these verdicts in the arbery case. how relentless journalism helped shine a spotlight on the case early on. we ll introduce you to a reporter who played a key role. we have a lot more coming up this hour, but first, what is the meta story of president biden s first year? the meta story, meaning the all-encompassing narrative of biden s presidency? what s the takeaway? what s the story about all of the story? what s the main impression you get from all of the daily headlines and hate tweets? is it america rebounding or is it america on the wrong track? first, let s admit the american media has a tremendous amount of power from shaping the metastory of a presidency. maybe that s why so many liberals are so frustrated right now, worried about biden s poll numbers, irritated at the media s framing and concerned biden isn t doing enough to shape his own story. if biden s strategy is quiet, his detractors are trying to be loud, making the metastory about a guy who failed to deliv
in there. more than i am. thank you very much. have a great holiday, man. you have a good one, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel has the night off. she ll be back on monday. the law stated that was georgia s citizen s arrest law. it enabled any ordinary citizen to capture any other ordinary citizen if they claimed a person committed a crime. it was made the law of the state in 1863. it s no coincidence that that law was put into place that year, 1863 was codified, the law was codified just after president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation and enslaved people in georgia started fleeing their captors. one cornell law professor put it bluntly. and it remained the state s law during jim crow when it was used to justify the lynchings of four black people in january of 1912. it was used again to justify the killing of two black couples in july of 1946. black couples who were dragged from their cars and shot dozens of times by white
the violence was second only to that of mississippi. the citizen s arrest law helped eskew some of that violence. what a terrible old law. the problem is, that law was still on the books in 2021. this spring, the state of m georgia repealed that law and it only happened because of a tragedy that took place in february of 2020. it was then that three white georgia men chased down a 25-year-old ahmaud arbery while he was jogging through their neighborhood. when he didn t stop, when they n ordered him to, they trapped him with their trucks and shot him dead. they claimed they were attempting a citizen s arrest. they say they assumed arbery was responsible for local thefts they had been hearing about for weeks before seeing arbery jog by. they just assumed it was him. they did not investigate. they did not have evidence. they assumed it was him and assumed they had the right to capture this black man to make a citizen s arrest. when georgia governor kemp finally repealed that civ