Officials designated a 2.7-mile stretch in Brunswick, Georgia, as Honorary Ahmaud Arbery Street, vowing to never forget his death
Officials in coastal Brunswick, where Arbery grew up, have ordered that intersections along all 2.7 miles of Albany Street will have additional signs designating it as HonoraryThe first two signs were unveiled Tuesday at an intersection near the Brunswick African-American cultural center, where one wall is adorned with a giant mural of Arbery’s smiling face.
Arbery was killed on 23 February 2020, after the avid jogger was spotted running in the Satilla Shores subdivision not far from his mother’s house. A white father and son, Greg and Travis McMichael, grabbed guns and used a pickup truck to chase after Arbery, claiming they thought he was burglar. A neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, joined the pursuit in his own truck and recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael shooting Arbery at close range with a shotgun.
“We did this because we want to always remember what happened,” Cornell Harvey, who was Brunswick’s mayor when the street designation was adopted, said Tuesday. “You say, ‘Why would you want to remember such a tragedy?’ Because sometimes it takes that to make a change. I am so sorry for the family … but history has seized us,” Harvey added.
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