ahmaud arbery
Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother of the late Ahmaud Arbery, said the rapper’s stunt made a mockery of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Both were previously sentenced to life without parole in a state court for Arbery’s murder.
Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in a Georgia neighborhood are returning to court to be sentenced for their federal hate crime convictions.
The three white men charged in the killing of the 25-year-old Black man in Georgia have been convicted of murder.
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Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William Bryan were also convicted of attempted kidnapping charges.
A jury in Georgia is hearing arguments from prosecutors and defense attorneys on whether the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery was a federal hate crime.
The Department of Justice rested its case Friday after hearing witnesses testify in the federal hate crimes trial of the three men who killed Ahmaud Arbery.
Prosecutors say Travis McMichael made racist statements about Black people on social media and in private messages.
Opening statements began Monday in the federal hate crime trial for the three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery.
Driver D'Monterrio Gibson "was simply Black while working," his lawyer said. A white father and son have been arrested.