Father and son charged with murder of Georgia jogger.

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  1. 61falcon

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    Gregory McMichael age 64 and his son Travis McMichael have been charged with murder for the shooting of 25 year old unarmed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery age 25 in Brunswick, Georgia.
     
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    Source?
     
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    Good!
     
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    The news...
     
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    Awesome news.
     
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    2 insane gun nut Hicks killed a black guy
    This is a Federal hate crime
     
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    The reality is more complicated and ambiguous.

    There are multiple threads in this forum on the story. We didn't need one more.
    Maybe this thread is just to announce that they have been officially charged with murder now?

    Very likely this will go to trial and the two will be found not guilty, or the jury will find them guilty of a much lesser charge.
     
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    A video was taken from someone's phone, and while it's far from definitive, from the video it looks like someone was chasing the jogger, and two more were behind a vehicle waiting in ambush, and the jogger runs past and behind the vehicle (where the camera cannot see exactly what is happening) and within a matter of seconds the jogger almost seems to run towards the two, barely having stopped from running. Then one of the two shoots him. We can't see exactly what happened in the seconds before he was killed.
     
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    Only took 2 months. And a video.

    Before the video, white privilege was the story in this case.
     
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    To make the story more interesting, the father was a former police officer, so presumably he knew proper police conduct for these sort of situations.
     
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    That is evidence that my suspicions of the media suppressing details were unfounded. We'll see how it goes in court.

    If it happened as reported, I hope they go under the jail.
     
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    Where a person gets a source helps other people track the line of thought.
     
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    I saw the video tonight it was absolutely the crappiest video I've seen in a long time.

    It literally angles away at the most important times
     
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    If he knew proper police conduct he would have left it to law enforcement to handle the egregious act of a black man jogging. Gotta learn them colored folk to not be runnin outside as that make’em suspicious of sumpin. Amiright?!
     
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    Be honest. The man was most likely a criminal breaking into people’s houses. Who the hell goes jogging in khaki shorts and boots?

    He wasn’t jogging. He was a thief.
     
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    I'm glad BLM Scott something get fired up about.

    Besides Jessie Smollett the last time anyone got worked up was finding out Starbucks was racist.

    Still the worst video I think I've ever seen as far as evidence but I do think they should charge them just not sure if they're going to win a murder charge.
     
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    I’ve watched the video a few times. Aside from the color of his clothing I don’t know how you’d be able to determine he was in khakis and boots.

    Be honest. You’re talking out your ass and just want to defend people who made a racially motivated decision that cost a man his life.
     
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    Can you show me where in the video you can see him wearing khaki shorts and boots?
     
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    :applause::applause::applause:
     
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    He has a belt on which you can see swinging as he runs and turns the corner in front of the truck. You don’t wear a belt with gym shorts. The color of his pants are clearly a khaki color. He was wearing a belt to keep up his khaki pants. And how many people do you know go out jogging with a belt and khaki shorts on?

    Funny, no more burglaries have been reported in that area since he was shot as well.

    ETA: I’ll give you the boots. At first watch they looked like boots when he turned before running around the truck but after second glance they look like sneakers.
     
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    Show us in the video this 'belt' you speak of.
     
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    I don’t need to. Read the story and his description.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/us/ahmed-arbery-shooting-georgia.html

    “His friends and family said they believed that Mr. Arbery, who was wearing a white T-shirt, khaki shorts, Nike sneakers and a bandanna when he was killed, had been out exercising.”

    Gee I wonder why he had a bandana on. Maybe it was hot or something lol
     
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    I don’t see a belt in that video. I can see plenty of compression that makes any fine details impossible to identify.

    The color of his shorts have no bearing on whether or not they might be athletic wear. Took me less than a minute to find an example.
    https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/m...k6QIVjIbACh3W4wTLEAQYASABEgJfbfD_BwE&geat43=a
    (Sorry for the monstrosity of a link.)

    I’ll see if I can dig up the link, but I distinctly remember indication that aside from an unlocked vehicle being entered there was no string of burglaries in the neighborhood. I’ll get back to you on that.
     
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    No need just read my post above. He was wearing khakis AND a bandana.
     
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    Just an innocent guy jogging with khakis on wearing a bandana who happens to look like a thief who had committed some burglaries in the area. And oh our innocent khaki, bandana wearing jogger also has a criminal record for shoplifting btw
     
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