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Travis McMichael was trained by the US military in law enforcement
and it's perfectly legal to arm yourself and Chase someone you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia and if that person decides to violently attack you you're allowed to defend yourself as well
Travis McMichael was a trained law enforcement officer in US military meaning he has professional experience in proper arrest procedure and was acting within the scope of Georgia lawTravis McMichael was trained by the US military in law enforcement
So what? So was I.
That hardly absolves me when I want to pretend I'm the Lone Ranger and chase down someone I think may have once committed a crime...
and it's perfectly legal to arm yourself and Chase someone you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia and if that person decides to violently attack you you're allowed to defend yourself as well
But there has to be just cause for believing he had just committed a crime. Other than him running, which is horribly insufficient, there was nothing to suggest he'd just done anything...
Travis McMichael was a trained law enforcement officer in US military meaning he has professional experience in proper arrest procedure and was acting within the scope of Georgia law
What a lot of people are surprised to learn is that it's perfectly legal to grab a gun and Chase someone who you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia... you don't have to witness a crime all you have to have is reasonable suspicion they committed one and you're allowed to chase them and even detain them
If that person decides to violently attack you by grabbing your gun and punching you in the face repeatedly it's perfectly legal to shoot that individual
So many people are all wrapped up in the drama because they believed the initial news narrative based solely on dramatization and racialization
Remember thanks to crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe you no longer need to win a legal Victory to get millions of dollars
All you have to do is come up with the most ridiculous victimhood narrative about how you're innocent young unarmed black child got murdered in the street by a couple of hillbillies and millions of dollars will pour into your account.. so funny how they dig out children's photographs for guys who were shot in adulthood!
There are several other consequences to pushing a completely false narrative for millions of dollars but I think that's something they're comfortable living with
Remember "hands up don't shoot"??
that turned out to be completely fake but not after millions and millions of dollars poured in the gofundme of Michael Brown Via Chumps online who bought the fake story
of course they did burn down a city thanks to the fake narrative but I guess that's the price we pay for propaganda driven news entertainment
Travis McMichael was a trained law enforcement officer in US military meaning he has professional experience in proper arrest procedure and was acting within the scope of Georgia lawTravis McMichael was trained by the US military in law enforcement
So what? So was I.
That hardly absolves me when I want to pretend I'm the Lone Ranger and chase down someone I think may have once committed a crime...
and it's perfectly legal to arm yourself and Chase someone you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia and if that person decides to violently attack you you're allowed to defend yourself as well
But there has to be just cause for believing he had just committed a crime. Other than him running, which is horribly insufficient, there was nothing to suggest he'd just done anything...
What a lot of people are surprised to learn is that it's perfectly legal to grab a gun and Chase someone who you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia... you don't have to witness a crime all you have to have is reasonable suspicion they committed one and you're allowed to chase them and even detain them
If that person decides to violently attack you by grabbing your gun and punching you in the face repeatedly it's perfectly legal to shoot that individual
IE Trayvon Martin
So many people are all wrapped up in the drama because they believed the initial news narrative based solely on dramatization and racialization
Remember thanks to crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe you no longer need to win a legal Victory to get millions of dollars
All you have to do is come up with the most ridiculous victimhood narrative about how you're innocent young unarmed black child got murdered in the street by a couple of hillbillies and millions of dollars will pour into your account.. so funny how they dig out children's photographs for guys who were shot in adulthood!
There are several other consequences to pushing a completely false narrative for millions of dollars but I think that's something they're comfortable living with
Remember "hands up don't shoot"??
that turned out to be completely fake but not after millions and millions of dollars poured in the gofundme of Michael Brown Via Chumps online who bought the fake story
of course they did burn down a city thanks to the fake narrative but I guess that's the price we pay for propaganda driven news entertainment
arcdigital.media
So you consider their prior Law Enforcement Training irrelevant but a white man calling a black man a racial term after he just got punched in the face of bunch of times is inherently racist?Travis McMichael was a trained law enforcement officer in US military meaning he has professional experience in proper arrest procedure and was acting within the scope of Georgia law
It means no such thing. I can promise you that none of his law enforcement training had anything to do with the proper conduct of law enforcement officials in the state of Georgia. He had no training specific to the law in Georgia, nor how to act within the scope of that law...
What a lot of people are surprised to learn is that it's perfectly legal to grab a gun and Chase someone who you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia... you don't have to witness a crime all you have to have is reasonable suspicion they committed one and you're allowed to chase them and even detain them
The question that needs to be asked is whether or not what they witnessed (a black kid running) was sufficient to give them a reasonable suspicion that Arbury committed a crime. Apparently, the only people involved who believe that are Travis and Greg McMichael. Seeing someone running, who you think you recognize from the video from some surveillance camera, is probably going to fall far short...
If that person decides to violently attack you by grabbing your gun and punching you in the face repeatedly it's perfectly legal to shoot that individual
Again, this goes back to whether or not the suspicion was reasonable. If it's deemed to not be reasonable, then this boils down to Travis and Greg McMichael simply deciding to chase down some black kid they saw running...
So many people are all wrapped up in the drama because they believed the initial news narrative based solely on dramatization and racialization
Well, given the racial comments reportedly made by Travis McMichael, race certainly plays a large role here...
Remember thanks to crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe you no longer need to win a legal Victory to get millions of dollars
All you have to do is come up with the most ridiculous victimhood narrative about how you're innocent young unarmed black child got murdered in the street by a couple of hillbillies and millions of dollars will pour into your account.. so funny how they dig out children's photographs for guys who were shot in adulthood!
There are several other consequences to pushing a completely false narrative for millions of dollars but I think that's something they're comfortable living with
Remember "hands up don't shoot"??
that turned out to be completely fake but not after millions and millions of dollars poured in the gofundme of Michael Brown Via Chumps online who bought the fake story
of course they did burn down a city thanks to the fake narrative but I guess that's the price we pay for propaganda driven news entertainment
None of that really has anything at all to do with the case at hand...
I developed my opinion after working in professional Public Safety for over 20 years and watching that video while studying other professional opinions like cops and lawyersTravis McMichael was a trained law enforcement officer in US military meaning he has professional experience in proper arrest procedure and was acting within the scope of Georgia lawTravis McMichael was trained by the US military in law enforcement
So what? So was I.
That hardly absolves me when I want to pretend I'm the Lone Ranger and chase down someone I think may have once committed a crime...
and it's perfectly legal to arm yourself and Chase someone you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia and if that person decides to violently attack you you're allowed to defend yourself as well
But there has to be just cause for believing he had just committed a crime. Other than him running, which is horribly insufficient, there was nothing to suggest he'd just done anything...
What a lot of people are surprised to learn is that it's perfectly legal to grab a gun and Chase someone who you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia... you don't have to witness a crime all you have to have is reasonable suspicion they committed one and you're allowed to chase them and even detain them
If that person decides to violently attack you by grabbing your gun and punching you in the face repeatedly it's perfectly legal to shoot that individual
IE Trayvon Martin
So many people are all wrapped up in the drama because they believed the initial news narrative based solely on dramatization and racialization
Remember thanks to crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe you no longer need to win a legal Victory to get millions of dollars
All you have to do is come up with the most ridiculous victimhood narrative about how you're innocent young unarmed black child got murdered in the street by a couple of hillbillies and millions of dollars will pour into your account.. so funny how they dig out children's photographs for guys who were shot in adulthood!
There are several other consequences to pushing a completely false narrative for millions of dollars but I think that's something they're comfortable living with
Remember "hands up don't shoot"??
that turned out to be completely fake but not after millions and millions of dollars poured in the gofundme of Michael Brown Via Chumps online who bought the fake story
of course they did burn down a city thanks to the fake narrative but I guess that's the price we pay for propaganda driven news entertainment
I have to ask this again. Where did you learn about Georgia Law? Let’s start with Citizens Arrest in Georgia. Do you understand it is a bet your life move? Yes you can place someone under Citizens Arrest. However if they are innocent you have just committed the crime of false imprisonment. So reasonable belief. That means a woman screams he stole my wallet. You grab the guy. You had no reason to doubt the guy stole the wallet. You were acting on information a reasonable person would believe.
Even if Arbury had stopped. The Trio would be going to prison. Because Arbury didn’t steal anything. He was not in possession of anything from the construction site.
Here is an explanation of these laws from an actual lawyer. You know. Someone who actually knows the laws in the State.
The Ahmaud Arbery Killing and Georgia Law
Explaining the legal issues surrounding the incident of two white men shooting a black jogger they suspected of a crime
When I got my CCW I spoke to a lawyer and took a class. I wanted to make sure I understood the law before I started carrying. That article is pretty much what he told me. Do not engage in Citizens Arrest. He is the one that said it was a bet your life move. If you are wrong you are headed to prison.
So why is it that your description of Georgia Law is so different than anyone who actually practiced law in the State says it is? Why is it that your assertions are actually the exact opposite of what the law says?
You believe the McMichaels are being railroaded. The problem is they took the actions. And they are responsible for those actions. Those actions are actually violations of the law as written with precedence in Georgia. These are not new laws. Or even new ways of applying it. These are established and routine applications of the law.
I developed my opinion after working in professional Public Safety for over 20 years and watching that video while studying other professional opinions like cops and lawyersTravis McMichael was a trained law enforcement officer in US military meaning he has professional experience in proper arrest procedure and was acting within the scope of Georgia lawTravis McMichael was trained by the US military in law enforcement
So what? So was I.
That hardly absolves me when I want to pretend I'm the Lone Ranger and chase down someone I think may have once committed a crime...
and it's perfectly legal to arm yourself and Chase someone you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia and if that person decides to violently attack you you're allowed to defend yourself as well
But there has to be just cause for believing he had just committed a crime. Other than him running, which is horribly insufficient, there was nothing to suggest he'd just done anything...
What a lot of people are surprised to learn is that it's perfectly legal to grab a gun and Chase someone who you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia... you don't have to witness a crime all you have to have is reasonable suspicion they committed one and you're allowed to chase them and even detain them
If that person decides to violently attack you by grabbing your gun and punching you in the face repeatedly it's perfectly legal to shoot that individual
IE Trayvon Martin
So many people are all wrapped up in the drama because they believed the initial news narrative based solely on dramatization and racialization
Remember thanks to crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe you no longer need to win a legal Victory to get millions of dollars
All you have to do is come up with the most ridiculous victimhood narrative about how you're innocent young unarmed black child got murdered in the street by a couple of hillbillies and millions of dollars will pour into your account.. so funny how they dig out children's photographs for guys who were shot in adulthood!
There are several other consequences to pushing a completely false narrative for millions of dollars but I think that's something they're comfortable living with
Remember "hands up don't shoot"??
that turned out to be completely fake but not after millions and millions of dollars poured in the gofundme of Michael Brown Via Chumps online who bought the fake story
of course they did burn down a city thanks to the fake narrative but I guess that's the price we pay for propaganda driven news entertainment
I have to ask this again. Where did you learn about Georgia Law? Let’s start with Citizens Arrest in Georgia. Do you understand it is a bet your life move? Yes you can place someone under Citizens Arrest. However if they are innocent you have just committed the crime of false imprisonment. So reasonable belief. That means a woman screams he stole my wallet. You grab the guy. You had no reason to doubt the guy stole the wallet. You were acting on information a reasonable person would believe.
Even if Arbury had stopped. The Trio would be going to prison. Because Arbury didn’t steal anything. He was not in possession of anything from the construction site.
Here is an explanation of these laws from an actual lawyer. You know. Someone who actually knows the laws in the State.
The Ahmaud Arbery Killing and Georgia Law
Explaining the legal issues surrounding the incident of two white men shooting a black jogger they suspected of a crime
When I got my CCW I spoke to a lawyer and took a class. I wanted to make sure I understood the law before I started carrying. That article is pretty much what he told me. Do not engage in Citizens Arrest. He is the one that said it was a bet your life move. If you are wrong you are headed to prison.
So why is it that your description of Georgia Law is so different than anyone who actually practiced law in the State says it is? Why is it that your assertions are actually the exact opposite of what the law says?
You believe the McMichaels are being railroaded. The problem is they took the actions. And they are responsible for those actions. Those actions are actually violations of the law as written with precedence in Georgia. These are not new laws. Or even new ways of applying it. These are established and routine applications of the law.
from the recently released body cam video
The neighbors were pointing at arberry running away from a property that had suffered a string of burglaries so the McMichaels had all the Reasonable Suspicion they needed to engage in a citizen's arrest in the state of Georgia
NOTHING you have said either contradicts the OP or is particularly relevant. But don't let that prevent you from pursuing your promising literary career.The painful truth about Ahmaud Arbery?
I listened to this essay...and it was powerful.
726: Twenty-Five - This American Life
www.thisamericanlife.org
Ahmaud Arbery, by all accounts, loved to run. But he wasn't, by his own account, a runner. There's no evidence of Maud training for 10Ks, or full or half marathons, or obsessing over his miles or PR times, but he loved it. Maud would run in a white T-shirt and khaki shorts. He'd run shirtless in basketball shorts. He'd run in a tank top and hoop shoes. As his day-one homeboy, Keem, sums it, he could run in anything.
When Keem was home from college, he and Maud would cruise to one end of the longest-spanning bridge in all of Georgia. They'd do some warm-up stretching and jaunt back and forth across it, a distance of just under 3 miles. The pair would keep a steady pace. But sometimes, Keem says, Maud would push him.
On February 23 of this year, Maud went out for a run. The location of this run was a subdivision in Glynn County called Satilla Shores. It's a neighborhood of waterfront properties, of upper and middle-class families, of retired folk and fresh transplants. No one can know for sure the route he took before reaching Satilla Shores, but he'd set off from his home. So that means there's a good chance that on his run, he passed homes flying a Confederate flag or the "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag, and hella homes warning "No Trespassing."
On February 23 when Maud went jogging, he was dressed in light-colored low-top Nikes, a white T-shirt, and khaki cargo shorts. Maud, who was 25 years old, jogged alone.
Maud's family home in Brunswick, the one where he lived at the time he was killed, is a mere 2 miles from Satailla Shores. But in meaningful ways, it's almost another country. Matter of fact, the poverty rate of what young Black residents call The Wick is a staggering 38%.
The Wick is where Ahmaud Marquez Arbery was born on May 8, 1994. He was the third beloved child of Wanda Cooper-Jones and Marcus Arbery, Sr. Their working-class family included his older brother Marcus Buck, Jr., and sister Jasmine. The family called Ahmaud, Quez, a shortened version of his middle name, while his friends called him Maud.
Maud had a slight gap in his front teeth and dark skin forever burnished by hours outside. When Maud was in middle school, the family moved to a small, white house on Boykin Ridge Drive, where Maud continued to share a room with his brother. Per his big bro, Buck, Maud was the slob.
In high school, Maud landed a gig at the local McDonald's. He did it to keep some scratch in his pocket, but also to help his mother, who often worked two jobs. Some days, Maud's homeboy, Keem, would swoop in from work and wheel them to the Golden Isles YMCA. They would hoop or work out for six or seven hours straight before bopping over to the Glynn Place Mall for the fries and wing combo at American Deli, and heading right back for beaucoup hours more of playing and training. Back then, Maud favored slim jeans, bright-colored polos and rugbys, and kept his hair shorn low with the crispiest of edge-ups.
Maud played football from the peewee league through high school, and ended up an undersized varsity linebacker. But he was also a team captain who led his Brunswick High School Pirates in pre-game chants. Though never cock-diesel strong, Maud owned a super-hearted fearlessness on the field and often astonished his coaches with big hits, and his senior year, made the storied Florida-Georgia War of the Border all-star game.
Not to mention, this was South Georgia football, so Maud competed in a league that produced pros and played before some of the biggest high school football crowds in the country. Before he was an all-star, though, Maud tore his ACL and meniscus in a JV game. While a less dedicated player might have given up, he committed to a laborious rehab. His junior year, he wore a leg brace, a hindrance that diminished his chance of playing in college.
Like Maud, I was a passionate high school athlete. My sport was hoop. Like Maud, no major college program offered me a scholarship. Both Maud and me attended small schools in our home state. Maud quit after a year and returned to Brunswick and his mother's home. I, too, quit my first community college. But unlike Maud, there was no need to return home to my mother's cramped apartment, as I was living there all the while.
The year after he graduated, Maud was arrested for carrying a gun and sentenced to five years of probation, which he violated by shoplifting. A few years after I graduated high school, I was arrested with drugs and a gun, and sentenced to 16 months in an Oregon state prison.
At 25, Maud was a runner who had every reason to believe his life had more miles ahead of him than behind him. At 25, I enrolled in the first of two graduate writing programs. Today, Maud-- dear God, why-- is dead. And I, by grace, am a writer-professor hurtling toward middle age.
At 1:04 PM on February 23, a security camera shows 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery wandering up a sunny patch of narrow road and stopping on the lawn of a sand-colored, under-construction bungalow addressed 220 Satilla Drive. Maybe he wondered what the skeleton of beams, and sheetrock, and piping, and wire would look like when it was finished. Maybe he imagined a family who could afford to live in a place so close to the water.
What we know for sure is that while inside, Maud touched none of the construction materials laying about. We also know that Maud wasn't the first person whose curiosity urged them into the site. Security cameras recorded a white couple one evening, a pair of white boys one day, and on four occasions, what appears to be the same person-- a slim, young Black man with wild natural hair and tattoos on his shoulders and arms. The homeowner will confirm that nothing was ever stolen or damaged during any of the visits.
At 1:07 PM, a neighbor spying on Maud called 911. There's a guy in the house right now, he told the dispatcher, and went on to describe Maud-- Black guy, white T-shirt. The dispatcher replied, I just need to know what he was doing wrong.
The caller watched Maud leave the site. He's running down the street, he said to the dispatcher. Maud jogged past the house located a few doors down of another neighbor, Gregory McMichael, an ex-cop that had once had his power to arrest stripped for failing to attend use-of-force training.
Gregory and his son, Travis McMichael, armed themselves, the son with a shotgun and the father with a .357, and hopped in a white Ford pickup truck. From his front yard, William "Roddie" Bryan saw his neighbors hounding Maud, jumped in his pickup, and joined the chase. Maud ran and doubled back to elude the McMichaels, maybe recalling all the times he'd juked a would-be tackler on the field, only to find himself facing down Bryan's pickup. The elder McMichael, Gregory, climbed into the bed of his son's truck, the one with the Confederate decal toolbox, armed with his .357.
He called 911. There's a Black male running down the street, Gregory told dispatch. Maud fled for minutes that must have felt like an eon.
He found himself running toward a red-faced Travis McMichael who stood inside the door of his truck with his shotgun aimed. Maud zagged one way, then the other. Stop right there, damn it. Stop, shouted Gregory. Maud crossed in front of the hood of the truck where Travis headed him off and shot him in no more than a heartbeat.
The buckshot hit Maud in the chest, puncturing his right lung, ribs, and sternum. And yet somehow, he wrestled with Travis for the shotgun. And yet somehow, he managed to punch at him, fighting for what he must have sensed was the rest of his life. Travis fired his shotgun a second time, grazing Maud's hand. He fired a third point-blank shot, this time piercing Maud in his upper chest.
Shotgun in hand, Travis backed away, watched Maud collapse, and made not the slightest effort to tend him. Per the police report, his father, still clutching his revolver, ran to where Maud lay face down, blood leaking out of his wounds, rolled him on his back, and checked for weapons that he, nor no one else, found.
Glynn County police sirened onto Satilla Drive within seconds of the slaying. They cordoned the scene and investigated. They questioned the McMichaels, Gregory's hands bloody from rolling Maud onto his back. They also questioned William Bryan. And in an act that is, itself, another violence, they let all three go about their merry way as free men for almost three months.
But before those squad cars reached the scene, Travis McMichael, per Brian's statement to investigators in May, called the 25-year-old whose life he'd just ceased for jogging a fucking N-word.
Ask yourself, who deserves to run? Who has the right? Ask yourself, who's a runner? What do they look like? Ask yourself, where do they live, and where do they run? And where can't they live, and where can't they run? Ask, what are the sanctions for asserting their right to live and run or, goddamn-you-me, to even exist in the world? Then question that, too.
The NAACP once defined lynching as a death in which, one, there was evidence that a person was killed; two, the death was illegal; and three, a group of at least three actors participated in the killing. On February 23, 2020, a Black man out for a run was lynched in Glynn County, Georgia. He was 25 years young. His name was Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, called Quez by his beloveds, and Maud by most others.
And what I want you to know about Maud is that he had a gift for impressions and a special knack for mimicking Martin Lawrence. And what I want you to know about Maud is that he was fond of sweets and requested his mother's fudge cake for the birthday parties he often shared with his big sister. That he signed the cards he bought for his mother, "Baby Boy." That he jammed his pinky hooping in high school, and instead of getting it treated like his sister Jasmine advised, he let it heal on its own, forever bent.
What I want you to know about Maud is that the love of his short life, Shenice, told me he sometimes recorded their conversations so he could listen to her voice when they were apart. What you should know about Maud is that he adored his nephews, Marcus III and Micah Arbery, that when they were upset as babies, he'd take them for long walks in their stroller until they calmed.
What you should know about Maud is that when a college friend asked his big sister which parent she'd call first if ever in serious trouble, she said, neither, that she'd call him. What I want you to know about Maud is that he was an avid connoisseur of the McChicken sandwich with cheese. You should know that Maud dreamed of a career as an electrician and of owning a construction company.
You should know that he told his boys that he wanted them all to buy a huge plot of land, build houses on it, and live in a gated community with their families. You should know that Maud never flew on a plane, but wanderlusted for trips to Jamaica, Africa, Japan.
What you must know about Maud is that when Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan stalked and killed him less than three months shy of his 26th birthday, he left behind his mother, Wanda, his father, Marcus Sr., his brother, Buck, his sister, Jasmine, his maternal grandmother, Ella, his nephews, 6 uncles, 10 aunts, a host of cousins, all of whom are unimaginably, irrevocably, incontrovertibly poorer from his absence.
Ahmaud Marquez Arbery was more than a viral video. He was more than a hashtag or a name on a list of tragic victims. He was more than a headline, or an op-ed, or a news package, or the news cycle. He was more than a retweet or shared post. He, doubtless, was more than our likes, or emoji tears, or hearts, or praying hands. He was more than an RIP T-shirt or placard.
He, for damn sure, was more than the latest reason for your liberal white friends' ephemeral outrage. He was more than a rally or a march. He was more than a symbol, more than a movement, more than a cause. He was loved.
NOTHING you have said either contradicts the OP or is particularly relevant. But don't let that prevent you from pursuing your promising literary career.The painful truth about Ahmaud Arbery?
I listened to this essay...and it was powerful.
726: Twenty-Five - This American Life
Ahmaud Arbery, by all accounts, loved to run. But he wasn't, by his own account, a runner. There's no evidence of Maud training for 10Ks, or full or half marathons, or obsessing over his miles or PR times, but he loved it. Maud would run in a white T-shirt and khaki shorts. He'd run shirtless in basketball shorts. He'd run in a tank top and hoop shoes. As his day-one homeboy, Keem, sums it, he could run in anything.
When Keem was home from college, he and Maud would cruise to one end of the longest-spanning bridge in all of Georgia. They'd do some warm-up stretching and jaunt back and forth across it, a distance of just under 3 miles. The pair would keep a steady pace. But sometimes, Keem says, Maud would push him.
On February 23 of this year, Maud went out for a run. The location of this run was a subdivision in Glynn County called Satilla Shores. It's a neighborhood of waterfront properties, of upper and middle-class families, of retired folk and fresh transplants. No one can know for sure the route he took before reaching Satilla Shores, but he'd set off from his home. So that means there's a good chance that on his run, he passed homes flying a Confederate flag or the "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag, and hella homes warning "No Trespassing."
On February 23 when Maud went jogging, he was dressed in light-colored low-top Nikes, a white T-shirt, and khaki cargo shorts. Maud, who was 25 years old, jogged alone.
Maud's family home in Brunswick, the one where he lived at the time he was killed, is a mere 2 miles from Satailla Shores. But in meaningful ways, it's almost another country. Matter of fact, the poverty rate of what young Black residents call The Wick is a staggering 38%.
The Wick is where Ahmaud Marquez Arbery was born on May 8, 1994. He was the third beloved child of Wanda Cooper-Jones and Marcus Arbery, Sr. Their working-class family included his older brother Marcus Buck, Jr., and sister Jasmine. The family called Ahmaud, Quez, a shortened version of his middle name, while his friends called him Maud.
Maud had a slight gap in his front teeth and dark skin forever burnished by hours outside. When Maud was in middle school, the family moved to a small, white house on Boykin Ridge Drive, where Maud continued to share a room with his brother. Per his big bro, Buck, Maud was the slob.
In high school, Maud landed a gig at the local McDonald's. He did it to keep some scratch in his pocket, but also to help his mother, who often worked two jobs. Some days, Maud's homeboy, Keem, would swoop in from work and wheel them to the Golden Isles YMCA. They would hoop or work out for six or seven hours straight before bopping over to the Glynn Place Mall for the fries and wing combo at American Deli, and heading right back for beaucoup hours more of playing and training. Back then, Maud favored slim jeans, bright-colored polos and rugbys, and kept his hair shorn low with the crispiest of edge-ups.
Maud played football from the peewee league through high school, and ended up an undersized varsity linebacker. But he was also a team captain who led his Brunswick High School Pirates in pre-game chants. Though never cock-diesel strong, Maud owned a super-hearted fearlessness on the field and often astonished his coaches with big hits, and his senior year, made the storied Florida-Georgia War of the Border all-star game.
Not to mention, this was South Georgia football, so Maud competed in a league that produced pros and played before some of the biggest high school football crowds in the country. Before he was an all-star, though, Maud tore his ACL and meniscus in a JV game. While a less dedicated player might have given up, he committed to a laborious rehab. His junior year, he wore a leg brace, a hindrance that diminished his chance of playing in college.
Like Maud, I was a passionate high school athlete. My sport was hoop. Like Maud, no major college program offered me a scholarship. Both Maud and me attended small schools in our home state. Maud quit after a year and returned to Brunswick and his mother's home. I, too, quit my first community college. But unlike Maud, there was no need to return home to my mother's cramped apartment, as I was living there all the while.
The year after he graduated, Maud was arrested for carrying a gun and sentenced to five years of probation, which he violated by shoplifting. A few years after I graduated high school, I was arrested with drugs and a gun, and sentenced to 16 months in an Oregon state prison.
At 25, Maud was a runner who had every reason to believe his life had more miles ahead of him than behind him. At 25, I enrolled in the first of two graduate writing programs. Today, Maud-- dear God, why-- is dead. And I, by grace, am a writer-professor hurtling toward middle age.
At 1:04 PM on February 23, a security camera shows 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery wandering up a sunny patch of narrow road and stopping on the lawn of a sand-colored, under-construction bungalow addressed 220 Satilla Drive. Maybe he wondered what the skeleton of beams, and sheetrock, and piping, and wire would look like when it was finished. Maybe he imagined a family who could afford to live in a place so close to the water.
What we know for sure is that while inside, Maud touched none of the construction materials laying about. We also know that Maud wasn't the first person whose curiosity urged them into the site. Security cameras recorded a white couple one evening, a pair of white boys one day, and on four occasions, what appears to be the same person-- a slim, young Black man with wild natural hair and tattoos on his shoulders and arms. The homeowner will confirm that nothing was ever stolen or damaged during any of the visits.
At 1:07 PM, a neighbor spying on Maud called 911. There's a guy in the house right now, he told the dispatcher, and went on to describe Maud-- Black guy, white T-shirt. The dispatcher replied, I just need to know what he was doing wrong.
The caller watched Maud leave the site. He's running down the street, he said to the dispatcher. Maud jogged past the house located a few doors down of another neighbor, Gregory McMichael, an ex-cop that had once had his power to arrest stripped for failing to attend use-of-force training.
Gregory and his son, Travis McMichael, armed themselves, the son with a shotgun and the father with a .357, and hopped in a white Ford pickup truck. From his front yard, William "Roddie" Bryan saw his neighbors hounding Maud, jumped in his pickup, and joined the chase. Maud ran and doubled back to elude the McMichaels, maybe recalling all the times he'd juked a would-be tackler on the field, only to find himself facing down Bryan's pickup. The elder McMichael, Gregory, climbed into the bed of his son's truck, the one with the Confederate decal toolbox, armed with his .357.
He called 911. There's a Black male running down the street, Gregory told dispatch. Maud fled for minutes that must have felt like an eon.
He found himself running toward a red-faced Travis McMichael who stood inside the door of his truck with his shotgun aimed. Maud zagged one way, then the other. Stop right there, damn it. Stop, shouted Gregory. Maud crossed in front of the hood of the truck where Travis headed him off and shot him in no more than a heartbeat.
The buckshot hit Maud in the chest, puncturing his right lung, ribs, and sternum. And yet somehow, he wrestled with Travis for the shotgun. And yet somehow, he managed to punch at him, fighting for what he must have sensed was the rest of his life. Travis fired his shotgun a second time, grazing Maud's hand. He fired a third point-blank shot, this time piercing Maud in his upper chest.
Shotgun in hand, Travis backed away, watched Maud collapse, and made not the slightest effort to tend him. Per the police report, his father, still clutching his revolver, ran to where Maud lay face down, blood leaking out of his wounds, rolled him on his back, and checked for weapons that he, nor no one else, found.
Glynn County police sirened onto Satilla Drive within seconds of the slaying. They cordoned the scene and investigated. They questioned the McMichaels, Gregory's hands bloody from rolling Maud onto his back. They also questioned William Bryan. And in an act that is, itself, another violence, they let all three go about their merry way as free men for almost three months.
But before those squad cars reached the scene, Travis McMichael, per Brian's statement to investigators in May, called the 25-year-old whose life he'd just ceased for jogging a fucking N-word.
Ask yourself, who deserves to run? Who has the right? Ask yourself, who's a runner? What do they look like? Ask yourself, where do they live, and where do they run? And where can't they live, and where can't they run? Ask, what are the sanctions for asserting their right to live and run or, goddamn-you-me, to even exist in the world? Then question that, too.
The NAACP once defined lynching as a death in which, one, there was evidence that a person was killed; two, the death was illegal; and three, a group of at least three actors participated in the killing. On February 23, 2020, a Black man out for a run was lynched in Glynn County, Georgia. He was 25 years young. His name was Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, called Quez by his beloveds, and Maud by most others.
And what I want you to know about Maud is that he had a gift for impressions and a special knack for mimicking Martin Lawrence. And what I want you to know about Maud is that he was fond of sweets and requested his mother's fudge cake for the birthday parties he often shared with his big sister. That he signed the cards he bought for his mother, "Baby Boy." That he jammed his pinky hooping in high school, and instead of getting it treated like his sister Jasmine advised, he let it heal on its own, forever bent.
What I want you to know about Maud is that the love of his short life, Shenice, told me he sometimes recorded their conversations so he could listen to her voice when they were apart. What you should know about Maud is that he adored his nephews, Marcus III and Micah Arbery, that when they were upset as babies, he'd take them for long walks in their stroller until they calmed.
What you should know about Maud is that when a college friend asked his big sister which parent she'd call first if ever in serious trouble, she said, neither, that she'd call him. What I want you to know about Maud is that he was an avid connoisseur of the McChicken sandwich with cheese. You should know that Maud dreamed of a career as an electrician and of owning a construction company.
You should know that he told his boys that he wanted them all to buy a huge plot of land, build houses on it, and live in a gated community with their families. You should know that Maud never flew on a plane, but wanderlusted for trips to Jamaica, Africa, Japan.
What you must know about Maud is that when Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan stalked and killed him less than three months shy of his 26th birthday, he left behind his mother, Wanda, his father, Marcus Sr., his brother, Buck, his sister, Jasmine, his maternal grandmother, Ella, his nephews, 6 uncles, 10 aunts, a host of cousins, all of whom are unimaginably, irrevocably, incontrovertibly poorer from his absence.
Ahmaud Marquez Arbery was more than a viral video. He was more than a hashtag or a name on a list of tragic victims. He was more than a headline, or an op-ed, or a news package, or the news cycle. He was more than a retweet or shared post. He, doubtless, was more than our likes, or emoji tears, or hearts, or praying hands. He was more than an RIP T-shirt or placard.
He, for damn sure, was more than the latest reason for your liberal white friends' ephemeral outrage. He was more than a rally or a march. He was more than a symbol, more than a movement, more than a cause. He was loved.
So you consider their prior Law Enforcement Training irrelevant but a white man calling a black man a racial term after he just got punched in the face of bunch of times is inherently racist?
you haven't seen the recently-released body cam video of the McMichaels explaining how the whole neighborhood was pointing at arberry as he was sprinting away from the crime scene I take it?
Travis and Greg McMichael fucked up. It really is that simple. If their innocence was so obvious they'd be out on bail. Of course, this is not the case.
Personally, I believe Travis will be lucky if he gets life in prison. I think Greg will get 15-20 years. That Roddy dipshit, with the redneck-inbred haircut, will get off because I think he's going to cut a deal with prosecutors...
I developed my opinion after working in professional Public Safety for over 20 years and watching that video while studying other professional opinions like cops and lawyersTravis McMichael was a trained law enforcement officer in US military meaning he has professional experience in proper arrest procedure and was acting within the scope of Georgia lawTravis McMichael was trained by the US military in law enforcement
So what? So was I.
That hardly absolves me when I want to pretend I'm the Lone Ranger and chase down someone I think may have once committed a crime...
and it's perfectly legal to arm yourself and Chase someone you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia and if that person decides to violently attack you you're allowed to defend yourself as well
But there has to be just cause for believing he had just committed a crime. Other than him running, which is horribly insufficient, there was nothing to suggest he'd just done anything...
What a lot of people are surprised to learn is that it's perfectly legal to grab a gun and Chase someone who you suspect of committing a crime in the state of Georgia... you don't have to witness a crime all you have to have is reasonable suspicion they committed one and you're allowed to chase them and even detain them
If that person decides to violently attack you by grabbing your gun and punching you in the face repeatedly it's perfectly legal to shoot that individual
IE Trayvon Martin
So many people are all wrapped up in the drama because they believed the initial news narrative based solely on dramatization and racialization
Remember thanks to crowdfunding websites like GoFundMe you no longer need to win a legal Victory to get millions of dollars
All you have to do is come up with the most ridiculous victimhood narrative about how you're innocent young unarmed black child got murdered in the street by a couple of hillbillies and millions of dollars will pour into your account.. so funny how they dig out children's photographs for guys who were shot in adulthood!
There are several other consequences to pushing a completely false narrative for millions of dollars but I think that's something they're comfortable living with
Remember "hands up don't shoot"??
that turned out to be completely fake but not after millions and millions of dollars poured in the gofundme of Michael Brown Via Chumps online who bought the fake story
of course they did burn down a city thanks to the fake narrative but I guess that's the price we pay for propaganda driven news entertainment
I have to ask this again. Where did you learn about Georgia Law? Let’s start with Citizens Arrest in Georgia. Do you understand it is a bet your life move? Yes you can place someone under Citizens Arrest. However if they are innocent you have just committed the crime of false imprisonment. So reasonable belief. That means a woman screams he stole my wallet. You grab the guy. You had no reason to doubt the guy stole the wallet. You were acting on information a reasonable person would believe.
Even if Arbury had stopped. The Trio would be going to prison. Because Arbury didn’t steal anything. He was not in possession of anything from the construction site.
Here is an explanation of these laws from an actual lawyer. You know. Someone who actually knows the laws in the State.
The Ahmaud Arbery Killing and Georgia Law
Explaining the legal issues surrounding the incident of two white men shooting a black jogger they suspected of a crime
When I got my CCW I spoke to a lawyer and took a class. I wanted to make sure I understood the law before I started carrying. That article is pretty much what he told me. Do not engage in Citizens Arrest. He is the one that said it was a bet your life move. If you are wrong you are headed to prison.
So why is it that your description of Georgia Law is so different than anyone who actually practiced law in the State says it is? Why is it that your assertions are actually the exact opposite of what the law says?
You believe the McMichaels are being railroaded. The problem is they took the actions. And they are responsible for those actions. Those actions are actually violations of the law as written with precedence in Georgia. These are not new laws. Or even new ways of applying it. These are established and routine applications of the law.
from the recently released body cam video
The neighbors were pointing at arberry running away from a property that had suffered a string of burglaries so the McMichaels had all the Reasonable Suspicion they needed to engage in a citizen's arrest in the state of Georgia
No they didn’t. The lawyer I quoted covered that. And if you claim your legal experience is in Georgia I’m liable to call you a liar. I explained it. The lawyer explained it. The attorneys explained it in the preliminary hearing online and still on YouTube. They did not have probable cause. Georgia requires first hand knowledge. Arbury couldn’t have had anything but perhaps a few nails when they chased him.
In other words. The baddie has to be engaged in a crime right now. Not last week. Not yesterday. Right now for Citizens Arrest in Georgia. Since he was not stealing anything right now. That makes it under Georgia Law unlawful imprisonment. In other words the McMichaels committed a felony just trying to stop Arbury.
that is why they are in jail. And that is why they’ll go to prison. Watch the preliminary hearing. It was interesting. McMoron Junior is trying the afeared for my life bit. Senior is swearing he had no idea that it would get violent and it is Juniors Fault. Roddy is saying he was just a bystander helping out the neighbors. Anything illegal that they did is not his fault.
Both Daddy and Roddy are basically saying Junior committed Murder but you can’t blame us.
just so we're clear that both McMichaels had professional law enforcement trainingSo you consider their prior Law Enforcement Training irrelevant but a white man calling a black man a racial term after he just got punched in the face of bunch of times is inherently racist?
Yes, the military law enforcement training which was allegedly received by Travis McMichael is completely irrelevant in this case. I have military law enforcement training, and I wouldn't dream of using it as a foundation for any actions I might take against someone...
you haven't seen the recently-released body cam video of the McMichaels explaining how the whole neighborhood was pointing at arberry as he was sprinting away from the crime scene I take it?
I have, and it doesn't change my opinion an iota. All of that is after the fact. I also didn't hear where he said "the whole neighborhood" was doing anything...
just so we're clear that both McMichaels had professional law enforcement trainingSo you consider their prior Law Enforcement Training irrelevant but a white man calling a black man a racial term after he just got punched in the face of bunch of times is inherently racist?
Yes, the military law enforcement training which was allegedly received by Travis McMichael is completely irrelevant in this case. I have military law enforcement training, and I wouldn't dream of using it as a foundation for any actions I might take against someone...
you haven't seen the recently-released body cam video of the McMichaels explaining how the whole neighborhood was pointing at arberry as he was sprinting away from the crime scene I take it?
I have, and it doesn't change my opinion an iota. All of that is after the fact. I also didn't hear where he said "the whole neighborhood" was doing anything...
A lawyer I very much respect said that they don't care about the civil cases anymore and dramatize the incident simply for the crowdfunding windfall via sites like GoFundMeThe dead man's family obviously has a civil liability claim because the others initiated the chase. The criminal case barely supports manslaughter, but the mob must be given its vengeance.
actually they were just standing their ground and defending themselves from a violent criminal who attacked themThey shot that man down in cold blood...
The initial review of the scenario was 100% accurateTravis and Greg McMichael fucked up. It really is that simple. If their innocence was so obvious they'd be out on bail. Of course, this is not the case.
Personally, I believe Travis will be lucky if he gets life in prison. I think Greg will get 15-20 years. That Roddy dipshit, with the redneck-inbred haircut, will get off because I think he's going to cut a deal with prosecutors...
just so we're clear that both McMichaels had professional law enforcement trainingSo you consider their prior Law Enforcement Training irrelevant but a white man calling a black man a racial term after he just got punched in the face of bunch of times is inherently racist?
Yes, the military law enforcement training which was allegedly received by Travis McMichael is completely irrelevant in this case. I have military law enforcement training, and I wouldn't dream of using it as a foundation for any actions I might take against someone...
you haven't seen the recently-released body cam video of the McMichaels explaining how the whole neighborhood was pointing at arberry as he was sprinting away from the crime scene I take it?
I have, and it doesn't change my opinion an iota. All of that is after the fact. I also didn't hear where he said "the whole neighborhood" was doing anything...
