The Trial For The Killing Of Ahmaud Arbery
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🗓️ 18 October 2021
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NPR correspondent Debbie Elliott reports on the defendants' expected arguments and the evidence stacked against them in a trial that serves as yet another test case for racial justice.
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| 0:00.0 | The Yuan Zabruks says it was common for her nephew, Amad Arbery, to run through a quiet subdivision a few miles from where he lived near Brunswick on the Georgia coast. |
| 0:11.0 | Amad really ran like all over Brunswick. This was just a good place, we thought, you know, because it was a neighborhood off the highway. |
| 0:19.0 | You know, he would jog through his neighborhood and then cross the highway. |
| 0:22.0 | This neighborhood, Satilla Shores, is where Arbery was shot and killed on February 23rd, 2020. |
| 0:28.0 | This is where he left late to rest. This is where it was right here. |
| 0:35.0 | Some residents had grown suspicious of Arbery after they say they saw him repeatedly enter a new home construction site. |
| 0:42.0 | And they suspected him of recent break-ins, although police had not linked him to any. |
| 0:48.0 | Hey, you should be on the bus to school. This is a great place I heard a guy in a house right now, but has some of his friends. |
| 0:55.0 | That's Travis McMichael on a 911 call just minutes before he shot Amad Arbery. |
| 1:01.0 | And he's right, right, left, right, left. |
| 1:04.0 | Okay, what is he doing? |
| 1:07.0 | Learning ground screech. |
| 1:08.0 | Now the dispatcher says she'll send police, but wants to know what was Arbery allegedly doing wrong? |
| 1:14.0 | 911 was the addressing emergency. |
| 1:17.0 | Then there's a second 911 call from Travis' father, Gregory McMichael. |
| 1:21.0 | And the white male running down the street. |
| 1:25.0 | We're at the killer's shores. |
| 1:28.0 | I don't know what we were all. |
| 1:32.0 | And seconds later, three shotgun blasts can be heard. |
| 1:42.0 | Theoanza Brooks says she often imagines what those last moments were like for her nephew as he was trapped and fighting for his life. |
| 1:50.0 | Now as jury selection begins for the murder trial, Brooks is bracing herself to hear the defense argue the shooting was justified to stop suspected neighborhood theft. |
| 2:00.0 | And even if you steal something, nobody has the decision to make as far as being the judge, the jury, and the executioner. |
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