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  • Their own words may have doomed men who killed Ahmaud Arbery

    RUSS BYNUM and KATE BRUMBACK|Nov 26, 2021

    The video of Ahmaud Arbery's shotgun death was a shocking piece of evidence that suddenly brought the Black man's killing into the national consciousness. But the murder convictions of the three white men who chased him may have been secured as much by their own words to investigators the day of the shooting. Greg McMichael, who was in the bed of a pickup truck when his son killed Arbery, told police the Black man "was trapped like a rat" and he told Arbery: "Stop, or I'll blow your f---ing head off!" Statements like that allowed prosecutors...

  • History, mistrust spurring Black early voters in Georgia

    RUSS BYNUM and KATE BRUMBACK|Oct 15, 2020

    SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — They came by the thousands to vote early, descendants of slaves, children of the civil rights era and other Georgians standing in line for hours when all could have been somewhere else. Yet in a year when issues including prejudice, racial justice and voter suppression are at the forefront, the Black voters saw giving up time to cast a ballot for the next U.S. president as worth the trade - even early in the voting process and during a pandemic that made merely going to a polling place a risky act. Still waiting three hours...

  • White father, son charged with murder in Ahmaud Arbery case

    RUSS BYNUM and KATE BRUMBACK|May 8, 2020

    BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The white father and son stood quietly Friday as the judge read murder and aggravated assault charges against them in the fatal shooting of a black man who was running through their Georgia neighborhood. In just a few minutes, their first court appearance was over. It was a moment that many in Ahmaud Arbery's community had waited more than two months for, as a series of prosecutors declined to bring charges against the men. Earlier in the day — on what would have been Arbery's 26th birthday — a boisterous crowd of sever...