Into the Movement for Ahmaud Arbery
Into America
Trymaine Lee, MS NOW
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's a devastatingly familiar story. |
| 0:08.5 | A grainy cell phone video was released depicting the last moments of a young black man's life. |
| 0:14.6 | The video spreads across social media. |
| 0:17.2 | The young man's name becomes a hashtag. |
| 0:20.3 | But what does the fight for justice look like today in 2020 in a pandemic? |
| 0:27.1 | Here's how it unfolded. |
| 0:30.4 | On February 23rd, 25 year old Amard Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia. |
| 0:36.0 | His family says he was going on one of his regular jocks through the neighborhood. |
| 0:40.6 | When two armed white men, a father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael confronted him. |
| 0:45.8 | Gregory McMichael quoted in this police report says he and his son believed Arbery was involved |
| 0:50.6 | in recent home burglaries so they followed him in their truck and an attempt to intercept him. |
| 0:56.5 | The men were not arrested. |
| 0:58.2 | By early April, two local prosecutors have recused themselves from the case because of a potential |
| 1:03.3 | conflict of interest. |
| 1:04.8 | They knew the father, Gregory McMichael, a former police officer and investigator in the |
| 1:09.3 | county. |
| 1:10.5 | One writing he thought the McMichael's actions were perfectly legal and Travis McMichael acted |
| 1:15.0 | in self-defense in the struggle over the gun. |
| 1:18.2 | A third prosecutor took over the case in mid-April, but for weeks nothing happened. |
| 1:25.2 | One on May 5th, a cell phone video was made public. |
| 1:30.7 | Recorded by a third individual from inside a car, it appears to show that McMichael's truck |
| 1:35.9 | blocking the street Amard was running down. |
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