black people supporting the aubry family. he tried over and over and over again. he filled every time. during one of his home area tents on the missed shot, he referenced george floyd murder trial that the influence of black protesters had an effect on the verdict. during his attempts to kick black people out of the courtroom, he seem increasingly worried that george floyd s murder really had reignited a civil rights movement and that his skates might become part of that movement to. now seven months after the we have another guilty verdict. for these three men in georgia, who claim to be arresting a fellow citizen. is this a turning point? joining us now is a former elected district attorney, in the cap county georgia, good to see you do want to miss fleming, i want to ask you how you think about this verdict, where the facts of the case so blinked and that reasonable people
reflected on the killing of beyond and george floyd. thank god that there is video. we think about george floyd and how consequential that video was. we pray that the video here will help them arrive at a just verdict. but reverent, i can only think about all of the people that marginalized people of color, who did not have video. i can only think of them never ever having a chance at court. and i don t want to have this precedents where the minorities are killed by white people. that we have this high standard and we have to have a video to get justice, i am thinking about breonna taylor, i am thinking about so many others. when there were no video. ben crump trying to figure
arbery was still alive tonight, getting ready to celebrate thanksgiving with his family. what happened in georgia today was accountability, the three men who chased and gunned down ahmaud arbery while he was jogging in february of last year have all been found guilty of murder. celebrations erupted outside the courthouse after the nearly all white jury delivered a guilty verdict after 11 hours of deliberation. travis mcmichael who fatally shot ahmaud arbery was found guilty on all nine counts including malice murder, and felony murder. his father, gregory mcmichael and their neighbor william brian, we re also guilty of felony murder. they each face the sentence of life in prison. it will be up to the judge to decide if they will ever be eligible for parole, they all still faces federal hate crime charges as well. ahmaud arbery s parents think those who marched, prayed, and supported their families since
to do with black lives matter and criminal justice if you have guys like this planted throughout the country able to basically completely put their thumb on the scale of justice when it comes to a case? unfortunately, jason, this are many judges in this country who tip the scales of justice in favor of the cause or side they like. and when there is a verdict of not guilty, those concerns don t go away but not resolved in legal form. the verdict is final. the prosecution cannot appeal. i want to say, though, that the defense gets a lot of the credit or a lot of the blame. mr. rittenhouse had the best defense money can buy. his $2 million legal defense fund enabled his lawyers to use o.j. simpson s jury consultant and before the trial, they held two practice jury trials that paid off well with mr.
happen today. this country was built on the idea of white men had a particular kind of freedom and a particular kind of citizen ship that only they have. that gives, you know, from the slave catchers on the right to inflict violence in the name of protecting property. that s like the foundational creation of the united states. so it would have been shocking. the real i m glad you mentioned the derek chauvin verdict. that was a surprising verdict. this should have been unsurprising but what we have to think about is not only the families of the two men who died and the family, they should be in our minds now because they suffered and there are a lot of white people who have defended black lives and paid for it with their lives. that goes back to john brown and the civil rights movement but what i am concerned about is the precedent this sets for what people will believe that they can do under law when black