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that was for the neighborhood where they lived. and again, rants about videos that he saw online, other kinds of comments that were full of racial slurs and epithets, and that is what the prosecution used to build a case against the men. the defense argued that they shouldn t be held liable for things they said in the past or things that weren t necessarily pertaining to this particular situation. but, obviously, in this case, now, the jury did not agree with this. the prosecution also made a point of how after arbery was shot and laying there on the ground, that that, in fact, none of the men involved there did anything to try help him. they watched him bleed out. and there was a moment or some measure of time, some amount of time when he was still alive and gasping for air, and presumably, they did not help him at all. there was a line in the
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animus toward ahmaud arbery. how receptive do you believe this jury is going to be? how different might it be from the state s case before a jury of peers in brunswick, georgia? well, you can t ever predict that for sure, but i think the evidence here is so overwhelming that it s not going to be particularly difficult for the jury to recognize the motivation, what really drove the killing of ahmaud arbery in this instance. and so i suspect that reasonable folks will come to what is really the only possible conclusion, which is that these individuals were motivated by racial bias. i hope, however, that we will remember that they were motivated by a bias that isn t just the overt kind that you hear with racial slurs that we can all sort of identify and point at and feel superior because we don t speak that way and we d never think that way. but the reality is this country for hundreds of years has inculcated a mentality among
more tools, if, and hopefully not when, but if russia moves farther into ukraine and moves towards the capitol of kyiv. so i have to, you know, there was a big dustup over the kind of the idea of pre-invasion sanctions and post-invasion sanctions. republicans wanted pre, the biden administration did not and wanted post-invasion sanctions. we re post-invasion now. soy really do have to imagine that the senate is going to come back with that in mind, and with the determination to get some sort of package through. jake sherman and ashley parker, thank you so much for being with me this morning. the jury in the federal hate crime trial of three white men convicted in the death of ahmaud arbery has come to a verdict. we are waiting for words on exactly what that verdict is. it s going to be read shortly. i want to bring in paul butler and georgetown school of law professor, former federal prosecutor, and nbc news legal analyst. it s always a pleasure to see you. let s talk about what it