three white men chased ahmaud arbery down because he was black. and almost two years to the day arbery was murdered in south georgia, a jury found his convicted killers guilty of federal hate crimes. cnn s nadia romero is outside the courthouse in brunswick, georgia. nadia, cameras weren t allowed inside. you were there. walk us through what happened as this verdict was read. dana, it was an emotional morning for sure for everyone involved. guilty on all charges that the three defendants were facing. and that wasn t a guarantee. so there was a lot of angst from ahmaud arbery s family who was wondering how this would play out. when the verdict was read, you saw the jury s foreman, the lone black male juror who was weeping when the verdict was read, so emotional. ahmaud arbery s family, the department of justice, the supporters all hugging one
those who prayed. most of all, the ones who prayed. reporter: the jury made up of nine white women, two white men, and one black man deliberated for more than 11 hours after eight days of testimony from 23 witnesses. earlier today before reaching the verdicts, the jury asked to see the two video clips-let one of them enhanced from the deadly february 2020 shooting. they also asked to hear the 9-1-1 call that gregory mcmichael made the day arbery was shot and killed. i am out here. there is a black male running down the street. reporter: during the trial, the three defendants had claimed they were trying too make a citizen s arrest of arbery the day they jumped into a truck, chased arbery, and killed him. they said they suspected arbery had burglarized a nearby home construction site referring to video of arbery wandering inside that home months before being killed. we wanted to stop him for the police to detain him. reporter: but the prosecution
the day arbery was shot and killed. right here and there is a black male running down the street. reporter: during the trial the three defendants had claimed had they were trying to make a citizen s arrest the day they jumped in to a truck, chased arbery and killed him. they said that they suspected arbery had burglarized a construction site referring to video of him with an dearing inside the home months before being killed. they wanted to stop him for the police to detain him. reporter: but the prosecution said that arbery was just out for a jog. he hadn t committed a crime and wasn t armed. everybody had a gun except ahmaud arbery. reporter: and now all three face sentence of up to life in prison for their actions. the verdict today was a verdict based on the facts. based on the evidence. and that was our goal was to bring that to that jury so that they could do the right thing. qmuez, i know him as quez, h
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today, jurors heard two drastically different perspectives on what happened the day arbery died. during closing arguments, prosecutors said the three white men on trial assumed the worst about a 25-year-old black man running in their neighborhood, chased him down, and killed him. in contrast, one of the defense attorneys argued that the men had a duty to catch arbery, whom she described as a frightening burglar with and i quote long, dirty toenails. martin savidge has the latest from georgia. reporter: as the trial reaches its critical final days, protests outside the glenn county courthouse have grown in size and volume. for the first time, armed citizens with semiautomatic weapons were seen patrolling the perimeter of perimeter courthouse grounds, while inside the courthouse, attorneys began making closing arguments. travis mcmichael, his father gregory mcmichael, and william roddy bryan face murder charges and potential life in prison for the killing of 25-year-old jogger ahma