he may have broken in. maybe the owner s down there. he may have been caught. he may be trying to avoid the police. that s testimony from the witness stand. he didn t know anything. absolutely nothing. so where are we going to end up? this is where we re going toenld pup. travis mcmichael had probable cause believing ahmaud arbery stole the stuff off the english boat in 2019 because his mother gave him some gossip about stuff being stolen, and he was escaping. use your common sense. how do you escape from a crime on an unknown date in 2019 in 2020? they ll explain it to you, i m sure. use your common sense. do you think this was all completely made up for trial especially given no one ever said it on february 23rd, 2020? ladies and gentlemen, use your
they re saying stuff to the police. then a couple hours later, the defendants are all down at the glynn county police department also making statements. but here s the thing. you have to ask yourself, were these self-serving statements? think about it. the very first thing we showed you was body cam video. it feels hard. but you have to realize travis mcmichael is right behind dug ginn when he rolled mr. arbery over. that s what greg mcmichael and mr. bryan saw. then you have to think to yourself, okay, what s going on in their heads? there s a dead man in the street. travis mcmichael has just shot him. okay? the police are on the scene. there s now a video of it. so are their statements a couple hours later self-serving? you decide. the investigation starting on may 5th, 2020, followed by the arrest. first off, the credibility of witnesses is for you to determine who you believe and
a citizens arrest is for emergency situations when a crime really happens right in front of you and you can take action then and there to arrest somebody, because you know about it. you ve seen it. you re taking action right then and there. if it s a felony, you can run after the person and chase him down. that s all this means. so it s not a citizens arrest. they never said it. none of the defendants saw mr. arbery commit any crime that day. they were detaining him for police so that they could investigate and find the crime that he must have committed that day, because what is he doing? he s running down the street. that s not the law, ladies and gentlemen. it s not the law at all. travis mcmichael, remember all his assumptions? he got up here and i wrote them all down. alben si may have seen him.
don t believe. what that means is you re the one who decides whether travis mcmichael is telling you the truth or lying to you. let s talk about some of the defense witnesses. beasley, what did she do when she got off the stand? she walked over here and waved at them and walked off the stand. you all saw that. annabel beasley, dean mcmichael. sue lawrence. who is she? boy, team mcmichael. even after the shooting, they re going out on the boat with greg and lee mcmichael. they re still hanging out with them. okay. team mcmichael. mark perez. team mcmichael. up until february 11th. then what did she it will you? her husband had had it with larry english not calling the police, had had it with helping out larry english, he wasn t going to do it anymore because this was not cool. why was it not cool? because diego perez went inside
doubt. it s about seeking the truth. and it s not beyond all doubt or math mat cal certainty. no, no, no. it s just beyond a reasonable doubt. that s the burden that the state has. all right. so, the evidence. the first thing you ll want to do is determine what really happened based on the evidence, but a lot of the evidence isn t in dispute, right? we know what days where english called the police. we know when we had videos. we know this was on february 23rd. the homicide s on video for the most part, okay. a lot of these things are not necessarily in dispute. what s in dispute is were they making a citizens arrest so that they were justified in committing these felonies against ahmaud arbery and then murdering him. that s what they re arguing about here. the police arrive very quickly. you heard the shots, the defendants all made statements at the scene, immediately after. they re making statements.