It took 75 days of mounting pressure, social media outrage and publicly revealed video evidence for two white men to be arrested in the murder of an unarmed black man in Georgia.
On Feb. 23, 2020, 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down in Brunswick, Ga., a coastal city between Savannah and Jacksonville, Fla. Arbery, a black man, was unarmed and on an afternoon jog on a pleasant Sunday, something he did often to stay fit, his mother, Wanda Cooper, said.
The video was apparently shot from a car by a third man, identified as William Bryan. But how it surfaced is not public knowledge at this point. S. Lee Merritt, an attorney for the Arbery family, said it had been in the possession of authorities. More than 10 weeks after Arbery’s death, late on May 7, the McMichaels were arrested and officially charged with murder and aggravated assault in the death of Arbery. Merritt believes that public pressure led to the arrest of the McMichaels. “I don’t think there would have been an arrest if there wasn’t outcry,” he said Thursday. “The video was already in the hands of investigators. ... Those who raised their voices. ... That was the turning point.
On April 13, the case was turned over to neighboring Liberty County District Attorney Tim Durden, the third prosecutor assigned to the case. It wasn’t until three weeks after he was assigned the case that he said the evidence warrants seeking an indictment.
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