must have directly caused the death or played a substantial and necessary part in causing the death. in this case, what i m suggesting to you is that if either the actions of mr. arbery or the actions of travis mcmichael or the actions of both contributed to mr. arbery s death, then mr. bryan cannot be the direct, the substantial and the necessary cause of that death. what am i talking about? i think it s already been referenced. i could be wrong. i don t want to misspeak, that travis i m sorry, that ahmaud arbery turns in front of the vehicle at the last the white pickup truck at the last moment and basically meets travis mcmichael in the front of the
arbery. he s trapped the moment the mcmichaels get to the top of holmes. it doesn t really matter what roddie does. they do come down the road and there is a brief time period before the shooting where technically mr. bryan is behind mr. arbery, but it s clear by this point, it s certainly clear to mr. arbery that he cannot outrun the mcmichaels. no matter where he goes, they can follow. so again, how is mr. bryan s presence on this day in any meaningful way the cause of this shooting? by the time mr. bryan gets around the dogleg, mr. arbery is already well within range of the shotgun that travis mcmichael is holding and the handgun that gregory mcmichael has. so if their intention, and again, i m not suggesting that it s their intention, but if the mcmichaels meant harm to mr. arbery, if they meant to shoot him that day, what in the world
here, but i know it seems like every technician in creation has been involved in this case. drone this, footage that. filter this and enhance that. we ve got 20 million frames of every second of the footage in this case, but how in the course of all that work does someone who is practically computer illit maerate figure out that t have this case all wrong? how is that possible? how do you know that? count the gear shifts. the state s theory is that there s three shifts, three changes in direction. that s six gear shifts. they re not audible. we know what happened. and i don t care what travis mcmichael says. i don t care what anybody ils says. i m looking at the video and listening to the changes. you know that when this right here, when mr. arbery turns around and whatever mr. bryan thinks he s doing with the
the palm print is at the driver s side door on the side of the pickup truck. mr. bryan points this out in the minutes after the shooting to officer menchu. no prints or cotton fibers on the front of the truck or back of the truck. now last i checked, unless you are a hollywood stunt person, maybe a veteran of fast and furious tokyo drift, you re not in control unless you re out of control. i think that was the trailer for the movie. absent something extraordinary like that, we know pickup trucks don t move sideways. we also know, when i said earlier there was no witness, we have a witness. and that s travis mcmichael. travis mcmichael testified about the events of 2/23/20. travis mcmichael did not testify to aggressive driving on the part of roddie bryan. travis mcmichael testified, i believe, to mr. arbery attempting to get in roddie bryan s vehicle not once, but twice.
event. the same event that many americans were able to see with their very own eyes. we ve got the prosecution that s contending that these three defendants wrongfully assumed the worst and attacked a black man running in their neighborhood. the defense said, no, they were doing their job to protect their neighborhood from a person who they thought committed a crime. ahmaud arbery s mom, wanda cooper jones, joining a prayer outside the courthouse. before attorneys begin their final pitches to the jury. as travis mcmichael, his father gregory mcmichael and william roddie bryan face murder charges and potential life in prison for the killing of arbery. the state making their closing argument. this case is really about assumptions and driveway decisions. reporter: then one of the rare times race has been invoked in court. they made their decision to attack ahmaud arbery in their driveways because he was a black