this gentleman is interacting with it in the way it a he is, but this is what s happening unbeknownst to traps. mr. arbery turns around. you get a quick glimpse of what s up the street, and it isn t travis mcmichael s truck. it isn t there. it s because it s all the way back down holmeser in satilla. the state is going to heart record that you heard of mr. bryan turning and revving and doing all of this stuff. this will be the third interact that mr. arbery will have coming at this truck, and mr. boyan is freaked out to say the least, so freaked out he drops his phone. this is where the phone drops and goes pitch black for about a minute. and in this time you ll hear sounds, engine noise. you ll hear turning. you ll hear shifting and seat belts crank and the three-point turn and he says i m going to head back that way, but what you don t hear on that phone even
made in order to get to a reasonable idea that they were effectuating a citizen s arrest and i think in the totality of the circumstances to use the phrase of travis mcmichael i don t think they do the there. based on what a reasonable person would be thinking. part of that obviously depends where the case goes from here. again, two more closing arguments to come from the other defense attorneys and then the prosecutor gets to make a rebut a. let s go live to ryan young covering the trial for us in georgia. a lunch break now, but still big dramatic moments to come this afternoon. big dramatic moments, of course. we talk about this idea of race. this has really played out throughout this trial, but real on the sidelines because a lot of times when the defense attorney has been talking about vass with the jury inside the courtroom and now we re hearing that playing out. on the uth side, you can we
attorney did a better job than i was anticipating. the prosecutor gave a masterful closing argument i thought, and i thought it was going to be an uphill battle. what the defense essentially had to convince at least one of jurors of was the fact that two things, john, and both were necessary to convince at least one jury. one is not sufficient. one that there was the reasonable belief that this was a citizen owes arrest, that you know, based on a totality of the circumstances that mcmichael believed that a crime had recently been committed and number two that he employed reasonable self-defense after he was engaged in this citizen s arrest. that s a really high hurdle to to cover. i thought what the defense attorney did in his closing was take you through the state of mind of travis mcmichael and i thought he did actually a good job because that s the hallmark of a criminal case is what was
the threat of the use of a dangerous object or weapon. the threat of it. the intent to use your fist to create serious bodily injury. fists are that weapon. and right now as ahmaud arbery is running towards travis mcmichael he could have a gun and he definitely has fists, and he s coming straight at him after being told and the first time he turned around and didn t do it until travis had to reach inside his car that. has now put him on alert. the second time ahmaud arbery comes down the street, travis says he gets 30 or 40 feet from him. he s afraid he will be on him in a matter of seconds. he s afraid he will beat him with his fists and whatever weapon he might have and he s scared so he s done what he thinks what the law allows him
case in georgia. travis mcmichael s attorney just giving the defense closing argument, one of three that will be made today. mr. sheffield spoke for about an hour and 20 minutes saying travis mcmichael in his view, trying to convince the jury, had every right to follow ahmaud arbery back in the neighborhood in february of 2020 and then making case that he had the right to open fire when he believed he was under attack. let s talk about what we were, jennifer rogers, carol i m polisi, criminal defense attorney. the first defense close and two more to come after the lunch break came after a very passionate case by the prosecutor. she made the case, that no, they had no right that. there was no crime committed by mr. arbery, there was no evidence of that, no right to chase him down in the neighborhood and no right to use force against him. did the defense attorney in your view out of the box deliver a strong rebuttal? welling right of the box, john, i thought the defense