the most important thing was that this evidence be allowed to be seen by the world. for a lot of strategic reasons the state murder trial really didn t include a lot of the evidence that most people really knew was bubbling under the surface but it wasn t presented to the jury and it wasn t presented to the world. so the whole story has now been told. and there s been guilty verdicts not just of the murder but a hate crime and this is, you know, closer to resolution. you know, wanda, i have to be honest. just watching interviewing you from the beginning when this started, i think there s been a transformation. and you had to step up and do it. i spoke with ahmaud s father and also benjamin crump in the hour before us. and i talked about the mothers of the movement and how you you guys find strength and how you
ransoms. so we will have to see how they would essentially work to secure their release about doing that. kiley, at the state department, thank you. jury selection begins today in the trial of the three white men charged in the death of ahmaud arbery. the 26-year-old unarmed black man was shot and killed after being followed by a father and son in their pickup truck in february 2020 while he was jogging. cnn martin savidge has been covering this since the very beginning and joins us now. martin. reporter: good morning, john. viewers will find a lot of similarities between this case to a number of other famous cases, such as the george zimmerman trial and the death of trayvon martin. in that case, self-defense and neighborhood sensitivities to crime played a role, as in this case. then there is the derek chauvin trial. in that case, video was crucial. video is going to be crucial in this one, too. jury selection begins today in the state murder trial of the
we re following breaking news unfolding right now out of south carolina where officer michael slager has just entered a guilty me in the 2015 shooting death of walter scott. that news coming just moments ago from the federal courthouse in charleston. that s where we find nbc s gabe gutierrez. gabe, get us up to speed. reporter: hi, katy, good afternoon. michael slager is upstairs in the federal courthouse entering a guilty me as we speak. we just got our lands on the document. in the key line it says, the defendant used deadly force, even though it was objectively uncleanly under the circumstances. pleading guilty to one federal count. that still carries the possibility of life in prison. let s back up here a little bit. you recall that slager shot and killed walter scott in april of 2015. and that he said during his state murder trial a few months ago that he feared for his life
competent. there is a state murder trial that s going to take place in january after this federal trial. now, jury selection was scheduled earlier in the month. dylan roof s attorneys wanted him to be analyzed. what was their hope in that analysis, that he would be found incompetent, that it was a stalling technique, what, avery? well, it s amazing they started the process before the defense lawyers argued strongly their client wasn t prepared, at least mentally, to move forward, both in terms of the act and in terms of understanding what was going on. the trial started on the 7th of november, ajurd because of a two-week compentency hearing. based on the junldge s resoluti will resume. i think it should have started