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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

The Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead on a Sunday afternoon in southern Georgia. He had been jogging a few miles from his home. The shooting happened on February 23. It took more than two months for officials to make any arrests. Why? Guest: Christian Boone, public safety reporter for the AJC.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:20.0

Hey everyone, just a heads up here at the top.

0:22.5

Listen to this episode somewhere quiet.

0:25.5

The audio quality is a little rougher than usual, but this is an important story with a great reporter.

0:32.0

It's worth your time.

0:40.0

If you've heard about Amad Arbery, you might have heard about a video.

0:44.0

A video that shows his final moments as he's shot and killed by a couple of men

0:49.0

while running through a coastal neighborhood in Brunswick, Southern Georgia.

0:54.0

This was February 23rd, around 1 o'clock, a warm Sunday afternoon.

1:00.0

Amad was just shy of his 26th birthday.

1:04.0

But Christian Boone, he wouldn't start with this video.

1:09.0

Boone's the public safety reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

1:13.0

Christian, he'd start this story by talking about Amad Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper Jones.

1:20.0

When I first spoke to her, which seems like a year ago, but it was just a couple of weeks ago,

1:25.0

she was trying to be optimistic, but was also like, well, this is how these things go down here.

1:31.0

God, that's heartbreaking.

1:33.0

A mother whose son has just been killed said, well, that's the way things go.

1:39.0

They also look at what the police told her the night of her son's death.

1:46.0

They said that Amad had been caught breaking into someone's property,

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