Ahmaud Arbery Killing, Part 1: A Mother’s Fight for Justice Brings Shocking Details to Light
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🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Ahmaud Arbery was killed Feb. 23, 2020. His death evoked strong emotions about justice and race in this country after a graphic video of his shooting was made public. In part one of our special, we look at how Ahmaud’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, raised the case’s visibility and helped uncover major details. Joining us in part one are Ahmaud’s mother and his aunt Thea Brooks, as well as attorney Chris Stewart, investigator Luis Bolaños, and Elizabeth Graddy, attorney for construction site owner Larry English.
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| 0:00.0 | A word of warning. This podcast explores graphic and disturbing stories and includes some strong language. |
| 0:06.4 | It therefore may not be suitable for our young listeners or other folks who may find it disturbing. |
| 0:13.2 | A mob was love. |
| 0:15.8 | Ahmad was a victim. |
| 0:18.8 | Ahmad did not deserve |
| 0:21.0 | to leave this world the way that he did. |
| 0:25.8 | And to all the joggers and to all the support |
| 0:29.4 | that we're getting, I wish that you all could, all of you guys could have got to know |
| 0:36.4 | a mod for who he was because to know a mod was to love aad. Amad. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of True Crime Daily, the podcast. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Anna Garcia. |
| 0:50.0 | That was |
| 0:55.0 | the mother of Amad Arbury, the young African-American man who was killed while jogging in Georgia on February 23rd, 2020. |
| 0:59.0 | The killing of Amad Arbury has evoked a lot of emotions about justice and race in this country. |
| 1:06.0 | Unlike the recent case of George Floyd's death at the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, |
| 1:11.0 | which unleashed public outrage immediately. |
| 1:15.0 | The killing of Ahmad Arbury and the initial calls for justice in his case took place in darkness |
| 1:21.0 | without the watchful eye of the community or the media. |
| 1:26.0 | Most of us learned about Ahmad's case when a graphic video of his death was released. |
| 1:32.0 | Police told Ahmad's mother that her son had burglarized |
| 1:35.7 | to home and that when neighbors tried to stop him and make a citizen's arrest |
| 1:40.9 | that is when Ahmad attack them. The neighbors, a white father and son, |
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