Posted on 05/06/2020 1:37:36 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The Democrats' likely presidential candidate Joe Biden has demanded justice over the killing of an unarmed black man in the US state of Georgia. Mr Biden said his heart went out to the family of Ahmaud Arbery.
Mr Arbery, 25, was jogging in February when confronted by an ex-policeman and his son. Video purported to show the shooting emerged online on Tuesday. A district attorney in Georgia has now ruled that a grand jury should decide whether charges should be brought. An earlier decision by a prosecutor in the Brunswick jurisdiction argued there was no probable cause to arrest Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34.
More than 100 people took part in a protest in Brunswick on Tuesday night, demanding justice for Mr Arbery. How did Arbery die? Mr Arbery was out running in the Satilla Shores neighbourhood of Brunswick in Georgia's Glynn County early in the afternoon on 23 February. In a police report, Gregory McMichael says he saw Mr Arbery and believed he resembled the suspect in a series of break-ins. He and his son armed themselves and pursued him in a pick-up truck. In the police report, Gregory McMichael says he and his son had said "stop, stop, we want to talk to you" and that Mr Arbery had attacked his son.
Shots were fired, with Mr Arbery falling to the street. Mr Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper, said police told her her son had been involved in a burglary before the incident, but the family say they do not believe the keen jogger had committed a crime and he was unarmed. A number of calls were made to the emergency services around the time of the confrontation, CBS reports.
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The media is reporting this story as “two white men hunting a black person”. If that was the case why would the two guys do it in broad daylight and take a video of it?
We’re on to you jackass
I can only assume a Keen Jogger is a shrewdly astute jogger, intellectually alert with a quick penetrating mind while running.
I made that mistake about Trayvon, I even came on FR and blasted Zimmerman. After finding out the truth I came back and ate crow.... I refuse to jump the gun anymore.
If these two men were hunting him, why didn’t they just shoot him as he ran up to the truck? Why did they wait until there was a struggle over the shotgun?
Clearly their intent was not a “hunt.” They had some harebrained notion of a citizen’s arrest that went horribly wrong. They should pay for that, for sure, but the narrative being pushed by the press is “Hands up, don’t shoot” part two... and it will end up the same way.
Yep.
Clever. When you get busted snooping and take off running, you rarely carry your loot.
You got it all wrong. They didn’t suspect him. They witnessed him trespassing. They had a gun stolen etc..
Did someone come forward saying that they had seen the victim snooping around their house? It's also curious that if the murderers said they stopped him because he fit the description of someone who had committed burglaries in the area then why didn't the Glynn County Sheriff have any reports of any burglaries in that neighborhood between January 1 and February 23?
So they witness him trespassing again AFTER they’ve been burglarized, and they’re supposed to just let him run away?
POLICE RARELY solve this crap so it happens over and over and never stops until a homeowner gets sick of it
Biden's motto: If there's a vote in it I'll perform any virtue signaling anywhere. My lips can be chapped from kissing posteriors but I'll struggle on.
Plus didn't one theory go that warm air from summer causes a cycle of the virus to die out, possibly from not surviving a lot of heat in the air? So burning cities and houses in protests will heat up a lot.
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