arrest of travis mcmichael. we think about this a as a police case because the other mcmichael was a former police officer. two additional prosecutors in the office recused themselves. georgia is the first state to repeal the citizens arrest law following the killing of ahmaud arbery. you saw during the trial they couldn t even make a coherent argument about what crime ahmaud supposedly committed. if not for the public pressure and the protests, i don t think we d be here today. let me ask to build on that. we have a special report coming up in this opening coverage that goes deeper into that evidence, so it s so important. you are also bringing up something that you and other activists have talked a lot about, which sunsing the structural, legal underpinnings of these situations. on the one hand, the justice system says theses three men are responsible for murder. convicted of murder by a jury of their peers.
i never thought this day would come, but god is good. yes, he is. i want to tell everybody, thank you. for those who marched, for those who prayed, thank you. thank you. we keep fighting. let s keep doing it and making this. you know him as ahmaud, he will now rest in peace. amen. and this verdict played out as did so much of the trial in living rooms and bars and restaurants across america, covered so much on live tv. many people watched it as it happened. there you have it. the breaking news. the verdict in the ahmaud arbery murder trial. all three defendants found guilty of murdering ahmaud
arbery. you have just heard the verdict in the ahmaud arbery trial. the big headline is that it all three men were found guilty of felony murder. this it was the case where the defense tried to do several things to really blatantly racialize the trial that the prosecution insisted was about evidence. i m not going to go through all of the examples, but it s relevant given the ruling tonight. for example, the defense lawyer requested that black clergy be banned from the courtroom. that was rejected. that it lawyers also on the defense side tried very clearly to get a certain kind of jury. they thought would help them. there was one black juror. the rest were white. after the verdict, reverend sharpton discussed the significance. let the word go forth all over the world that a jury of 11 whites and 1 black in the deep