SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A white father and son accused of fatally shooting a black man on a residential Georgia street were arrested Thursday and charged with murder and aggravated assault after a national outcry that no arrests had been made, authorities said.
Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34, will be booked into the Glynn County Jail, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release.
Ahmaud Arbery was killed Feb. 23 just outside the port city of Brunswick. The men who pursued him in a pickup truck told police they believed Arbery was a burglar.
The GBI opened an investigation this week after the video was posted online by a Brunswick radio station. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp told reporters that he’s confident the agency will “find the truth.”
It’s about fucking time.
That is word for word what I said.
That is hysterical. Why don’t they just get ole Billy Bob Barr on the case.
I am genuinely surprised, but I assume they’ll be released on their own recognizance soon enough.
I read the police report and the earlier DA’s letter finding that this was “self-defense.”
Imagine a white man running, being cornered and confronted by a black man with a shotgun, and trying to take the shotgun away from the black man. Probable result: the white man was acting in self-defense.
The real situation is of course the opposite. Result: the white man with the shotgun was acting in self-defense, naturally. A black man has no right to defend himself against a white man… just like the good old days.