Faun
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- Nov 14, 2011
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"These guys were just a bunch of guys trying to stop and detain what they thought was a guy robbing homes in the neighborhood."Your fantasy story does not adhere to the facts. You'd have to prove malicious intent for murder. They could have shot and killed Arbry way before he tried to wrest the gun away. Also, you need to ask yourself, why would a would be perp actually video it? Seems to me they could have plugged Arbry, threw his body in the back of a pick-up and take it to their buddy with a backhoe. These guys were just a bunch of guys trying to stop and detain what they thought was a guy robbing homes in the neighborhood. You can argue the stupidity of their actions and slap a manslaughter charge on them but murder.....Uh no.The state can most definitely prove murder. They hunted that man down. They trapped him with their vehicles, terrorized him with their guns, and then shot him when he tried to fight back and escape.
They even made a video of it to show how it was “self-defence”. It’s not only murder, it’s murder in the first degree. Planned, coordinated and carried out as an execution.
You don't even realize what you're saying. Even according to you, as unwittingly as you offered it, the McMichaels are fucked.
It's also illegal to detain someone because you think they committed a felony. The bar is not thinking they committed a felony.-- it's the robberies had to be "committed in their presence" or they had to have "immediate knowledge," which the McMichaels possessed neither.
And while that law existed at the time, which excludes them from using it anyway since they had no knowledge of Arbery committing a felony; it's such an ambiguous law, the state of Georgia has since repealed that law.