The Closing Arguments in the Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial

 

In closing arguments, prosecutors stated that Ahmaud Arbery wasn’t killed because he was a threat. He was killed because he wouldn’t do as he was told and stop to talk to the defendants.

Arbery was told by complete strangers who were NOT LEOs to obey them and stop.

Arbery did not. Arbery was shot.

"Travis McMichael acted out of a sense of duty," his lawyer argued.

What "sense of duty?"  Plenty of strangers walk and jog in my neighborhood, and no one stops them out of a "sense of duty." 

Prosecutors: "The men pursued Arbery because ‘he was a Black man running down the street,’ the prosecutor said in summation.

Thoughts on the Kyle Rittenhouse, IMO, miscarriage of justice:

Self-defense can be tricky for a prosecutor, I thought reckless endangerment, at the very least, might stick. 

Two people are dead and one maimed, with zero accountability. Even drunken drivers who didn’t mean to kill anyone are held accountable. They got behind the wheel with alcohol in their system, and Kyle Rittenhouse walked down the street with a semiautomatic rifle over his shoulder. Each scenario, a disaster in the making — this one proving, once again, that the law and justice are miles apart.