but now the world can see what these men were saying behind closed doors, the question remains, what will it mean for the jury? can the prosecution prove the statement that they made in their opening argument quote, if armada arbery had been white, he would have went out on iran, check out a cool house under construction and been home in time for sunday dinner. instead, he was running for his life for no reason other than the color of his skin. joining us now is could ve christopher bruce. mr. bruce, thank you for joining us. thank you. i just gotta go right to the messages that we heard. do you feel like these are the smoking gun in a hate crimes trial. is this enough to prove the case that this was a hate crime? as we know, hate crimes is very hard to prove in different areas and different aspects of it. he s just add on to the factors that forced the trial within a.
of the nation may ignore the problems that are still happening with racial bias in the state of georgia. to that end we know that after those text messages were presented in the courtroom today, marcus arbery, harman s father said quote, i m just glad the world can see this. there s the case itself and then there s a broader cultural implication of the case. which is the realization that you think the country should be taking away from all of this as they hear these text and see the hatred in the heart of these three men? let s remind the country that this is not ordered started with racial strife. i remember february 26 and 2012 wintry vaughan martin was murdered. and you go forward eight more years on february 23rd of 2020 where armada arbery was murdered. we have the dates of one black men are literally murdered and that s not great. it shouldn t be right now.
let s remind the country that this is not ordered started with racial strife. i remember february 26 and 2012 wintry vaughan martin was murdered. and you go forward eight more years on february 23rd of 2020 where armada arbery was murdered. we have the dates of one black men are literally murdered and that s not great. it shouldn t be right now. it shouldn t have been right right back. and the question is when is it going to stop? and that question needs to be answered by the american people, of knowing that these continuous actions have been in the state of georgia around the south and where their areas of the nation, so it s important for the government to bring up these hate crime charges and to charge them to the fullest extent. for months mother to say no we are not going to accept the plea deal, i stand with her. and so does the community of saying, do not let these individuals get off lightly.
specifically mention arbery. prosecutors arranged for plea deals that would include emissions from travis and mcmichael that the crime was mostly motivated, but the arbery family rejected the terms of those deals so the judge threw them out. while the reaches racial and misses hate crime prosecutions are notorious and hard to prosecute, requiring greater expertise in another criminal cases. the justice department announced that u.s. attorneys declined to prosecute 82% of suspected hate crime cases between 2005 and 2019. but now the world can see what these men were saying behind closed doors, the question remains, what will it mean for the jury? can the prosecution prove the statement that they made in their opening argument quote, if armada arbery had been white, he would have went out on iran, check out a cool house under construction and been home in time for sunday dinner. instead, he was running for his life for no reason other than the color of his skin. joining us now is cou