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Brooklyn Running Group Runs to Honor Ahmaud Arbery By Ron Lee Brooklyn
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NEW YORK - It’s been just over one year since Ahmaud Arbery was chased and gunned down by two white men in Georgia.
When video of the shocking incident went viral last May, it not only sparked nationwide outrage, it marked the first time that many people even became aware of Arbery’s death, which had taken place several weeks earlier, in February, while he was jogging.
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Ahmaud Arbery was shot to death on February, 23, 2020 in Georgia while he was jogging
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Jerry Francois is a born-and-raised New Yorker scratch that a born-and-raised Brooklynite. Very little intimidates him.
But in the aftermath of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, when the 25-year-old was shot and killed while out for a run in South Georgia last March, Francois began to fear going out for his nightly runs in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood where he lives.
“It hit me hard,” he tells
Runner’s World. “His life was taken for doing something that I m sure that he just enjoyed to do. It was literally taken away. That was literally his last mile.” Related Stories
Francois worried about being targeted and not making it home to see his first child born. (His wife, Ashley, gave birth to their son, Jaxx, in July.) So he switched his runs to mornings and took to wearing neon in place of his usual black attire.