Already sentenced to life prison in early January, the three murderers of the young black jogger have been judged since Monday before a Federal Court of Georgia, this time on the racist character of their actions.
Le Monde with AFP
Shocking insults resonated, on Monday, February 14, in a Federal Court of the South, where the trial was opened for “racist crime” of three white men who, in February 2020, had chased and killed A young black jogger.
Travis McMichael, 36, his father, Gregory McMichael, 65, and their neighbor William Bryan, 52, have already been convicted of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and sentenced to the prison for life by the justice of the State of Georgia.
If the first trial had only raised the racist dimension of the tragedy, federal prosecutors immediately entered the vivid on Monday. “None of that would have happened if Ahmaud had been white,” launched the Attorney Bobbi Bernstein. The accused took it for target “because of his skin color,” she continued.
To support his accusations, she reported, apologizing, particularly violent racist insults uttered by the accused. According to her, the son McMichael qualified the African Americans of “criminals”, “monkeys”, “wild and sub-men”. She read a message in which he was happy to have a very white workplace and used an even more offensive insult.
William Bryan had used the same word to complain that his daughter frequents a black man, she added.
One of the emblems of Black Lives Matter
“This is not the trial of racist insults” but it explains what was the state of mind of the accused when they started the pursuit of Ahmaud Arbery on February 23, 2020, a-T- It still says to the jury, which has eight white people, three black and a Hispanic.
That day, the 25-year-old boy was jogging in Brunswick, a coastal locality of Georgia, when he was fucked by the three men, armed and on board two pickups. After a few minutes of race-pursuit, Travis McMichael had killed the young jogger.
For more than two months, the police did not interpellate any interpellation and it had taken the spread of a drama video, relayed massively on the Internet, so that the investigation starts. Ahmaud Arbery was then became an emblem of the Black Lives Matter movement (“the black lives count”) during the great anti-cell protests of the summer 2020.
At their first trial, end 2021, the three men had assured, without convincing the jury, having taken the young african american for an active burglar in the neighborhood and wanted to stop it.