Scum of the earth. Bye bye you racist bastards.
+1. I thought that defense attorney's closing was pretty reprehensible.
I can't remember exactly who but I think it was Chris Rock said Cell phones have been the best thing to happen to black people since the Emancipation Proclamation.
One of the defendants was very close with either the local PD or DA iirc.
That's correct - a cop wannabe who was buds with the local Barney Fife Brigade.
Yes and I think one of them is facing charges for something relating to covering up or ignoring evidence. I will have to check the specifics.
www.cbsnews.com
This is the second trial this week that shines a positive light on the jury system. It seems like we have moved beyond the OJ trial and now have juries that carefully consider the evidence and render a proper verdict.
I must have missed the first one
Of course you did.
If you are referring to the Rittenhouse case, I personally thought the verdict was the correct one. The prosecution was a mess in that case. Even a guilty verdict would have likely been successfully appealed. And this is coming from someone who lost an unarmed loved one to gun violence. There are significant differences in the facts presented in the Rittenhouse trial and the Ahmaud Arbery trial. The 12 jurors today got it right as well, IMO.
Yes and I think one of them is facing charges for something relating to covering up or ignoring evidence. I will have to check the specifics.
edit: Here is the first link I found:
Former Georgia district attorney booked on charges of obstructing Ahmaud Arbery case
Former Georgia prosecutor Jackie Johnson is accused of using her position to delay the arrests of Arbery's accused killers.
That, too. Scary. I just hope that none of us is ever in a position to have our lives in the hands of such corrupt incompetence.
Glad the jurors today stuck to the facts regardless of political ideologies.
Don't disagree but outside of a few posts its been pretty fair.
Hopefully I didn’t step out of line. Kinda new here obviously. Have a happy thanksgiving
Racist bastards is too kind for this scum.
Maybe not. But I know if I'm jogging and a couple random vehicles pull up then some guys get out who try to tell me what I have to do, I'm not going to listen to them. I'd have no idea what their intentions were.
We will never know the answer to that. If these convicted murderers didn’t decide to play judge, jury and executioner and had simply waited for the cops to arrive he might have just gotten a trespassing charge. I wouldn’t chill and wait for police if I had three men chasing me in pick up trucks, two of them armed and one of the armed men threatening me to stop or they would blow my head off. Adrenaline/fight or flight would obviously kick in. I’m a white woman so I cannot imagine how a black man would feel. I also realize that as a white woman I would have never been chased by them to begin with because of my race and gender. It’s truly sickening what these men did to Ahmaud Arbery.
Since we know how it turned out, I’m of the opinion he should have sucked it up (pride) and received the citizens arrest. Would I say the same if it was 1am? Probably not.
Again, armed 3 against one, + a vehicle, in broad daylight, your play is to grab a hillbillies‘ shotgun cause F the man? Super dumb.
I’m not trying to be rude here or argue with you. Do I think he was just out for a jog? No probably not, but that’s based on other evidence that the judge ruled could not be admitted at trial. We don’t know what he was doing and either do the people responsible for his murder. This is why the one defense attorney made the very controversial comment in closing arguments about him not having socks on and other things I won’t repeat. She wanted the jury to believe he was not just out for a jog but could not bring in other evidence during the trial
The only outcome I care about is a kid is dead. He’s dead cause he picked wrong.
He shouldn’t have been chased by three men armed with two guns in broad daylight to begin with. Call 911 and report it. Let the police sort it out. That super dumb choice those three men made is why they will be spending the foreseeable future in prison and sadly why the Arbery family will have an empty seat at the table tomorrow.
He’s dead because he is a black male. The people who picked wrong are the three convicted today of multiple counts of felony murder. Have a nice night.
Thankfully 12 jurors agreed that you can’t claim self defense when you are the aggressor and pursuer. At that point the victim was defending himself.
You’re not wrong. Exactly how it started as people that know better still try to do it. Either they don’t know better or they just cannot stop themselves. Take your pick.
