crime was committed and if that crime was not committed in their presence, if they didn t actually see the crime, then they don t get the benefit of citizens arrest. and if they re successful, then almost the entire defense falls with that first domino. and you know, charles, i m curious what you see at the heart of this question over justification for citizens arrest because even though race was barely raised during the trial itself, the prosecutor was clear yesterday in closing saying that the men had launched an attack on mr. arbery because he was a black man running down the street. well, at the core of what i see when you look at what we re talking about in this case, especially with respect to the self-defense, the provocation and everything else, it is white entitlement, and you saw the prosecutor talk about that in her rebuttal yesterday without naming it. she talked about how the mcmichaels and mr. bryan cornered ahmaud arbery as if to say how dare you not stop for us. how
murdering ahmaud arbery, and we anticipate the jury to deliver their verdict any moment now. i want to go live to the courthouse in brunswick, georgia, and our sara sidner is on scene there. sara, what s happening there now? what is the community doing? reporter: just to reiterate here in brunswick, georgia, the sheriff s department of glen county has said the jury in the ahmaud arbery killing has reached a verdict. whenever that happens in any case, and especially this one, because as you ll remember, this case took a very long time to come into court. it took a very long time to get arrests. there was about three months in between the killing of ahmaud arbery and the arrests of the men that are now charged with his murder, and there were a couple of prosecutors that had to recuse themselves in the case, one of whom was indicted by a grand jury in the case for her actions in the case.
questions. all of those things were rooted in white entitlement despite the fact that she wouldn t necessarily name it for being what it is. race has been the 13th juror throughout this entire trial, and it s been very fascinating to watch how both the prosecution and the defense have dealt with this issue throughout the course of everything unfolding, and now that the case is with the jury. do you think, danny, that the defense raised a good case, made a good case for why they considered this to be citizens arrest, basically what they said was there had been a series of robberies and they thought mr. arbery looked like the person who was a suspect. that s right, and that s why the prosecution might have taken a risk there in characterizing arbery as just a black man running down the street or the idea that he was just jogging because, as the trial went on, evidence emerged that there was evidence that possibly arbery was not just jogging down the street, that, in fact, there was e
the high contrast video of the shooting so they can get a very good look at it. they asked to watch those videos three times each as well as that 911 call. this jury clearly going through some of the most pertinent evidence in this case. obviously when you have video of an incident, that is paramount to the case, and it was used by both the prosecution and the defense for their cases, the prosecution saying, look, these men decided to try to take the law into their own hands. they went after a man they hadn t even seen commit a crime that day. they cornered him with their trucks and they shot and killed him. that s murder, the prosecution said. they re charged with nine counts, including five counts of murder. the defense said, look, these men were simply trying told a citizens arrest against ahmaud arbery. they believed he had committed a crime, particularly burglary, and they were just defending themselves when he and travis
already, the north carolina congressman, corthawn, uses a wheelchair after an accident left him paralyzed. xi jinping and the stakes for america is on sunday night at 9:00 p.m. an a ad cabrera picks up our coverage right now. hello, i m ana cabrera. thanks so much for joining us. day two of deliberations in the ahmaud arbery trial are underway. anticipation for a potential verdict to come today ahead of thanksgiving is high. the jury right now weighing the fate of these three men who are accused of hunting down and killing arbery. jurors made a request just hours ago to rewatch graphic video of