expected to begin tomorrow. prosecutors allege that travis miss michael, his father greg mcmichael, and his former neighbor william bryan targeted and hunted arbery based on his right. violated his civil rights when they try to legally detain him. all three men have pleaded not guilty in the federal case. they deny that race had anything to do with their decision to arm themselves and chase arbery down and pick up trucks. they claimed he thought he was a burglar. they claim they were simply trying to carry out justice. we covered the terminal trial and its implications at length last year. you may remember that it was that case that threatened go off the rails when the presiding judge allow the defense to turning to arbitrarily eliminating many people of color from the jury pool. i lawyer for brian expressed kept us-ism over the pool of potential jurors, saying it lacked white men over 40 without a four-year college degree. you may also remember that that
star. 25-year-old ahmaud arbery, had to go jogging near his mother s house. near brunswick, in georgia. the afternoon of february 23rd, 2020, he ran into a subdivision called satilla shores. three white men, traffics mcmichael, father gregory, along with his neighbor bryant, grab some guns. hopped in their trucks, and started to chase arbery as he ran through the streets. they claimed they thought he was burglarizing houses in the neighborhood. , they chased after ahmaud arbery, in a white pick up just, their neighbor, followed behind. brian started to filmed will happen, when arbery tried to run past the mcmichaels. they got out of the truck with the shotgun, and after the brief struggled, he shot him, and killed him. when police arrived at the scene, this is how they treated travis mcmichael. is there anything on you? justin. if he would ve stopped
that it did? the fact that many of us know from a place of intellectual honesty to borrow mark s phrase that that is not true and that that may be very much in doubt is demonstrative of the fact that we cannot rest on the notion that the justice system worked this time. and the last thing i want to say on that point is let s not conflate the notion of justice versus accountability. unfortunately, because ahmaud arbery is no longer with us, the notion of true justice is out of tr reach. but today three people were held accountable and that is a good start. and of course you are referencing that it took over two months for anyone to be arrested in this. and you saw right after the georgia bureau of investigation took over, two dies before you saw that these arrests were out there. but mark, i want to ask, you saw the third man involved, roddie bryan, he was the neighbor who helped chase arbery, he filmed it. there he was in court today. he was also found guilty of felony murder. were y
case to prove that the mcmichaels and bryan are responsible for arbery s death. they made assumptions about what was going on that day, and they made their decision to attack ahmaud arbery in their driveways because he was a black man running down the street. reporter: in her closing argument for the state, the lead prosecutor said the three men had no reason to chase arbery down while he was jogging on a street outside of brunswick, georgia, last year. they re trying to convince you that ahmaud arbery was the attacker. that he was somehow threatening to them, three on one, two w pickup trucks, two guns. mr. arbery, nothing in his pockets. not a cell phone. not a gun. not even an id. reporter: along with arguing against self-defense claims, prosecution says the three men could not justify making a citizens arrest.