pastors sat with the arbery family inside the courtroom, the defense attorney tried several times for a mistrial, solely based on the presence of black people supporting the arbery family. he tried over and over and over again. he failed every time. during one of his hail mary attempts, he referenced the george floyd murder trial, implying that the influence of black protestors had an affect on the verdict.y bl he seemed increasingly worried that george floyd s murder really had reignited a civil right s movement and his case might become part of that movement too. now seven months after a guilty verdict following george floyd d murder, we have another guilty verdict, for these three men in georgia who claimed to be o arresting a fellow citizen. what does it mean? is this a turning point? joining us now is gwenn keys flemming, a district attorney in
also, was there a conflict of interest since one of the suspects previously worked for the district attorney? well, his curiosity paid off. the public record request that hobbs filed allowed him to obtain a police report containing the first preliminary answers as to how and why arbery was killed. he published his findings on april 2nd, 2020. it was the first time america and perhaps arbery s family got a better picture of what happened. today, almost two years since arbery s killing, the three men implicated were found guilty of his murder. hobbs lead story tonight at the brunswick news, guilty. guilty. guilty. hobbs told us he usually doesn t post his stories on facebook but today reacting to the verdict he made an exception. he wrote, on so many occasions the strange and exotic and beautiful place called the south that i love so much has come up wanting in times of reckoning. today, november 24th, 2021, in a town called brunswick on the georgia coast was not such an occasion.
awareness of the issues. but, again, those are just examples of how the racial undertones and possibly the thoughts of the defendants were then carried on by their defense counsel. to be able to label and try to exclude only black pastors when so many pastors were absolutely disgusted by these facts. that, again, is the racial undertones. to strike so many qualified african americans from the jury. again, the prosecutor started the trial and said he thought there might have been intentional discrimination, but let the case proceed. all of these things are still evidence that there is systemic racism that the system does not always work for african americans. and we need to get to the heart of it in order to be able to have a justice system that really works for everyone. gwenn keys-flemming, thank you for your time.