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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) A young black man filmed by a security camera walking through a home under construction in December and in February may have stopped at the site for a drink of water, according to an attorney for the homeowner thrust into the investigation of the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.
Arbery was killed Feb. 23 in a pursuit by a white father and son who armed themselves after the 25-year-old black man ran past their yard just outside the port city of Brunswick. Right before the chase, Arbery was recorded inside an open-framed home being built on the same street.
Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34, have been jailed on murder charges since May 7. The elder McMichael told police he suspected Arbery was responsible for recent break-ins in the neighborhood. He also said Arbery attacked his son before he was shot.
RUSS BYNUM
May 15, 2020, 8:06 AM PDT
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) A young black man filmed by a security camera walking through a home under construction in December and in February may have stopped at the site for a drink of water, according to an attorney for the homeowner thrust into the investigation of the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery.
Arbery was killed Feb. 23 in a pursuit by a white father and son who armed themselves after the 25-year-old black man ran past their yard just outside the port city of Brunswick. Right before the chase, Arbery was recorded inside an open-framed home being built on the same street.
Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34, have been jailed on murder charges since May 7. The elder McMichael told police he suspected Arbery was responsible for recent break-ins in the neighborhood. He also said Arbery attacked his son before he was shot.
Arberys mother has said she believes her son was merely out jogging.
On Friday, an attorney for the owner of the house under construction released three security camera videos taken Dec. 17, more than two months before the shooting. They show a black man in a T-shirt and shorts at the site. In the final clip, he walks a few steps toward the road, then starts running at a jogger's pace.
It now appears that this young man may have been coming onto the property for water, J. Elizabeth Graddy, the attorney for homeowner Larry English, said in a statement. There is a water source at the dock behind the house as well as a source near the front of the structure. Although these water sources do not appear within any of the cameras frames, the young man moves to and from their locations.
https://news.yahoo.com/security-cam-video-raises-questions-150615409.html
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Ahmaud Arbery murderers: "He looked at a white house."
"Citizen's arrest" and "stand your ground" are the new lynching.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,127 posts)The owner of the house is rightfully upset that Arbery was killed.
This is all on the peckerwood vigilantes.
Hav
(5,969 posts)Arbery murderers: Heard a gossip about a crime, maybe trespassing, heard it might have been an AA, so they executed the first AA they came across.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)They saw a black man running down the street and decided to play chicken with him, and then it escalated.
And they were buds with two prosecutors who refused to consider anything but their own lies.
The prosecutor who said it was "citizen's arrest" and that the young man "attacked" the guy who then shot him three times-- he had seen the video.
He knew what happened. It wasn't until someone released the video to the public that the outcry made him turn the case over. He would have let these vicious lynchers go-- in his own community, consider that-- even more emboldened to go and kill more young men.
doc03
(35,359 posts)wearing shorts and a t-shirt. It would be kind of hard to hide a power tool or something.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)I really don't care if he WAS the person breaking into homes. It does NOT give two fat white guys permission to hunt him down and shoot him
Quit pandering to their bullshit!
herding cats
(19,566 posts)Their false narratives are just that, false.
Peace.
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)... unfinished houses that aren't locked.
Builders encouraged it
Also, the murderers don't know if Arbery was the home owner or not
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Glad we weren't shot for it.
I recall doing quite a few things in my youth where people looked the other way or if the cops came they just gave us a warning and said go home.