i praise ahmaud arbery s mother for not giving up, that family and the faith community for being with them, supporting them, and the two lawyers who stood out to represent the family, my national bar association members, ben croft, like me a past president of the bar association, and lee merritt, one of our outstanding, stellar members of the national bar association, there with the family seeking justice. i think all of those things together happened. thank god that video was leaked, otherwise this trial would not have happened, these men would not have been found guilty of the guilty of ahmaud arbery, and boy, were they found guilty. kristen, i m just remembering that moment a couple of days ago with the defense attorney for greg mcmichael, laura hough, getting up there and trying to play on race with the jury, talking about ahmaud arbery s long, dirty toenails, and the
predicated on a firearm or a motor vehicle. a motor vehicle is a weapon that you can use to scare someone. false imprisonment in that they restrained ahmaud arbery s movement without privilege. that without privilege is the magic words, they concluded there was no citizens arrest here. there will be different sentencing for each of them. are you surprised as to the outcome of this? there was a lot made about the jury, the judge even said it appears that there was discrimination in how the defense was picking out jurors. it was an almost all white jury except for one member of the jury who was black. what is your reaction to this outcome? i was pleasantly surprised. i m a firm believer, when the jury speaks, we have to listen. the jury has spoken in this case just as the jury spoke in the kyle rittenhouse case. i was not entirely surprised, but because the judge early on
jury deliberations are underway in the trial of the three men accused of killing ahmaud arbery. earlier today the jurors returned to the courtroom and asked to see the video of the shooting and to hear the audio of the 911 call placed by gregory mcmichael. they have now returned to deliberation. the panel of 11 white jurors and 1 black juror spent over six hours in deliberations yesterday afternoon f. the jury cannot come to a verdict today, the court will take a break for the thanksgiving holiday and then resume deliberations friday morning. joining me now is cal perry and ck, the chair of the rain you bush coalition. welcome to both of you. cal, the jury had some questions yesterday as well as the questions today. why specifically those videos
here. the mother of ahmaud arbery. it is quiet and tense. any words have been kept to a whisper. the room is jam packed. people are squeezing in. folks are switching places and nervously clasping their hands together. the family have been waiting for this for so long. we talked about this as a 13-day trial. some of these jurors were part of this jury selection a month ago. this has been a long process for so many people. i think a lot of people will be eager to get on with this, katy. we have danny savalos. there you are, danny. nice to have you here. this is some relatively quick deliberation. not exactly. the vast majority of cases do resolve relatively quickly, usually within a day or so. the rittenhouse case was kind of an outlier, for me at least. in my experience, juries are not out for several days like that. but i suspect we may never know. the fact this is wednesday
is why a lot of people thought that maybe we were close. obviously with the holiday today, there was a lot of anticipation we could have a verdict. but we re standing by. the judge may let the jury go early today if they re not close to a verdict because of the holiday. that could be the other indication around 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. tell us what s going on behind you. who s there right now? these are going to be supporters of the family. the family is escorted in and out of the court by supporters. sometimes they are clergy. sometimes they are attorneys. this morning it was both. al sharpton, who is our colleague, ushered in the mother of ahmaud arbery. that is what you are seeing behind me. it is a small group today. again, all these chairs you see behind me in front of the courthouse, those are supporters for the family. i would say about two dozen folks. ck, you are from georgia. i know trials are particular to the particular prosecutors and defense attorneys but also the