you all heard the gut wrenching grunt that came out of marcus arbery when they pronounce travis mcmichael guilty. he could not contain it any further. because think about how long he and wanda have been enduring all the innuendo, all the allegation, all the character assassination. long legs, dirty toenails. just imagine all they went through. when he heard that, he could not contain himself. marcus as a father. they see their job is to protect their children.
trial, and she had never seen that video, never been able to bring herself to do it. so for her to watch on the first day of the trial was devastating. but she had been nervous about how this was going to play out, given that it took so much time for these men to be arrested and given that she not only had to sit through the video in the trial, but also see the defence somehow portray ahmaud arbery as the one who had been doing wrong, that he chose to run, he chose to fight. and also, very sort of demeaning remarks, as well, as many people say, very distasteful remarks for example, in the closing, arguments, one of the defence lawyers talking about ahmaud arbery s dirty toenails. so she had to sit there all this, all the speculation about how a jury of ii the speculation about how a jury of 11 white people and one african american in a town incidentally that is majority black,
0 served as well as a country. in fact going into this holiday weekend i think it would have torn this country apart. that s how fragile our democracy is. that s how tired and exhausting it is for people of color. i ve been talking to ben crump and lee merrick all day long. today we ve had that accountability. but i will tell you this is just one day and finally we got it. tomorrow will come and hopefully more black people won t be killed because of the color of their skin. bakari sellers, thank you. thank you to all of our guests, our analysts, our reporters this past hour. i m going to hand it off to alisyn camerota who picks up the breaking news now. hello, everyone. welcome to newsroom, i m alisyn camerota. after 11 1/2 hours of deliberations, jurors find all three defendants in the ahmaud arbery murder trial guilty of murder. ahmaud arbery s mother, wanda, was visibly emotional as the verdict was read. you can see that crowds outside of the courthouse are chanting ahmaud arber
judge instructs them. they deliberate. the most recent thing they ve heard is your rebuttal. there is a nice advantage there for the prosecutors. joey, i want to address what we just heard from the defense there, the long, dirty toenails for ahmaud arbery. that was from a defense attorney. i spoke to arbery s mother, wanda cooper-jones, overnight. the moment caused her to get up and leave the courtroom when that was said. listen. it was very, very disturbing. i thought it was very, very rude. to talk about his long, dirty toenails, and to totally neglect that my son had a huge hole in his chest where he was shot with that shotgun. i sat there for the last two weeks and let them dehumanize my son, who wasn t doing anything wrong the day that he chose to go for that afternoon jog. deplorable and most unfortunate tactic. listen, i get and understand the defense has a job to do, right?
many wonder what the impact of that kind of timetable could have on a jury s potential decision. john? martin savidge, thank you so much for being there for us. ahmaud arbery s mother, wanda cooper jones, joins us now along with her attorney lee merritt. ms. cooper jones, i thank you once again for being with us tonight. i have heard defense lawyers, prosecutors over the last several hours say it was just out of line, what the defense attorney said about your son. the quote, long, dirty toenails. for you, as a mother, it prompted you to get up and leave the courtroom. what was going through your head? thanks for having me, as well. um, it was very, very disturbing. i thought it was very, very rude to talk about his long, dirty toenails and to totally neglect that my son had a huge hole in his chest where he was shot with that shotgun. she chose not to to recognize that that that gunshot