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The eerie similarities between the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Trayvon Martin

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Ahmaud Arbery's family, talks about how Arbery’s case is “like a modern day lynching.” Crump also discusses the eerie similarities between Arbery’s case and the case of Trayvon Martin.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Jonathan Kapart and this is Cape Up.

0:07.0

Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the family of Amad Arbury is perfectly clear on his view of what happened to the 25 year old black man jogging

0:16.6

near his Georgia home on February 23rd.

0:19.7

They chased him through that community until they caught up with him and then they executed

0:26.4

him like a modern day legend.

0:29.5

If Crump's name sounds familiar, it's because he was the lawyer for the family of Trayvon Martin.

0:34.8

The 17 year old shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida on February 26, 2012. Listen to Crump talk about the eerie similarities between the February 2020 killing

0:47.6

of Amad Arbury and the February 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin right now.

0:55.4

Attorney Benjamin Crump, thank you very much for coming on the podcast.

0:59.3

And thank you for having me, Jonathan, and thank you for covering this very important story. So you and I got to know each other about eight years ago because of the killing of Trayvon Martin and the similarities between the killing of Trayvon Martin and the

1:15.8

killing of Amad Arbury are really it's kind of eerie.

1:26.2

Could you bring us up to speed on the facts of the case as we talk right now?

1:31.1

Certainly.

1:32.3

And then I'll tell you how

1:34.0

the yearly similar, those facts are between Trayvon and Amad Aubrey.

1:40.6

That'd be great.

1:41.4

Tragically, Amard Aubrey was chased by a murderous duo, a father and son duo,

1:50.0

Gregory and Travis Matt Michaels, and another young man named William Bryan who has yet to be arrested as of this day.

2:01.0

He is alleged to be the individual who was driving the other vehicle who

2:05.9

ambushed Ahmad and was taking the video recording of this execution. You know, it goes without saying,

2:17.0

Amman had a t-shirt jogging shorts and jogging shoes on, And he was a person who would jog routinely.

2:27.0

He'd like to stay in shape as many people.

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