The state attorney general said Arbery's family and community 'deserve answers.' His alleged killers were only charged after video of the shooting was released, months after his death.
."The family, the community and the state of Georgia deserve answers. We need to know exactly what happened, and we will be working to find those answers."
Arbery was shot and killed by two white men while out jogging in Brunswick, Georgia on February 23, but his death did not make national headlines until cell phone video of the violent incident was released last week.with murder and aggravated assault.shows 25-year-old Arbery jogging on a two-lane road in Brunswick when he was stopped by the McMichaels in a pick-up truck. The video shows Arbery and one of the men struggling over a shotgun while another stands in the bed of the truck.
of the incident, Gregory McMichael told police there were break-ins in the neighborhood and he had seen Arbery"hauling ass" on the street. The report, which is almost entirely based on Gregory McMichael's account, says Gregory called for his son, Travis, and told him,"the guy is running down the street, let's go."
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Friday that the man who filmed Arbery's killing, William"Roddie" Bryan,
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