Ahmaud Arbery ‘was chased for FOUR minutes by father and son who shot him as neighbor filmed’
UNARMED black man Ahmaud Arbery was chased for four minutes before he was shot and killed. Chilling footage of the Georgia jogger being pursued by three white men is longer than previously thought, according to Fox News. The video shows father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, and neighbor William Bryan, who filmed, following Arbery […]
UNARMED black man Ahmaud Arbery was chased for four minutes before he was shot and killed.
Chilling footage of the Georgia jogger being pursued by three white men is longer than previously thought, according to Fox News.
The video shows father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, and neighbor William Bryan, who filmed, following Arbery through the Satilla Shores neighborhood.
A lawyer for the Arbery family told Fox the family is expected to make a statement about the extended footage.
Last week it was revealed Gregory McMichael, 64, gave the now-viral video to a local radio station with the idea that the clip of he and his son would exonerate them for allegedly killing Arbery.
Arbery was jogging in the quiet neighborhood of Brunswick earlier this year when he was shot down.
No arrests were made until May 7, after the video was widely shared on social media, pushing it into the national spotlight and prompting widespread outrage.
Both men were charged with felony murder, which means that a victim was killed during the commission of an underlying felony, in this case aggravated assault.
The McMichaels had told police they pursued Arbery after spotting him running in their neighborhood, according to the initial police report.
They said they thought Arbery matched the description of someone caught on a security camera committing recent break-ins in the area.
The father, an ex-cop, also claimed Arbery had attacked his son before he was fatally shot in February.
Gregory McMichael had previously worked as a police officer with Glynn County and retired from working as an investigator with Brunswick district attorney’s office in 2019.
Larry English, the owner of the property that security camera footage shows Arbery visiting shortly before he died, said last week the jogger may have stopped there to drink from a water source on the construction site.
The shooting has fueled fierce debate over the 25-year-old’s death, leading people to claim the act was racially motivated.
Attorney Franklin Hogue, hired to defend Gregory McMichael, said at a recent news conference: “The truth will reveal this is not just another act of violent racism.”
“Greg McMichael did not commit murder. Greg McMichael is not a party to the crime of murder.”
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Defense lawyers for McMichael said on Friday that they have examined evidence that “tells a very different story” about the victim, with attorney Laura Hogue telling reporters: “There is more than one video of the incident.”
Arbery’s mother said that her son was merely out jogging the day he was shot, and family lawyers said the footage of Arbery at the construction site shows he is committing no crimes.
Attorneys for Arbery’s parents said: “There were frequently people on the construction site both day and night.”