMichael - on federal hate crime charges after he admitted chasing down Ahmaud Arbery because he was black.
Before issuing the sentences, Judge Walmsley noted that Arbery had been chased for roughly five minutes while he ran from the men on foot