and then william bryan responding to him using his blackness, using the color of his skin, playing into racist tropes about black men in particular, being dangerous, being violent, and then acting on those racist tropes, and the judge didn t use the word race, he didn t use black or white, but i read into what he was saying, this should hopefully cause people from different, you know, races and ethnicities to understand that we are all, you know, one human race, and we shouldn t use someone s skin color as a way of deciding whether they should be in or out of a neighborhood. so powerful words. page pate, thank you, travis and gregory mcmichael sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. william roddie bryan sentenced with the possibility of parole, only after serving 30 years because he s convicted of a serious violent felony murder there. thank you all.
parole. your reaction? i m not surprised at all. we were talking before the judge actually handed down the sentences, and this is exactly what i thought he would do. i think i was surprised to hear him use the words of the mcmichael against them. i think the defense attorneys for both of those defendants thought that they were presenting a case that even though they were convicted that their comments somehow show they did not intend to kill ahmaud arbery, and the judge received that evidence very differently, quoting travis mcmichael saying he wasn t so concerned about ahmaud arbery, he was concerned about his own son, his own life. and greg mcmichael, how he tried to engineer the narrative after ahmaud arbery was shot and killed. that was very stunning and definitely telegraphed for us what the judge was likely to do when he handed down the life without parole sentences. i think everyone knew that william roddie bryan stood