disgust bid what we heard. but specifically ahmaud arbery s family, they were occasionally shaking their heads as they heard this evidence presented that the mcmichaels and roddie bryan regularly used racist language. at one point marcus arbery senior got up he was so offended. i asked what was going through your mind? he said i was so sickened to know that someone like that lived around me, that lived around the children in this community. he said after today there should be no doubt in anyone s mind that ahmaud arbery was murdered for jogging while black. i think we have a sound bite here. because he was a young black man. you see you see all the racism they were doing on their facebooks and stuff. they ain t kids. if a kid black, they hated him. you see what they were saying about a little kid. that should get everybody to
children when our cameras aren t on the incident. ebony, you were saying absolutely. absolutely, yes. i want their badges taken away. if they ll do it now, i m sure they ve done it before what will they do in the future? if you do something, you can do it again. kye it might be worse. kye, you re going to be okay? yes. ben, before we go, you also represent wander cooper-jones, ahmaud arbery s mother. i want your reaction to the testimony in the federal hate crimes trial and whether it shows a racial motive. i believe, as wanda and marcus, ahmaud s parents have said, all along, they lynched him because he was jogging while black. everything from the 911 call to all the text messages say that
another aircraft, and you re looking at the possibility of miscalculation, the possibility of accidents. those kinds of things are very dangerous in a situation like this, and a miscalculation of that type will spiral into an international incident, an international incident could lead to much worse things and we don t need that, neither side needs that right now. we re lucky to have you come on and talk about this. thank you, colonel leighton, i appreciate it. you bet, don. anytime. so offensive, racist messages read out in the trial of three men killing ahmaud arbery. how will a jury react? ahmaud didn t know that he was targeted. and he had no clue. this breaks my heart over and over again.
that effing n-word. it relates directly to violence. but does it prove that ahmaud arbery s murder was a hate crime? you know, i m glad to be with you. i m sorry we re having to talk about this. let me say one thing i ve enjoyed listening to mr. arbery, the father, speak candidly from his heart. that was moving. this is the difficulty with a hate crime prosecution. no matter how disgusting and sickening, racist comments that somebody might make, that just gives a picture of their character. but it doesn t necessarily prove the hate crime. i mean, that s a little tough to explain except that you got to actually say that mr. arbery was killed because of his race, that that was a motivator in the killing. and the government is going to have to approve that. that s why we re looking for comments that were close in
evidence, the prosecution still has to prove the murder of ahmaud arbery, who was chased down and shot to death in broad daylight while he was jogging in a georgia neighborhood. they have to prove that brutal crime was motivated by hate. but this is more than a legal story, though it is that. it is that. it is about justice for all, black, white, brown. but it s also about the america that we live in, the america where every day there are people who feel completely free to speak hate, to text it to each other. they don t do it out in the open, sometimes they do, but usually they don t. to make jokes loaded with it, to laugh about it. it s the kind of everyday hate that doesn t always end up in court. but it s there just the same. infecting our country. now, as i said, i m going to read you some of the text messages the prosecution introduced today, and i have to warn you, they re full of