25-year-old ahmaud arbery while he was jogging through their neighborhood. when he didn t stop, when they ordered him to, they trapped him with their trucks and shot him dead. they claimed they were attempting a citizen s arrest. they say they assumed ahmaud arbery was responsible for local thefts they had been hearing about for weeks before seeing him jog by. they just assumed it was him. they did not investigate. they did not have evidence. they assumed it was him and assumed they had the right to capture this black man to make a citizen s arrest. when georgia governor kemp finally repealed that civil war era slave catching law this past may, ahmaud arbery s mother, wanda cooper jones, made the significance of that repeal crystal clear. she said, unfortunately, we had to lose by son in this matter. had this bill been in place, i think it would protect young again jogging down the street. her son was not protected in february of 2020. those three men gunned him down in brunswick, geor