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

It's worth your time.

If you've heard about Ahmaud Arbery, you might have heard about a video, a video that shows his final moments as he's shot and killed by a couple of men while running through a coastal neighborhood in Brunswick, southern Georgia.

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

Ahmad was just shy of his 26th birthday.

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

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

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

You know, when I first spoke to her, which seems like a year ago, but it was just a couple

of weeks ago, you know, she was tried to be optimistic, but was, you know, also like, well,

this is how these things go down here.

God, that's heartbreaking. Yeah.

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

Well, you know, and they also look at what the police told her the night of her son's death.

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

and had been chased by the homeowner and killed.

Did you believe that?

She did, because she told me, she said, well, it's, you know, an official authority.

Why would he lie?

Of course, since then we found out that that was not the case, none of that was proven.

After her son died, Wanda kept asking questions about the men who killed him and the people investigating them.

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