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Travis and his father, Gregory, 64, a retired Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney investigator, had seen Arbery, who was unarmed, running in the area and armed themselves before chasing him down in a pickup truck.
originally posted by: SocratesJohnson
I am guessing that their will be a connection that gets very little, or any, media coverage since the race card cannot be played
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: SocratesJohnson
I am guessing that their will be a connection that gets very little, or any, media coverage since the race card cannot be played
Like what? Because if unless he was in their home, attempting to break into their vehicle while they were in it, violently assaulting them or others they have no legal basis for shooting this person.
originally posted by: SocratesJohnson
Jumping in the back of a pick up looking for to kill is very emotional And/or very personal.
originally posted by: Stupidsecrets
There was a similar case a couple weeks ago in my area. A former cop stopped a break in on his property. He chased after the guy but the guy had a gun and killed the former cop. The robber had been convicted numerous times for break ins in the neighborhood.
I blame much of this on the weak legal system where repeat offenders are slapped on the wrist over and over. At some point emotions are going to take over. It's easy calling this murder but imagine getting your home broke in numerous times and you know who is doing it because you see them wearing your grandfather's antique watch or you chased after them and they got away.
Not so easy anymore if you put yourself in their shoes. I don't know what happened here but there are likely some very high emotions involved and it doesn't have anything to do with race.
originally posted by: Stupidsecrets
a reply to: Snarl
A person who does that is not a leisurely jogger I know that much.
originally posted by: Jaellma
originally posted by: Stupidsecrets
There was a similar case a couple weeks ago in my area. A former cop stopped a break in on his property. He chased after the guy but the guy had a gun and killed the former cop. The robber had been convicted numerous times for break ins in the neighborhood.
I blame much of this on the weak legal system where repeat offenders are slapped on the wrist over and over. At some point emotions are going to take over. It's easy calling this murder but imagine getting your home broke in numerous times and you know who is doing it because you see them wearing your grandfather's antique watch or you chased after them and they got away.
Not so easy anymore if you put yourself in their shoes. I don't know what happened here but there are likely some very high emotions involved and it doesn't have anything to do with race.
I understand what you are trying to say but the two stories you are trying to compare are totally different. One involves a guy actually breaking into a home committing a crime and the other is just simply a man jogging in a neighborhood and was subsequently hunted down because he "looked like a burglar" and killed in the middle of the street.
There is no ifs ands and buts about it. Anything else is just speculation at this point. Nothing in the police report said the deceased had committed a crime.
This Georgia case has shades of the Trayvon Martin shooting.
originally posted by: Snarl
originally posted by: Stupidsecrets
a reply to: Snarl
A person who does that is not a leisurely jogger I know that much.
Yeah. A 'casual' search for the perp's criminal history shows him to be a bigger thug than good ol' Trayvon Martin.
Ol' Ahmoud had been caught on surveillance video breaking in to people's cars for a while and the neighborhood was done with it.
This is _exactly_ what happens when law enforcement doesn't put a stop to Repeat Offenders. The shotgunner was a 30 year veteran of Law Enforcement.
+1 for the good guys ... and the taxpayer doesn't have to pay ol' Ahmoud's room and board for five years.
Next!!
originally posted by: Jaellma
originally posted by: Snarl
originally posted by: Stupidsecrets
a reply to: Snarl
A person who does that is not a leisurely jogger I know that much.
Yeah. A 'casual' search for the perp's criminal history shows him to be a bigger thug than good ol' Trayvon Martin.
Ol' Ahmoud had been caught on surveillance video breaking in to people's cars for a while and the neighborhood was done with it.
This is _exactly_ what happens when law enforcement doesn't put a stop to Repeat Offenders. The shotgunner was a 30 year veteran of Law Enforcement.
+1 for the good guys ... and the taxpayer doesn't have to pay ol' Ahmoud's room and board for five years.
Next!!
Regardless of the deceased past, it doesn't give anyone the right to take it into their own hands to gun someone down in the middle of the street. If they feel so badly about it, call the freakin cops. That's what cops are for. Give me an effin break.
Durden is now the third prosecutor assigned to the case after the previous two recused themselves because of their professional ties to Gregory McMichael, a former investigator in the Brunswick District Attorney’s office. Before that, the senior McMichael was a cop for seven years.
One of the prosecutors who was previously assigned to the case, George E. Barnhill of the Waycross Judicial District, had advised police that there was insufficient probable cause to arrest Mr. Arbery’s pursuers, arguing that they had acted legally under the state’s citizen arrest and self-defense statutes, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
Mr. Barnhill eventually asked to be removed from the case because his son worked in the Waycross prosecutor’s office with Mr. McMichael.