call the police. don t chase down strangers to confront them. don t go after pedestrians in your truck. i mean, common sense tells you, you pull up on a truck on somebody who s a pedestrian out for a job. i don t know. are any of you runners? ever had a strange truck pull up and have people yell at you? would that startle you? we don t know what was in the mind of ahmaud arbery. what do you think? did it cause for a for him? strange men puppulling up in th truck, not relenting or backing often? reporter: the defense in large part is relying on a citizen s arrest law. we heard from the prosecution she wanted the jury to take away jury instructions, key being if the offense is committed in his presence. a felony committed in presence of the citizen they can carry out a citizen s arrest.
hey there i m stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city. it is tuesday, november 23rd. and we begin this morning s broadcast with breaking news. all eyes on brunswick, georgia, where closing arguments are resuming right now. in the trial of the three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. this is the prosecution s rebuttal to the defense s closing argument from yesterday. let s listen in. so don t leave the house. here s an alternative. call the police. don t chase down strangers to confront them. don t go after pedestrians in your truck. common sense tells you, you go in a truck after a pedestrian, have you ever had a strange truck with people start yelling
our three nephews, david, ben and sam. what he says is there is some rules for life. you know what those rules are. don t go looking for trouble. because you will find it. and it is not going to turn out the way you think it is. what he s really saying is, don t be that guy who starts the bar fight and goes, let a s go t in the parking lot. it is a life rule. you go looking for trouble, what s going to happen, so don t leave the house. here s an alternative. call the police. don t chase down strangers to confront them. don t go over pedestrians in your truck. common sense tells you, you pull up in a truck on somebody who is, like a pedestrian, out for a jog, you ever had a strange truck pull up that has people start yelling at you? would that startle you?
0 this arm on ahmaud arbery was 25 inches, this arm was 26 inches and the barrel of the shotgun is over 28 inches. do the math. did he hit him? he did he punch him? did he strike him, when the shotgun is like this? easy, do the math. this is what travis mcmichael did. there is no fear here. there is only anger. remember, it is the standard of reasonable beliefs that the force used is necessary. do you really believe he had no other choice but to use this shot gun? is that what you really believe? no other choice. what are the alternatives? well, the first alternative is don t start this. i ll tell you something, my husband, he always tells this to our three nephews, david, ben and sam. what he says is there is some rules for life. you know what those rules are. don t go looking for trouble. because you will find it. and it is not going to turn out the way you think it is. what he s really saying is, don t be that guy who starts the bar fight and goes, let a s go t in the parking lot. i