president biden has hailed the verdict of a court in the us state of georgia, which found three white men guilty of murdering a young black man, ahmaud arbery, while he was outjogging. the three men claimed they were defending themselves while trying to perform a citizens arrest on mr arbery who they said looked like a burglar. our correspondent aleem maqbool has been following the trial in georgia. 0-4-3-3. there have been times when this moment seemed a very distant prospect. we the jury find the defendant, travis mcmichael, guilty. 0h, woo! the shout of relief came from the father of ahmaud arbery, who was shot dead in february of last year. two others were also found guilty of murder. they d all seen 25 year old ahmaud running through their neighbourhood and claimed he d fitted the description of a crime suspect. they chased him and killed him. during the trial, the man who fired the fatal shots, travis mcmichael, was the only one of the three
0433. there have been times when this moment seemed a very different distant prospect. we the jury, find the defendant, travis mcmichael, guilty. whoo! the shout of relief came from the father of ahmaud arbery, who was shot dead in february of last year. two others were also found guilty of murder. they had all seen 25 year old ahmaud running through the neighbourhood and claimed he fitted the description of a crime suspect. they chased him and killed him. during the trial, the man who had fired the fatal shots, travis mcmichael, was the only one of the three to take to the witness stand. ishot him. why? he had my gun. he struck me, it looked obvious that he was a. it was obvious that he was attacking me, that if he would have got the shot gun from me, then it was a life or death situation.
0h, woo! the shout of relief came from the father of ahmaud arbery, who was shot dead in february of last year. two others were also found guilty of murder. they d all seen 25 year old ahmaud running through their neighbourhood and claimed he d fitted the description of a crime suspect. they chased him and killed him. during the trial, the man who fired the fatal shots, travis mcmichael, was the only one of the three to take to the witness stand. i shot him. why? he.he had my gun. he struck me. it was obvious that he was. it was obvious that he was attacking me. that if he would ve got the shotgun from me, then it was a life or death situation. his justification was that he killed in self defence, but of course that was only after he, his father and a neighbour had chased ahmaud arbery in their pick up trucks
ahmaud running through their neighbourhood and claimed he d fitted the description of a crime suspect. they chased him and killed him. during the trial, the man who fired the fatal shots, travis mcmichael, was the only one of the three to take to the witness stand. ishot him. why? he. he had my gun. he struck me. it was obvious that he was. it was obvious that he was attacking me. that if he would ve got the shotgun from me, then it was a life or death situation. his justification was that he killed in self defence, but of course that was only after he, his father and a neighbour had chased ahmaud arbery in their pick up trucks for five minutes. ahmaud s family waited more than ten weeks and had to rely on public pressure for the police to even make any arrests. i never thought this
they were defending themselves while trying to perform a citizens arrest on mr arbery, who they said looked like a burglar . our correspondent aleem maqbool reports. there have been times when this moment seemed a very distant prospect. we the jury find the defendant, travis mcmichael, guilty. 0h, woo! the shout of relief came from the father of ahmaud arbery, who was shot dead in february of last year. two others were also found guilty of murder. they had all seen 25 year old ahmaud running through their neighbourhood and claimed he d fitted the description of a crime suspect. they chased him and killed him. during the trial, the man who fired the fatal shots, travis mcmichael, was the only one of the three to take to the witness stand. ishot him. why? he.j he had my gun. he struck me. it was obvious that he was.